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The Facebook - Amazon comparison — Henry Blodget gives some healthy perspective on Facebook's stock price in Dear Facebook Employees Here's the Truth About Your Stock Price. Don't I wish that Business Insider had a social reader on Facebook so I could see how many Facebook employees had read the article.
Tweets: @infoarbitrage and @pkafka
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
And Now Facebook's Bankers Are Divvying Up The $100 Million They Made Shorting Facebook's Stock — Boy it doesn't suck to be a banker. — Every time I forget how much it doesn't suck, I'm reminded of some other magical cash-printing tool I had forgotten about that allows Wall Street to coin money no matter what.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Cloud-gaming service OnLive reveals details behind its asset sale and new investor — After a wave of criticism about how it treated its employees, cloud-gaming service OnLive revealed details behind the sale of its assets to a newly formed company. — The new company will continue …
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| Tracey Lien / The Verge: |
OnLive's bankruptcy protection filing leaves former employees in the dark — “OnLive ... will continue to operate,” the statement read. “...there is no expected interruption of any OnLive services.” — It was a statement that read as an assurance: everything is fine, we're still here, it's business as usual.| John Markoff / New York Times: |
New Wave of Adept Robots Is Changing Global Industry — DRACHTEN, the Netherlands — At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way. — At a sister factory … | Amy Feldman / Reuters: |
Crowdfunded businesses may owe taxes, too — (Reuters) - When Julie Uhrman, chief executive of gaming start-up Ouya Inc, went looking for funding to launch a new video gaming console, she turned to crowdfunding site Kickstarter Inc. — The goal: $950,000.
Tweets: @glennf
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Microsoft to build more than 3 million Surface tablets, says IDC — Redmond is getting set to build millions of Surface tablets, an IDC analyst tells CNET. And the price? Only Microsoft knows but IDC has some thoughts on the subject. — Microsoft is expected to build a little …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Report: Leaked Memo Indicates Hulu CEO Jason Kilar May Be On His Way Out — An internal memo from web streaming company Hulu purportedly obtained by show business industry publication Variety indicates that the company's CEO Jason Kilar may be on his way out the door.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
AT&T kills on-contract pricing for tablets, effective today — Subsidized pricing for tablets has never made much sense — saving $100 upfront in exchange for getting locked in to a very expensive data plan isn't what we'd call a good deal — and now AT&T is getting rid of the option for good.
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
A rare look inside Facebook's Oregon data center [photos, video] — Follow along our tour as we take you on a rare journey through Facebook's first data center in Prineville Oregon, which houses its Open Compute servers. We'll bring you along the air flow route, and down into the secret server room:
Tweets: @omelnikov
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Motorola's Patent Lawsuit Against Apple Goes After Siri, Location Reminders, Email Notifications & More — On Friday, Google's Motorola Mobility unit filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington.
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| Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
Sony quietly outs Xperia SL: dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S3, four hues — That oft-rumored successor to the Sony Xperia S smartphone, the Xperia SL? Sony's now officially listing the 4.3-inch GSM device as “coming soon” on its website, along with full details and specs.Sponsor Posts
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