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.

Apple responds to iPhone text message spoofing, reminds us how secure iMessage is  —  If you're a frequent texter, and the iPhone is your weapon of choice, there's a good chance you've been a wee bit concerned since yesterday's report that the device is vulnerable to a certain SMS spoofing attack.

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 …

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:

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.

Thoughts On Apple's Latest TV Efforts  —  Earlier this week, a few reports emerged about Apple's upcoming plans to disrupt the TV market.  The first mentioned that Apple was trying to work with cable providers on finding new ways to distribute TV through its hardware, rather than trying to license content itself.

OnLive's bankruptcy 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.

Google experimenting with Nexus-like AOSP support for Sony Xperia S  —  This past week there was a little-noticed by very interesting development in the Android Open Source Project.  Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru, who has long been the main source of AOSP developments from the company …

Why Twitter Just Pushed Developers Aside: To Secure Its Future  —  Twitter's long-awaited crackdown on outside apps could prove to be one of the boldest and most controversial moves in its history.  But if you consider Twitter's position, it's actually reasonable.  And it could play an important role in Twitter's survival.

Payment Data Is More Valuable Than Payment Fees  —  We are in the midst of a great revolution in the payments space: anyone with a phone can now accept credit cards; online-to-offline commerce is allowing online payment for offline purchase and significant friction is being removed from the consumer purchase experience thanks to mobile.