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September 4, 2012, 11:55 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Cancels Secondary Offering, Zuck And Board Members Won't Sell To Keep Shares Off The Market — With its share price ailing, Facebook doesn't want to flood the market with any more stock, so it has cancelled its secondary offering and will instead pay for taxes on its RSUs with cash …

More: Business Insider, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Mashable!, CNET and Tech Trader Daily. Thanks:@joshconstine

Mark Cuban / blog maverick:

Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right — Andrews Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for the NY Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of FB. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong. — Have you ever been to an auction where the selling party told …

More: Techdirt, parislemon, Fortune, btanen, MarketBeat, DailyFinance.com, DealBook, Forbes, Washington Post, TheStreet.com, Internet Evolution and GigaOM

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Mark Zuckerberg Commits To Not Selling Stock For A Year — Some news out of Facebook tonight. — Mark Zuckerberg has committed to not selling any shares for the next year in a filing with the SEC. — Facebook board members Marc Andreessen and Donald Graham will be selling some Facebook shares, but only to cover a tax bill.

More: digitaltrends.com, BBC, AllThingsD, CNET, Business Insider, Forbes, VentureBeat and U.S. Securities …. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Alexandra Scaggs / Wall Street Journal:

Prominent Facebook Underwriters Cut Their Price Targets — Analysts with the two biggest underwriters for Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering cut their price targets on the stock, helping to push the shares to new lows. — Scott Devitt, an analyst with lead Facebook underwriter Morgan Stanley …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, AllThingsD, AllFacebook and Forbes

Felix Salmon / Seeking Alpha:

The Facebook Investors' Lament

More: SiliconBeat, Forbes and The Verge

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers — The FBI has shot down today's claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads around the world.

Aldo Cortesi:

The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe — 04 September 2012 — Something I've been worrying about for a long time has just happened: Antisec has leaked a database with more than a million UDIDs. The UDID issue has been a bit of a white whale of mine - I've written many blog posts …

Perry Chen / Kickstarter Blog:

Accountability on Kickstarter — Yesterday, NPR's “All Things Considered” asked, “When a Kickstarter campaign fails, does anyone get their money back?” The story questioned what would happen if a Kickstarter project failed to follow through on its promises.

More: CNET and VentureBeat. Tweets: @markmilian

Aarti Shahani / NPR:

When A Kickstarter Campaign Fails, Does Anyone Get Their Money Back?

More: PandoDaily, AllThingsD, Betabeat, BRYCE DOT VC, The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, Geek News Central and The Next Web

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple announces special event for September 12 — Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10:00 am.

Paul Marks / New Scientist:

Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders — Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed …

More: BBC, digitaltrends.com, Ars Technica, Neowin, The Next Web, Softpedia News, TechSpot, TorrentFreak, Inquirer, IntoMobile and SECURECOMM 2012

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

The end of Android tablets: can Google match Amazon's success before Microsoft closes the window? — This Thursday, we expect that Amazon will be unveiling a least one new Kindle Fire alongside a new e-reader. If you believe Amazon's somewhat fuzzy math, the Kindle Fire is far and away …

More: ITworld.com. Tweets: @akipekka and @charlesarthur

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

What “Xbox Games on Windows” actually means — Only a select few Windows 8 games will be branded as “Xbox Games on Windows” — As a branding exercise, the recently unveiled “Xbox Games on Windows” is more than a little confusing. The “Xbox” name has previously been exclusively reserved …

More: The Next Web

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

As ed tech heats up, Desire2Learn raises $80M in its first VC round — Since launching in 1999, Desire2Learn, a Canadian ed tech company that shares a hometown with Research in Motion, has bootstrapped its way to profitability. — But after more than a decade of going it alone …

More: Bloomberg, VentureBeat, NEA, Bedrocket, Globe and Mail, Desire2Learn and TechCrunch

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

Uber Is Close to Launching a Taxi App to Hail and Pay for Yellow Cabs in New York City — A source has informed Betabeat that Uber—the pricey, San Francisco-based request-a-ride app for black cars—plans on an imminent launch for a similar service for yellow cabs in New York City.

More: CNET, The Verge, New York Times and VentureBeat

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone 8 to include ‘Rooms’ group chat with calendar, photos, and notes sharing — Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system will include a new Rooms feature that will allow friends and family to chat in a virtual room and share data. Sources close to Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 plans …

More: Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, CITEworld, Neowin, Mobile Marketing Watch, Mashable!, fiercemobilecontent.com, TechCrunch and WParea.de

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Galaxy S III passes Apple's iPhone 4S, becomes top selling US smartphone — For the first time since it launched last October, Apple's iPhone 4S was not the top selling smartphone in the U.S., as the newly released Samsung Galaxy S III took the top spot in the month of August.

More: CNET, Business Insider, The Register, Computerworld, Digits, Guardian, GigaOM, BGR, Inside Mobile Apps, GeekWire, Mercury News, SlashGear, Softpedia News, MacDailyNews and Techie Buzz. Tweets: @panzer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Warner Bros. Takes Another Crack at Flixster — And UltraViolet — Making movies is hard. Making movie-recommendation services is a lot easier. — But Warner Bros. is trying to do both. And the newest version of Flixster, the recommendation service it bought last year, is pretty interesting.

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge and VentureBeat

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Pantech Flex coming to AT&T on September 16 for $50, offers ICS and new ‘Easy Experience’ mode — We've already been alerted to the existence of a Pantech phone by the name of Flex, but we only got teased with the fact that it's heading to AT&T and will offer LTE connectivity and few (if any) other details.

More: BGR, AT&T, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, GadgeTell, dailywireless.org, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo and CNET

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Acer reportedly launching one Windows Phone 8 and five Android devices in 2013 — Acer is on board to launch a suite of new Android smartphones and one new Windows Phone 8 device next year, according to a report from DigiTimes and confirmed by The Register.

More: BGR, Computerworld, TechnoBuffalo and Ubergizmo

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Appeals court upholds Apple victory in Cover Flow patent case — Apple comes out on top again in a now four year dispute over patents held by Mirror Worlds about three of its software patents. — Apple has once again been cleared of infringing on patents held by Mirror Worlds.

More: AppleInsider, Bloomberg and MacDailyNews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

By next year, all Estonian schools will be able to offer programming classes — The Tiger Leap Foundation in Estonia has launched a program called “ProgeTiiger.” That probably doesn't mean much to you, but it should: it's a project which allows Estonian students from grades 1 to 12 to learn computer programming at school.

More: Ubuntu Life, Wired, Geek.com and VentureBeat. Tweets: @gassee

Grant Gross / Computerworld:

Democrats call for Internet ‘freedom,’ cybersecurity legislation — The U.S. Democratic Party embraced its version of Internet freedom and called for new cybersecurity legislation in its platform released as the party begins its convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

More: Mashable!, The Verge, The Hill and WebProNews

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