Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Pinterest set to announce new funding at $1 billion valuation, with an eye on ecommerce  —  There's been considerable speculation that social media sensation Pinterest is preparing to raise additional funding as it marches towards dominating a massive new vertical on the web.

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
Retina MacBook screens: Already here — and pricey  —  A pixelated MacBook screen.  —  (Credit: CNET)  —  Apple is said to be on the verge of rolling out new high-resolution displays for its computers that, up until now, have only been available on its iPhones and iPads.

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Sleepover Time!  All-Night Hackathon Precedes Facebook IPO At Headquarters  —  Carrying on in the esteemed tradition of Facebook hackathons, there will be an all-nighter on Thursday at the company's Menlo Park headquarters that culminates with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing in the NASDAQ bell ahead …

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward  —  Eduardo Saverin can escape the United States, but he can't slip Facebook.  —  “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it's completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, in his first major interview.

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player  —  Netflix just rolled out a completely revamped video player for browser-based viewing, and I gotta say, it's pretty slick: Not only does it come with lightbox-like text overlays while a video is paused, users can also preview entire seasons …

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Viacom Gives Up Fight Against Time Warner Cable, Adds Channels to TWC iPad App  —  Customers of Time Warner Cable have some reason to rejoice today, as the cable company has gotten the go-ahead to add channels like MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to its live streaming iPad app.

Neal Gompa / ExtremeTech:
Japanese researchers transmit 3Gbps using terahertz frequencies  —  Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a new wireless transmission system that works above all currently regulated spectrum frequencies.  The new system works at the range of 300GHz to 3THz (terahertz) …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mobile Payments Startup Jumio Takes On Card.io With Credit Card Scanning Toolkit For App Developers  —  Mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio is introducing its Netswipe Mobile SDK today, which allows developers to add credit card scanning functionality to their mobile applications.

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:
Facebook rolling out new “Pages Manager” app for iPhone  —  Facebook has just broken out another feature of their main app and released Pages Manager for the iPhone.  The app appears to function just like the main Facebook app, but with all of the features dedicated to fan pages.

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The New Culture Jamming: How Activists Will Respond to Online Advertising  —  A preview of what the next wave of anti-corporate activism might look like.  Call it Big Dada: speaking noise to power.  —  Through the 1990s, a practice called “culture jamming” grew in popularity and sophistication.

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
In the Race to Win Social Video, Is One App Gaming the System Too Much?  —  There's a popular maxim in Silicon Valley: Find your user base and the revenues will come later.  —  For a while, it seemed to be the easiest way for a founder to explain his or her way out of a proper business model.

Larry Dignan / CNET:
Netflix: Disgruntled customers rejoining service  —  A third of Netflix's new customers are people who quit the service and signed up again in less than a year, says the company's CFO at an investor conference.  A Netflix executive said today the company has taken its brand hit for pricing changes last year …

Don Reisinger / CNET:
Facebook's latest filing: Insiders are cashing in  —  Facebook today revealed that it will have more shares than expected available to investors when it goes public on Friday.  But the social network won't be the one cashing in on it.  —  Facebook will now offer up to 484.4 million shares …