Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
Facebook Hits A New Record High Value Of At Least $103.4 Billion  —  Facebook stock has blown past even the most bullish estimates to a value of $103.4 billion to $110 billion, based on today's SharesPost auction closing at $44 per share.  —  The $103.4 billion figure is based …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google Wallet PIN cracked on rooted Android devices  —  The security of the PIN that protects Google Wallet transactions has been compromised — though most users won't need to worry about the issue for now, as it only applies to users who have rooted their Android smartphone.

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Microsoft, Google, and Apple talk up “fair and reasonable” patent license fees  —  Microsoft today issued a brief statement promising to make “essential patents” available to competitors at fair and reasonable licensing rates, and promised not to sue companies making products that infringe these patents.

John Plunkett / Guardian:
Don't break stories on Twitter, BBC journalists told  —  As Sky News clamps down on staff Twitter updates, corporation tells reporters to file copy before tweeting it  —  BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they tell their newsroom colleagues.

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at...  Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets.  The hack seems to be a retaliation …

Roger Cheng / CNET:
Wireless carriers rally to preserve FCC power  —  An early evening view of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.  —  The wireless carriers may not agree on much, but enough of them rallied to support the Federal Communications Commission's power to hold spectrum auctions the way it sees fit.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
FYI.  Dave Morin Didn't Lie To Gawker About Path Storing User Data  —  Some people always see the good in people and some people always see the bad ... Gawker just published a post with what at first seems to be some pretty damning evidence against Path founder Dave Morin …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites  —  A subordinate certifcate issued by Trustwave was used to monitor people accessing SSL-protected services on a customer's internal network  —  Critics are calling for the ouster of Trustwave as a trusted issuer …

Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Don't Forgive Path, the Creepy iPhone Company that Misled Us Once Already  —  The tech world has been consumed today with news the app Path quietly uploaded users' iPhone address books without permission.  Path, in an increasingly common Silicon Valley ritual, apologized and promised it wouldn't happen again.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Eyeing An IPO, HubSpot Adds Akamai's CFO And Former IBM Exec JD Sherman As COO  —  Marketing software company HubSpot has brought on a new leader today—Akamai CFO JD Sherman.  Sherman has been chief financial officer at Akamai for over 6 years.  —  Prior to Akamai, Sherman served …

Just as Techmeme filters the most newsworthy stories in technology, today we begin filtering the industry's most newsworthy events by including a new section (shown here) detailing the next four months of major industry events. That section in turn points to a dedicated page showing an extended calendar that goes well beyond the next four months.

Our aim is not to include all "technology" events, which would be both difficult and pointless for a site like Techmeme. Even tech events of national or international scope are far too numerous to include here without overwhelming Techmeme's readers. Instead, our criteria for inclusion are tailored nicely for Techmeme: we'll include events that are expected to produce the kind of news that appears on Techmeme. For example, events involving major announcements or product launches, or conferences including candid interviews with a major industry figures. As such, we will also include events like earnings announcements (of the more bellwether variety), scheduled project launches, and other kinds of virtual events that one cannot attend in body, but only in browser.

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