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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Is Facebook IPO on Track for Late May? — According to multiple sources, the long anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May. — That means that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month, given the review by the Securities …
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Friending Facebook Blog, Betabeat, Between the Lines Blog, FT Tech Hub, ITProPortal, The Next Web, GeekWire and Seattle Times
Reuters:
Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday — NEW DELHI - A hacker who goes by the name of ‘Yama Tough’ threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software. — Related Topics: — EDITION: — U.S.
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Google calls Murdoch's piracy allegations ‘nonsense’ — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is talking nonsense, according to Google. — Murdoch, a Twitter user for only the past several weeks, used the service to unleash a barrage of accusations Saturday night against President Barrack Obama and Google.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zappos Suffers Security Breach; Customer Emails And Passwords Affected — It appears that Zappos was the victim of a cyber attack today from a hacker who gained access to the company's internal network through the company's servers in Kentucky. While specifics of the attack were not revealed …
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VentureBeat, Bits, Zappos Blog, Help Net Security, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, SecurityWeek, eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, CNET, Forbes, Inquirer, Naked Security, The Register, Marketing Pilgrim, Dennis Fisher, msnbc.com, GeekWire, Neowin.net, SlashGear, gHacks Technology News, @zappos, Liquidmatrix Security Digest and WebProNews
Nanette Asimov / San Francisco Chronicle:
Viruses stole City College of S.F. data for years — Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called “an infestation” of computer viruses with origins …
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blog.chron.com, Help Net Security and Liquidmatrix Security Digest
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Why the video pros are moving away from Apple — Six months after the launch of Final Cut Pro X (FCPX), Apple's major overhaul to its professional video editing software Final Cut Pro, video pros find themselves increasingly looking at other software options.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Design Sets Tone at Square, a Mobile Payments Start-Up — The headquarters of the start-up Square would be the absolute worst place to play hide-and-seek. There are no offices. Executives sit in open cubicles. All of the conference rooms, large and small, are surrounded by walls of clear glass.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Wintel tablet PCs may be priced from US$599-899 — Wintel-based tablet PCs may see their prices go as high as US$599-899 due to Intel and Microsoft both being unwilling to drop their related hardware and software quotes, and as a result, it could push consumers from wanting to purchase the devices …
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Digital Trends, BGR, Engadget, TechEye, Electronista, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Fudzilla
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight — In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon's Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the “ABC TV On-Demand” VOD brand. — That service will be available for no extra charge …
DealBook:
Wall Street Jostles to Help Silicon Valley Manage Newfound Wealth — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Sam Odio expected a few congratulatory e-mails when he sold Divvyshot, his online photo-sharing service, to Facebook last April for millions of dollars. — Instead, his in-box was flooded with pitches …
Horace Dediu / @asymco:
A second view into the history of personal computing. http://twitpic.com/87nbjj
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Groupon CEO Andrew “Wolverine” Mason Defends His Decisions on “60 Minutes” — Groupon CEO Andrew Mason said there's things he would have liked to do differently and would have liked to have avoided, but that he's mostly done a good job leading the rocket ship of a company.
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