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Facebook readies to file US$5bn IPO, could grow — Facebook is expected to file to raise US$5bn in a preliminary IPO prospectus on Wednesday morning, which while less than anticipated could be increased to ultimate investor demand, according to sources close to the deal.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
The Quiet Man: Meet the Less-Known Face of the Facebook IPO, CFO David Ebersman — Ever heard of David Ebersman? — You should, and this week you will, given the self-effacing exec has been one of the prime movers behind what is expected to be the blockbuster offering of Web 2.0: Facebook's impending IPO.
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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 35% to $17.43 Billion; Kindle Device Sales Nearly Triple During the Holidays — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011. — Operating cash flow increased 12% to $3.90 billion …
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| Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: |
Amazon: Big Kindle sales, but sales and outlook fall short — Summary: Amazon's fourth quarter sales and outlook fall short of expectations. Kindle sales surge. — Amazon's fourth quarter sales missed projections, but earnings were ahead. The big wild card was Kindle device sales, which tripled over the holidays.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Neil Young and the Sound of Music — You know what the biggest problem with music today is? — Sound quality. — That's Neil Young's take on the issue, anyway. For years, the musician has been obsessed with improving the way modern music sounds, sonically speaking.
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| Ben Horowitz / ben's blog: |
Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years? … Since Marc and I founded Andreessen Horowitz three years ago, we have raised $2.7 billion. That statement begs a few questions. The two most obvious are: — Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money?
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
ITC throws out Barnes & Noble's antitrust claims against Microsoft ahead of trial: no signs of wrongdoing — Barnes & Noble's primary line of defense against Microsoft's allegations of patent infringement by the bookseller's Android-based devices has collapsed in its entirety.
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Nokia design chief hints at Lumia phones with NFC - and wireless charging — Exclusive: Marko Ahtisaari interview points towards new designs of Lumia phones without tab on USB charger slot — • Marko Ahtisaari: smartphone evolution is only just beginning
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Boxee officially pulls the plug on PC client — Want to run Boxee on your PC or Mac? Then hurry up; Boxee is removing all copies of its PC-based app from its servers by the end of the day Tuesday to fully concentrate on the Boxee Box. — The company announced the move late last year …
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Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools — Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. — Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is “Strategically Screwed” — Last night, a California judge made some key rulings in the ongoing litigation between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle over the latter's decision to stop supporting Intel's Itanium chip. — One thing Judge James Kleinberg did was dismiss … | Fox News: |
EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks to move servers offshore, sources say — Prince Michael Bates of Sealand stands atop the helipad on his World War II era “micronation” — a possible future location for Wikileaks' servers. — Julian Assange's investors are in the process of purchasing a boat …
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| Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com: |
Exclusive: First Image of a BlackBerry 10 Superphone!! — BOOM! Last week's leaked 2012 BlackBerry Roadmap slide deck brought with it a ton of goodies for the new year, but one thing that was missing was a fresh look at a BlackBerry 10 [Smartphone] Superphone.| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Seeking To Banish “Distraction” Microsoft Replaces Hotmail Display Ads With Deals — Microsoft is trying to make ads in Hotmail better. The company is replacing conventional display ads in its webmail service with deal ads that it believes will be more relevant and interesting to users.
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| Audrey Watters / Hack Education: |
Stanford Professors Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng Also Launching a Massive Online Learning Startup — These are interesting times to be a Stanford professor. Or to stop being a Stanford professor, as the case may be... Last week, news broke that Professor Sebastian Thrun would be stepping …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Rumor: Office 15 for Windows 8 will be desktop apps, not fully Metro style — Microsoft's next generation of Office, codenamed Office 15, will receive interface tweaks to make it more touch friendly on Windows 8, including a radial menu system, but won't be rebuilt as full “Metro style” apps using the new WinRT programming model.| Pablo Chavez / Google Public Policy Blog: |
Changing our privacy policies, not our privacy controls — Last week we heard from members of Congress about Google's plans to update our privacy policies by consolidating them into a single document on March 1. Protecting people's privacy is something we think about all day across the company …
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| Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget: |
Thousands Line Up For Foxconn's Jobs in Zhengzhou (video) — On the 30th of January, thousands of hopefuls stood for hours outside a labour agency located in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. The lines stretched more than 200 meters along the road, and the people who were waiting in line …
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Examiner, PC Magazine, MacRumors, Gizmodo, TUAW, iPhone Alley, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, MacNN, AppleInsider and Unboxing Asia Blog
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Microsoft: The Web is better without plug-ins — Microsoft began distancing itself from browser plug-ins last year starting with Internet Explorer on Windows 8's Metro interface, but it spoke more definitively today: plug-ins are bad for the Web. — “Metro-style IE runs plug-in free …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga CEO: We aren't the copycats on Bingo social game (exclusive interview) — Mark Pincus, chief executive of social gaming giant Zynga, denied that Zynga copied a rival's Bingo game on Facebook. Instead, he said in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat that the accuser in this case borrowed from Zynga.
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MediaFile, Business Insider, Touch Arcade, msnbc.com, All Facebook and Kotaku
| Jason Boog / GalleyCat: |
Barnes & Noble Stores Will Not Stock Books Published By Amazon — Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores, keeping the new publisher out of the country's largest network of brick and mortar bookstores. — Bloomberg Businessweek senior … | Financial Times: |
Yahoo: Alibaba remains in complicated split talks — By Ed Mullane in New York and Louise Bleakley in San Francisco — This article is provided to FT.com readers by dealReporter—a news service focused on providing insightful intelligence on event driven situations to investors. www.dealreporter.com
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| Matt Hickey / The Daily: |
Inside Microsoft's plan to equip laptops with Kinect technology — Last week, The Daily reported Microsoft is currently developing a version of its Kinect motion-sensing technology to run in Windows 8-equipped portables. Now, we've confirmed a few more facts about the project from a number of sources inside Redmond.| Michael Kan / Computerworld: |
Apple appeals iPad trademark decision in China — A Chinese court rejected Apple's lawsuit for the iPad trademark in the country — Apple has appealed a Chinese court ruling last December that rejected its ownership of the iPad trademark in the country, and could expose the company …
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| Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
Firefox 10 Launches: Promises Fewer Add-On Compatibility Issues, Enables Fullscreen API — Now that Mozilla has fully embraced its rapid-release cycle, an update from version 9 to 10 of its popular Firefox browser isn't really an event anymore. Nevertheless, version 10, which launched today …
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