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Form S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Facebook, Inc. — Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement. If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's S-1 Letter From Zuckerberg Urges Understanding Before Investment — Facebook has just filed its S-1 to IPO. Below is the letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's purpose, in which he explains “Facebook was not originally created to be a company.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga Accounts for 12 Percent of Facebook Revenue in 2011 — Zynga is mentioned 24 times in Facebook's filing, but the most notable mention is related to the game company's huge contribution to the social network's top line. — Facebook said today in its filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission … | Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook's net income and revenues: $1 billion on $3.71 billion in 2011 — Facebook had $1 billion in net income on $3.71 billion the previous year. The company's revenues grew 47 percent year-over-year from the 2010. — Payments and fees revenue made up $557 million or about 15 percent … | Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's S-1 Reveals: 845 Million Users Every Month, More Than Half Daily, Half Mobile — As part of its initial filing to go public, Facebook has just revealed some new user numbers that illustrate just how big it is. — It had 845 million monthly active users and 483 million daily active users … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Founders' Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected — November 2010, the Swedish Court of Appeal found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of criminal copyright infringement offenses. — Although Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Microsoft Slams Google Privacy Changes With “Putting People First” Ad Campaign — Last September, Google CEO Larry Page warned Google's biggest threat was Google itself. His words are ringing true, as Google arch-nemesis Microsoft is seizing on Google's recent missteps to score some points through … | Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
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| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Apple Loses German Court Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone — Apple Inc. (AAPL) failed to get a preliminary ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone from a German court. — The Munich Regional Court rejected the motion today …
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Samsung confirms Galaxy S3 delay No show for quad core powerhouse at MWC — Samsung has confirmed to TechRadar that the Galaxy S3, its much-hyped successor to the S2, won't be appearing at MWC 2012. The phone was fully expected to launch at the flagship event in Barcelona later this month … | Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Apple reportedly shopping for TV display components from major supplier — Apple has contacted at least one major Asian supplier about purchasing television display components, checks by one analyst have revealed. — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster told investors on Tuesday that he had recently spoken to a …
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon filing shows $558M loss for LivingSocial in 2011 — How much does it cost to bulk up and compete with the likes of Groupon in the daily deals market? Amazon.com's annual Form 10-K filing, made public this morning, reveals detailed financial information about LivingSocial …
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Brazil becomes 2nd country on Twitter, Japan 3rd Netherlands most active country — Geolocation analysis of Twitter accounts by Semiocast — Semiocast's latest studies reveals a new order in top countries on Twitter. The U.S. still top at the 1st place on Twitter in terms of accounts with 107.7 million accounts.
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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.
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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media — On Monday, I trained it up to New Haven to meet a Yale professor named Dina Mayzlin and talk to her class. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to Dina's class as it allowed me to work on some new material in a comfortable setting.
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Windows 8 may have an edge over Android on tablets, ARM CEO says — Warren East speaking during Tuesday's earnings conference call. — In the wake of a solid earnings report, ARM's CEO Warren East said Microsoft may have some potential advantages over Android in the tablet market.
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| Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: |
AOL's Armstrong: Some Patches DID Turn Profitable in 2011 — Armstrong. Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — It's not like AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to hide his light under a bushel, but when it comes to Patch, the company's hyperlocal network, he may have done just that on this morning's earnings call.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
| Olzhas Auyezov / Reuters: |
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