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David Garcia / TechCrunch:

How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button — Editor's note: Some savvy Facebook engineers rigged the NASDAQ button to automatically post “Mark Zuckerberg has listed a company on NASDAQ - FB” to the CEO's Timeline as he rung the bell to open the NASDAQ's day of trading.

More: Bits, TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Guardian, business.time.com, WebProNews, CNNMoney.com, NBC Bay Area and VentureBeat

TechCrunch:

No IPO Pop Here: Facebook Is Flat On Last Night's Final Price of $38 Per Share — JOSH CONSTINE AND KIM-MAI CUTLER — Facebook shares opened at $42.05, a 10.5 percent increase from its final price last night at $38. This would value the company at $115 billion.

More: Guardian, CNNMoney.com, AllThingsD, CNET, The Next Web, Business Insider, SiliconValley.com, blogs.ft.com, PE Hub Blog, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Pocket-lint and Daily Dot

Tweets: @katyawachtel and @shervin

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Status update: Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ — What were you doing at 9:30 a.m. Eastern? You certainly weren't ringing the NASDAQ's opening bell as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was doing. But what Zuck did simultaneously is perhaps even cooler. — click to enlarge

More: Livestream, Los Angeles Times, VatorNews, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, NBC Bay Area, WebProNews, bub.blicio.us, The Technology Chronicles and Facebook Newsroom

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Photos: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rings In The NASDAQ Bell — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg didn't travel to New York's Times Square for the company's big day. He did it unconventionally like you'd expect a hacker would. He opened the bell remotely from the company's Menlo Park Headquarters …

More: GeekWire, Digits, CNNMoney.com, Shareaholic Blog, Firstpost and SocialTimes

Tweets: @pkafka, @brianstelter, @mikeisaac, @loyalelectron and @laurengoode

See also Mediagazer

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Eduardo Saverin congratulates Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook

More: Digits, VentureBeat, WebProNews, USA Today and New York Times. Tweets: @robinwauters

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

VIDEO: Watch Mark Zuckerberg And The Rest Of Facebook Ring The NASDAQ Bell

Bloomberg:

Facebook Sued For $15 Billion In Suit Over User Tracking — Facebook Inc. (FB), which is scheduled to begin trading today, was sued by users of its social network in an amended class-action case claiming the company invaded their privacy by tracking Internet usage and seeking $15 billion.

More: CNET, Marketing Land, Associated Press, Telegraph, Mashable!, Daily Dot, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and CNBC. Tweets: @thatdrew

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Samsung gets 9 million preorders for new Galaxy phone: report — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co has received some 9 million pre-orders for its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone from more than 100 global carriers, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday.

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

RIM, Motorola told Apple they could find a nano-SIM compromise: here it is — Eventually, the committee chairman decided to hold an informal vote by show of hands whether each of the two proposals adequately met the jamming requirement. For the Apple design, seven voting members said it did not, 28 said it did.

More: The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, PhoneArena, MacNN, Engadget and Gizmodo

Reuters:

GM ad move followed failed Facebook pitch: sources — (Reuters) - Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week. — GM announced the decision to drop Facebook paid ads on Tuesday in what was the first highly visible crack in Facebook's strategy …

More: Screenwerk, Business Insider and WebProNews

Wall Street Journal:

Groupon Stock Spike Probed — Wall Street Regulator Is Reviewing Jump Monday Before Firm's Earnings Release — A Wall Street regulator is examining trading in Groupon Inc. that sent its stock price soaring hours before a favorable earnings announcement Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

More: Business Insider and The Tech Trade

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal — Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO — Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to include a multi-billion-dollar share buyback …

More: Business Insider, The Tech Trade, WebProNews, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET and Social Media

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

PayPal handles 60% of web transactions, leaves Google in the dust — PayPal processes 60% of web transactions, Google is the fastest payment gateway, and some unlucky surfer had to wait over 92 seconds for his online purchase to complete. — Those are only a few of the findings …

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

J. Crew CEO, Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler Reveals Steve Jobs' iCar Dream, Confirms “Living Room” Plans — J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: “Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar.”

More: Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, Pocket-lint, 9to5Mac, Wired, Redmond Pie, parislemon, iPhone in Canada Blog, everythingiCafe, MacRumors and The Next Web

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Reticent Rich: Preferred Style in Silicon Valley — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Wealth is here if you know where to find it. — Fabulous home theaters are tucked into the basements of plain suburban houses. Bespoke jeans that start at $1,200 can be detected only by a tiny red logo on the button.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, Betabeat, Xconomy, SiliconANGLE, Media Decoder, Bits and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

James Raybould / Linkedin Blog:

The Top 10 tech startups best positioned to strike engineering gold — In today's Silicon Valley, engineering talent is as sought after by companies as gold was by the first prospectors in the Wild West. Talent is a company's most important asset, so we decided to use LinkedIn's data insights …

More: ReadWriteWeb and WebProNews

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Keeps Shipping. Now You Can Silence Spammy Apps And More With New Notification Controls — If there's something on Facebook that won't stop pinging you with Notifications, tell it to shut up instantly with Facebook's new granular, in-line notification controls.

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data — Don't worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data illegally.

More: VentureBeat and Boing Boing

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Amazon to Sell Ads on Kindle Fire Welcome Screen — If You Have $600K — Amazon Seeks Big Money as It Brings Advertising to Its Hottest Tablet — The Kindle Fire is Amazon.com's best-selling product, the company said in its first-quarter-earnings release. And it's being treated that way by the Amazon ad sales team.

More: VentureBeat, paidContent, Communications …, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, FierceMobileContent, CNET, Android Phone Fans, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, The Tech Report, Business Insider and Liliputing

CB Insights:

2012 Venture Capital Funding to Facebook Mafia Up 137% vs. 2011. Greylock is Most Active VC FB Mafia Investor So Far. — The Facebook Mafia isn't waiting for an IPO to strike out on their own as company alumni have already raised $271 million of venture capital funding since 2006.

Brian X. Chen / Bits:

Verizon Clarifies: Unlimited Data Plans Will Die Slow Death — Verizon on Wednesday outlined its goals with shared data plans, and some news organizations incorrectly reported that it was killing unlimited data plans the instant that shared data plans were introduced.

More: DailyTech, Sprint Community, Pulse2 Technology …, PhoneArena, androinica.com, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, Pogue's Posts, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors and TechCrunch

Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:

More Start-Ups Join the $1 Billion Club of Valuations — Pinterest Is Latest Start-Up Hitting Rich Valuation; Venture Activity Rivals Dot-Com Boom Days — The coveted club of Silicon Valley start-ups worth a billion dollars is quickly losing its exclusivity.

Tweets: @hunterwalk

Othman Laraki / Twitter Blog:

New tailored suggestions for you to follow on Twitter — Every day, hundreds of thousands of people sign up for Twitter to get closer to the things they care about — friends, businesses, celebrities, news and information from all over. If you've used Twitter for awhile …

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Vyclone video app aims to out-social Viddy and Socialcam — New iPhone app connects people shooting videos of the same event, and edits their footage together — Video-sharing apps are all the rage in Silicon Valley in 2012. Well, two are. Viddy raised $30m in mid-May as it passed 27m users …

More: The Next Web

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Building the Next Facebook a Tough Task in Europe — PARIS — The coffee machine spits out doses of espresso. Young men in shorts and loafers line up on a leatherette sofa, balancing Macs or iPads on their knees, discussing bands or business plans. Some speak French, others English.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Sony hires Woz as advisor to Steve Jobs film, which Sorkin says won't be a ‘straight ahead biopic’ — As the production gets underway for the Steve Jobs biopic being penned by Aaron Sorkin, some details are coming to light. According to a report from Reuters, via the Chicago Tribune …

More: msnbc.com, Reuters, The Verge, TUAW, App Advice, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, The Verge, iClarified, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and CNET

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