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May 18, 2012, 9:40 AM

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Facebook Newsroom:

Facebook Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering — Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market …

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Tweets: @edrabbit, @albertbrooks, @borowitzreport, @robinwauters, @rsarver, @randizuckerberg, @levie and @cnbc

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Watch Facebook's historic IPO live on the NASDAQ's website — Facebook has priced its shares at $38 and will raise up to $18.4 billion in the largest technology IPO in U.S. history. Those who don't want to miss a single moment of the watershed occasion are in luck, as the NASDAQ will be live streaming Facebook's big debut.

More: The New Persuaders, TechCrunch, ZDNet, CNET, The Technology Chronicles, memeburn, CNN and Neowin

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NASDAQ Live — NASDAQ Live is a dedicated channel broadcasting IPOs …

Tweets: @emilychangtv

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Facebook's rocking, all-night hackathon kicks off with standing ovation for CEO

More: Forbes, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Mashable!, SocialTimes, Firstpost, PE Hub Blog, The Next Web, AllThingsD and NBC Bay Area

Tweets: @gaberivera, @katies, @alexia and @nytimesbits

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Facebook IPO: Who got rich(er)? — Counting down the big Facebook winners. — FORTUNE — Facebook (FB) has priced its highly-anticipated IPO at $38 per share, with a large number of shares coming from company insiders. — So here's a quick list of who made what, based on the assumption …

More: New York Times, ZDNet, Bloomberg, blog maverick, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, memeburn, Xconomy and blogs.ft.com

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: Business Insider

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Eduardo Saverin congratulates Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook — Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin congratulated his fellow co-founder and company CEO Mark Zuckerberg for a job well done, crafting a dorm room start-up into the largest tech company IPO in history in just eight years.

More: New York Times

Lee Spears / Bloomberg:

Facebook Set For Debut After IPO Seals $104 Billion Value

More: The Next Web, The KISSmetrics Marketing Blog, broadstuff, PE Hub Blog, GeekSugar, ReadWriteWeb and Overheard

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

The Google AdSense Killer And 3 Other Ways Facebook Could Make A Lot More Money

More: I4U News

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

This neat site lets you challenge the pundits and predict Facebook's IPO closing price

More: AllThingsD, Tradigital, Guardian, Mashable!, memeburn, PC World, Bits, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch and Daily Dot. Tweets: @jamesproud

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Prices Its IPO at $38

More: Mercury News, BuzzFeed, bub.blicio.us, Social Markets, CNBC, Los Angeles Times, aswathdamodaran.blogspot …, ZDNet, Marketing Land and Mashable!

Tweets: @hblodget and @sai

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.

More: Digital Trends, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, Android News, Rumours …, BGR, The Loop, TmoNews, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Mobile Entertainment, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint and MacNN

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 …

Dustin Curtis:

Twitter is tracking you on the web — In a blog post today announcing Twitter's new tailored suggestions system is something that has me absolutely shocked: an overt admission that Twitter is transparently tracking your movements around the web. Othman Laraki, on the Twitter blog:

More: ZDNet, Jeremy Stanley, Hacker News, Daring Fireball and The Next Web

Tweets: @nickbilton, @nickbilton, @twitter, @gnomologic and @segphault

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

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: iPhone, Gizmodo, Engadget and PhoneArena

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: Sprint Community, DailyTech, PhoneArena, androinica.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, GigaOM, Pogue's Posts, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Business Insider and The Next Web

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

Hewlett-Packard Said to Consider Cutting as Many as 25,000 Jobs — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) is considering cutting as many as 25,000 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, to reduce costs and help the company contend with ebbing demand for computers and services, people briefed on the plans said.

More: Delimiter, GadgeTell, Wired, PC Magazine, New York Times, Mercury News, Pulse2 Technology … and Business Insider

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

HP's Whitman to Announce Restructuring Plan Wednesday; 30,000 Jobs Targeted

More: TechEye, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Computerworld and I4U News. Tweets: @danprimack

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, Social Media and CNET

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: paidContent, GeekWire, CNET, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Android Phone Fans, The Verge, The Tech Report, Liliputing and Business Insider

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

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: Boing Boing

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Schumer And Casey's Ex-PATRIOT Act: Details Of How They Plan To Get Saverin's $67M And More — Charles Schumer and Bob Casey, the two U.S. Senators behind the Ex-PATRIOT act — a proposal to go after early Facebook backer Eduardo Saverin and others like him that have renounced U.S. citizenship …

More: Bloomberg, The Verge, CNET, Reuters, AllFacebook, Politico, Fox News and ABCNEWS

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer:

Saverin: I'll pay taxes on anything I earned as a U.S. citizen

More: Business Insider, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, WebProNews and CNET

Cathy Avgiris / Comcast Voices:

Comcast to Replace Usage Cap With Improved Data Usage Management Approaches — Today, the way people use video and access information has changed dramatically. Four years ago, when we first instituted a broadband Internet data usage threshold, the iPhone had just been introduced …

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.

Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web:

UK Pirate Party sees more than 1.8m visits in 24 hours after ISPs block The Pirate Bay website — The move to stop Pirate Bay in the UK means that ISPs are now blocking the site due to an order from the High Court. Tough times for pirates, but high times for the UK Pirate Party (PPUK) …

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