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Wall Street Journal:

Facebook's IPO Sputters — Underwriters Forced to Prop Up IPO of Social Network; Only a 23-Cent Rise — Facebook Inc. took eight years to stage one of the most anticipated initial public offerings ever. The anticlimax came Friday, as Wall Street bankers struggled to prevent …

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GigaOM:

Facebook IPO: Here is the best of the web — Feeling overwhelmed with all the Facebook chatter? Is all this talk of the IPO making you yearn for the weekend already? Well, we are going to make life a little easier for you and find you best stuff for you to read from all around the social web.

More: PandoDaily, The DNetWorks, Next Media Animation, The Atlantic Online, WebProNews, Business Insider and Featured stories. See also Mediagazer

Larry Dignan / CNET:

How Facebook's bankers saved an IPO, kept shares above $38

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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Creating the Windows 8 user experience … At the D: All Things Digital conference in June 2011, we demonstrated for the first time the new user interface that we developed for Windows 8. This new UI is fast and fluid to use, and optimized for mobile form factors such as laptops, tablets …

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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @theromit

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Windows 8's desktop UI changes unveiled — If you have been following Windows 8 for any amount of time, you must have run across the Building Windows 8 Blog, the official organ of the Windows team. It is not for massive, Internet-bending pieces of non-fiction that pack in enough context …

More: Pulse2 Technology …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs and many other celebrities — Truthfully, I thought everyone knew about the ‘Lucky 7 Lounge’. It's a secret room at Pixar that's really not so secret now. But I took a quick poll of some friends and coworkers and drew a blank, so here goes.

More: CNET, Pulse2 Technology … and iClarified

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

China finally approves Google's Motorola Mobility acquisition, deal likely to close next week — Google may have announced its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility last August and gained approval from both EU and US authorities but it's taken until today for the search giant to gain clearance in China.

More: Associated Press, VentureBeat, The Verge, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal

Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:

Tencent to Restructure Business — BEIJING—Tencent Holdings Ltd. said Friday it will restructure its business operations into six groups and named a new chief operating officer as the Chinese Internet company moves to improve efficiency and grow beyond its core gaming business.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Bloomberg, Inside Social Games, TechCrunch, MarketWatch and The Next Web

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

ePub standards body proposes new ‘lightweight’ DRM for ebook platform interoperability — Tor and several other related imprints may be going DRM-free in July, but that doesn't mean the rest of the publishing industry is ready to jump on board. Instead, the International Digital Publishing Forum …

More: paidContent, International Digital … and TeleRead

Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:

Why Did Zynga's Stock Drop After Facebook Went Public? — Believe it or not, other stocks besides Facebook traded on Friday. Although Zynga probably wishes it wasn't one of them. — While Facebook's much-ballyhooed IPO didn't pop, Zynga's stock went cliff-diving.

More: Pulse2 Technology … and Firstpost

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple files for immediate Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban in the United States after partially successful appeal — At 8 PM local California time on Friday, Apple filed a motion for a U.S. preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. The motion is based on a ruling by the Court of Appeals …

More: TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, Pulse2 Technology … and Engadget

Andrew Webster / The Verge:

Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx getting Android 4.0 in Q2, Bionic in Q3 — Motorola has updated its timeline for Ice Cream Sandwich updates for a number of devices, several of which should see Android 4.0 within the next few months. In the US, both the Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx are expected …

More: Droid Life, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile and CNET

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Steve Jobs TV movie to film at the original Apple garage — For those wondering how authentic the upcoming made-for-TV movie about Steve Jobs will be, maker Five Star Feature Films says it's going to actual locations, including Jobs' childhood home, where the first Apple computers were pieced together in the garage.

More: AppleInsider, PR Newswire, Betabeat, Webomatica, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, The Next Web and Computerworld

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