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| Felix Salmon: |
Morgan Stanley's $2.4 billion Facebook short — Matt Levine had a very wonky post on Friday afternoon about the dynamics of the Facebook IPO in general and of the very misunderstood greenshoe option in particular. Now that we've all had a nice relaxing weekend, it's maybe worth revisiting that greenshoe …
| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
The Other Challenge Of Facebook's Stock Swoon: Recruiting — Now that Facebook's public, and its stock has slipped below the IPO price, will it still be a hot place to work? — A stagnant stock price can dent employee morale—just ask Microsoft or Yahoo.
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Well, Now That Everyone Has Sobered Up, Let's Figure Out What Facebook Is Actually Worth... Thank goodness that's over. — The Facebook IPO could have been a major disaster for millions of individual investors. — If the stock had “popped” to a truly ludicrous level on IPO day …
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Webomatica, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, blogs.hbr.org, Guardian, TechCrunch, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, AllThingsD and Reuters. Tweets: @hblodget
| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
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| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Enhancing Windows 8 for multiple monitors … Connecting multiple monitors to a PC is one of the easiest ways to enhance your Windows experience. Plug in a second monitor and you instantly double your working surface. I've had a multi-monitor setup for the past 10 years …
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| Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal: |
Nasdaq Confronts Liability on Traders' Losses in Facebook IPO — Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. is facing demands from irate brokers and traders that want the exchange group to make up losses driven by its mishandling of Friday's initial public offering of Facebook Inc.
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
Bootstrapped GitHub Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz — Github is nearing a close on a round of venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, according to sources familiar with the situation. — The popular social network for programmers and code host has famously bootstrapped itself up to this point.
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| Vlad Bobleanta / Unwired View: |
Samsung Galaxy S III (i9300) pre-orders start at Amazon, yours for $799.99, shipping on May 29 — If you're in the US and are dying to get your hands on a Samsung Galaxy S III, Amazon has come to your rescue. However, you do have to shell out quite a large sum for the privilege …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
After Walking Away From Acquisition Talks With Facebook, Ark Opens Its People Search Engine — Following a jam-packed beta test and a jaw-dropping $4.2 million seed round, Ark people search is open for sign ups...at least for the next three days. Ark lets you sift through profiles on Facebook … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Machinima Gets $35M In Funding, Led By Google — After being first reported by AllThingsD, online video creator Machinima confirmed Monday that it has closed a $35 million funding round led by Google, which also included existing investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Sony releases ‘Music Unlimited’ Spotify competitor as iOS app — Looking to rival competitors like Spotify and MOG, Sony today launched its Music Unlimited streaming service as an iOS app. We told you back in January that it was coming, but today the free app officially hits the App Store … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Voice Founder Tackles Conference Calls — Uberconference debuts today as a new interface for conference calls — you know, those terrifically annoying occurrences that people in business deal with on a daily basis. — What's notable about the product is it comes from Craig Walker …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Incident Launches The gTar at Disrupt, An iPhone-Powered Electronic Teaching Guitar — The gTar by Incident is disruption defined. It takes the guitar, an instrument with a steep learning curve, and adds a bit of digital wizardry in the form of an embedded iPhone to make learning dramatically easier.
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Ubergizmo, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, Redmond Pie, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget and Business Insider. Tweets: @eldon
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads — In many ways, Scott Widdowson is your typical electrical engineer. Most days, when the weather's good, he bikes the 15 miles along the Ottawa River to his company's offices in the west end of the Canadian capital.
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| Computerworld: |
Panic announces Coda 2, Diet Coda for iPad — Web developers, rejoice. On Monday, Panic announced that, come Thursday, it will unleash Coda 2 for Mac and Diet Coda for iPad. — Web developers, rejoice. On Monday, Panic announced that, come Thursday, it will unleash Coda 2 for Mac and Diet Coda for iPad.
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Macworld, The Next Web, TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, Cult of Mac and The Verge
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Supreme Court declines to hear $675,000 file-swapping case — Boston student Joel Tenenbaum may be in for a second federal trial. — Appeal denied — United States Supreme Court — The Supreme Court this morning declined (PDF) to hear the appeal of admitted file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum … | Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: |
Time Warner Cable Head Sides With TV Networks Over Ad-Erasing Technology — BOSTON — The head of one of the country's biggest cable companies voiced his disapproval of the Dish Network's ad-erasing technology on Monday, aligning himself with television networks that are trying to squash the technology, called Auto Hop.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Verizon confirms Droid RAZR, RAZR Maxx, Droid 4, and HTC Rezound will get global GSM roaming this summer — Verizon promised that the Droid 4 would be able to travel the world on GSM networks this year, and recent leaks pegged the feature for the HTC Rezound, too.
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BGR, CNET, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile and SlashGear
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
ITC once again sides with Apple, RIM in Kodak patent spat — The U.S. International Trade Commission today once again said Apple and Research In Motion are not infringing on a patent held by Eastman Kodak. — ITC administrative law judge Thomas Pender today posted his initial determination …
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BerryReview.com, Business Wire, PC World, Ars Technica, TUAW, Engadget, PhoneArena and MobileBurn.com
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Intellectual property issues will make it hard for Google to keep its Chinese ‘open Android’ promise — On Saturday, Google announced that China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) finally cleared — with conditions attached — Google's proposed acquisition of MMI, which is now expected to close within a matter of days.
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| Joe Moreno / Mea Vita: |
Upside Down Apple Logo — Sometimes, even the science and studies can be wrong. Not because of an error, but because you didn't dig deep enough. — About a dozen years ago we had some discussions at Apple about the placement of the logo on the back of Apple's laptops.
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The Next Web, Wired, TUAW, App Advice and iClarified
| Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: |
Q&A: T-Mobile CEO on layoffs, iPhone, mergers and more — After a detour through Dallas, Philipp Humm is finally getting to reshape T-Mobile USA. — Humm reinvigorated T-Mobile's German business before parent company Deutsche Telekom sent him to Bellevue in 2010, to rev up America's fourth largest wireless company.
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