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Reuters:
Facebook, Zuckerberg, banks sued over IPO  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, and several banks led by Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid the social networking leader's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Here's The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO  —  And now for some more bombshell news about the Facebook IPO...  Earlier, we reported that the analysts at Facebook's IPO underwriters had cut their estimates for the company in the middle of the IPO roadshow, a highly unusual and negative event.
Andrew Longstreth / Reuters:
Analysis: Did banks cross the line in Facebook research calls?  —  (Reuters) - As regulators scrutinize Facebook's problem-plagued stock market debut, they may have to confront areas of securities law that do not always clearly spell out what industry analysts are allowed to tell clients about companies on the verge of going public.
Shane Richmond / Telegraph:
Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core  —  Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive, who receives a knighthood today for creating products such as the iPad, tells Shane Richmond why this country's industrial heritage lies behind his success.
Robert McMillan / Wired:
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips  —  Siri doesn't work on IBM's internal networks.  (Image: Flickr/Photo Giddy)  —  If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant.  Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Social Media Marketer Vitrue Has Been Bought By Oracle For $300 Million  —  Breaking news: TechCrunch has discovered that software giant Oracle has made a big investment in social media today.  The company has bought Vitrue, the social media marketing company that is a close partner to Facebook.
9to5Mac:
Likely next-generation iPhone with 3.999-inch display, 1136 x 640 resolution in testing (updated: more decimals)  —  Apple is testing multiple next-generation iPhones, and we have independently heard that at least one of these devices sports a brand new display.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Bing's Visual Search Is Gone (Has Been For A While, Actually)  —  The fact that almost no one noticed might be one reason why Bing has dropped its Visual Search feature ... something that apparently happened months ago.  —  To be clear, this isn't traditional image search that we're talking about …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Windows 8 boots ‘too quickly’ to be interrupted, Microsoft adding a new ‘boot options’ menu  —  Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds?  Watch the video below if you don't believe it, Microsoft has really optimized the hell out of the startup operations …
Mazhar Mohammed / The Windows Blog:
Starting today you need Windows Phone 7.5 to use Marketplace  —  Today's the day.  This afternoon we started requiring Windows Phone 7.5 on phones to download, buy, update, or review apps in Marketplace.  As I've written previously, this change applies to both the phone and web Marketplace storefronts.
New York Times:
F.C.C. Weighs Treating Video Sites Like Cable Companies  —  BOSTON — Most consumers have no idea what an M.V.P.D. is, but they mail a check to one every month.  What they call Comcast or Time Warner Cable or DirecTV, the government calls a “multichannel video programming distributor,” or M.V.P.D. for short.
New York Times:
Google Privacy Inquiries Get Little Cooperation  —  Secrets spilled across the computer screen.  —  After months of negotiation, Johannes Caspar, a German data protection official, forced Google to show him exactly what its Street View cars had been collecting from potentially millions of his fellow citizens.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Simplifies Circumvention of ISP Blockades  —  Within a few days, five of the largest UK Internet providers will all have to censor The Pirate Bay.  Virgin and Orange have already implemented the block and the rest must follow before the end of May.
Jerry Hirsch / Los Angeles Times:
Plan for self-driving cars passes California Senate hurdle  —  Legislation allowing for the use of self-driving cars such as this Toyota Prius modified by Google passed the California State Senate (Getty Images / May 21, 2012)  —  A bill that allows for the use of self-driving cars …
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple expected to spend $27 billion on semiconductors in 2012  —  A new analysis expects Apple to remain the the world's biggest chip buyer this year, projecting $27 billion worth of semiconductor purchases from the company in 2012.  —  Dale Ford, IHS iSuppli's head of electronics …
More: CNET
Heather Kelly / VentureBeat:
Google+ wants to be your new Flickr  —  Google+ is succeeding in small bursts, feature by feature.  As a social network competing with Facebook it's a flop, but its video-chat tool Hangouts is a winner.  Now photo sharing is poised to be the service's next breakout hit …
More: Mashable! and GigaOM
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kickstarted: my conversation with Kickstarter founder Perry Chen  —  We are on the cusp of a big economic shift.  I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and Kickstarter just might be the most visible representation of that.  When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers.
More: Mashable!

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ynon Kreiz, who steps down as Mattel CEO, joins Paramount as co-CEO, overseeing daily operations; David Ellison will lead strategy, creative, and tech functions

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
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