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Reuters:
Facebook exec ducks questions about IPO debacle  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg spoke to Harvard University students in her first public appearance since the company's disappointing initial public offering, but refrained from addressing the controversy around its messy, glitch-plagued debut.
Mark Cuban / blog maverick:
Facebook IPO Post Mortem - Killer - but not for the reasons you think !  —  1. Say goodbye to the individual investor on Wall Street.  Whatever positive impression they had of the IPO market and the stock market in general was just torched to the ground.  When everyone you know associated …
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
How Tim Cook is changing Apple  —  Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going.  —  FORTUNE — In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a “bus tour” led by a research analyst for Citibank.
Rafe Needleman / CNET:
Here comes Yahoo's own Web browser — Axis  —  Yahoo is announcing tonight that it's getting into the browser business with its new Axis browser.  There are versions for iPad and iPhone, and plug-ins for the desktop browsers Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Good Lord, I Might Now Want to Use Yahoo Search Again — Product Dudes Talk About New Axis Browser (Video)  —  Yahoo introduced its new Axis browser tonight, with versions for the Apple iPad and iPhone, as well as plug-ins for the top desktop browsers.  —  The company briefed a media army …
IDC:
Android- and iOS-Powered Smartphones Expand Their Share of the Market in the First Quarter, According to IDC  —  Smartphones powered by the Android and iOS mobile operating systems accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12).
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Microsoft legal win over Google may signal ceasefire  —  So much for the power of Motorola's patents.  —  Google, which spent $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola and its patents in a deal that closed Tuesday, suffered a major legal defeat at the hands of Microsoft, which successfully argued …
Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:
Zynga Defends Acquisition  —  Amid Criticism of Deal for OMGPOP, Game Maker Points to Revenue Streams Zynga Inc. has faced plenty of questions after buying the maker of “Draw Something,” a mobile game that was released only six weeks earlier and has since lost popularity.
Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:
Fate of BlackBerry's Popular Messaging Tool in Doubt  —  As the Smartphone's Sales Shrink, So Too Do Users' Contact Lists; Research In Motion Curtails Effort to License Service  —  Research In Motion Ltd. may have lost its dominance in the global smartphone market, but its instant-messaging service …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU court to rule on $1.1 billion Microsoft fine on June 27  —  (Reuters) - Europe's second-highest court will rule on June 27 whether EU regulators were justified in fining Microsoft 899 million euros ($1.1 billion) four years ago for failing to comply with an antitrust ruling intended to make business easier for its rivals.
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
You Won't Believe How Much Crazy Science & Microscopic Tech Is Crammed Into Your iPhone's Accelerometer [Video] … Have you ever wondered how your iPhone knows up from down, or when you're shaking it?  It's all because of the tiny accelerometer chip inside the device, but how does it work?
Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
Jason Calacanis Joins PandoDaily As a Regular Columnist  —  Well, here's a fun announcement.  PandoDaily is very pleased to welcome a new special contributor: Jason Calacanis.  Jason will be writing a regular (every couple of weeks) column, offering advice to a company that's at a crossroads.
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
How Facebook Can Solve Its Mobile Problem: Build a Browser  —  When it recovers from the cataclysmic clusterf**k that was its IPO, Facebook will gather its team, round up its new friends from Instagram and Glancee, and ask the $100 billion question: What the hell is it going to do about mobile?
More: GigaOM
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Facebook now lets developers track unique shares, reads, and clicks of Open Graph stories  —  We know that Facebook is definitely on to something with its Open Graph initiative.  Apps like Socialcam have seen a huge increase in adoption thanks to the sharing of content on user's Timeline and News Feed.
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Millennial: tablets account for 20% of mobile ad impressions, Android has 49% share  —  Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media this morning released its ‘Mobile Mix’ report covering its findings for the first quarter of this year.  The report looks at trends in ad impressions across mobile devices and operating systems.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Browser choice: A thing of the past?  —  Like to pick your browser?  Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs.  —  On personal computers running Windows, Macs, and Linux, you can pick from a variety of browsers …
James McQuivey / Forrester Blogs:
Apple's Coming Plan To Take Over The TV Business  —  Last week we released our newest report about the future of TV and argued in it and the accompanying blog post that the battle for the TV is not really about TV.  It's about the future of the platform giants like Apple, Google …
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
A Jennifer Egan Original ... Tweet by Tweet  —  When the novelist Jennifer Egan submitted her latest short story to The New Yorker, she hinted to Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor, that there was a catch.  It soon became evident: Ms. Egan had written an entire work of fiction in 140 character bits …

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