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May 28, 2012, 4:50 AM

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Nick Bilton / Bits:

Facebook Tries, Tries Again on a Smartphone — Can a software company build its own smartphone? We may find out soon. — This past week, Google completed its acquisition of the hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which could lead to the search giant's making its own smartphone.

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Facebook Is Building The Facebook Phone Right In Front Of Our Eyes — One of the many points of intrigue around Facebook's future centers on the mobile phone market. — It has been reportedly working on a mobile operating system for its own phone since 2010.

Tweets: @stevecheney, @andrewchen and @andrewchen

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

If Facebook Really Goes Into The Mobile Hardware Business, Investors Should Run Away Screaming — Facebook is poaching ex-Apple engineers to build a smartphone, Nick Bilton of the New York Times reports. — This is the third iteration of Facebook's smartphone plans—from hardware to software and back to hardware again.

Randall Stross / New York Times:

Goodbye to Windows Live (and Whatever It Meant) — IF you own a Windows-based PC, you may like the operating system well enough. Or you may merely tolerate it, if you give it much thought at all. But whatever your feeling, “love” probably isn't the word that immediately comes to mind to describe it.

More: ReadWriteWeb. Tweets: @simx and @bill_fischer

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Decoding Share Prices: Amazon, Apple and Facebook — There are many religions when it comes to calculating the “right” price for the shares of a publicly traded company. At a basic level, buying a share is an act of faith in the company's future earnings.

Tweets: @carnage4life

Zachary Lutz / Engadget:

LG Display debuts five-inch Retina Display killer with 1080p HD resolution and 440ppi pixel density — Smartphone displays are becoming larger in size, and along with that, we're seeing a nice trend that's bringing greater pixel density. While LG Display's newly-announced 1080p HD mobile display …

More: The Verge, 9to5Google and Gadgetsteria

Joshua Brustein / New York Times:

For Tech Start-Ups, New York Has Increasing Allure — When Doug Imbruce wanted to start an interactive video company in 2009, he had no luck finding investors in New York. So he moved to Silicon Valley — where venture capitalists were receptive to his pitch — and founded Qwiki.

Tweets: @kathyzucker and @vkw. Thanks:@adariostrange

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Flop Puts Investment Banker on the Spot — Morgan Stanley's Michael Grimes Draws Some Flak for Facebook's IPO Flop — Facebook Inc.'s botched initial public offering left Morgan Stanley investment banker Michael Grimes in an unusual spot: on the defensive.

More: Pulse2 Technology …

Reuters:

Minute by minute, Nasdaq chaos engulfed Facebook IPO

More: Bloomberg, BuzzMachine, New York Times and The Tech Trade. Tweets: @eghosao. See also Mediagazer

Erin Geiger Smith / Reuters:

Facebook IPO is flashback to dot-com class action

More: PandoDaily, WFTS, PR Newswire, Business Wire and Business Wire

Nicholas Holmes / The Next Web:

An inside look at Switzerland's seriously ambitious startup scene — Ah, Switzerland. The land of chocolate, cow-bells, skiing and prices that make you want to cry. A place that has built a global brand on providing a safe, risk-free haven for other people's money and not being disruptive or belligerent.

Tweets: @sirjrg

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Digital Chocolate Downsizing? Founder Trip Hawkins Out As CEO; Reports Of Layoffs, Marc Metis As Interim CEO — Some significant changes afoot at social and mobile games company Digital Chocolate: founder Trip Hawkins has stepped down as the CEO of the company.

More: Digital Chocolate, VG247, GamesIndustry International, Inside Social Games and Pulse2 Technology …

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Amazon to sell prepaid wireless service in Japan — Amazon is set to enter the Japanese MVNO market, selling prepaid 500MB SIM cards for a flat rate of ¥1980 (about $25); the first entry by a foreign-owned corporation, reports Nikkei. The cards will be usable on NTT Docomo's LTE network …

More: VentureBeat

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Aged Windows XP costs 5x more to manage than Windows 7 — As XP's life wanes, Microsoft talks dollars to get businesses to ditch 11-year-old OS — Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing …

More: Computerworld, PC World, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, Redmond Pie and The Verge. Tweets: @cmross

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

EXCLUSIVE: Ross Levinsohn's Plan To Turn Around Yahoo — It's been a week or so since Yahoo booted its CEO Scott Thompson for lying on his resume, and replaced him with Ross Levinsohn. — Levinsohn's title is “interim” CEO, but the impression we get is that it is his job to lose. — So, what's his plan?

Tweets: @jonathanglick

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