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September 5, 2012, 5:30 AM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Cancels Secondary Offering, Zuck And Board Members Won't Sell To Keep Shares Off The Market — With its share price ailing, Facebook doesn't want to flood the market with any more stock, so it has cancelled its secondary offering and will instead pay for taxes on its RSUs with cash …

More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Mashable!, Forbes, CNET and Tech Trader Daily. Thanks:@joshconstine

Mark Cuban / blog maverick:

Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right — Andrews Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for the NY Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of FB. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong. — Have you ever been to an auction where the selling party told …

More: Beyond Search, Techdirt, Forbes, Fortune, Information Arbitrage, parislemon, SiliconBeat, DealBook, Washington Post, DailyFinance.com, The Verge, MarketBeat and TheStreet.com

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Mark Zuckerberg Commits To Not Selling Stock For A Year — Some news out of Facebook tonight. — Mark Zuckerberg has committed to not selling any shares for the next year in a filing with the SEC. — Facebook board members Marc Andreessen and Donald Graham will be selling some Facebook shares, but only to cover a tax bill.

More: CNET, AllThingsD, BBC, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Forbes and U.S. Securities …. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Alexandra Scaggs / Wall Street Journal:

Prominent Facebook Underwriters Cut Their Price Targets

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, AllFacebook, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, Rob Hof's Blog and Forbes

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers — The FBI has shot down today's claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads around the world.

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple announces special event for September 12 — Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10:00 am.

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Leaks accurate, this is what the new iPhone will look like — iMore has learned that recent parts leaks and dummy phones are accurate representations of what the new iPhone (iPhone 5,1) will look like when Apple announces it on September 12, 2012. Almost identical in design to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S …

More: Gizmodo UK, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Redmond Pie, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Macgasm, Computerworld, Business Insider, Techland, digitaltrends.com, TUAW, Technolog, iFans and MacRumors

Perry Chen / Kickstarter Blog:

Accountability on Kickstarter — Yesterday, NPR's “All Things Considered” asked, “When a Kickstarter campaign fails, does anyone get their money back?” The story questioned what would happen if a Kickstarter project failed to follow through on its promises.

More: CNET, VentureBeat and Dunlap Codding. Tweets: @markmilian

Aarti Shahani / NPR:

When A Kickstarter Campaign Fails, Does Anyone Get Their Money Back?

More: PandoDaily, AllThingsD, Betabeat, BRYCE DOT VC, Geek News Central, The Atlantic Online and TechCrunch

Steven Musil / CNET:

Bitcoin exchange BitFloor shuttered after virtual heist — Nearly a quarter million dollars worth of the peer-to-peer currency was stolen by accessing unencrypted backup wallet keys. — Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor is offline and has shut down operations while it investigates the theft …

More: Computerworld, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Web, The Register, Gizmodo and Ars Technica

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Will Twitter's Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out? — This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors. — One was an argument that it'll likely fail in its bid to become a public company. The logic went like this: Facebook, Groupon …

Tweets: @mathewi

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

The end of Android tablets: can Google match Amazon's success before Microsoft closes the window? — This Thursday, we expect that Amazon will be unveiling a least one new Kindle Fire alongside a new e-reader. If you believe Amazon's somewhat fuzzy math, the Kindle Fire is far and away …

More: Guardian and Metro.co.uk. Tweets: @akipekka and @charlesarthur

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

What “Xbox Games on Windows” actually means — Only a select few Windows 8 games will be branded as “Xbox Games on Windows” — As a branding exercise, the recently unveiled “Xbox Games on Windows” is more than a little confusing. The “Xbox” name has previously been exclusively reserved …

More: The Next Web

Ryan Singel / Wired:

Democrats' YouTube Convention Livestream Blocked on Copyright Grounds — While First Lady Michelle Obama's speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, don't get inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube - it's been blocked by copyright claims.

More: Techdirt, GigaOm, CNET and CNN

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

As ed tech heats up, Desire2Learn raises $80M in its first VC round — Since launching in 1999, Desire2Learn, a Canadian ed tech company that shares a hometown with Research in Motion, has bootstrapped its way to profitability. — But after more than a decade of going it alone …

More: Bloomberg, NEA, Bedrocket, VentureBeat, Desire2Learn, Globe and Mail and TechCrunch

Paul Marks / New Scientist:

Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders — Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed …

More: The Register, digitaltrends.com, BBC, Ars Technica, Neowin, The Next Web, TechSpot, TorrentFreak, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Inquirer and SECURECOMM 2012

Aldo Cortesi:

The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe — 04 September 2012 — Something I've been worrying about for a long time has just happened: Antisec has leaked a database with more than a million UDIDs. The UDID issue has been a bit of a white whale of mine - I've written many blog posts …

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

Uber Is Close to Launching a Taxi App to Hail and Pay for Yellow Cabs in New York City — A source has informed Betabeat that Uber—the pricey, San Francisco-based request-a-ride app for black cars—plans on an imminent launch for a similar service for yellow cabs in New York City.

More: New York Times, CNET, The Verge and VentureBeat

Wall Street Journal:

A Key Test for Nokia's CEO — Elop Dismisses Samsung Threat as Handset Maker Prepares to Launch New Windows Phones — When Nokia Corp. launches a new series of devices running Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 8 software, Chief Executive Stephen Elop wants to send a clear message …

More: The Next Web, Softpedia News, All About Windows Phone, My Nokia Blog, Pocketnow and WMPoweruser

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple extends Volume Purchase Program for apps, books to 9 new countries including UK — Apple has today posted a public notice to developers that its Volume Purchasing Program is available in 9 new countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom.

More: MacRumors. Thanks:@panzer

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Appeals court upholds Apple victory in Cover Flow patent case — Apple comes out on top again in a now four year dispute over patents held by Mirror Worlds about three of its software patents. — Apple has once again been cleared of infringing on patents held by Mirror Worlds.

More: Bloomberg, AppleInsider and MacDailyNews

Christina Bonnington / Wired:

Chinese Knockoff Maker Reportedly Copies, Patents iPhone 5 Design — The Goophone I5 takes the upcoming iPhone's purported new look to the Android platform. Image: Goophone — A Chinese iPhone lookalike manufacturer has reportedly patented the next iPhone's design before Apple has even released the handset.

More: Gizmodo, Neowin, Gizchina, CNET, Redmond Pie and WebProNews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

By next year, all Estonian schools will be able to offer programming classes — The Tiger Leap Foundation in Estonia has launched a program called “ProgeTiiger.” That probably doesn't mean much to you, but it should: it's a project which allows Estonian students from grades 1 to 12 to learn computer programming at school.

More: TechEye, Ubuntu Life, ArcticStartup, VentureBeat, Geek.com and Wired. Tweets: @gassee

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