AFTER FACEBOOK: 11 More Tech IPOs We're Looking Forward To
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Facebook finally filed to go public last week. It took the company 8 years, 850 million users, and $1 billion in annual profits before it was finally ready to pull the trigger. With such a long buildup, there was bound to be a bit of a letdown when it...
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Mobile Messaging Apps: A Primer
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The global mobile messaging app space is the new social battleground. Startups that would have had little chance of unseating Facebook’s dominance on the web are attacking Zuckerberg’s empire by refocusing social networking around the mobile phone contacts book. Enter your phone number, and these apps already know who all...
Microsoft warns users of new malicious Chrome extension and Firefox add-on that hijack Facebook accounts
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Microsoft has discovered a new piece of malware in the form of a Google Chrome extension and Firefox add-on that can hijack Facebook accounts. There does not appear to be equivalent plugins for Internet Explorer nor Safari. The threat, detected by Microsoft as Trojan:JS/Febipos.A, was first found making the rounds...
Microsoft warns users of new malicious Chrome extension and Firefox add-on that hijack Facebook accounts
Facebook's iPhone Culture Builds An Overzealous Home On Android
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Facebook didn’t realize just how important widgets, docks, and app folders were to Android users, and that leaving them out of Home was a huge mistake. That’s because many of the Facebookers who built and tested Home normally carry iPhones, I’ve confirmed. The lack of “droidfooding” has left Facebook scrambling...
The Onion, Yahoo-Hulu and Android on Windows -- 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week
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In case you missed anything, here’s a quick weekend roundup of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Wondering just how much your new S4 costs? Market research firm IHS pegs the cost of Samsung’s new flagship smartphone at just above $237 per unit. It planned to do so...
This Is A Gorgeous Redesign Concept For Apple's iPhone Software (AAPL)
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Apple is racing to finish updates to iOS 7, its latest version of the software that powers iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. This year's iOS is widely reported to be getting a the first major redesign in the history of the software. The new look is said to be lacking...
Why Zuckerberg's Lobby Is Collapsing Like A House Of Cards Outside Of DC
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“Power is a lot like real estate. It’s all about location, location, location.” — Frank Underwood, House of Cards At this very moment, Mark Zuckerberg’s political lobby, FWD.us, is probably taken aback at how reviled it has become, both from the public and its own revolting members. After all,...
Here's Why Facebook Wants To Spend $1 Billion On Waze, According To Industry Sources Who Are Smarter Than Us (FB)
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According to several reports, Facebook is in talks to buy an Israeli startup called Waze for $1 billion. Waze makes a "social" mapping app for smartphones. It was founded in 2009, and it has backed investors that include Horizons Ventures Hong Kong and Kleiner Perkins. Last July, when Waze hit 20 million...
Here's Why Facebook Wants To Spend $1 Billion On Waze, According To Industry Sources Who Are Smarter Than Us (FB)
This Is What It's Like Working At Waze, The Startup Facebook Is About To Buy For $1 Billion
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Editor's note: Last year, Business Insider partner EpicLaunch toured the offices of hot Israeli startup Waze. Today, according to several reports, Waze is about to be acquired by Facebook for a price around $1 billion. Obivously this has all of us even more interested in what it's like working...
7 Things Fake Online Dating Profiles Usually Say
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Online, it's hard to tell who's fake and who's real. An estimated one of every ten dating profiles online are fake, and more than $50 million is lost to romance scams annually, according to the FBI. Online dating site Seeking Arrangement deletes more than 600 fake accounts per day. It got...
Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder
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Reid Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating from Stanford in 1990 to figure out what he was really doing with his life. Figure it out, he did! Hoffman is now the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn, a $19 billion public company. During those 15 years, Hoffman first thought...
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