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Here’s What Facebook Stock Looks Like
techcrunch.com
In a few months time, here’s what the world will be fighting to get its hands on, or get rid of depending on your confidence in Facebook’s business plan. The image of a Facebook stock certificate was included in the amended S-1 Facebook filed today with the SEC. It’s sure...
The Mac App Store's future of irrelevance
www.marco.org
Postbox's exit from the Mac App Store should sound very familiar to anyone who buys Mac software. If you read between the lines a bit, I think the real story there is one we've seen a lot since June 1: they tolerated the App Store's lack of paid upgrade mechanics...
The Value of Making Reading Hard
www.theatlantic.com
Maybe cognitive friction in our reading experiences -- be it in typeface choice or annotation mechanism -- is a good thing. One of the really tough questions to answer in relation to any technology is: When do you make something easy and when do you make it hard? This problem...
'iPhone 5′ is already for sale in China
9to5mac.com
Those in China looking to get a head start on their Fall iPhone shopping are given the opportunity by sites like TaoBao which, according to Reuters (And the link we dug up) are already up for Pre-order… Apple Inc’s next-generation iPhone has not even been released yet, but opportunistic...
Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends – A Reckless New Ads Test
techcrunch.com
Only 12% of your friends see your average status update, but Facebook is testing an option called “Highlight” that lets you pay a few dollars to have one of your posts appears to more friends. Highlight lets users, not Pages or businesses, select an “important post” and “make sure friends...
Google and Asustek to release second generation Nexus 7 tablet in July, says Reuters
www.engadget.com
Google's next generation of Nexus 7 tablets from Asus will be Qualcomm-powered and arrive this July, according to Reuters. If its sources are to be believed, Mountain View is aiming to ship eight million of the units by the end of the year, showing it has a lot of...
Facebook Revises S-1 Again: Adds Another 83,818,263 Shares Of Class A Stock
techcrunch.com
Facebook is revising hard and fast in the lead-up to Friday when it is expected to ring in the Nasdaq bell and go public and is continuing to gradually push up the value of the company. Today’s S-1 filing has increased Facebook’s share offering to 421,233,615 shares of Class A common...
Noom’s unique lifestyle apps help Android owners get fit and healthy
thenextweb.com
There are all kinds of smartphone apps. There are games, social network apps, news apps, less useful apps and then, once in a while, there are apps that come along and have a significant affect on our lives. Noom, a New York based startup, aims to make these very kind...
Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours
arstechnica.com
Real Time Bitcoin Data Services On Wednesday afternoon, the Bitcoin bubble appears to have burst. As of this writing, its current value is around $160—down from a high of $260. (It fell as low as $130 today.) There is no obvious explanation for why the digital currency has fallen...
Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS
www.theverge.com
Thirty-one. That’s the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners. Thirty-one months is just barely...
Yahoo teams up with Aviary to bring HTML5 photo editing to 75M Flickr users
thenextweb.com
With photo editing at its core, NYC based Aviary wants to power every mobile photo application on the planet. The startup has grown exponentially since the release of its mobile SDK, but now a massive partnership with Yahoo changes everything. Yahoo’s own Flickr has been struggling as of late to gain confidence from the photographer community,...
Offline: The notebook
www.theverge.com
The irony is not lost on me: mere weeks after I published my Verge At Work internet-based text document synchronization workflow masterpiece, I left the internet. In addition to the chuckles this has produced, it's also caused me great sadness. I miss the confidence and convenience of having my...
Pinterest has overtaken Tumblr in the United States
royal.pingdom.com
The Web has been abuzz about Pinterest for a while now. There is, shall we say, a great interest in Pinterest. So much interest, it turns out, that Pinterest in all likelihood is now getting more traffic than Tumblr in the United States. And if it isn’t, it soon will....
Analyst explains why the stock market is completely crazy when it comes to Apple
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If you find yourself confused by the bipolar nature of Apple’s (AAPL) share prices, you’re not alone. Asymco’s Horace Dediu has posted some analysis of Apple’s stock prices and has found that their wild boom-bust swings make relatively little sense from an economic perspective. What’s more, he has found that...
Sprint Posts Wide Loss, Big Gain in Revenue and Customers Thanks, in Part, to the iPhone
allthingsd.com
Sprint on Wednesday posted a large net loss amid various charges, but also saw it boost overall sales as it added more than half a million contract customers to the Sprint brand. For the three months ended Dec. 31, Sprint lost $1.3 billion or 43 cents per share, on revenue...
Windows on a stick: hands-on with Windows 8's "Windows to Go"
arstechnica.com
Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview is called that for a reason—there isn't a lot on the surface that looks very compelling about the new operating system to business users. The revelation that Microsoft would not support domains or other administrative features on Windows 8 for ARM devices dumped cold water...
What Google Maps Actually Just Unveiled: Anxiety Over Apple Maps
massivegreatness.com
You want to know how I know that Google is very concerned about the forthcoming launch of Apple's own mapping product for iOS? I simply followed the Google Maps press conference today. The mere fact that Google decided to hold a press conference just five days before WWDC (where Apple's...
Font Awesome Icon Font Released for Twitter Bootstrap
www.readwriteweb.com
It takes a lot of confidence to label a project "awesome," but after looking over the Font Awesome collection, I'm inclined to agree. Font Awesome is a set of glyph icons meant to work with Bootstrap, the Web App toolkit released by Twitter last year. The project is courtesy of...
Amazon Kindle Fire HD update brings Kindle FreeTime to tablet-craving tykes
www.engadget.com
One of Amazon's subtler but potentially valuable promises for the Kindle Fire HD was its Kindle FreeTime mode -- a fenced-off world that would give kids a simple place to play and their parents the confidence to step away for a few precious minutes. It wasn't part of the...
Facebook needs a hit
www.theverge.com
There’s no numerical evidence that Facebook has "lost its cool," but you can feel it. You hear people talking about it. Instead of seeing Facebook blue illuminating the phones of fellow subway and bus riders, you see Instagram or Snapchat or Twitter. Facebook has become a normal thing —...
Lodsys Offers Update on In App Purchase Patent Dispute, Claims Licensing Momentum
www.macrumors.com
Nearly a year and a half ago, patent holding firm Lodsys threatened to file suit against App Store developers making use of Apple's In App Purchase mechanism, claiming that they were infringing upon a patent held by Lodsys. Apple stepped in to protect developers, ultimately filing a motion to intervene...
Did Samsung just reveal a Galaxy Note 10.1 for MWC?
www.theverge.com
Samsung's official website may have revealed the name of a heretofore unannounced product: a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. The name appears on the company's invitation to a Samsung Developer Day at MWC this year, alongside the Galaxy Note (the company's original 5.3-inch stylus-enabled Android tablet), and the Wave 3...
Groupon’s stock hits all time lows
thenextweb.com
It’s a rough time to be Groupon right now. The company has been forced to restate earnings, highlighting financial losses, and its accounting firm has told the public that its controls are ‘materially weak.’ Investors have responded with vigor, dumping the stock, sending it to new lows. Today, at the...
Five ways to build prospect trust in one meeting
venturebeat.com
This post is sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. It’s happened to everyone who sells for a living: You meet with a prospective client to show them the goods. Then you meet with them again. And again. But they still won’t pull...
Senator Claire McCaskill threatens legislation if FAA doesn't reconsider 'dated' electronics rules
www.theverge.com
US Senator Claire McCaskill has joined many others in urging the Federal Aviation Administration to reconsider its limits on in-flight electronics, saying that she will take the matter to Congress if progress is too slow. In an open letter to the FAA, McCaskill called its policies — namely, a...
Of Course Wall Street's Already Bitching About How Mark Zuckerberg Isn't Sucking Up To Them Enough
www.businessinsider.com
Last week, Facebook held a big IPO "kick-off" meeting for investment banks and analysts, in which company management gave Wall Street a closer look at the company. Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, didn't attend the meeting. Predictably, Wall Street's already bitching about that. "We don't think that he should be...
Facebook Is Still Figuring It Out. Will Advertisers and Investors Wait Around?
allthingsd.com
There are a bunch of ways to explain away GM’s decision to stop spending ad dollars on Facebook. We’ll get to those. But there’s one thing that even the most ardent Facebook fan can’t argue with: Facebook advertising is very much a work in progress. Don’t take my word for...
Facebook Acqhires Team From Trust Verification Startup Legit
techcrunch.com
Legit, a startup working on a universal reputation system that could help sharing economy services verify whether users are trustworthy, has just announced its team will join Facebook. Legit’s exit blog post offered little details, but we’re awaiting a response from the founders. Before the deal, Legit was building a...
Solar panels finally produce more energy than it takes to make them, study finds
www.theverge.com
Solar energy has a reputation as being a clean energy source but hasn't earned it — at least not up until now. That's because in a darkly ironic truth, the power used to manufacture solar panels still comes mainly from electricity generated by fossil fuels. But a new study...
Google, Nokia, And Microsoft Give Privacy In German A Chance
www.fastcompany.com
Three of technology's biggest names have signed up to an initiative to increase Internet privacy in Germany. Verein Selbstregulierung Informationswirtschaft--what you and I might call the Association for Self-Regulation In IT--allows users to sign up and then blur or remove views of their homes, cars, or even themselves. "The companies'...
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