So, Facebook is now public, and it got off to the most unimaginable and inauspicious start, losing $4 between the NASDAQ’s opening and closing bells.But don’t go jumping out any windows just yet.There’s no question that the IPO …
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In addition to being one of the largest initial public offerings ever, Facebook’s IPO drew so much interest that the system couldn’t keep up with demand.Facebook expected to make its public debut at 8 a.m. PT this morning, but …
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Leave it up to Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese firm known for its wacky news videos, to create the only Facebook IPO wrap-up that’s actually worth watching.Sure, this Facebook wrap-up features a dead-eyed Zuckerberg riding the Wall Street bul…
- 13 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:00pm -

Facebook released the amount of shares allocated to each of its underwriters today, following its less-than-stellar IPO day.The company went public on the Nasdaq to an EKG-like performance, ending in a .38 cent gain today. The update came in …
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Buying its way into social commerce, Facebook has acquired mobile gifting app Karma for an undisclosed sum.“We’re thrilled to announce that Karma has been acquired by Facebook. The service that Karma provides will continue to operate in full fo…
- 13 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:37pm -

At the end of Facebook’s first day of public trading, its shares were selling for around 9.5 percent less than their opening price.By the time the closing bell rang, the stock ticker symbol FB sat at $38.37, according to …
- 14 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:02pm -

Is it just me, or does it feel like the “future” we all see in TV shows and movies is getting closer and closer to reality? A team of researchers at MIT have created a small atmosphere, the ZeroN, where …
- 14 hours ago, 18 May 12, 7:54pm -

It’s official: Facebook is a public company.With all the hype around Facebook’s big day and the obsession with who’s-getting-rich numbers, its easy to forget to that we’ve had a front row view of Facebook’s ascendance to $38 a share, ……
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Mark Zuckerberg and his current employees aren’t the only ones making it big in Silicon Valley today. Former Facebook employees who have struck out on their own and started companies — referred to as the Facebook Mafia — have collectively …
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If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
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Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon's massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2.
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Using your smartphone to take a photo of a document is one of those things that seems like it should be easy, but just isn't. First you have to futz with the angle and the distance. Then there's the flash: on, it's too bright and washed out; off, it'…
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Check out Wired's full coverage of the historic SpaceX launch on our new commercial-space portal, Open Space. A live feed will begin an hour before the scheduled launch, which is at 1:55 a.m. PDT on Saturday, May 19.
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The ITC decided on Friday that Motorola's phones and tablets should be banned from sale in 60 days due to a violation of a Microsoft patent. President Obama could possibly overturn the sale ban.
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Android phones are meant to be open, but unfortunately the best Android phone on the market is locked down, thanks to AT&T. It's time Google started to change that, by walking its talk on Android openness.
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Take a tour of the launch pad where SpaceX will attempt to make history May 19 by launching its Dragon capsule for a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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What will fill television's black hole after Fringe ends next season? The rash of new shows announced by networks over the past week include a few prime-time contenders that will offer an alternative to the usual doctor/lawyer/cop and sniggling singl…
- 12 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:27pm -

Amazon is reportedly pitching Kindle Fire welcome-screen ads. If they can pull it off, it could lead to an even cheaper Kindle Fire.
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Curious about how to burn through $2.5 billion in less than a year? Nokia might have some suggestions.
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Hunter Moore investigated by FBI, UK porn filter conspiracy theories, Coca Cola vs. porn cybersquatters and Big Porn is sued for patent infringement.
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Facebook's rules state if there are 7,000 comments on a new privacy policy, the company has to take it to a worldwide vote. Activists made sure that threshold was broken. Are you ready to vote?
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Facebook has acquired social gifting startup Karma for an undisclosed sum. This is the first acquisition Menlo Park has made as a public company: the first of many to come, I'm sure.
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The hype is done. Reality is here. On its first day, Facebook's IPO had to be propped up by its underwriters to stay just barely above its offering price.
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Historically SAP are an enterprise structured data software company: as society evolves unstructured data is ever more important. How are SAP coping with the opportunities and red herrings our...
- 14 hours ago, 18 May 12, 7:57pm -

Facebook was priced at $38. On day one, the stock saw a high of $ 43.02, a low of $38, and ultimately finished at $38.37. Why didn't it fall below the $38 mark, even though it tanked twice?
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Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a short speech before he rang the Nasdaq bell remotely from his company's headquarters in Menlo Park. In short, he's happy, but not ecstatic.
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Verdict deliberations in Oracle v. Google have been mixed up as the jury looks like it might be stuck on the question of infringement once again.
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Microsoft's is once again offering students a free Xbox with the purchase of a qualifying Windows PC.
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Amazon is mulling over the possibility of bringing its Kindle Special Offers program to the Kindle Fire -- but there are some concerns.
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In the wake of Facebook's billion-dollar Instagram buyout, video-sharing apps are jostling to become the next big thing.Ever since Facebook announced its $1 billion acquisition of the company behind the popular photo-sharing app Instagram last month…
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Political advertisers are going to flock to FB this yearThere’s certainly money in politics, and Facebook knows it. The company, now under pressure to to justify its enormous $104 billion IPO, is trying to hire someone to maximize political advert…
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My interface... myself?New Scientist’s Jim Giles calls attention to this freaky fact: that in the future--the rather near future--our interfaces with our gadgets may be our own bodies. “Left your phone at home again?” he writes. “A solution…
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Combating canine complaints with a cloud-connected collar.Soon, your dog will be in the cloud.
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Research suggests social networks remedy the isolation of modern life.In 2009, the Pew Internet Trust published a survey worth resurfacing for what it says about the significance of Facebook. The study was inspired by earlier research that "argued t…
- 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 11:39pm -

A U.S. Commerce Department anti-dumping decision could help some U.S. companies and hurt others.The United States Commerce Department concluded today that Chinese solar panel manufacturers are dumping solar panels in the U.S., and is penalizing them…
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A look back at the moments that have shaped Facebook's success.
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In a deadly flu outbreak, shutting airports should reduce the spread of the disease. But networks scientists have discovered a better approach that's just as effective.One of the nightmare scenarios for modern society is the possibility of a global…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:58am -

Delphi says its diesel-like engine runs cleanly on gasoline.Delphi, a major parts supplier to automakers, is developing an engine technology that could improve the fuel economy of gas-powered cars by 50 percent, potentially rivaling the performance…
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Yes, of course, but things got out of hand. A quarter of executives admit to having slept with a smart phone. Consultant Deborah Lovich could be accomplishing the management feat of the mobile era. She's convinced hundreds of agile-thumbed, on-at-al…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:00am -

Some of you are probably reading this post with ad blocker right now — and to be honest, I don't blame you. Sure, there's the occasional amusing or genuinely useful ad, but not terribly often, so why not install a plugin and avoid the whole mess? O…
- 7 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:06am -

The tale of Docracy's year-long journey is a fun one. When Matt Hall and his partner John Watkinson first went into the Hackathon last year, the only goal was to get a prototype working for an idea they had, a GitHub for legal documents. Sure, a win…
- 16 hours ago, 18 May 12, 6:00pm -

How timely. After launching a year ago at Disrupt NYC 2011, Tracks is today releasing one of its biggest updates to date. The service is much like Color, but without the creepy factor as any and all members of a specific photo-sharing group must be i…
- 18 hours ago, 18 May 12, 4:00pm -

Another startup cashing in (figuratively speaking) on the FB IPO: StockTwits. Earlier this week, the social network for investors added Facebook to its StockTwits Social Heatmap, a feature on the site that provides a visualization of what the StockT…
- 19 hours ago, 18 May 12, 2:36pm -

Social finance site TradingView, which launched in September of last year, is rolling out a new feature just in time for the Facebook IPO (c'mon, you knew there would have to be at least one story about "just in time for the Facebook IPO" today, rig…
- 20 hours ago, 18 May 12, 1:45pm -

I don't understand Klout. I've convinced myself that it's best that way. I just avoid it, really. Grading a person's social media influence on a scale of 100 seems like something popular girls would do in high school.Like Alexia said last year, nob…
- 21 hours ago, 18 May 12, 12:41pm -

Two years ago, WhiteyBoard founders Saachi Cywinski, Sherwin Kim and Jason Wilk set out to re-think those clunky, inflexible whiteboards found in classrooms and offices around the country. They developed a portable, flexible alternative: An inexpensi…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 6:56am -

On the whole, teacher compensation in the U.S. is embarrassing. To pick on marketers, some might see the fact that the average marketing manager makes twice the average salary of just about every type of teacher as just a wee bit backwards.Luckily,…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 1:10am -

This is the age of thinking thermostats and, not to be outdone by a well-known circular model, hardware startup Ecobee has released the Smart Si. It is a smart thermostat with small color screen and a web interface so temperature wonks can update the…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 12:47am -

Twitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn't solved the problem of turning its noise into signal. After joining Twitter, it can take a lot of following and unfollowing scores of accounts before you've curated a stream that makes sense for…
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The currents of the internet work in odd ways; this past week the theme seems to be robot sex. Since I have had it on the brain, I figure I will contribute to the trendiness and throw my own 2c in.
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Immaculate doll-face, globulous breasts, teeny waist, slender limbs, vacant ice-blue eyes, long platinum hair - Valeria Lukyanova of Odessa, Ukraine, has re-designed her physical form to resemble Barbie, the plastic Mattel toy. Is the result “beaut…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 8:21am -

Mining Asteroids! Has the future finally arrived? Is this B.S. or not B.S.? Scientist and Sci-Fi author David Brin breaks down the idea into its fascinating ideas, taking a look at how Planetary Resources is planning to obtain metals and fuel by mini…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:42am -

The Brain Preservation Foundation is an interesting enterprise co-developed by John Smart (Acceleration Studies Foundation) that’s offering a prize for researchers who manage to preserve animal brains in ways that would be suitable for humans and t…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:31am -

In Western cultures, nature is a cosmological, primal ordering force and a terrestrial condition that exists in the absence of human beings. Both meanings are freely implied in everyday conversation. We distinguish ourselves from the natural world by…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:15am -

There’s no such thing as free will in the sense of a ghost in the machine; our behavior is the product of physical processes in the brain rather than some mysterious soul, says Pinker.
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paolo scaruffi is the author of The Nature of Consciousness: The Structure of Life and the Meaning of Matter, and A Brief History of Knowledge.
- 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:01am -

Will “the self” survive because it can provide people with a greater sense of happiness? Or is it - perhaps along with the constructs “Free Will” and “Determinism” - doomed to the dustbin of history? Should cyborgs, avatars, and a rewired…
- 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:49am -

34.8% of IEET poll responders selected “Cryonics and Resurrection” in a recent survey that inquired about life-after-death preferences. 27.7% selected, instead, the category, “Uploaded in a Non-Biological Medium,” and 24.1% chose “Either is…
- 4 days ago, 15 May 12, 4:27pm -

Prague-based Boad Design's "Izolator" collection of stemware is more than just a quirky take on an every-day item. These ridged wine stems are ergonomically designed to fit comfortably and securely in…
- 4 hours ago, 19 May 12, 5:40am -

An advocacy group known as One has designed a sorta genius giant towable inkjet printer that prints messages of peaceful protest, in non-toxic water-soluble paint, on city streets.More »…
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Station Saint-Martin along Paris's Metro Line 8 & 9 was closed in 1939, at the start of WWII, and although reopened once the war had ended, the station was ultimately shutter for good due its close pr…
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As much as we all complain about trolls, have you ever really taken the time to get to know one? Or, better yet, to get to know Patton Oswalt's hilarious rendition of real-life, under-the-bridge type…
- 8 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:00am -

The day Grayson James Walker was born, his parents—Heather and Patrick Walker, of Memphis, Tennessee—knew their time with him would be brief. Grayson had been diagnosed in utero with a rare neura…
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Cybersecurity and the government have been a volitile combination lately, with proposed bills like SOPA, PIPA, and the still-up-in-the-air CISPA at the center of on-and-off internet outrage. So it's k…
- 9 hours ago, 19 May 12, 12:20am -

It's an absolutely gorgeous spring afternoon here in New York. The sun is shining, it's not too hot, and there's a slight breeze—the perfect recipe for a rooftop party. But you're going to need a pl…
- 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:40pm -

Losing an iPhone is the absolute worst. The inconvenience, the expense... Just terrible. So, when a good samaritan gets in touch to let you know she's found your phone, the appropriate response ought…
- 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:40pm -

While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi's diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster, the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above. The add-on…
- 1 hour ago, 19 May 12, 8:33am -

If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple's filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside. It isn't the first one, either, Cuperti…
- 3 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:29am -

Let's face it, whether you're down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need'em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC, that's what. And that tap-to-pay convenien…
- 4 hours ago, 19 May 12, 5:21am -

We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol' Federal Communications Commission's site. Since we couldn't possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes do…
- 6 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:52am -

Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications? Well, dig in, because it's Microsoft's turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describe…
- 7 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:35am -

There's been hints of it coming as early as February, but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that's the telltale sig…
- 9 hours ago, 19 May 12, 12:14am -

It's safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June. While we're still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop and Metro environments of i…
- 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:28pm -

Here's an expansion of mobile competition in the US that comes out of left field, even for us: GameStop as a cellular provider. GameStop Mobile, as it's called, is that rare bird of an AT&T-based MVNO that relies on a bring-your-own-device strategy…
- 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:11pm -

Man, what a show we've got for you this month. For starters, we popped by the Smithsonian, to check out the museum's Art of the Video Game exhibit. And while the awesome Fifth Avenue Frogger game didn't actually make it into those hallowed halls, w…
- 12 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:30pm -

At the end of last year, an Administrative Law Judge issued an initial ruling that Motorola's mobile devices infringe a bit of Microsoft's IP. Now, the Commission has affirmed that decision and issued an exclusion order to ban Moto's offending devi…
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