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Meet some of Facebook's best friends in New York Crain's New York Business By Aaron Elstein @InTheMkts You may have heard: Facebook filed for an initial public offering last week. Investors marveled over the immense power of the social-media giant, which disclosed 845 million users and operating margins of nearly 50%. Facebook, Dead or AliveWall Street Journal IPO Euphoria, Without Much MemoryNew York Times Why Facebook may not be a wise investmentWashington Post eWeek -BusinessWeek -Los Angeles Times all 1,238 news articles »

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Anonymous hackers claim hit Deseret News By Louise Nordstrom, AP STOCKHOLM — A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous on Saturday said it had attacked the Swedish government's website, bringing it down for periods of time by overloading it with traffic. CyberForce used Twitter to claim ... Anonymous attacks 2 Swedish Web sitesOutcome Magazine Hackers Apparently Hit Swedish Government SiteABC News Hackers mount Swedish government cyber attackThe Local.se all 159 news articles »

Daily Mail

NASA releases HD Earth image KPRC Houston A satellite orbiting the Earth took six of pictures over an eight hour time span. The images were then combined, creating Blue Marble 2012, a companion to the 'Blue Marble' image NASA released last month. The image gives a viewer the perspective of ... Spectacular High-Res Image of Earth: The Other SideWired News Second 'Blue Marble' NASA sat pic apes Apollo 17's stunnerRegister NASA releases 2nd 'Blue Marble' Earth photoUSA TODAY My Fabulous Style -Discovery News -CBS News all 76 news articles »

MotorTrend Magazine

Chevy Silverado Survives The Apocalypse Chicago Tribune If you haven't seen it yet (and I know many have already), you'll see the Chevy Silverado Super Bowl commercial pretty early on during the festivities on big-game Sunday. For what it's worth, we predict it will get the most attention during the Big ... Chevrolet's Sonic Youth replaces Aveo in subcompact lineSlashGear Aliens shill for Chevy Volt in Super Bowl adFox News Video Find: Only Chevy Silverados Survive Apocalypse; Aliens Wowed by Volt TechMotorTrend Magazine Motor Authority -Discovery News -Inside Line all 57 news articles »

IBNLive.com

Motorola seeking 2.25% of Apple's sales for standard-essential patent license Apple Insider By Josh Ong Recently uncovered court documents from Motorola Mobility's legal complaints against Apple have revealed that the handset maker is seeking 2.25 percent of Apple's sales of wireless devices in exchange for a patent license covering its ... Patent Wars & Microsoft, Buyer of iPadsThe Mac Observer What Motorola wants: 2.25% of Apple's iPhone sales revenueFortune Apple, Motorola in patent struggle in Germanynwitimes.com SlashGear -BBC News -tuaw.com all 79 news articles »

Durban web developer Justin Raleigh has built a smartphone app that’s going to change the way we watch live sports.

Facebook has 800 but some holdouts - technophobes and privacy zealots among them - just don’t like it.

Cat lovers are divided about “cat breading” “ which has gone viral on the internet.

Harriet Walker finds out how to opt out of behavioural advertising.

Graffiti artist David Choe painted the walls of Facebook’s first office and took shares as payment.

Reuters - Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp.

AP - Deion Sanders said he wasn't worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.

Appolicious - NFL Kicker! is the sort of game you download innocently enough looking to kill a few spare minutes; then, by the time you finally look up, you’ve spent half an hour devoted to kicking digital field goals. That’s far from a bad thing; rather it feels exciting to have a sports game on a mobile platform feel so immediate and gratifying.

ContributorNetwork - Back when home video games were still new, every new console's controller was an experiment. And before people settled on things like the Atari 2600's joystick and the Nintendo Entertainment System's gamepad, which influenced everything that came after them, they tried out some ... unusual form factors. Like the Fairchild Channel F's hybrid paddle-joystick, or the Mattel Intellivision's disc-and-touchpad arrangement.

AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.

A bitter battle has broken out between Google and Apple over the burgeoning mobile advertising market that both are seeking to dominate.

Personalised websites will be the future of the internet as people willingly share more of their information, Mark Zuckerberg predicted as he was grilled over Facebook’s approach to privacy.

The era of the personal computer is coming to an end and the tablet will take its place, Steve Jobs predicted yesterday.

Foxconn appeared to be losing control of its spiralling suicide crisis last night after another employee of the world’s biggest electronics assembler attempted to take his own life.

Facebook has overhauled its privacy controls to fend off escalating anger that it is betraying the trust of its 450 million users.