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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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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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As part of our live coverage of Facebook’s (FB) IPO Friday morning, I put in some limit orders to buy the stock. I wanted to have some ’skin in the game’ and have the same experience as our viewers. What I experienced was a few minutes of terror, followed by relief and then frustration; in [...]

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As part of our live coverage of Facebook’s IPO Friday morning, I put in some limit orders to buy the stock. I wanted to have some ’skin in the game’ and have the same experience as our viewers. What I experienced was a few minutes of terror, followed by relief and then frustration; in part, [...]

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It’s been a tough week for the stock market, which is ending on a desultory note as Facebook’s (FB) much-hyped IPO struggled. After pricing at $38 per share last night, underwriters were forced to delay the opening trade in Facebook Friday morning by about 30 minutes due to what the Nasdaq called “an issue in [...]

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There is a lot of misguided focus on which Facebook employees and investors are amassing what size pile of money, says Meagan Marks, a former Facebook employee, and a shareholder. ?What this IPO is really about is the company now has more money to go out and make more acquisitions and build more interesting products.?

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Every day, Michelle Leder and the crew at Footnoted.com scour Securities and Exchange Commission filings for highlights and lowlights in executive compensation. Once a month, she joins us to discuss some of their top finds. As we discuss in the accompanying video, April showered a host of benefits on executives at a couple of companies [...]

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Yahoo! Finance to stream LIVE coverage of the Facebook IPO today starting at 10:45 am. WATCH IT LIVE HERE! In case you have not heard, Facebook goes public today and its initial public offering makes it the most valuable company at the time of its offering to ever go public. At $38 a share the [...]

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I’ve actually gotten to play with the Etcher myself: Krupnik sent me an earlier prototype (ugly, but functional) when he found out I’m an Etch-a-Sketch artist, and I wanted a first-hand impression of how the thing actually works. Because really, as one of my fellow GeekDads asked, why would you pay $45 to turn your $500 tablet into a $15 toy? Read on, and I’ll tell you.

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Having been a long time user of various iRig iPhone products I jumped at the chance to try out their new gadget, the iRig MIC Cast. This is a compact microphone on a mini-jack plugs directly into the iPhone to enhance the audio volume and audio quality of recordings.

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Shaun Pendergast was working away at his Portland apartment when he heard a strange noise. He walked to the window and saw two raccoons expressing their love for each other on his roof.

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The HTC One X is one of the best smartphones on the market, and the best Android phone you can buy right now, period.

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When JPMorgan announced a big trading loss last week, chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said (among other things): “We’ll admit it, we’ll learn from it, we’ll fix it and we’ll move on.” But JPMorgan can’t move on because fixing the problem is proving extremely difficult — and the losses are mounting, now reportedly approaching $3 [...]

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