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		<title>Stock watching pre-Facebook IPO: Zynga, LinkedIn, Groupon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Groupon]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As Facebook prepares to go public, here&#8217;s a look at how some related — and also newly public — companies&#8217; stock has been faring: • Zynga: The maker of social games such as &#8220;CityVille&#8221; and &#8220;Words with Friends,&#8221; whose business is closely intertwined with...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>‘Big’ mobile: Bigger iPhone? Plus huge Android changes reported and steep stock drops for Samsung, HTC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We&#8217;re talking &#8220;big&#8221; mobile news: • Asian companies Samsung and HTC got some big, bad Apple-related news Wednesday. A 6 percent dive in Samsung&#8217;s share price shaved $10 billion off the South Korean company&#8217;s market value after a report that Apple placed big orders with...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Quoted: on Itanium as ‘closely guarded’ HP secret</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;The Itanium situation is one of our most closely guarded secrets.&#8221; — Martin Fink, head of HP’s high-end server business, in an email to another executive.  That email and other communications made public as part of a court fight between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle over the Intel chip...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Off topic: Phones, shoes through the years; magnets vs. sharks; Burma-Shave phrases; three-point landings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Visual histories: of the phone, and of shoes — be sure to check out the pedestal, a predecessor to today&#8217;s high heels. Do magnets repel sharks? I&#8217;m too young to have seen these along the highways, but have heard plenty about them: Burma-Shave phrases. And a supercut of three-point...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Social-butterfly news: Facebook pre-IPO, Google+</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[• As Facebook prepares for what could be a record-setting IPO this week, a new poll finds that half of Americans think the world&#8217;s largest social network — which says it has more than 900 million users worldwide — is a fad. The Associated Press-CNBC survey, conducted earlier this month in a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Quoted: on Yahoo and rising investor activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;The least effective way to do activism these days is to come in with a big club.&#8221; — Chris Cernich of Institutional Shareholder Services, on investor activism, which is on the rise. Eighteen activist campaigns have been started this year so far against companies with market caps of more...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Off topic: Record tricks, camels and jumpers, 24-hour daycare, New Yorker covers, etc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Trick shots with vinyl records. (video, via kottke.org) A site that calls itself the camel hub of the world, and camel-jumpers in Yemen. A 24-hour daycare center in India. And New Yorker covers you were never meant to see, a Tumblr.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Yahoo’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink saga</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A company in disarray, a dissident investor, a padded-resume scandal, a board overhaul. With the future of Yahoo up in the air, the story gets stranger still: Scott Thompson exited as CEO — the inevitable move was announced Sunday, the Mercury News&#8217; Pete Carey writes — partly because he has...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Quoted: DIY WiFi running out of time, money in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;What kind of message will we, de-facto representatives of the international community in Afghanistan, send when the network finally goes down? A message of fatigue and abandonment.&#8221; — Una Vera Moore, a development worker in Afghanistan, on what appears to be the impending demise of...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Off topic: Geeky covers, inside Quidditch, field guide to life, photos galore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Levi Sumagaysay</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Old computer drives cover &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody,&#8221; floppy drives do &#8220;What is Love&#8221; and more. How real-life Quidditch works — brooms and all. (via Not Exactly Rocket Science) The Map of Life&#8216;s lofty goal: to map all of the planet&#8217;s plants and animals. (via Good) And...<div class="feedflare">
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