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Lady Gaga’s strength in community starts to shine on ‘Little Monsters’
We all know how popular musician Lady Gaga is, but regardless of the popularity of her music she’s done something that not many other artists can say. She has built a sustainable and massive community around herself. She even gave her fans a name,...
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TasteMakerX Raises $1.8M for Mobile Social App Platform
TastemakerX, a San Francisco start-up that is developing a social mobile platform focused “targeted taste graphs,” said it had raised $1.8 million in funding from a variety of venture firms, including Guggenheim Partners, Baseline Ventures, Tr...
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Tidbits From the Facebook IPO Filing: I'll Have What SV VCs Marc Andreessen and Jim Breyer Are Having!

Because I am an obessive-compulsive and Facebook is my new target of stalkery, I have re-read its IPO filing from earlier this week about nine times so far.
It’s chock full of interesting little bits of tasty info about the Silicon Valley social ne...
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From the Life-Is-Unfair Files: You're Welcome, Winklevii. Love, Zuck.

Persistence — even if it is the whiny, likely undeserved, lunkheaded legal version of it — certainly pays off.
But you have to marvel at the bizarre karma going on, given that my favorite matching pair of digital ottomans, Cameron and Tyler W...
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During the IPO Quiet Period, Please Enjoy the D Stylings of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (Video)

We’ve been fortunate to host Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg twice on the stage of the D: All Things Digital conference, including one appearance with COO Sheryl Sandberg.
With the blockbuster IPO filing of the social networking giant y...
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Dude, Where's My Facebook IPO Filing? (Ashton's on Hold!)

Okay, okay, we get it: Morgan Stanley got the coveted left-hand lead position on Facebook’s blockbuster IPO filing. Goldman Sachs is there, too, but in the third-place, always-a-bridesmaid spo,t and is crying big salty tears about the injustice of ...
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Go the F**k Back to Sleep, Silicon Valley: Facebook IPO Likely to File Later Today at Earliest

Like political junkies waiting up for election returns (losers!), Silicon Valley folks, including tech journalists (losers!), are up this morning to await and then pounce on the long-expected IPO filing of Facebook.
But, several sources said, the social ...
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On Its Eighth Birthday, Facebook Files to Raise $5 Billion in Massive IPO (Get Your S-1 Here!)

Here are the major stats on Facebook’s IPO, which it just filed: 845 million monthly users and 483 million daily users; annual revenue of $3.7 billion; $1.8 billion in annual operating income and $1 billion net income.
And the raise in the initial...
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Stop All That Poking: Facebook Filing Temporarily Crashes SEC Web Site

Apparently, Facebook has a lot of friends.
Clickety-clicking ones, whose massive interest in the just-filed IPO of the Silicon Valley social networking giant seems to have temporarily crashed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR Web site,...
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The Quiet Man: Meet the Less-Known Face of the Facebook IPO, CFO David Ebersman

Ever heard of David Ebersman?
You should, and this week you will, given the self-effacing exec has been one of the prime movers behind what is expected to be the blockbuster offering of Web 2.0: Facebook’s impending IPO.
And while the social netwo...
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Facebook Board Meeting Today for Final IPO Okays

According to several sources close to the situation, the Facebook board has been meeting early this afternoon at its Silicon Valley HQ to give the go-ahead to a massive initial public offering.
Facebook is expected to file regulatory documents as early h...
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Facebook (Eye)PO: Tracking the Truth of the Biggest Deal of Web 2.0

As AllThingsD.com wrote two weeks ago it would be — Facebook is close to filing its documents for a long-expected public offering that is on track take place in late May.
The Wall Street Journal said last week that the filing would come Wednesday, ...
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These People Will Make Any Movie You Tell Them To Do [Video]





I'm very impressed by Finite Films. They're a band of filmmakers who produce one Hollywood-level quality short film every month—and each of their short films works within the constraints that people...
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Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard

Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future Mark Zuckerbergs and Bill Gates can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
The irony of the pair of legendar...
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Facebook Police: Timeline Violations Will Not Be Tolerated! (Video)

This Jimmy Kimmel mocking of Facebook’s requirement that everyone move next week to the social networking site’s Timeline profile is simply hilarious and unmissable.
The “friend your momma” requirement in the video is my favorite:...
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Honest: Jessica Alba's Now an E-Commerce Geek (Video)

From the Web 1.0 Matt Damon-Ben Affleck debacle to the stunt-casting of Justin Timberlake as a Myspace impresario and everything in between, I have been more than dubious about any online effort by a celebrity.
Not surprisingly, it is usually a lot of s...
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The Full Valenti: Dodd Trades His Olive Branch to Tech for a Howitzer, After SOPA/PIPA Gets Delayed

Poor Chris Dodd — he just got the top media lobbying job in Washington, D.C., at the very moment that the strong-arming-pols, scare-the-children, Jack Valenti era in media lobbying is now decidedly over.
It’s obviously a very confusing time f...
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The Valley Girl Takes On Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg (Video)

Double snaps to Jesse Draper, whose kookified online interview show, “The Valley Girl Show,” managed to get a very decent interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
And by decent, I mean that Draper actually elicits some very unusual just-u...
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Viral Graphic: Visualizing the Facebook IPO

Social media dude Greg Voakes did a data visualization of what a Facebook IPO would look like, making it look cooler than it probably will be.
As I wrote last week, the social networking behemoth is planning a honking big public offering for late May, wh...
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LinkedIn Nabs Dow Jones Exec in Asia
LinkedIn has hired Olivier Legrand to run its advertising business in the Asia Pacific region, where the business networking site has more than 20 million members. Legrand has most recently been running digital initiatives in Asia for News Corp.’s D...
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Boss Talk: Zynga Chief Talks IPO, Lessons Learned
Zynga Inc. Chief Executive Mark Pincus ended 2011 as the face of an overhyped Web initial public offering. Now he wants to show the hype was justified.
Early last year, his San Francisco company, which makes social games such as “FarmVille” th...
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Former CBS Interactive Head Neil Ashe to Lead Walmart's Global Online Commerce Biz

Neil Ashe, who left his job running CBS Interactive in late 2010, has taken a job helming Wal-Mart Stores’ global online commerce unit.
The retail behemoth said that Ashe will become president and CEO of its Global eCommerce division, replacing the...
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Is Facebook IPO on Track for Late May?

According to multiple sources, the long anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May.
That means that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month, given the review by the Securities and Exchang...
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"Goofy" CEO Andrew Mason on "60 Minutes" This Week

Of course, this infamous kooky cat-on-his-head photo from a Vanity Fair magazine shoot made it into an upcoming profile of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason. Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” has done a piece on the Chicago-based social buying phenom, set ...
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The Easiest Way to Have a Social Shower Is With a Facebook Shower Curtain [Wtf]





Social. Social. Social. Everyone wants to be social, stay social, live social. But the best place to socialize? The shower. Too bad you need a willing human partner or a waterproof laptop for that! It's ok...
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The Dumbest SkyMall Product of the Year Is Already Out [Video]





Not even a week into 2012 and we already got our eyes on the dumbest SkyMall contraption of the year: the StarScreen Social Backdrop, a piece of printed plastic that attaches to your chair to show a backgr...
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3 reasons why Yahoo! should buy Instagram right now
In case you haven’t heard, Yahoo! announced its new CEO today, Scott Thompson. Talk about walking into a storm of acquisition rumors and drama on your first day. Luckily, Thompson was formerly the President at PayPal, so he’s used to sticky si...
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Confirmed: Yahoo Names PayPal Head Scott Thompson as New CEO

As I reported late last night, Yahoo said it had named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its new CEO. The exec is currently in charge of the large eBay online payments unit.
He’ll start next week, but there are staff conference calls today and als...
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Final Tech Stock Tally for 2011: Rout-Roh!

Last week, I posted on the so-so overall performance of tech stocks in 2011.
Most were in the negative numbers going into last week, and they stayed that way for the full-year comparison.
Bottom line: Tech was a bad investment if you started buying stock...
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Damn the Tweet-pedoes, Full Rupe Ahead!

Oh joy — my boss is on Twitter. I guess I have to watch myself now.
Or not!
In fact, News Corp. potentate Rupert Murdoch, who happens to own this Web site (and more!), just inexplicably joined Twitter.
And, like any newbie, he has already had to re...
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Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
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2011 Tech Rewind: This year in Silicon Valley
This year will be forever remembered as the year that we lost the most creative mind that Silicon Valley has ever seen, as well as one where a few rough Tech IPOs scared away potential future investors. We also said goodbye to some CEOs and tech founders,...
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The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
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Mystery Solved: Mark Zuckerberg Adds Billy the Bison to Facebook Wall (Literally)

Remember when Fortune magazine reported in September that Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had reportedly bagged a bison, as part of a “personal challenge” to eat only what he had killed?
Well, proof of that is hard to miss, now th...
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Developer of Zynga’s Mafia Wars says some players spend $10,000 a month
Zynga went public today as you might have heard, raising one billion dollars in its public offering. There are mixed reviews on how trading is playing out for Zynga at this point. Regardless, the company is basically printing money at this point and may h...
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BermanBraun to Launch Three Non-HuffPost Sites -- Including Weather -- for AOL

In a deal that was struck some time ago and is close to fruition, BermanBraun is prepping three major Web properties for AOL that will focus on pets, men and, interestingly, the weather.
After I inquired, AOL confirmed that the Hollywood production compa...
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Jotly for iPhone: Rate EVERYTHING [App Of The Day]





What do you think about that restaurant? More importantly, what you do think about that spoon over there? Or, maybe that plant next to the door. Seriously, that plant is starting to piss me off. Thankfully...
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AOL Names Jim Norton as New Head of Sales

AOL, which has had some turmoil in its executive ranks of late, has promoted Jim Norton to be its new head of sales.
The New York Internet company said Norton would be “responsible for sales on all of AOL’s owned & operated properties, i...
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You're Probably Going to Hate the New Twitter [Video]





Twitter is pushing out a pretty big redesign that feels more app-like and focuses on keeping you on Twitter longer, seeing stories evolve and following conversations. One thing that'll surely rankle a lo...
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Mike McCue Talks! Flipboard Finally Launches App for iPhone. (Video)

After promises to get it out midyear, Flipboard is finally releasing its much-anticipated mobile app for the Apple iPhone.
The popular social reader is perhaps the most high-profile available on the iPad, in an ever-crowded field that includes such offer...
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Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
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Here's Gowalla CEO's Non-Denial Denial Email to Investors About Facebook Acquisition
Even Gowalla CEO Josh Williams isn’t pretending a deal for Facebook to buy the location-sharing company isn’t happening, as you can read below in an email he sent to his investors.
Both companies declined to comment on a story on Friday and ov...
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Viral Video: Rupe Nixes Zynga IPO and Facebook Friending of WSJ.com Host (Awkward!)

This might be the oddest interview of News Corp. head honcho Rupert Murdoch of late — no, there’s nothing about PhoneGate.
In it, WSJ.com’s Markets Hub host Paul Vigna asked the largely offscreen media mogul some questions about online ...
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Former Palm and Twitter Techie Mike Abbott Jumps From EIR at Benchmark to Kleiner Partner

Kleiner Perkins has nabbed former Twitter engineering head Mike Abbott, who left the social communications company less than two months ago to be an entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital.
(Well, that didn’t last long, Mike, but maybe the ...
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What Cash Crunch? Revolution Growth Raises $450M for Its First Fund

Revolution Growth, a new investment vehicle led by former AOLers Steve Case, Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis has raised $450 million in their first investment fund.
Originally, as I reported in March, the growth fund was going to be $400 million, but more was...
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The Golden Geek Vs. the Start-Up Whisperer in Yahoo Savior Faceoff? Not Yet (But Delicious to Imagine)

Last night, the New York Times dropped a juicy little tidbit into its everything-but-the-kitchen-sink daily update of the board mishegas at Yahoo around the deliberations yesterday over two competing private equity bids to buy a partial stake in the comp...
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Viral Survey Says: No Thanks to Facebook Phone

In a post last week about what could be in a Facebook smartphone — one in a series about the mobile efforts at the social networking giant — AllThingsD.com asked readers if they wanted one or not (we also offered a maybe option, as you can se...
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Circling the TV Ads: Google+ Hawks Itself (Video)

Google, which doesn’t do a lot of this kind of advertising, has posted a commercial on television for its social networking effort, Google+.
The search giant has done it before for its Chrome browser and other products, but it’s a rare occurr...
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Investors Are Un-Friending Social Media
Tech IPOs floated like butterflies. Now they’re stinging like bees.
On Wednesday shares of Groupon dropped below the $20-a-share price of the daily-deals company’s recent $805 million initial public offering.
Limiting the share float as part o...
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Aflac will donate $1 to fight cancer for every Thanksgiving GetGlue check-in
The holidays are a great time to think about helping others, rather than focusing on what gifts you’d like to receive. Thanksgiving, specifically, is a time to be thankful for a lot of things. One of the things we should be thankful for is our hea...
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Former Color Co-Founder Peter Pham Heads to Former Myspace CEO's L.A. Tech Studio (Video)

Well-known tech entrepreneur Peter Pham will be joining the Los Angeles-based start-ups lab that was just launched by former Myspace CEO Mike Jones.
Pham, who was recently helming the high-profile and controversial Color photo-sharing start-up in Silicon...
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The State of Social Sharing With Fred Wilson, Roger McNamee and More (Video)

Here’s a panel I did last week at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley.
The panel was called “Social Sharing and the Data-Driven Economy.” And while that sounds a little dry, it was a lively se...
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Viral Video: "Titanic" in 3D Gets Facebook Lift

Hollywood director James Cameron debuted the trailer for the upcoming 3D version of the huge movie hit, “Titanic,” earlier this week on Facebook earlier this week, where he delivered an intro.
Why? Perhaps its nearly 10.5 million fans on the...
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