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Amazon Cuts Storage Prices| aws.typepad.com
Amazon lowers its data storage prices by 12 to 13.5 percent. The move follows two recent plays for corporate buyers.Quentin Hardy
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Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself
By STEVE LOHR 58 minutes ago
Wolfram Alpha Pro’s creator wants his “computational knowledge engine” to appeal to more than math and science enthusiasts.
Media Decoder Blog
Verizon Teaming With Redbox for DVD and Streaming Service
By AMY CHOZICK 8:47 PM ET
The two companies will combine to try to give customers more access to video on the Web, and possibly position the new venture as an alternative to Netflix.
Art Review
An Art Expo on the Web, Virtual Fairgoer Included
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
Art Fair 2.0 takes a second stab at the virtual exhibition (and the Web site runs more smoothly this year).
DealBook Column
Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN 36 minutes ago
"Active users" add up in Facebook's prospectus, but some of those clicks aren't on the Web site.
Science Fiction? Apparently Not.| news.cnet.com
A 3D printer makes a new jaw for a woman.Suzanne Spector
Iran banning Samsung products over an Israeli Ad (Subtitled)| Google Search
An Israeli ad for Samsung shows a Mossad agent blowing up an Iranian reactor with a tablet app. Iran is not amused.Joshua Brustein
Honeywell Sues Nest for Patent Infringement| techcrunch.com
The patent wars come to thermostats with Nest lawsuit.
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Bits Blog
By QUENTIN HARDY
A small company called Nicira and a few other scrappy players are pursuing what is called software-defined networking.
February 6, 2012
Facebooks for Doctors, Lawyers and Robots
A Short History of American Money| David Wolman - Business - The Atlantic
What do animal pelts, tobacco, fake wampum, and cotton-paper bank notes have in common? They were all U.S. currency.Nick Bilton
Facebook.coop| blogs.reuters.com
Facebook shouldn't pay its users. Facebook's owners should pay to own Facebook, like the hippie grocery store.
A Post-IPO Stock Simulator| wealthfront.com
Wealthfront, an online advisor to young & loaded, builds out post-IPO insider sale scenarios. Verdict so far: hold stockQuentin Hardy
Wind turbine workers get their own reality show| grist.org
Scary, green jobs.Nick Wingfield
Strategies
I.P.O. Euphoria, Without Much Memory
By JEFF SOMMER
Amid the Wall Street excitement over Facebook’s planned initial public offering, it may be a good time to take a look at I.P.O. history.
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February 6, 2012
Daily Report: Facebook's Mobility Challenge
February 6, 2012
Start-Up Nicira Plans to Disrupt Networking Giants
February 6, 2012
Significant and Silly at BuzzFeed
February 6, 2012
An Austrian Law Student Faces Down Facebook
TorrentFreak
BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good
Facebook Photos That Never Go Away| arstechnica.com
The difficulties of deleting photos forever from Facebook.Suzanne Spector
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Facebook’s Mobility Challenge
By JENNA WORTHAM 14 minutes ago
Kim White/Getty Images
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook plan to experiment with mobile advertising, including inserting so-called sponsored stories into users' update streams.
Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.
A New Question of Internet Freedom
By DAVID JOLLY
European activists are hoping to stop the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which they say will erode Internet freedom and stifle innovation.
Austrian Law Student Faces Down Facebook
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
Max Schrems's crusade against the information collected by the social network has become a cause célèbre in parts of Europe, looming over the company as it prepares to go public.
The Media Equation
Significant and Silly at BuzzFeed
By DAVID CARR 22 minutes ago
The Web site is trying for pollination: providing the kind of content that will have visitors passing along links from one person to the next, that will in turn bring them around to BuzzFeed.
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Penn Cancer Center, in Lawsuit, Says a Doctor Appropriated a Discovery
By ANDREW POLLACK 24 minutes ago
The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.
Disruptions
Facebook Users Ask, ‘Where’s Our Cut?’
By NICK BILTON 2:07 PM ET
Without the free content created by its 850 million users, Facebook would surely not be on the verge of a multibillion-dollar initial public offering.
How Does Facebook Make Money?| SplatF
Dan Frommer's sharp breakdown pinpoints exactly where Facebook's $4 billion in revenue comes from.Jenna Wortham
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February 5, 2012
Should Personal Data Be Personal?
February 5, 2012
Facebook's Sandberg, the $1.6 Billion Woman, Staying on Message
February 5, 2012
Its Chief's Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook
February 5, 2012
E.U. Presses Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes
February 5, 2012
A Foot in the Door in Silicon Valley
Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon's Kindle team| zdnet.com
Brandon Watson, known to many Windows Phone developers as head of the WP Developer Experience, is leaving Microsoft for Amazon.Damon Darlin
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