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Spacecraft designers look at blueprints for a real-world version of Star Trek's USS Enterprise.
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Whether you're a Trekkie or not, you have to admit that there's some sense of wonder toexploring the stars andtrying to find life on distant planets. Of course, the U.S.S...
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Spacecraft designers look at blueprints for a real-world version of Star Trek's USS Enterprise.
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A man has been injured after a shooting incident at a building outside Longford town in the early hours of this morning.
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Why didn't Facebook's IPO set the world on fire? Here are six theories.
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One of the most eagerly awaited IPOs in tech industry history ended not far from where it started Facebook opened at US$38 and while share soared to US$45 at one point by the end of the first day of...
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Eight years, 900 million users, and several Winklevoss lawsuits later, Facebook is going public in what will be the third largest IPO in history...
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It's a "Beautiful Day" to be Bono. As Facebook goes public, the U2 frontman could stand to make up to $1.5 billion off the widely anticipated IPO.
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Once protected by the hype bubble, Facebook is getting a hard lesson in the realities of the public markets...
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Social networks shares jump early after making debut as a public company. Facebook priced its $16 billion IPO at the high end of its expected range.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang in as much as $20billion in wealth this morning as Facebook went public under Nasdaq symbol 'FB,' eight years after he created it in his Harvard dorm...
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NEW YORK -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will review trading glitches with Nasdaq’s handling of Facebook ’s IPO.
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Heidi Moore: Before trading, Facebook's bankers were ready to count their profits in billions. By close, they'd had to bale out their own IPO
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Social network giant ends day at $38.23, up just 0.61% from its starting price after share sale got off to a messy start
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After all the hype, Facebook's first day as a public company ended where it began. Its stock closed at $38.23, up 23 cents, after pricing Thursday night at $38 per share.
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Facebook is public now. And that means you're going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself...
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Facebook opened at $42.05 a share in its first day of trading, but began tumbling soon afterward, repeatedly testing the offer price as a floor.
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Just after the markets closed on its first day of public trading, Facebook amended its S-1 with a complete prospectus detailing how much stock each underwriter got to sell...
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NEW YORK – The big pop in Facebook Inc. shares never came.
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What to do with that $500 cash balance burning a hole in my IRA? Buy Facebook. It ended up being so much easier than they said it would be ...
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang in as much as $20billion in wealth this morning as Facebook went public under Nasdaq symbol 'FB,' eight years after he created it in his Harvard dorm...
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It was barely a "like" and definitely not a "love" from Facebook investors as the online social network's stock failed to live up to the hype in its trading debut Friday.
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An anonymous reader writes "The folks at Facebook may be focusing on their IPO today, but a complaint filed in federal court has given them something else to think about...
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-- Even the hottest initial public stock offerings can lose steam after their first day of trading. Sure, company insiders will make money selling at the opening price.
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Facebook has just acquired social commerce startup Karma. The terms of the deal are undisclosed but 16 employees of the startup will be joining Facebook.
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Fresh off its first day on the Nasdaq, Facebook has acquired another company: gift-giving app Karma.
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The newly public Facebook (s FB) says it is buying Karma, a mobile social gifting app. The news was released via Karma's blog. The deal terms were not announced...
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Just after it closed its first day of IPO very close to the opening day price of $38, Facebook has made its first acquisiton with the social gifting app Karma. We got a notice in our ...
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Facebook has acquired mobile, social gifting app Karma for an undisclosed sum. “Were thrilled to announce that Karma has been acquired by Facebook...
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You know what's great about cheap, shitty beer? The cheap part. The end...
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When I run my mouth about international soccer, I sound like a complete and total imbecile. When a Brit does the same thing about basketball, it is 100 percent comedy gold...
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Facebook, which has now listed on NASDAQ, is set to make $16 billion if its share holds at the $38 price that it set yesterday -- more if it ends higher...
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Fresh off its first day on the Nasdaq, Facebook has acquired another company: gift-giving app Karma.
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In the world of social networks, Facebook and Twitter can be compared to the old children's story, The Tortoise and the Hare...
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Eight years, 900 million users, and several Winklevoss lawsuits later, Facebook is going public in what will be the third largest IPO in history...
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Facebook is public now. And that means you're going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself...
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Despite its hype, the opening day for Facebook's long-awaited IPO failed to make waves on the financial market.
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Facebook shares will start trading later in one of the largest and most high profile share flotations of recent years.
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Facebook opened at $42.05 a share in its first day of trading, but began tumbling soon afterward, repeatedly testing the offer price as a floor.
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Rush Limbaugh praised Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who has been accused of attempting to dodge millions of dollars in taxes, for having business savvy on his Friday show.
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It's a "Beautiful Day" to be Bono. As Facebook goes public, the U2 frontman could stand to make up to $1.5 billion off the widely anticipated IPO.
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NEW YORK – The big pop in Facebook Inc. shares never came.
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"Network" is such an overused word that it feels like it's lost some of its meaning...
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Once protected by the hype bubble, Facebook is getting a hard lesson in the realities of the public markets...
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What to do with that $500 cash balance burning a hole in my IRA? Buy Facebook. It ended up being so much easier than they said it would be ...
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Social networks shares jump early after making debut as a public company. Facebook priced its $16 billion IPO at the high end of its expected range.
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The newly public Facebook (s FB) says it is buying Karma, a mobile social gifting app. The news was released via Karma's blog. The deal terms were not announced...
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Just after it closed its first day of IPO very close to the opening day price of $38, Facebook has made its first acquisiton with the social gifting app Karma. We got a notice in our ...
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang in as much as $20billion in wealth this morning as Facebook went public under Nasdaq symbol 'FB,' eight years after he created it in his Harvard dorm...
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NEW YORK -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will review trading glitches with Nasdaq’s handling of Facebook ’s IPO.
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So, Facebook is now public, and it got off to the most unimaginable and inauspicious start, losing $4 between the NASDAQ’s opening and closing bells. But don’t go jumping out any windows just yet...
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Facebook has acquired mobile, social gifting app Karma for an undisclosed sum. “Were thrilled to announce that Karma has been acquired by Facebook...
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Heidi Moore: Before trading, Facebook's bankers were ready to count their profits in billions. By close, they'd had to bale out their own IPO
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Social network giant ends day at $38.23, up just 0.61% from its starting price after share sale got off to a messy start
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It was barely a "like" and definitely not a "love" from Facebook investors as the online social network's stock failed to live up to the hype in its trading debut Friday.
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An anonymous reader writes "The folks at Facebook may be focusing on their IPO today, but a complaint filed in federal court has given them something else to think about...
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At the end of Facebook’s first day of public trading, shares were selling for around 9.5 percent less than their opening price...
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Facebook is now a publicly traded company, weeeeeeeee! What you don't buy in? We didn't either. Here's what to do with your $38 instead...
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-- Even the hottest initial public stock offerings can lose steam after their first day of trading. Sure, company insiders will make money selling at the opening price.
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Social networking giant Facebook's IPO got off to a rocketing start, with shares leaping an initial 13pc to US$43 as the stock opened for trading for the first time today.
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At the end of last year, an Administrative Law Judge issued an initial ruling that Motorola had infringed a bit of Microsoft's IP,
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Motorola may have to pay dearly to get the ban lifted.
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The underwriters of Facebook's $16 billion debut on NASDAQ fought to the finish to keep the company's shares above last night's final price of $38 a share...
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Facebook shares will start trading later in one of the largest and most high profile share flotations of recent years.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang in as much as $20billion in wealth this morning as Facebook went public under Nasdaq symbol 'FB,' eight years after he created it in his Harvard dorm...
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So, Facebook is now public, and it got off to the most unimaginable and inauspicious start, losing $4 between the NASDAQ’s opening and closing bells. But don’t go jumping out any windows just yet...
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Facebook is now a publicly traded company, weeeeeeeee! What you don't buy in? We didn't either. Here's what to do with your $38 instead...
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Social networking giant Facebook's IPO got off to a rocketing start, with shares leaping an initial 13pc to US$43 as the stock opened for trading for the first time today.
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Camara Education, the Irish charity that refurbishes computers and loads them with educational software for schools in Ireland, Africa and Jamaica, has issued a call for individuals and businesses to...
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Take a tour of the launch pad where SpaceX will attempt to make history May 19 by launching its Dragon capsule for a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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Private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch its International Space Station-bound capsule Saturday. Here's what's important about the event.
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Rare annular eclipse visible from western U.S.
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Check out Wired's website this weekend for all your space needs: the SpaceX launch on Saturday May 19, and an annular solar eclipse in Sunday May 20.
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Verizon's plan to encourage customers to abandon unlimited data plans doesn't bode well for the promise of 4G tech.
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Editor's note:Some savvy Facebook engineers rigged the NASDAQ button to automatically post "Mark Zuckerberg has listed a company on NASDAQ - FB" to the CEO's Timeline as herung the bell to open the...
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NEW YORK -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will review trading glitches with Nasdaq’s handling of Facebook ’s IPO.
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Chameleon is an app for Android tablets that lets users customize home screens. Different screens will surface depending on time of day, GPS location and Wi-Fi network.
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What will fill television's black hole after Fringe ends next season? The rash of new shows announced by networks over the past week include a few prime-time contenders that will offer an alternative...
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Mark Zuckerberg's remote ringing of the opening bell and Facebook's initial stock trades were a bit anti-climactic in person at the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York City, as we've written -- NASDAQ is a...
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Just after it closed its first day of IPO very close to the opening day price of $38, Facebook has made its first acquisiton with the social gifting app Karma. We got a notice in our ...
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If the iPhone was the catalyst for human evolution, it probably would have looked something like this 2001-inspired iPhone dock, which combines Lego, Apple and Stanley Kubrick in a single, glorious...
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Twitter is officially partnering with NASCAR, the first time it's done so with a pro sports league.
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The winter months are some of the busiest travel times of the year, but they're also the most likely time for an airplane to be delayed. The culprit? Icy runways.
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Is it just me, or does it feel like the “future” we all saw in TV shows and movies is getting closer and closer to reality? A team of researchers at MIT created a small atmosphere, the ZeroN, where...
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Remember those crazy, skywalking Russians?? The ones who fearlessly (and stupidly) scaled extremely tall structures with no safety measures. This video raises the fad to new levels.
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As part of paidContent 2012: At The Crossroads on May 23 in New York, I'll be talking with venture capitalist Fred Wilson about the future of media and with Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo and...
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Last year, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was greeted in Beijing by China's experimental stealth jet buzzing over his head...
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Apple has sent out an email to members of its Mac developer program reminding them that the deadline to implement sandboxing in their apps is still June 1st. As a reminder, the deadline ...
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Android phones are meant to open, but unfortunately the best Android phone on the market is locked down, thanks to AT&T...
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A month shy of Blade Runner' 30th anniversary, word has come down that Ridley Scott will direct a sequel to the groundbreaking sci-fi film, with original screenwriter Hampton Fancher in talks to...
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Wired Design has run a raft of stories on how 3-D printers are getting better, but it's not just the hardware that needs to improve -- it's also the raw material that you feed into your printer to...
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Comparing public user engagement suggests that Google+ is still a niche pursuit, despite Google claiming it has 170 million people signed up - while Pinterest's attraction remains high...
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Unless you're lucky enough to live in Scandinavia, you'll have to wait till the end of summer to get your Cotton Candy fix.
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About an hour drive outside of the packed streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and into the sprawling Sorocaba region, GE has quietly been leading the way on clean water technology.
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A look back at some of the most successful tech IPOs ever, and some that didn't go as well
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While they may be having their share of financial problems lately, Kingdoms of Amalur creators 38 Studios have still been working on at least one new game...
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Students. PCs. Free Xbox 360. The Redmond team's at it yet again. Similar to last year's deal, Microsoft's hooking students up with a
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A 19-year-old Egyptian university student called Aisha Mustafa has invented a propulsion device intended to offer spacecrafts a new method and cheaper means of energy consumption. The ...
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Facebook is now a publicly traded company, weeeeeeeee! What you don't buy in? We didn't either. Here's what to do with your $38 instead...
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H&M has apologized for ads that critics say depict an unrealistically tan and skinny model. Sure Isabeli Fontana looks emaciated and fried, but she's Brazilian, so that makes sense right?
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Want to design the ultimate counterfeit $100 bill? Hire an artist.
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You'll be saving money and packing your social calendar with this week's best Android apps. Whether you're looking to fill your belly or rest your head for the night, we've got you covered.
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Venture capitalists have been getting a black eye to go with their blue shirts...