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Source: this WEEK in TECH

Guess who's buying Opera, Google buys Palm sort of, an 80-inch Windows tablet, and more. AMD nat making "Needlessly Powerful CPUs",I ntel's Going Green, XFX the kings of the midrange GPU, Unreal 4 screenshots, and more. Goo ...
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Saturday Papers: Spain to inject €19bn into Bankia

Source: Citywire.co.uk

Financial Times: Spain will make an emergency €19 billion investment in Bankia, the stricken savings bank, in a bold bid to restore confidence in the stability of the country’s financial sector. The Daily Telegraph: Germany has reportedly drawn up a six ...
Full article at: Citywire.co.uk  More like this  21 hours ago, 6:01pm CDT

Alibaba.com’s $2.5 billion privatization bid approved

Source: Hurriet Daily News

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group’s $2.5 billion bid to take its Hong Kong-listed unit private was cleared on May 25 by minority shareholders, easing the way for CEO Jack Ma to gain more control over his company’s de ...
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Yahoo kills 'Livestand' just 6 months after debut

Source: PhysOrg.com

Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in what it said was the start of a product purge intended to make the floundering Internet pioneer more nimble. 56 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0 (Phys.org) -- Researchers a ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  22 hours ago, 4:30pm CDT

Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads

Source: PhysOrg.com

Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in what it said was the start of a product purge intended to make the floundering Internet pioneer more nimble. Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  23 hours ago, 3:30pm CDT

Facebook IPO faces technical glitches on Nasdaq

Source: Economic Times

It was billed as the hottest tech IPO ever, but what should have been a honeymoon week turned out to be a nightmare for Facebook. After an ominous delay in opening trade on Nasdaq, the stock slipped for most part of the week, leading to allegations ...
Full article at: Economic Times  More like this  23 hours ago, 3:11pm CDT

Facebook IPO debacle raises investor dander

Source: PhysOrg.com

People walk past a sign welcoming Facebook at the NASDAQ stock exchange on Times Square in New York, on May 18. The spate of complaints and investigations over the Facebook stock offering suggests big institutions had ...
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DealBook's Week in Review: Questions of Fair Play

Source: The New York Times

Vevo WEEK IN VERSE While Carly Rae Jepsen and Rita Ora battle for song of the summer, DealBook will spend this weekend listening to 1991’s “Summertime.” In Washington, lawmakers and regulators are scrutinizing the fairness of Facebook’s I.P.O. ...
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Shareholders vote to take China's Alibaba unit private

Source: Bangkok Post

Minority shareholders of Alibaba.com on Friday voted in favour of a proposal by its parent Alibaba Group Holding to take the Hong Kong-listed online trading unit private, the company said. Minority shareholders of Alibaba.com on Friday voted in favour o ...
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