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The Washington Post: Although it was the most highly anticipated tech IPO of the year, Facebook’s stock has failed to impress investors. On the first day of trading, the stock briefly jumped up from the $38 IPO price and hit $45, but it sank back down to $38.32 by the end of the day. Today, […]

PCWorld: According to the latest statistics from StatCounter, more people worldwide now use Google Chrome than use Microsoft Internet Explorer. Over the the weekend, Chrome captured 32.76 percent of the market while IE dropped to 31.94 percent. Mozilla’s Firefox came in third with just over 25 percent of the market. That’s a big change from […]

eWeek: A new report from Cisco says that 95 percent of all enterprises surveyed are allowing employees to use their own devices for work. However, the impact of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies is mixed: 75 percent of those surveyed said BYOD is good for the company as a whole, but challenging for the IT department. The […]

Reuters: Facebook’s big day has arrived: shares in the social networking giant began public trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Friday at 11 am ET. The initial offering was priced at $38, but most observers expect the price to climb significantly throughout the day. Facebook celebrated the event by holding an all-night hackathon for employees. […]

GigaOm: Unnamed sources tell GigaOm that both Google and Microsoft will soon unveil infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings to compete more directly against Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. Both companies currently offer platform as a service (PaaS) cloud offerings–Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine. Although it hasn’t confirmed that it will unveil an IaaS, […]

All Things D: Unnamed sources say that HP CEO Meg Whitman will announce a restructuring plan for the company–which will include significant layoffs–next Wednesday. Various news outlets are reporting different job reduction numbers. Sources told All Things D that the total would be about 30,000; Bloomberg says the total will be closer to 25,000. Others […]

InformationWeek: The Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Samsung has received pre-orders for more than 9 million Galaxy S III smartphones. Those orders are coming from more than 100 network operators worldwide, which will sell the handsets to end users. Samsung’s factories are currently producing 5 million of the devices per month. Sales of the […]

eWeek: Attackers have frequently targeted human rights and foreign policy think tank websites with DDoS attacks, but now they’re taking a craftier approach. According to the Shadowserver Foundation, hackers have begun compromising these websites with exploit code that spreads malware and enables cyber-espionage against people who visit the sites. Affected sites include Amnesty International Hong […]

Cnet: Just in time to be part of all the hype leading up to Facebook’s IPO on Friday, Experian Hitwise has released a bunch of stats about the social network. Here are some highlights: So far this year, Facebook has averaged 229 million U.S. visits a day. Facebook.com accounted for 9 percent of all U.S. […]

All Things D: On Wednesday morning, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published an article containing excerpts from some HP documents that Oracle plans to introduce into evidence in the Itanium case. Shortly thereafter, Oracle posted the full text of the documents online and sent a letter to customers which said, “Rather than us interpreting this situation for you, […]

InformationWeek: Google has taken the wraps off Chrome 19, the latest version of its Web browser. The update fixes twenty security vulnerabilities, and it will soon include a new tab syncing feature that will roll out over the next few weeks. Google’s Raz Mathias explained, “When you’re signed in to Chrome, your open tabs are […]

PCMag: Google has unveiled a new “Knowledge Graph” feature on its main search engine. In addition to providing a list of links related to a particular search term, Google will now also provide facts related to that term. For example, a search for a famous author might return facts about that person’s birthdate, birthplace, books […]