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2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1

Feb 1, 2012 6:28 PM ET

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look at some of them:

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Facebook’s Status Update: $5 Billion IPO Filed

Feb 1, 2012 4:51 PM ET

Mark Zuckerberg

It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that range: $5 billion.

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Samsung Takes The Apple Route For Its Next Big Launch, the Galaxy S III

Feb 1, 2012 12:30 PM ET

Samsung Galaxy S2 vs iPhone 4s in Samsung TV commercial

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung is taking a note from Apple is in how it debuts its big products. The company today announced that it would not be launching its next big smartphone, the Galaxy S III, at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as originally expected.

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RIM’s First BlackBerry 10 Handset Could Be Smaller Version Of Playbook

Feb 1, 2012 12:22 PM ET

Blackberry 10 London Smartphone

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) will be pinning its comeback hopes on the first generation of BlackBerry phones to run its BlackBerry 10 operating system, and it seems to have settled on a design. Leaked media images to a friendly outlet suggest that RIM wants to borrow cues from the Playbook tablet when it releases those handsets later this year.

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Why Some Book Buyers Are Increasingly Resistant To E-Readers

Feb 1, 2012 9:19 AM ET

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Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader in the next 12 months—up from 40 percent in 2009. Why?

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Report: China Telecom Will Finally Get The iPhone 4S In February

Feb 1, 2012 6:13 AM ET

iPhone in China

Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China Telecom, says that it will start to sell the iPhone 4S by the end of this month or early March.

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More Android Forking? Disney Teams Up With Japan’s Docomo For 2 New Phones

Feb 1, 2012 5:24 AM ET

Disney Docomo

Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched two new Android handsets in partnership with NTT Docomo, the country’s biggest carrier.

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Videoplaza Raises $12 Million For Its Multiscreen Video Ad Platform

Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM ET

Orange mobile TV visor

The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.

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Myriad Eyes Synchronica, Says Messaging Company Can’t Pay Its Nokia Debt

Jan 31, 2012 6:30 PM ET

Synchronica Messagephone Girl

Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messaging business for $25 million in June 2011, has itself become a takeover target—apparently because it will not be able to make payments on money still owed to Nokia.

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Zite Brings Intel Inside Its Technology Section In Sponsorship Deal

Jan 31, 2012 6:29 PM ET

A view of the Zite iPad app's homescreen.

Zite has cut a deal with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) to have the chip giant sponsor the technology section of its mobile news reading app, only the second sponsor to grace its pages. Intel will sponsor Zite’s technology section and will get to promote selected articles in exchange for its financial support.

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Earnings

Amazon: Print Book Unit Sales Up; More Content For Prime

Jan 31, 2012 6:10 PM ET

Mystery Bookshop

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says unit sales of print books grew by “double digits” in Q4 compared to last year. That “is impressive given the shift to Kindle,” said CFO Tom Szkutak in the investor call following this afternoon’s disappointing earnings report.

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Amazon Misses Estimates: Q4 Earnings Down 58 Percent

Jan 31, 2012 4:08 PM ET

Amazon Package

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but missing analyst estimates. Net income slid to $177 million on earnings of $0.38 per share, down 58 percent from this time last year, and shares were down 8 percent in after-hours trading.

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AMZN Release Missed Analysts' Estimates Revenue Indicator 34.6% Net Income Indicator 57.5%
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Nokia Design Chief: We’re Developing A Windows Phone With NFC Technology

Jan 31, 2012 2:27 PM ET

Nokia Lumia 800

Nokia is working on a Windows Phone model that incorporates NFC (Near Field Communications) technology to connect to external accessories – and is even considering versions with wireless charging, its design chief has indicated in an exclusive interview.

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Study: As E-Readers Increase, So Does Resistance

Jan 31, 2012 11:52 AM ET

Kindle commercial,

E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying an e-reader.

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Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission

Jan 31, 2012 8:00 AM ET

Boxing Gloves

The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegrounds, when the European Commission launched an antitrust inquiry into Samsung’s technology licensing practices.

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Industry Moves

Apple Picks Dixons Group CEO Browett As New Retail SVP

Jan 31, 2012 6:07 AM ET

John Browett

Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to find its next retail supremo.

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