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Your Text Messages, Saved Forever (Mon, 21 May 2012)
Texts may be ephemeral, but a tech startup sees plenty of reasons why people—and companies—will pay to preserve them for posterity
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Epic Tech IPOs: Triumphs, a Travesty, and a Tragedy (Fri, 18 May 2012)
A look back at some of the most successful tech IPOs ever, and some that didn't go as well
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Zuckerberg's Social Graph (Fri, 18 May 2012)
From board members and employees to fellow CEOs, Facebook alumni, and others
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Pinterest Stake Fuels Rakuten's Quest to Be a Global Player (Fri, 18 May 2012)
Rakuten's spending spree continues with a $100 million stake in photo-sharing site Pinterest
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Facebookmania Begins (Fri, 18 May 2012)
The social network makes its long-awaited debut in the public market
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Nine Things You Should Know About Facebook's IPO (Fri, 18 May 2012)
Before diverting your child's college savings fund to invest in Facebook stock, read our take on the biggest "liquidity event" of the social-media era
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Better Gas Mileage, Thanks to the Pentagon (Thu, 17 May 2012)
Detroit eyes new fuel technologies being developed for tanks
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Meet the New Yahoo! Boss (Thu, 17 May 2012)
Ross Levinsohn, the fifth CEO in four years, has a mixed record
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Yosi Glick's Smarter Movie Recommendations (Thu, 17 May 2012)
His startup Jinni, and its Entertainment Genome, aim to do for film and TV what Pandora did for music
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The Health-Care Industry Turns to Big Data (Thu, 17 May 2012)
Analytics specialists like IBM run numbers to improve patient care
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'Adaptive Radio': The Next Big Thing in Wireless? (Thu, 17 May 2012)
A trial in England shows the power of the long-range, high-speed technology
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Startups Hit Cute Mascot Overload (Thu, 17 May 2012)
The return of the cutesy startup mascot
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Liz McDougall on Defending Classified Ads for Erotic Services (Thu, 17 May 2012)
Village Voice Media's new general counsel quit her firm to defend online classifieds for erotic services, which are accused of enabling sex trafficking
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Bloomberg View: Facebook's Other Founder (Thu, 17 May 2012)
Singapore sling: the Eduardo Saverin story
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How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked the Valley (Thu, 17 May 2012)
A look at the daring decisions that took Facebook's price tag from $1 billion to about 100 times as much
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Facebook's IPO: Who Gets Rich (Thu, 17 May 2012)
Assuming Facebook hits $104  billion on IPO day
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Is Facebook Sucking Oxygen Out of the IPO Market? (Wed, 16 May 2012)
Despite the biggest tech IPO ever, the flagging stock market has prompted an increasing number of companies to halt plans to go public
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HP Sized Up Sun as a Technology Gold Mine (Wed, 16 May 2012)
The most interesting aspect of Hewlett-Packard's assessment of Sun is how critical executives were of HP's technology
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The Ellison Files: Oracle Strikes Back (Wed, 16 May 2012)
Court documents in a Silicon Valley brawl suggest HP misled customers and partners
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Is Google+ a Ghost Town, and Does It Matter? (Wed, 16 May 2012)
A new study suggests that Google's social network is a virtual ghost town, where user engagement is rapidly waning
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