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Instagram Value Could Soar After Facebook IPO

Instagram's volatile value will take another turn on Friday as Facebook goes public.

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Doximity: LinkedIn co-founder now connects doctors

Along with Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke co-founded LinkedIn, the popular social network for professionals, in 2003. Now Guericke, 44, is tackling a new social network, Doximity, a San Mateo startup that is linking…

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Apple readies iPhone with bigger screen: sources

TOKYO (Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. …

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Apple readies iPhone with bigger screen: sources

TOKYO (Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. …

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Groupon CEO says leaders won’t be making quick stock sales

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason said Thursday that neither he nor co-founding investors Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky intend to sell their stock when the Chicago daily deal company’s stock lockup expires June 1, because they’re focused on the long term. …

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Twitter adopts Do-Not-Track privacy option

Twitter will honor requests from users who do not want their online behavior tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with Web companies such Google and Facebook whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data.

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Facebook sets richest tech IPO in motion

Facebook on Friday is to make the richest-ever share offering for a technology firm, raking in billions of dollars it could wield to dethrone Google as king of the Internet.

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Pinterest Raises $100 Million in Funding

Pinterest, the social media site that lets users to create virtual bulletin boards of items and products, just got a huge influx of cash.

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Pinterest financing values company at $1.5 billion

Silicon Valley startup Pinterest raised $100 million from a group led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc, valuing the company at about $1.5 billion and underscoring the huge investor appetite for …

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Android fragmentation gets visualized, again

Android’s rise to the top of the mobile operating system food chain as measured by device proliferation has been remarkably swift, but not without its drawbacks. Due to the nature of Google’s open source OS and its aggressive strategy, smartphone …

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