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| Anonymous Sources Delay Speculated Facebook IPO Again, To 2012
- Facebook 'will probably' put off until 2012 the IPO it hasn't even acknowledged thinking about much yet, three people tell Bloomberg News. That adds about a year to the latest idle speculation of when Facebook might let its 500 million members (or anyone) become owners, as well.
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| Let the Little Guys Get In on Pre-IPO
- The rich are adding to their millions with pre-IPO stock, but today's internet stock rockets are social networks built by their members -- so shouldn’t Regular Joes get a cut, too?
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| Letter From Silicon Valley: Doing the Math on Android vs. Apple
- The fight between Google and Apple is not over phones: It's a software-platform war. The trouble with this horse race is that one horse's progress is measured in meters and the other in yards. The comparison between Android and the iPhone is meaningless.
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| @Twitter Users #Fail as Branding Automatons
- Just about everything people say on Twitter is public, offering marketers a rare chance to listen in on what folks are saying about their brands, and to trumpet their messages to the masses. But Twitter users fail spectacularly when it comes to disseminating branding messages to each other.
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| Energy Department Has a New Commitment to Solar (and a New Blog)
- The Department of Energy launched a new blog last week, the aptly named (yet uninspiring) Energy Blog. Among other announcements and musings (OK, really more statements than deep thoughts) is a call to develop three Energy Innovation Hubs, one of which will drive research to turn sunlight into fuels.
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