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Motorola The Motorola Xoom tablet To the list of woes buffeting Motorola Mobility’s little-loved Xoom tablet, add this: the company sold a batch of used ones without first wiping out all the prior owners’ personal data. Motorola Mobility said 100 of about 6,200 it sold through Woot.com from October to December still may have contained [...]

The Super Bowl is just around the corner which means it’s time to get ready for the big game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. Rather than our usual five apps, I couldn’t contain myself and, instead, put together five categories of apps that’ll set you up nicely for food, football [...]

For a guy asking investors for $5 billion to grow his company, Mark Zuckerberg sounded awfully nonchalant note about the money-making part of taking Facebook public. Bloomberg In a “Letter from Mark Zuckerberg” included in the company’s IPO prospectus yesterday, the 27-year-old chief executive wrote that he and his employees “don’t wake up in the [...]

By Shalini Ramachandran I think in Facebook-style status updates. As in, Shalini Ramachandran looks like a giant penguin in her jacket. Shalini Ramachandran thinks the bathroom in this museum is awesome. Shalini Ramachandran can’t wait till Friday to see her friends—heart heart heart. Facebook Inc. may be going public, and may be worth tens of billions [...]

So many people attempted to access Facebook’s IPO filing Wednesday evening that the SEC’s website slowed to a crawl, with some visitors unable to access it at all. The SEC, which brought on additional capacity to handle the traffic, says the site never crashed. It’s not the first time a hot deal has gummed up [...]

Today’s Facebook IPO filing marks the latest (and possibly, most significant) chapter in the company’s short lifespan. From its dorm room origins to its current 57-acre campus in Menlo Park, Calif., the story of Facebook’s rise makes great copy. So far, one could call it prototypical American success story, complete with technological brilliance and a [...]

Facebook has taken some lumps in the past few months when it comes to user privacy – and from the looks of its IPO documents, the company expects scrutiny of its privacy practices to continue. In its long-awaited filing, the social-networking giant calls potential privacy laws and changing attitudes about privacy a potential “risk factor” [...]

Facebook filed for an initial public offering today, revealing for the time many key numbers that show why it’s one of the most coveted Internet companies. Here’s a quick look at the numbers: $3.71 billion: Revenue in 2011, up 88% from a year earlier. $1 billion: Profit in 2011, up 65% from a year ago. [...]

As the CEO of the world’s largest social networking website, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quite social himself over the last eight years sitting for interviews, meeting world leaders, hosting the company’s annual developer conferences and (on more than one occasion) taking to Facebook’s official blog to apologize for various website updates that angered users. [...]

It’s not unusual for Facebook to be coy about not revealing where it will list its IPO, but it’s a gambit to play the NYSE and the Nasdaq against each other, Steven Russolillo reports on the News Hub.