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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.

(This story has also been posted on sister blog Deal Journal. Over at MarketWatch, Dan Gallagher has a walk up to Facebook’s IPO filing: Reuters Facebook is widely believed to be readying its first initial-public-offering papers this week, with its prospective IPO looming as one of the biggest market debuts in history. The documents to [...]

Take that, Apple! Avid has just released an iPad iMovie competitor called Avid Studio. The US$4.99 app is a scaled-down version of Avid’s pro video editing tools. Avid Studio features a timeline and storyboard, plus some iPad-friendly gestures so you can scale images and videos. You can arrange your edits on the timeline for special [...]

Ever since seeing the poignant — and hilariously quotable — “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” last year, I’ve been a little obsessed with the sharp-tongued comedian. Happily, Rivers will be getting even more screen time than usual in the coming months. Not only is “Fashion Police” adding an extra half hour of Rivers’ cutting [...]

Ever since seeing the poignant — and hilariously quotable — “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” last year, I’ve been a little obsessed with the sharp-tongued comedian. Happily, Rivers will be getting even more screen time than usual in the coming months. Not only is “Fashion Police” adding an extra half hour of Rivers’ cutting [...]

Verizon’s Tangled Web: As Verizon Communications pushes for more cable-television and high-speed Internet subscribers, a new competitor is emerging: its own subsidiary, Verizon Wireless. Thomas Catan has details on The News Hub. Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom vs RapidShare’s Schmid: In contrast to Megaupload’s flashy owner, Kim Dotcom, RapidShare’s Christian Schmid kept a low profile and even [...]

In this week’s Q10 interview, we’re visiting with Carol Woolton, Jewelry Editor at British Vogue and author of “Drawing Jewels For Fashion.” 1. Whom do you credit for inspiring you to be the person you are today? Growing up when it’s all about cheap quartz watches and costume jewelry I was inspired reading old copies [...]

In this week’s Q10 interview, we’re visiting with Carol Woolton, Jewelry Editor at British Vogue and author of “Drawing Jewels For Fashion.” 1. Whom do you credit for inspiring you to be the person you are today? Growing up when it’s all about cheap quartz watches and costume jewelry I was inspired reading old copies [...]