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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Facebook is preparing to file initial paperwork for an offering that could raise as much as $10 billion and value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as early as Wednesday, with an initial public offering of stock in three or four months.

Facebook IPO Could Value It Among Top Companies

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/facebook-ipo-could-value-_n_1237784.html

Facebook Privacy Settings To Be Opt-In from Now On

Good news for Facebook users who are also fans of privacy: It's official—Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed Facebook has settled with the FTC and is now required to make all future privacy changes opt-in. http://lifehacker.com/5863454/facebook-privacy-settings-to-be-opt+in-from-now-on
http://blog.trendmicro.com/facebook-scam-leverages-lady-gagas-death-bypasses-https/ We recently analyzed a Facebook spam that supposedly came from media organization, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Facebook Scam Leverages Lady Gaga Death, bypasses HTTPS | Malware Blog | Trend Micro

Alleged Murder Plot Revealed as Facebook Friend Turns Out to Be Indiana Man's Wife - FoxNews.com

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Indiana woman Angela Voelkert wanted a little dirt on her husband as she prepared for a messy divorce, so she posed online as a teen to trick him into dishing some damaging details, the New York Post reported Thursday. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/09/murder-plot-revealed-as-facebook-friend-turns-out-to-be-indiana-mans-wife/
No surprise this! Within hours of US Naval Seals hunting down Osama Bin Laden, spammers on Facebook have gotten into their dirty games with a new “Watch the Osama Shoot down video” scam which has gotten viral, by taking different forms like clickjacking and comment-jacking. And guess what?

Osama Shoot Down Video Spam Going Viral on Facebook - facebook scam, Facebook spam, facebook video scam, osama bin laden shot video, osama dead video, osama shot video, watch osama shoot down video - Technically Personal!

http://techpp.com/2011/05/03/osama-shoot-down-video-spam-going-viral-on-facebook/

13 Facebook Parodies That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

Last week’s Saturday Night Live episode included not one, but two, Facebook parodies. Mark Zuckerberg even appeared on a recent episode of The Simpsons. http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-parodies-2010-10
http://mashable.com/2010/08/02/schedule-social-media-updates-free/ This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

11 Free Services for Scheduling Social Media Updates

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Customize Your iPhone With Your Own DNA - DNA wallpaper - Gizmod

As if my iPhone didn't have enough of my DNA in the form of grease fingerprints, dead skin cells, and other precious bodily fluids, now I can add some more of it in wallpaper form. French DNA laboratory Helys can do it for you.
3 buttons, 3 million topics: Wikipedia in the palm of your hand. http://gizmodo.com/5380377/wikireader-puts-wikipedia-in-your-pocket-forgets-were-in-2009

WikiReader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket, Forgets We're in

Shared folders and more in Google Docs (Vijay Bangaru/Docs Blog)

http://www.techmeme.com/091012/p43#a091012p43 At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs.
Seriously, what is wrong with the PSPGo? Is the handheld so ho-hum that people are purposefully modding it into awful things , or is it just a really hard device to work with? This latest entry attempts to camouflage the portable as some kind of Christmas decoration.

Yet Another PSPGo Mod Blinds You With LEDs - PspGo - Gizmodo

RFA-CA-09-015: Pathway to Independence Award in Cancer Nanotechn

NOTICE: Applications submitted in response to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Federal assistance must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov ( http://www.grants.gov ) using the SF424 Research and Related (R&R) forms and the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
In another step in their Short March to become the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, the United Kingdom of Great Britain is about to get a "game" that will allow any citizen to watch CCTV cameras every day. And get prizes. The plan is simple: A company called Internet Eyes wants to stream CCTV feeds from businesses—or anyone willing to pay them $30 a month—that want their cameras to be watched by humans 24/7.

Snoop On Your Neighbors, Get Pleasure, Money - Internet Eyes - G

Gateway One ZX6800, ZX4800 All-in-Ones Go Multi-Touch for Window

Windows 7 is just around the corner, and Gateway's new 23-inch ZX6800 and 20-inch ZX4800 all-in-one PCs are ready for your greasy multi-finger gestures.