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Facebook filing for $5 billion IPO Wednesday, says NYT

By Nilay Patel on January 31, 2012 05:56 pm + 56 comments

It's been rumored since November, but the New York Times reports that Facebook will file for its Continue reading…
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Is Europe finally getting close to a unified patent system?

By Matt Macari on January 31, 2012 05:20 pm + 8 comments

The debate over a system where inventors can obtain a single patent enforceable across all of Europe Continue reading…
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Warner Music's Edgar Bronfman, Jr.: Google Music is an 'oxymoron,' content and tech industry need to work together

By Dieter Bohn on January 31, 2012 05:18 pm + 36 comments

Edgar Bronfman, Jr may be on the way out from Warner Music Group, but that doesn't mean that he Continue reading…
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Amazon sales rose 35 percent to $17.43 billion in Q4, profit declined 58 percent from 2010

By Adi Robertson on January 31, 2012 05:01 pm + 69 comments

Amazon just reported its Q4 2011 results, and while sales grew 35 percent to $17.43 billion, the Continue reading…
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Sprint gives LightSquared final extension for FCC approval, will end partnership in March without it

By Chris Welch on January 31, 2012 04:55 pm + 18 comments

It turns out 30 extra days wasn't enough: despite the extension Sprint granted LightSquared earlier Continue reading…
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RIM urges its customers to 'be bold' in 2012 with cartoon heroes and crazy infographic

By Nathan Ingraham on January 31, 2012 04:31 pm + 40 comments

RIM has already made some big changes in 2012, what with the hiring of new CEO Thorstein Heins — Continue reading…
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Healthcare in the cloud: an exclusive look at Qualcomm 2net

By T.C. Sottek on January 31, 2012 04:06 pm + 12 comments

Our own Joshua Topolsky recently visited Qualcomm Life, a new Qualcomm company focused on Continue reading…
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Steam iOS and Android apps officially out of beta, available to all

By Nathan Ingraham on January 31, 2012 03:40 pm + 28 comments

Valve's Steam Mobile beta testing period didn't last long — less than a week after initially Continue reading…
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The Verge Mobile Podcast, live at 4:30PM ET / 9:30PM GMT!

By Chris Ziegler on January 31, 2012 03:30 pm + 33 comments

What's up with Dieter's ominously shadowed face, you ask? He's our man on the ground at AllThingsD's Continue reading…
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Google Blogger to begin automatically redirecting users to country-specific URLs

By Dante D'Orazio on January 31, 2012 03:11 pm + 6 comments

Google is implementing a new system that automatically redirects users to country-specific URLs that Continue reading…