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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg weds on day after IPO

This photo provided by Facebook shows Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Zuckerberg updated his status to A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."




Google gets China OK for Motorola deal

FILE - In this May 11, 2011 file photo, attendees chat at the Google IO Developers Conference in San Francisco. Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week. The Chinese government approved the deal on Saturday, May 19, 2012, Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.




The next digital image revolution?

Lytro unveils its digital cameraDespite the explosive innovation around digital picture-taking, the end result has actually changed very little. A photo is still a photo. And a poorly focused photo is still as bad as ever. Ren Ng aims to fix that.




A 112-megapixel consumer camera concept needs your social love
Spectral Instruments may be a small company, but it has already designed several impressive cameras, including one called 1110 series that can capture the stars and the sun even in the middle of the day. The company's products have been designed … Continue reading ?

What the Friday: Watch this man open a bottle of beer… with a chainsaw
It's Friday again — hooray! Time to make plans for  the weekend over a few bottles of beer like the man in the video above. But while you probably use a bottle opener to get to your fizzy liquor, this man uses … Continue reading ?

Mark Zuckerberg Gets Married
In a surprise ceremony, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan in a private wedding at his home in Palo Alto California on Saturday.

Facebook stock finishes flat in debut

In this image provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, applauds at the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla)In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initial public offering.




Sudden wealth part of Silicon Valley's everyday

Facebook employee David Fisch laughs outside of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Friday, May 18, 2012. Facebook's stock is trading up Friday, as investors seek to put a dollar value on the company that turned online social networking into a global cultural phenomenon. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)In Silicon Valley, where sudden wealth is hardly something new and CEOs favor hoodies over bespoke blazers, Facebook's IPO on Friday didn't bring everyday life to a halt.




App scans faces of bar-goers to guess age, gender

Cole Harper, co-founder and CEO of SceneTap, holds up a phone showing the app SceneTap at a bar in San Francisco, Thursday, May 17, 2012. A new app is scheduled to launch in San Francisco this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. The app’s makers, Austin, Texas-based SceneTap, say the app doesn’t identify specific individuals, but privacy advocates have their doubts. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.




FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public

Electronic screens inside the Nasdaq stock market announce the listing of Facebook shares before the start of trading, Friday, May 18, 2012 in New York. The world's definitive online social network raised $16 billion in an initial public offering that values the company at $104 billion. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)It's Facebook's big day.




Zombies, Run! developer worked with Apple to make Kickstarter work in App Store
Crowd-funding service Kickstarter has gained a lot of attention of late because of some massive success stories in the world of gaming, but small developers have been using the fundraising site to gather money for ambitious mobile titles almost since Kickstarter was created.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg weds on day after IPO

This photo provided by Facebook shows Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Zuckerberg updated his status to A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."




Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart

This photo provided by Facebook shows Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Zuckerberg updated his status to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday.




Google says it has China's approval for Motorola deal

Women walk past the logo of Google in front of its former headquarters in Beijing(Reuters) - Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world's No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones. Google, which will be the newest entrant to the handset market, announced plans for the acquisition last year in a bid to secure Motorola's valuable patents and pave the way for a pairing of Google's Android mobile software and Motorola's handset business. U.S. ...




Mark Zuckerberg's Very Big Week [PICS]
Mark Zuckerberg may have just wrapped up the biggest week of his life.

Mark Zuckerberg Gets Married
In a surprise ceremony, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan in a private wedding at his home in Palo Alto California on Saturday.

App scans faces of bar-goers to guess age, gender

Cole Harper, co-founder and CEO of SceneTap, holds up a phone showing the app SceneTap at a bar in San Francisco, Thursday, May 17, 2012. A new app is scheduled to launch in San Francisco this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. The app’s makers, Austin, Texas-based SceneTap, say the app doesn’t identify specific individuals, but privacy advocates have their doubts. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.




Google gets China OK for Motorola deal

FILE - In this May 11, 2011 file photo, attendees chat at the Google IO Developers Conference in San Francisco. Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week. The Chinese government approved the deal on Saturday, May 19, 2012, Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.




Google says it won China's approval for Motorola deal

Women walk past the logo of Google in front of its former headquarters in Beijing(Reuters) - Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world's No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones. Google, which will be the newest entrant to the handset market, announced plans for the acquisition last year in a bid to secure Motorola's valuable patents and pave the way for a pairing of Google's Android mobile software and Motorola's handset business. U.S. ...




Mobile Marketing by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
The number of Americans who own smartphones rocketed past the number who own basic mobile phones this year, and marketers have been expanding their mobile budgets at a similarly rapid rate.

44 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Friday marked the much-anticipated Facebook IPO, and boy, do we have have a lot of resources for that topic. Whether you have no idea what an IPO is or you want to know how it might affect you, use our weekly features roundup to catch up.

Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]
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China Approves Google's Motorola Mobility Deal [VIDEO]
Authorities in China have cleared Google's plan to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.

Zombies, Run! developer worked with Apple to make Kickstarter work in App Store
Crowd-funding service Kickstarter has gained a lot of attention of late because of some massive success stories in the world of gaming, but small developers have been using the fundraising site to gather money for ambitious mobile titles almost since Kickstarter was created.

Android’s grand plan revolves around Nexus handsets
Call it diversity or fragmentation, there’s no getting around the fact the mobile scene’s become riddled with Android-powered handsets. Nearly 4,000 in fact. A recent report from OpenSignalMaps has tracked some 3,997 unique phones, tablets and other connected devices powered by Google’s mobile OS. And while this wide range of gadgets has helped Android become a frontrunner in the mobile race, it’s also caused a staggered ecosystem to maintain. ...

Show Us Your Eclipse Photos
On Sunday, May 20, a spectacular astronomical phenomenon will occur when our moon passes between the Earth and the sun. The result for the luckiest of viewers will be an annular (or ring-shaped) solar eclipse. Many others will gladly "settle" for the similarly beautiful partial eclipse.

Will Facebook Reduce Taxes By Going International?
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has been the target of public wrath after announcing he would be renouncing his U.S. citizenship and moving to Singapore, a haven where capital gains aren't taxed one bit. Will Facebook follow in his footsteps by funneling money through international subsidiaries to maneuver around the American tax code?

Changed Windows 8 Desktop Revealed, Interface Improved [VIDEO]
Microsoft has revealed an updated desktop user interface for Windows 8.

6 Ways to Get a Tech Job Without a Tech Degree
Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, a global digital agency based in Brooklyn, and author of Users Not Customers. He has spent more than a decade as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and management consultant.

Microsoft patents tech to bring Android apps to Windows Phone
A patent filed by Microsoft in 2010 could help the software company’s flagging mobile platform bridge the app gap between it and Android by helping users find Windows alternatives to the Android apps they already enjoy.

On Facebook IPO Day, Twitter Sentiment Correlated With Share Price
Twitter users who participated in a crowdsourced prediction for Facebook's IPO day closing price collectively missed the mark, but another analysis suggests that changes in Twitter sentiment accurately predicted how Facebook's share price turned throughout the day.

7 Hot Startup Tips for Raising a Killer Seed Round
Mashable's new video series, Behind the Launch, follows Vungle on its startup journey toward a June launch. Each week on Mashable, the Vungle team offers tips and lessons learned from its own startup experience. This week, we saw Vungle court big-name investors, so co-founder and CEO Zain Jaffer offers tips for courting investors. Watch the episode above, and be sure to tune in to Behind the Launch every Monday and Wednesday.

America expands once again _ digitally, this time

FILE - This undated file photo shows artwork showing the Oregon trail in 1844. In the 19th century, Americans expanded into a physical frontier _ a geographic edge of society brimming with opportunities and dangers and challenges and setbacks. Today, American expansionism is playing out vigorously at society's latest cutting edge: the social space of the Internet. On Friday, May 18, 2012, the $16 billion IPO of the global juggernaut that is Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook became, for better or worse, the most recent example of how the new frontier has been cultivated, colonized and commanded by entrepreneurial Americans. (AP Photo, File)The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.




iOS 6 – Can the fruit stand alone?
With WWDC around the corner, the rumor mill is in full swing as to what the folks at Cupertino plan to unveil. It’s unlikely to be a new iOS device, (our bets are on an October new iPhone event) but as 9to5Mac reported, there’s every indication that iOS 6 is in the final stages of testing and will likely be the centrepiece of this year’s developer conference.

8 Top Comments on Mashable This Week
The Mashable community engaged in a variety of articles this week, resulting in solid discussions and debates in the comments.

SpaceX's Historic Launch Aborted at Last Second
When the countdown to its launch ended early Saturday morning, Dragon, the first private spacecraft to ever attempt docking with the international space station, did not take off.

Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Facebook stock finishes flat in debut

In this image provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, applauds at the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla)In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initial public offering.




Ultra-Orthodox plan huge NYC meeting on Net risks

In this April 3, 2012 photo provided by VosIzNeias.com, a group of Ultra Orthodox Jews who believe that the Internet threatens their way of life, check out the facilities at New York's Citi Field, which they ultimately rented for an unprecedented gathering. The upcoming May 20 rally at the Mets' Stadium will address how to use modern technology in a religiously appropriate way. More than 40,000 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men plan to pack Citi Field for the Sunday evening gathering on the dangers of the Internet, and organizers have also rented the nearby Arthur Ashe Stadium for the overflow crowd. (AP Photo/VosIzNeias.com) MANDATORY CREDITUltra-Orthodox Jews who believe that the Internet threatens their way of life have rented the New York Mets' stadium for an unprecedented gathering on how to use modern technology in a religiously appropriate way.




Historic Facebook debut falls flat

Recent activity lists SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The historic initial public offering of Facebook Inc did not go as planned on Friday, as the social networking company's sky-high valuation combined with trading glitches left the stock languishing near its offering price at the market close. Facebook shares began trading late Friday morning and opened 11 percent above the $38 offering price, but after peaking at about $45 slid rapidly at the end of the day to close at $38.23. The IPO was the third-largest in U.S. history and valued eight-year-old Facebook at $104 billion. ...




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