Facebook shareholders have increased the number of shares offered in the company’s public offering to just over 421 million. The company and its shareholders both also have upped the number of shares they will allow for over-allotment — shares set aside in case the offering doesn’t meet demand. Read full article > >

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General Motors threw cold water on the buildup to Facebook’s red-hot initial public offering Tuesday, saying it will stop paid advertising on the social network, just days before Facebook’s market debut. Read full article > >

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LightSquared said in its bankruptcy filing Monday, it will continue to try to win over the Federal Communications Commission to get its satellite venture up and running — a process that can take up to two years. Read full article > >

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As artificial limbs are infused with better technology, some people are opting to amputate more extensively to regain something more akin to normal function.

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Apple has changed the branding on its new iPad, dropping the “4G” designation. Instead, the company is calling the updated tablet “WiFi + Cellular,” after facing some criticism that its iPad runs only on what U.S. networks call “4G,” as opposed to what falls under that designation in the rest of the world. Read full article > >

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Yahoo’s embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, plans to leave his post after a controversy over his embellished academic credentials, people briefed on the matter said.

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The sixth-graders are lighting up the room with their MacBook Airs, flipped open to Google, Wikipedia and YouTube for a physics assignment. Their classroom is decked out with touch-screen whiteboards, tablets and powerful WiFi connections able to handle a school full of children online at once. Read full article > >

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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has given up his U.S. citizenship, a move that will reduce his taxes when Facebook goes public in the coming weeks. Saverin, who was born in Brazil and moved to the U.S. in 1992 and has been a U.S. citizen since 1998, has decided to become a resident of Singapore. He is said to own around 5 percent of the company, which has a valuation of between $77 billion and $96 billion according to paperwork filed ahead of its initial public offering. Read full article > >

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Apple is rumored to be working on an iPad mini, or 7-inch tablet, and a recent post from iMore suggested that the smaller tablet could be slated for an October release. The blog cites an unnamed source who said that Apple might price its smaller tablet aggressively, to push out competitors. Read full article > >

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iPad mini: How much would one cost?

The BBC has been given an exclusive demonstration of how the technology of robot avatar ‘beaming’ works, allowing a kind of ‘physical’ interaction at a distance.

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SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., has hired 15 members of the engineering team from the social news site Digg. In an interview, SocialCode chief executive Laura O’Shaughnessy said the engineers will be working on products that compile and analyze data from social networks to help companies glean more information about their customers. (O’Shaughnessy is the daughter of Post Chairman Donald E. Graham.) Read full article > >

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Facebook took another step toward its goal of being a platform for developers Wednesday, by announcing that it will launch its own App Center, a single location for the platform’s many applications. The company also announced that it will begin supporting paid apps, a program that it is offering to developers in a beta test. (Right now, developers can have in-app payments on the network, but all applications have been free to access.) Read full article > >

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As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Addressing the mobile problem

As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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