May 23

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Facebook Weighs Possible Listing With NYSE from Nasdaq

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Facebook, which had a disastrous initial public offering with the Nasdaq last week, is now considering a listing with the New York Stock Exchange, a source told CNBC.

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May 11

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: How not to pitch a reporter (or, The Art of Being a Jackass) -

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I have a personal website, on which I list both my CNNMoney email address and my personal address. I try to make it clear that CNN pitches should be addressed to, you know, my CNN address only.

But every few months, I’ll receive a pitch that’s sent to both my personal and CNN email addresses. I…

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Tweeter Sohaib Athar got unexpectedly very famous today as — in his own wording — “the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it. ” While fending off press  requests from every media outlet on planet Earth, he’s been chronicling his own story, posting something I find much more fascinating than any canned sound bite he could offer a journalist who didn’t know who he was 24 hours ago and won’t care 72 hours from now.
He’s been photographing Abbottabad, giving those following his tweets a peek into a remote place they’d never otherwise see. It’s beautiful — and very quiet. My favourite of the full set of photos is, of course, a local restaurant. -Stacy

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Tweeter Sohaib Athar got unexpectedly very famous today as — in his own wording — “the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it. ” While fending off press  requests from every media outlet on planet Earth, he’s been chronicling his own story, posting something I find much more fascinating than any canned sound bite he could offer a journalist who didn’t know who he was 24 hours ago and won’t care 72 hours from now.

He’s been photographing Abbottabad, giving those following his tweets a peek into a remote place they’d never otherwise see. It’s beautiful — and very quiet. My favourite of the full set of photos is, of course, a local restaurant. -Stacy

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Pandora worth $1 billion? -

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An eyebrow-raising estimate of online radio company Pandora’s valuation was released Wednesday by the folks at Trefis.

For those unfamiliar with Trefis, the company uses computer models and nifty visualizations to forecast and break down a company’s stock price or market cap….

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The GroupMe Segway posse is ready to rumble.

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The GroupMe Segway posse is ready to rumble.

The most likeable CEO in Silicon Valley

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A hot debate on Quora cools when the best man for the job steps forward to claim his throne. It’s practically his birthright, after all.

(Thanks to CB for the tip, via Reddit) -Julianne

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Cell towers are ugly. So are the stocks. -

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Even when companies go out of their way to make cell towers look less like eyesores and have them blend into the landscape naturally, they are still pretty darn ugly. Now their stocks are ugly too.

Shares of American Tower, Crown Castle International and SBA…

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Live code (+ beer) at SXSW -

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NYC has many awesome startups, but 10gen — ie MongoDB — gets a special place in my heart for being the geekiest.

It’s an open-source NoSQL database that powers many of the biggest Web 2.0 services, including Foursquare, which has its 1 billion+ check-ins logged in MongoDB software. 4sq has…

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Making it easier to Google yourself -

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It can be tough having a very common name like David Goldman, especially when I try to Google myself (I’m not that David Goldman, above).

I mentioned this to Vic Gundotra, Google’s SVP of Engineering today, who let it slip that Google has a soon-to-be-announced solution…