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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why is Facebook so uncool? And does it matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/05/15/why-is-facebook-so-uncool-and-does-it-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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Let me just get this out of the way: I love Facebook.
I say that without a hint of irony or embarrassment. I&#8217;m not the least bit surprised, however, that my adoration is not shared by most. In a poll released by CNBC today, the rest of the country has developed more of love-hate relationship with Facebook. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groupon and the strange game of Wall Street earnings</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/05/14/groupon-and-the-strange-game-of-wall-street-earnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Groupon reported earnings today, and the reaction from investors after the market closed was bullish. Less than an hour after results were released, the stock was trading up 16.66 percent. The focus was on revenues and operating income beating expectations.
What caught my eye, first however, was the guidance the company was giving:
&#8220;Revenue for the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting the cord: Readers bring flood of tips, questions and high-fives</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/05/08/cutting-the-cord-readers-bring-flood-of-tips-questions-and-high-fives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My column on Monday about our family&#8217;s decision to cut our cable TV service brought a flood of email and phone calls. It clearly touched a nerve with folks who have tried, or want to try, or have just resigned themselves to not trying for various reasons.
After responding to many emails, I figured it might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zynga adds new direction with &#8220;Bubble Safari,&#8221; its first arcade-style game</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/05/08/zynga-adds-new-direction-with-bubble-safari-its-first-arcade-style-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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Zynga will introduce Bubble Safari, its first arcade-style game on Wednesday. The game combines Zynga&#8217;s social dynamics with a game that looks and feels like something you might have stumbled upon in the old coin-operated arcades in your local mall back in the 1980s.
The development of Bubble Safari was overseen by Mark Turmell, senior creative director at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook IPO will raise $10 billion, but half goes to insiders cashing out</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/05/03/facebook-will-raise-10-billion-but-half-is-insiders-cashing-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/05/03/facebook-will-raise-10-billion-but-half-is-insiders-cashing-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of stories about the Facebook numbers are reporting that Facebook will raise $10.6 billion when it sells its stock in the next couple of weeks. However, it&#8217;s important to note that only about half of that will actually go into the company&#8217;s coffers. The rest is insiders cashing out shares.
The company said it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SolarCity files for IPO, but thanks to JOBS Act, we can&#8217;t see filing</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/30/solarcity-files-for-ipo-but-thanks-to-jobs-act-we-cant-see-filing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/30/solarcity-files-for-ipo-but-thanks-to-jobs-act-we-cant-see-filing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we learned that SolarCity has filed for an IPO. In the past, when this happened, companies filed at S-1 which gaves us our first real look at the numbers that underly their business. How much revenue? How much profit? How much do they pay their executives? Who owns how many shares?
Alas, now that Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drew Houston of Dropbox on Google Drive: &#8220;It&#8217;s not something we spend a lot of time thinking about.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/25/drew-houston-of-dropbox-on-google-drive-its-not-something-we-spend-a-lot-of-time-thinking-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/25/drew-houston-of-dropbox-on-google-drive-its-not-something-we-spend-a-lot-of-time-thinking-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dropbox held an open house on Wednesday at it&#8217;s brand new headquarters in San Francisco&#8217;s China Basin. Most of the hour-long event was dedicated to talks by co-founder Drew Houston and SF Mayor Ed Lee, followed by a tour. At the end, however, Jessica Guynn of the Los Angeles Times managed to get Houston to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could the federal government attempt to block Facebook purchase of Instagram deal on anti-trust grounds?</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/23/could-the-federal-government-attempt-to-block-facebook-purchase-of-instagram-deal-on-anti-trust-grounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/23/could-the-federal-government-attempt-to-block-facebook-purchase-of-instagram-deal-on-anti-trust-grounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One big surprise to me in its latest securities filing: Facebook notes that the Instagram acquisition is subject to regulatory anti-trust approval:
&#8220;This acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration or early termination of all applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, as amended (HSR), and is currently expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook filing: New info on revenues, Instagram and AOL patents</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/23/facebook-filing-new-info-on-revenues-instagram-and-aol-patents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/23/facebook-filing-new-info-on-revenues-instagram-and-aol-patents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook updates its IPO filing to include information about the purchase of Instagram, the AOL patents via Microsoft, and a number of updates about, well, its numbers:

&#8220;We had 901 million MAUs as of March 31, 2012, an increase of 33% as compared  million MAUs as of March 31, 2011.&#8221; That&#8217;s up from 845 million last month. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I learned from the Silicon Valley 150 list</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/23/things-i-learned-from-the-silicon-valley-150-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/04/23/things-i-learned-from-the-silicon-valley-150-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every year since 1986, the Mercury News has published a list of the largest public companies in Silicon Valley, now known as the SV150. It&#8217;s a big undertaking, and one that I always find fascinating. This year, as I wrote in my column for the SV150, we expanded the definition of Silicon Valley to capture [...]]]></description>
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