The wrong retweet could land a South Korean 7 years of jail time (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Could sharing someone else's content on social media site Twitter get you jail time? Not if you live in the United States. But in democratic South Korea, a 24-year-old faces up to seven years in prison for retweeting content from @uriminzok, the …

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Steve Jobs brought back to life as an Android fan in Taiwanese ad (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - In the months following long-time Apple CEO Steve Jobs's untimely death, we've seen him resurrected in many forms. He's already been brought back in plastic and bronze, but we never thought we'd see him reborn as an Android supporter. Leave it to a Taiwanese tablet …

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Facebook surrenders its privacy in IPO documents (AP)

AP - Facebook is baring its business soul.

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Money managers, analysts comment on Facebook IPO (AP)

AP - Facebook is finally going public.

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Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B (AP)

Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B 
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AP - Facebook is friending Wall Street: The Internet social network is going public in a stock offering that could value it at up to $100 billion, eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard.

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The 9 most surprising facts about the Facebook IPO (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - It's official: Facebook, the world's most famous internet company, is about to go public. In a move expected to net the social networking giant a cool $5 billion, Facebook shares will be available for purchase this May under the ticker symbol FB. …

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Fold-up ‘house’ fits in your pocket, sets up instantly (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - If Barcelona-based designer Martin Azua's design catches on, the camping tents of the future could fit in your pocket. His "Basic House" concept is a single-person pop-up shelter made from a metalized polyester fabric that sets itself up, but contains no …

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Chinese youth clamor to join Foxconn’s iPhone 5 assembly line (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - The working conditions at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn are notorious here in the U.S., but do Chinese youth have a different opinion of the embattled electronics giant? Possibly: Foxconn is hiring, and Chinese youth are literally lining up around the block to …

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100-year-old grandmother plays Nintendo DS games to keep her mind active (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Close your eyes, and try to imagine yourself beyond your 80th birthday. Do you still see yourself spending a couple of hours each day gaming? That's what 100-year-old Kathleen Connell does, and she says it's the reason why she doesn't "feel …

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Ukraine shuts down leading file-sharing site (AP)

AP - Ukrainian authorities have shut down a popular file-sharing website saying it violates copyright laws, officials said Wednesday.

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Malaysia grants license to Aussie rare earth plant (AP)

AP - Malaysia on Wednesday granted a license for an Australian mining company to operate the first rare earths plant outside China in years, despite public protests over fears of radioactive contamination.

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Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise? (AP)

Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise? 
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AP - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.

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NASA Launches Facebook Game to Test Space Program Knowledge (Mashable)

Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?

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Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled (AP)

AP - Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company's new country-by-country censorship policy on Monday, complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand that has made Twitter popular.

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New Sundance film lets a computer shuffle the plot every time (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - It's fun rewatching a movie you love over and over again, but it sometimes gets old when you already know its plot twists like the back of your hand. Eve Sussman's new film overcomes this problem by telling a different story …

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Facebook IPO could create the world’s largest internet company (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Want to own a piece of Facebook? Next week, you can — the social media behemoth is expected to file papers for its IPO as soon as February 8. It's a bottom-line boosting move that's been a long time coming. Facebook was …

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Twitter Is Not a Media Company, CEO Says (Mashable)

Mashable - "Twitter is not a media company," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo declared on stage at AllThingsD's media conference in Laguna Nigel, CA, Monday evening. The statement was surprising given Twitter's well-publicized role as a platform for breaking news, entertainment and other communications. "You sell advertising," AllThingsD's Peter Kafka pointed out.

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