No More Beating Around The Bush At Yahoo: Thompson Is Out, Levinsohn In As CEO, Effective Immediately

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Well, after days and days of nothing, suddenly things are moving at a fast clip.

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Facebook’s delicate balance between profits and privacy

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In less than a week, the financial world is going to witness Facebook drive one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. It will make its investors stinking rich and have techies espousing the transformative power of the web and social media.

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Stupid Criminals Get Caught After Stupidest Facebook Mistake Yet [Facebook]

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Just when I thought criminals with Facebook accounts can't possibly be more stupid, another imbecile comes along and proves me wrong by robbing an internet cafe at gunpoint—after using one of the computers to log into Facebook and leaving his account open.

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Girls Impress FIRST Championship With Project That Could Save Lives (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

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It’s been widely reported that we’ve fallen far behind in STEM education, that our children just aren’t proficient at math, science, technology,or engineering. Everyone from President Obama to William Bennett have lamented our situation.

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Pornterest Vs. Pornstagram Vs. Tumblr’s #NSFW

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Wow,  Pinterest’s porn section  is fairly tame. I was just curious about the type of not-so-mommy-friendly content that might be popping up on what’s now  the third-most popular social network  after Facebook and Twitter. (Also I’m bored).

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Five Ways Native Monetization Is Changing Silicon Valley

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Editor’s note: Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO of Sharethrough , the native video advertising company. Dan has been honored as an AdAge “Media Maven” and was recently named to the Forbes “30 under 30″ list.

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Mobile – Facebook And Google Can’t Live With It And They Can’t Live Without It

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Editor’s note: Guest author  Keith Teare  is General Partner at his incubator  Archimedes Labs  and CEO of just.me . He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Follow him on Twitter @kteare

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No, Snapchat Isn’t About Sexting, Says Co-Founder Evan Spiegel

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“The minute you tell someone that images on your server disappear, everyone jumps to sexting.” Evan Spiegel laughed and leaned back into his chair during his first sitdown interview since his iPhone app Snapchat blew up over the last month. Snapchat  is #12 on the free iOS photo app charts in the U.S. and  just scored some mainstream media attention in The New York Times . Plus, we hear that Snapchat has also impressed Facebook’s internal product leadership and even Zuck himself

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Gillmor Gang: Tomorrow Never Knows

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The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — turned off their minds, relaxed, and floated downstream on the push notification inbox of tomorrow.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says mobile apps the top focus, we say it’s about time

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Facebook has been making a lot of promises during a tour to drum up interest in its ever-nearing IPO , but the one gadget-heads have been wanting to hear the most, a commitment to its mobile apps , has been elusive -- until now.

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