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Facebook presentaba ayer la documentación para su esperada salida a bolsa y daba así un salto de gigante para asegurarse un hueco en el olimpo de los dioses de las finanzas. Con apenas 8 años de vida sobre sus espaldas, Facebook debutará en los parqués bursátiles con el propósito de ingresar 5.000 millones de dólares en ...

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Facebook just filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). As rumored, the company is seeking to raise $5 billion. If Facebook manages to raise this capital, it will be on a shortlist of biggest tech IPOs of all time. Investment bank Morgan Stanley will act as lead underwriter, with Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan and others to take secondary positions. Shares are expected to hit the market in May. For longtime followers of the social network, this is an ex...  show all text

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Macro of sharpened colored pencils aranged in a circle, cortesía de Horia Varlan Siguiendo el interesante debate que tuvo lugar hace varios meses en este blog alrededor de los Rasgos del Aprendizaje 2.0, comparto en esta entrada mis reflexiones sobre algunas de las -probablemente muchas- iniciativas que habría que llevar a cabo para transformar el obsoleto sistema educativo actual y adaptarlo a las necesidades que surgen de esta nueva realidad. Por aclarar el concepto, entiendo por Educación 2....  show all text

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Live stream video on Twitter using twitcam. Powered by livestream. twitcam allows Twitter users to start streaming on their own channels, complete with live chat. Video tweet to millions using live streaming video technology courtesy of your friends at livestream. Use a webcam or screen capture program and start tweeting video today!

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Mobile app marketing company Fiksu just released new data revealing the impact the holiday season had on iOS app downloads and user acquisition costs. According to the company's App Store Competitive Index, a measurement of the average aggregate download volume of the top 200 free U.S. applications, December saw 6.04 million daily app downloads. That's a nearly 7% increase from November's 5.65 million, and a clear indication of how many folks were unwrapping new smartphones during the holiday s...

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We hope the break from football games (really, who watches the Pro Bowl?) gave you some time to catch up on interesting stories, funny memes and other Internet happenings this weekend at Mashable. But if you had other things to do, we’re giving you a way to catch up with the rest of us. Take a look at the links below to see if you missed any thought-provoking pieces or comical videos over the weekend. We offered reviews, updates, in-depth reports, breaking news, commentary and a precious photo ...  show all text

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Editor’s note: Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of newly funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Like millions of other people, I got an email from Google this morning. It was entitled “Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service”. The first sentence describes the intent of the changes as shortening 60 policies into one, and improving their readability. Then there is a longer explanation captured in the graphic above. The ...  show all text

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Let’s face it: Apple is rich. So rich it could send a crowd of people to the moon to build a luxury hotel and hang out there for a few years. Here’s what else it could do, according to our friends at The Joy of Tech. It’s not surprising Apple is so deeply awash in cash, especially after its spectacular first-quarter earnings announced this week. You can see the details of Apple’s unbelievable numbers here, but will give you a highlight: the company’s revenues for the quarter were higher than its  show all text

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It’s no secret Apple, one of the most valuable public companies in the world, is making major cash off today’s tech gadgets — but how much? This week, the company reported a record net profit of more than $13.6 billion for its quarterly report lasting 14 weeks and ending Dec. 31, 2011. A rumored summer release of the iPhone 5 will help keep the money flowing in this year for the more than $400 billion company. “We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iP...  show all text

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Most member states of the European Union have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at a ceremony in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, Jan. 26. ACTA is a global treaty that tries to normalize copyright protection and IP standards. It’s similar to SOPA and PIPA, proposed U.S. laws which have recently been dropped after massive internet protests, but in many ways even more dangerous. Unfortunately (and unlike SOPA and PIPA), ACTA has been signed by many states without a wide, open public ...  show all text

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The Texas Tea slot machine has a full set of colorful, animated graphics. You'll see oil wells that spurt black gold, dancing armadillos, angry bulls, and much more.

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El aspirante a la candidatura presidencial del PAN, Ernesto Cordero, lanzó un juego en su página de internet en el que superando tres etapas el personaje que emula al panista logra obtener la banda...

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You can run, but you can't hide. Facebook's biggest user interface overhaul since the Wall, the Facebook Timeline, is now becoming mandatory for all users. According to the company, over the next few weeks, everyone will get the new Timeline. And here's the important part: when you do, you'll have just seven days to preview what's there now, and hide anything you don't want others to see.

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Un vídeo colgado en una cuenta de YouTube relacionada con el movimiento de Anonymous ha señalado a Facebook como el siguiente blanco del colectivo. Una voz anónima incita a los usuarios a utilizar programas de saturación para echar abajo la red social el 28 de enero. Lo que no queda claro es la motivación de este ataque. Una voz anónima, que se otorga a sí misma la portavocía de Anonymous, ha convocado a los usuarios para un ataque contra Facebook el 28 de enero. Lo ha hecho a través de un vídeo  show all text

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Editor’s note: Mark Hendrickson is the founder and CEO of Plancast, a social site for planning events, which he has decided to stop working on full-time. In this guest post, Hendrickson takes us through a detailed analysis of why it never took off and what he learned. He is also a former TechCrunch writer. Nearly three years ago, I left my position at TechCrunch to start my own Internet business, with the idea of creating a web application that’d help people get together in real-life rather than  show all text

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As I watched Apple’s iBooks event in New York City last week, my mind began to race about the ramifications of such announcements. Everyone had a pretty good idea for weeks (or months if you read the Steve Jobs biography) that textbooks would be a focal point for Apple, but there wasn’t much thought given to what this would mean. During the event itself, I just kept thinking, “wow, Apple just incentivized every college student to get an iPad”. Except, they didn’t. Not yet. The weird thing about...  show all text

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Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that matters. More than anything, this is perhaps the single biggest hole that exists not just in Twitter but Facebook and other services as well: the need to give users more ways of filtering the massive amounts of information that keep flooding...  show all text

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Internet  es cada vez más una fuente de información según el estudio “Social Media Studie 2011″ de Sensemetric. El estudio dice que el 93% de los encuestados basa sus decisiones de compra en información de la red, según recoge acquisa. Los resultados de la encuesta reciente dan pruebas de la importancia creciente del internet móvil, ya ...

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Una encuesta realizada entre los desarrolladores y profesionales de las TI reveló que, en su mayoría, prefieren utilizar una solución basada en Linux para el manejo de grandes volúmenes de datos. La Fundación Linux fue la encargada de realizar la encuesta que tenía por objeto medir en qué medida dichos profesionales se mostraban preocupados por el incremento en el manejo de grandes volúmenes de datos, como consecuencia del creciente aumento en la cantidad de dispositivos conectados; lo que se t...  show all text

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En una noticia de último minuto, el sitio MegaUpload cerrará sus puertas después de ser investigado por el FBI. Siete empleados de la compañía están siendo acusados de múltiples cargos de piratería, y cuatro ya fueron arrestados en Nueva Zelanda, según informó el Wall Street Journal. Los cargos en su contra incluyen conspiración para chantaje sistematizado, e infracción criminal de copyright. La medida del FBI incluye la coordinación con varias agencias alrededor del mundo en busca de registros...  show all text

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A lo largo de todo el día 18, grandes nombres de Internet como Google, Wikipedia o Reddit, entre muchos otros, se unieron para protestar contra el proyecto de ley SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). Así, Wikipedia interrumpió su servicio durante 24 horas, mientras que Google publicó un mensaje en su página principal y un enlace a una petición que fue firmada por millones de personas. El bloqueo de Wikipedia comenzó a las 6 de la mañana (hora española), fue efectivo durante todo el día y afectó a tod...  show all text

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What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

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