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This episode was cross posted from Red TIE Media

Status Update #18 – Real Handy
Monday May 21, 2012
Hosts: Jacob Bodnar and Jared Weseman

STORIES
Facebook IPO
Raises $16 billion in IPO – 3:12
Ends first day even, falls hard in second day – 8:02
Zynga stock plummets 13% upon Facebook IPO -17:02
Facebook acquires mobile app Karma
Facebook slapped with $15 billion user tracking lawsuit – 22:27
HTC Stuck in Customs
Apple patent dispute halts HTC imports to U.S. – 25:40
HTC claims to have workaround to problem – 29:12
HTC claims some have passed customs review – 28:02
Other Headlines
Google launches Knowledge Graph – it knows what you’re searching! – 34:07
Yahoo and Alibaba shake on $7 billion stock sale – 38:11
Yahoo blunders in Facebook patent battle – 39:14
Microsoft announces no Aero for Windows 8 – 40:41
Mobile News
Google’s purchase of Motorola approved by China, will close mid-week – 45:14
Motorola: If Android 4.0 won’t improve a device, we won’t update it – 51:12
Motorola updates ICS upgrade schedule – 48:16
Google to sell Nexus devices with multiple partners direct-to-customer – 53:50
Report: Samsung has 9 million pre-orders for S III – 58:14
S-Voice Leaks for ICS, Samsung begins blocking – 1:00:04
Verizon to kill unlimited data for existing subscribers – 1:07:44
Rumor Has It: Amazon rumor: 10-inch Kindle Fire, iPad Mini Second half of 2012 – 1:10:20
Social Media News
GM pulls $10 million in ads from Facebook, following failed pitch – 1:18:06
Study: 44% never click on Facebook ads – 1:27:53
Twitter implements Do Not Track privacy option – 1:36:55
Twitter experimenting with customized “who to follow” listed based on browsing – 1:37:12
Pinterest receives more funding, valued at $1.5 billion – 1:38:50
Quick Hits – 1:39:49
Chrome overtakes IE as most popular web browser
Amazon reportedly offer ad space on Kindle Fire home screen
Simon & Schuster reaches settlement in price fixing lawsuit
App Drawer – 1:42:40
Jared: IMdb (Android | iOS)
Jacob: Sleep as Android

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