Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO Facebook Inc. began trading publicly on Friday following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. The initial public offering of stock priced at $38 on Thursday. It was at the top end of a projected range that Facebook had already increased just days earlier. Lyrid Meteor Shower of 2012 The Lyrid meteor shower peaks Saturday night and Sunday morning, April 21-22. It's a relatively small shower -- 20 shooting stars per hour -- but a new moon should mean darker skies and better seeing.
  Zuckerberg Bride, Priscilla Chan, Not Your Usual Billionaire's Wife Just as we thought Facebook CEO and newly minted billionaire Mark Zuckerberg was on top of the world, he surprised even his friends by marrying his college sweetheart, 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, just after he led the company to one of the biggest IPOs in tech history. Zuckerberg has been...
  Website address 'revolution' back in motion
The Internet domain name "revolution" was back in action Tuesday with the agency in charge of website addresses once again taking applications for online neighborhoods breaking the ".com" mold.
SAP to buy Ariba, boosts cloud bet
(Reuters) - Top European software company SAP AG plans to buy U.S. software maker Ariba Inc in a deal valuing the company at $4.3 billion in a bid to compete more aggressively against rival Oracle in the fast-growing cloud computing market. SAP and Ariba, a darling of the first dotcom boom that has since reinvented itself as a major networking and online commerce software developer, have agreed to the acquisition at $45 a share, a 20 percent premium over Monday's closing price. ...
Follow the Kentucky and Arkansas Primaries on Social Media Mitt Romney still hasn't crossed the threshold to have locked up the Republican nomination for president, even though he's more than 800 delegates ahead of his nearest rival, Ron Paul. Thus, the primaries continue on. Tuesday night is election night in Kentucky and Arkansas -- and social media will be ablaze with tweets, twitpics and video from the night's voting action.
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