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  • IPO

    Trending Tech: Facebook IPO Special Edition

    Facebook went public with its landmark IPO. With shares set at $38 apiece, Facebook Inc. is valued at more than $100 billion. With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site. The growth of Facebook has led to the rise...

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  • May11

    Trending Tech: Facebook’s IPO, Google-Oracle legal battle & Microsoft’s green initiative

    Facebook is on a road trip to woo investors for its IPO, Yahoo is in deep-trouble with its CEO’s resume flap and Microsoft goes green with carbon neutral data centers. In other news, AOL gives away proceeds from patent sale to shareholders, Google goes for...

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    3 PR Intern Tips for Learning the Ropes in a Brand New World

    PR was always my dream. When I was in high school, I worked part-time doing promotions for unsigned bands (which is a fancy way of saying that I sold CDs, handed out fliers and enthusiastically tried to promote the band on sidewalks). In college I...

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    Trending Tech: eBook market, acquisitions and IPO

    Microsoft investing in Barnes & Noble’s Nook platform and Target’s announcement that it will stop carrying the Amazon Kindle will no doubt impact the ebook market. In acquisition news, IBM purchased Tealeaf Technology, LinkedIn acquired SlideShare and Cisco purchased Truviso. 10. Yelp down 8.5% even...

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  • april27

    Trending Tech: Shutterfly’s Kodak moment and Apple, the most valuable company

    There is never a dull moment in the tech world. Apple shows a 94 percent profit making it the most valuable company while Nintendo sees its first-ever annual loss. In other news, Facebook buys patents from Microsoft which originally belonged to AOL, Shutterfly acquires a...

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  • April 20

    Trending Tech: Lawsuits and boom in enterprise IPOs

    Lawsuits trending in tech world with Google-Oracle feud in the headlines, Sprint-Nextel slammed with tax fraud lawsuit and Apple-Samsung in settlement talks over their patent infringement battle. Yahoo is axing stagnant units in a turnaround effort and Nokia’s stocks hit a 15-year low. 10. RIM:...

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  • Capture13

    Trending Tech:Billion dollar purchases, stock split and company revival strategies

    Facebook and Microsoft are shelling out billions of dollars making big purchases this week. Facebook hit the headlines with its big Instagram purchase and AOL made more than $1 billion by selling patents to Microsoft. In other news, Apple was sued by the U.S over...

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    Trending Tech: Layoffs, lawsuits and mergers

    Yahoo sinks into trouble as Facebook countersues the aging internet giant with patent infringement and CEO calls for mass layoffs in a turnaround effort. It’s a week of woes in the tech world with RIM facing a lawsuit over patent infringement and Viacom’s lawsuit against...

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    Trending Tech: Apple strengthens ties with China, RIM in trouble and smartphone market booming

    Apple’s China headache continues to get headlines. In smartphone news, Nokia introduces Lumia 800C to the Chinese market and Samsung ships 5 million Galaxy Notes in 5 months and RIM contemplates the acquisition path. 10. BlackBerry maker RIM posts big quarterly loss; announces high-level departures...

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    Fueling Seattleites: Free Coffee and Motorola Devices

    If you made your way to 2nd Ave. and James St. on Friday, March 16, you would have been greeted by a team of very enthusiastic, extremely caffeinated members of the Weber Shandwick Seattle Motorola Mobility team. As part of Motorola Mobility’s “Business Ready” initiative,...

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