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FILE - In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif. Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. “Cocky” is the word used to describe him most often, after “billionaire.” He was Time's person of the year at 26. So when he takes Facebook public, why would he follow the Wall Street rules? The company is expected to file as early as Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 to sell stock on the open market in what will be the most talked-about initial public offering since Google in 2004, maybe since the go-go 1990s. Around the nation, regular investors and IPO watchers are anticipating some kind of twist - perhaps a provision for the 800 million users of Facebook, a company that promotes itself as all about personal connections, to get in on the action. (Marcio Jose Sanchez, File/AP Photo)

Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B

Facebook is friending Wall Street: The Internet social network is going public in a stock offering that could value it at up to $100 billion, eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard.

Technology HEADLINES

Personal use of GPS trackers growing fast

Published January 30th, 2012 - 3:14AM

Only yesterday it was the exotic stuff of spy shows: Flip on a computer and track the enemy’s speeding car.

Thin is in for tech gadgets at trade show

Published January 12th, 2012 - 9:39AM

LAS VEGAS — Thin, light laptops –known as “ultrabooks” – are a much-hyped category at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show, an annual showcase for the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other consumer-electronic devices.

Trade shows explore our future in technology and on the road

Published January 11th, 2012 - 8:46AM

LAS VEGAS — Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are showing off 55-inch TV sets that use organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, instead of plasma or liquid crystals.

Location-based ‘geo-fencing’ apps raise privacy concerns

Published January 8th, 2012 - 9:21AM

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Someone who is in a mall or near a favorite restaurant might get a message on their cellphone about a sale at a store or specials on the menu. Or they could be alerted that their child has left the school grounds.

Must-have money apps for you and your family

Published January 8th, 2012 - 7:56AM

These freebies help you keep tabs on your finances on the fly:

Going to the cloud

Published January 8th, 2012 - 7:55AM

LOS ANGELES — If you’ve ever had your laptop stolen, watched your toddler baptize your PC with Pepsi, or had your MacBook come to a cold, dead stop, you know that the digital memories we store on our home computers are anything but indelible.

Microsoft leaves major tech show

Published December 22nd, 2011 - 6:56AM

The technology industry’s biggest show-and-tell event, the Consumer Electronics Show, is losing its anchor company, Microsoft.

Tragedy strikes Virginia tech again

Published December 9th, 2011 - 12:05AM

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Google offers indoor maps for major buildings

Published November 29th, 2011 - 12:24PM

If you’ve ever been lost inside a gargantuan shopping mall, department store or airport, Google says it wants to help you find your way.

China reins in ‘rumor’ websites

Published October 10th, 2011 - 12:05AM

BEIJING – Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts in recent weeks to rein in the hugely popular microblogging sites that have become an alternative source of real-time news for millions while challenging the Communist Party’s traditional grip on information.

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