When the Department of Justice shut down Megaupload.com last month, it wasn't just Megaupload users' files that went offline. FULL STORY

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The iPhone may be great for consumers, but takes a nasty toll on wireless carriers' bottom line. FULL STORY

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Facebook's upcoming IPO will make founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire -- but it will also stick him with an eye-popping tax bill that could reach as high as $2 billion. FULL STORY

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Four longtime Yahoo board members, including the chairman, are leaving the company. FULL STORY

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Best Buy wants to know if you'd pay $1,499 for a 42-inch, high-definition Apple TV which uses your iPad or iPhone as a remote control. FULL STORY

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Pinterest is the breakout social network of 2012, but even technology addicts could be excused for missing its rise to success. FULL STORY

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Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. FULL STORY

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Verizon and DVD kiosk company Redbox said Monday that they're teaming up on a streaming video partnership, a move that puts Netflix squarely in their crosshairs. FULL STORY

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The Nasdaq is at its highest level since the end of 2000. Highly speculative companies like Netflix and Zynga are soaring, and investors are salivating about possibly paying 100 times earnings for Facebook when it goes public. FULL STORY

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Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow was involved in the big game in Indianapolis, where he helped his team perform another miraculous comeback in the fourth quarter with time running out. FULL STORY

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On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg break down what Facebook's $5 billion initial public offering reveals about the site. FULL STORY

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When the Giants and Patriots take the field on Sunday in Indianapolis, they won't be doing battle in soft leather helmets with no face masks. And there definitely won't be some kid on the sideline ladling out water from a tin bucket to quench their thirst after a big play. FULL STORY

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Micron CEO and chairman Steve Appleton died Friday morning in a small-plane crash in Boise. FULL STORY

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Some U.S. officials this year are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified government documents over cellular networks, according to people involved in the project. FULL STORY

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Facebook users receive more comments, messages and likes -- the hugs and high-fives of social networking -- than they give, according to a new study. FULL STORY

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Facebook has finally filed for an IPO, but it likely won't start trading for months. For those who can't wait to gamble on the stock market, bookies are accepting bets. FULL STORY

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App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! FULL STORY

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In a letter to investors included in Facebook's IPO filing, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined his philosophy for running what has become a multi-billion-dollar business. At core of that philosophy: Love your hackers. FULL STORY

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Facebook has finally filed to raise $5 billion through a public offering. But it hardly needs the cash: The company already has almost $4 billion stashed in its piggy bank. FULL STORY

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Facebook is a great company. It proved that in its IPO filing. A billion dollar annual profit and $3.9 billion in cash for something that didn't even exist 10 years ago? That's impressive. FULL STORY

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At long last, the Holy Grail of Internet IPOs is here. Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. FULL STORY

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CNNMoney looks at the people who make up the biggest investors in Facebook. FULL VIDEO

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At age 27, Mark Zuckerberg is about to officially become a paper billionaire. FULL STORY

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Like a good friend, Facebook says it doesn't want to invade our privacy or hang out with folks who spend all their time looking at a cell phone. FULL STORY

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With Facebook's announcement Wednesday that it will become a publicly traded company, lots of folks were talking about it. FULL STORY

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Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. Here is CEO Mark Zuckerberg's letter to potential investors. FULL STORY

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AOL's decay is slowing. But is "less bad" good enough to count as a turnaround? FULL STORY

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Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing is imminent, according to several news reports. FULL STORY

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Amazon's fourth-quarter sales results weren't awful, but investors went ahead and punished the stock severely anyway. FULL STORY

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Apple's ambition to improve the fidelity of music downloads has diminished since the death of founder Steve Jobs, according to singer-songwriter Neil Young. FULL STORY

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Twitter did not participate in the recent online "blackouts," in which Wikipedia and others made their websites inaccessible to U.S. visitors for a day, because it would have been counterproductive, the company's CEO said Monday night. FULL STORY

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Megaupload users have gotten at least a two-week reprieve during which the file-sharing company says it hopes their files and other stored data can be retrieved, not deleted. FULL STORY

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Last week, The New York Times gave us an inside look at what it's like to work at Foxconn, the manufacturing company that owns several China-based factories that crank out Apple's iPads, iPhones and iPods by the millions. FULL STORY

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A long list of tech IPOs captured attention in 2011, but no company has been drooled over like Facebook. And finally, its debut looks to be imminent. FULL STORY

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The ability to control a Windows desktop with a simple hand gesture could become reality sooner than we once thought. FULL STORY

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On this week's Tech Check podcast, writers Doug Gross, Stephanie Golberg and Mark Millian discuss Google's recent announcement of a new privacy policy -- and the concerns some folks have voiced about it. FULL STORY

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Seeking to blunt a sharp backlash to recent privacy policy changes, Google has offered to share "the real story" about a system that compiles information about users based on their activity on all of Google's sites and products. FULL STORY

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The controversial anti-piracy bills that attracted tens of millions of dollars of lobbying for and against the proposed laws ironically were killed by free publicity. FULL STORY

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Electric car battery maker Ener1 filed for bankruptcy Thursday, three years after receiving a $118.5 million grant from the U.S. government. FULL STORY

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FaceTime, the Apple video-chat application, is not a replacement for real human interaction, especially for children, according to a new study. FULL STORY

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AT&T handily beat Verizon in the battle for iPhone customers last quarter, but the company lost $6.7 billion in large part due to its failed merger with T-Mobile. FULL STORY

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For Heather Neroy, it used to be a tedious process: Whenever she came across an interesting arts-and-crafts project or recipe on the Internet, she would save it for later by copying the link, pasting it into an e-mail and sending it to herself. FULL STORY

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How does a company that collects so much information from its users keep all that data private? FULL STORY

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Hospitals are supposed to be the place where the sick get well. They can also be where the sick get sicker, thanks to the virulent bacteria and viruses that live there. FULL STORY

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