- What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case
Lawyers tried to ruin Mark Zuckerberg's big day with a sprawling lawsuit that portrays the Facebook founder as a rogue hacker, and accuses the company of tracking users on their computers and iPhones. We have a plain english Q&A.
- Facebook gets a reality check on IPO day
Once protected by the hype bubble, Facebook is getting a hard lesson in the realities of the public markets. Despite the massive build-up to its IPO today, the market response has been more tepid than expected.
- A kinder, gentler DRM?
With Pottermore.com now using watermarking instead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) hopes to create an industry standard for "lightweight content protection," occupying "a middle ground between strong DRM and DRM-free."
- PRO: Flash analysis: Facebook?s post-IPO prospects
Facebook just had the biggest initial public offering in tech history. During the week leading up to it, we tapped into the GigaOM readership to see what they thought of the social network giant?s prospects for the next two to five years. Here are the results.
- Facebook buys Karma app
Newly public Facebook says it is buying Karma, a mobile social gifting app. The news was released via Karma's blog. The deal terms were not announced. Facebook plans to keep the service alive. A Facebook spokesperson says it is an acquisition & not an acquhire.
- The unsexy side of big data: 5 tools to manage your Hadoop cluster
It's neither easy nor glamorous -- data scientists get all the love -- but making sure your Hadoop cluster is properly configured and applications are running optimally is necessary, especially as applications move into production. Here are five tools to help you do it.
- Foursquare gears up to make money with new revenue chief
Foursquare is getting its revenue story in order and announced it has hired Steven Rosenblatt, the former director of advertising sales and strategy at Apple's iAd. Rosenblatt will serve as Foursquare's chief revenue officer and will lead the company's new ad products coming out this summer.
- Will security issues hamper ZTE?s phone efforts in the U.S.?
A security hole was found in the ZTE Score, a handset model sold on both by Metro PCS and Cricket in the U.S. The breach appears to be a "backdoor" put in by ZTE, which is already under U.S. scrutiny as a China-based company.
- Dish: Sure, we?ll build LTE, just give us four years
Dish Network has taken possession of it?s 4G spectrum and it?s ready to deliver its competitive mobile broadband network ? in 2016. In a filing with the FCC, Dish basically asked the FCC for the granddaddy of all extensions for turning in its LTE homework assignments.
- A $5 app turns Android tablets into a second monitor for Mac or PC
Apple iPad owners have the $10 AirDisplay app to use their tablet as a second monitor for their Mac, but Android owners aren't left out in the cold. Mobile app developer Shape offers a similar program for $5 that works with both Macs and Windows PCs. 
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