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Best in Blogs: Facebook IPO - Groundhog Day for the Internet Bubble?
The rumors are true. Before Watchmen is a "great movie." LOL - actually, what we meant to say was: Facebook is going public! "The day that technology watchers have salivated over for more than a year finally arrived on Wednesday," says The Wrap. "The wait is over: Facebook has just filed for its IPO," says TechCrunch. "Facebook is looking to raise $5 billion - and will mint hundreds (perhaps even thousands) of employees as millionaires in the process." Get ready for a crazy high-tech ride in 2012. Hang on to your hats and your personal data. "This is being viewed as the much-awaited catalyst for the technology industry and is expected to set off a flurry of activity," writes the guy who writes GigaOM. "I have been here long enough to cover the IPOs of both Netscape and Google," he brags, "and on both occasions, the tailgate effect was enough to pull even the clunkers (read: marginal startups) to the proverbial finish line." (The only question now is: dude, what's the "proverbial finish line?" Insolvency?)
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Making Sense of Megaupload
It reads like the plot to a spy novel: The US government dropped a nuclear bomb on "cyberlocker" site Megaupload, seizing its domain names, grabbing $50 million in assets, and getting New Zealand police to arrest four of the site's employees, including enigmatic founder Kim Dotcom (via Ars Technica).Shotguns, a Rolls Royce Phantom and millions of dollars were seized from properties linked to Megaupload, as the U.S. sought to extradite the file-sharing firm's founders reports The Guardian. It's a preview of what life would be like under the U.S. Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) blogs the Technology Liberation Front. "PIPA supporters have argued that worries about Internet censorship and user disruption are exaggerated and the bill's real goal is to target shadowy "rogue" sites that deal in counterfeit merchandise and pirated video downloads. With Megaupload, we found out just who the Feds thinks these rogue sites are." Um, right. Meanwhile, the hacker group Anonymous staged one of its largest attacks ever yesterday in retaliation. Gawker has the details of the absurdly lavish lifestyle of Kim Dotcom, while Fast Company gives us a rundown on his penchant for Playboy bunnies, russian nuclear vessels, and his private war on terror.
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