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Fab.com Ditches Google+ in Favor of Pinterest

Fab.com, the shopping Web site that raised $40 million late last year in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, has revamped its site to highlight more social features, including the ability to filter its live shopping feed by category, buy straight from the feed, and see what Facebook friends are buying. Fab has also removed its Google+ button in favor of a Pinterest pin. The company claims four million members in the 10 months since its launch.

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Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens

Apple Inc., which is expected to launch its next-generation iPhone later this year, has ordered screens from its Asian suppliers that are bigger than the ones used in iPhones since they debuted in 2007, people familiar with the situation said.

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Facebook Bumps Up Amount of IPO Shares Offered By 25 Percent

Facebook is bumping up the number of shares in its initial public offering by nearly 25 percent, pushing the total amount to more than 420 million shares. The increase means the company may end up raising $16 billion on Friday.

In the Race to Win Social Video, Is One App Gaming the System Too Much?

As mobile social video apps skyrocket toward the top of the app store, some are going for the gold by any means necessary.
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China Mobile Confirms Talks with Apple on iPhone

The comments, made at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday, follow what sources say was a meeting earlier this year between China Mobile and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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Facebook Is Still Figuring It Out. Will Advertisers and Investors Wait Around?

“Advertisers are learning and experimenting” with Facebook’s ad business, says Facebook itself. GM’s move shows the downside of making it up as you go.
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Microsoft Gives Windows a Clean Sweep

Microsoft’s “Signature” PCs are streamlined for a cleaner look and better performance.
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Trouble in Paradise: Jetsetter’s Founder and CEO Steps Down

Drew Patterson has stepped down as founder and CEO of Jetsetter, the high-end luxury discount sales travel site owned by Gilt Groupe.
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Quote-Saving App Banters to Shut Down; Founders Jump to Betaworks

After struggling to attract a significant user base over the past year, conversation-saving app Banters is closing up shop, co-founder Lauren Leto announced via company blog on Tuesday. Leto and partner Patrick Moberg had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the likes of Chris Dixon, Khosla Ventures and SV Angel. The two will join Betaworks — Leto as general manager of the firm’s Findings product and Moberg as a “hacker-in-residence.”

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