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* Facebook unveiled the "Subscribe" button that will allow its 750 million-plus active monthly users to better control what their friends share with them, including updates, photos, videos, and links. It  will also let users "subscribe" to public status updates from others much in the same way Twitter lets its users MORE

Today in Tech: Amazon's cheaper Kindle, iPhone 5 end of 2011?

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"It's ridiculous."
-- a Twitter investor on the social network's $7 billion-plus private-market valuation (Silicon Alley Insider)

A U.S. appeals court ruled today that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, must accept the $65 million settlement reached with Facebook in 2008. Wrote Chief Judge Alex Kozinski: "The Winklevosses are not the MORE

Today in Tech: AT&T buys T-Mobile, Android Kindle?

A curated selection of the weekend's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.

"We learned that you can't rely on anyone else to control and maintain your own brand."
-- Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on its controversial Super Bowl ad. (Ad Age)

AT&T plans to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion, a deal that would make the former the largest mobile MORE

Today in Tech: Microsoft's exec shake-up, Groupon's Tibet ad

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is planning even more executive management changes at the Redmond-based software giant to add senior product executives with an engineering background and with experience executing product plans. So far, four top execs have left the company since May, including 23- year company veteran Bob Muglia. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
After temporarily halting shipments of its Sandy MORE

Today in Tech: Yahoo layoffs today, Verizon iPhone, Windows 8

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

Seems TechCrunch's report late last week regarding early Yahoo layoffs may have been premature and inaccurate. (See below.) According to All Things D, the layoffs at the Internet company actually start today, with many, but not necessarily all, of the 650 to 700 cuts coming from Yahoo's product division. (AllThingsD)
Microsoft may announce several tablet PCs from MORE

Today in Tech: Google, Groupon, and Motorola

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.

"Google doesn't understand the commercial business. ... They've been in the enterprise e-mail and collaboration space for four years and they have less than 1% of the enterprise e-mail market after four years." -- Tom Rizzo, MORE

iPad use grows over time

Among tablet owners, it's their favorite Web browser, according to a new survey

The 500 or so Apple (AAPL) iPad owners who responded to Business Insider's survey last week were self-selected, so they're not what you would call a scientific sample. But their answers, posted Saturday, are instructive. Among the results that caught our eye:

77.6% say they use their iPad more now than when they first got it. Nearly 85% are MORE

Apple TV tops Amazon's wish list

In fact, the three most-wished-for gadgets in its electronics category are Apple products

Business Insider's Dan Frommer made a big deal Wednesday evening about the fact that Apple TV doesn't appear on Amazon's (AMZN) list of its top 100 best-selling gadgets. (See Is There A Secret Reason That Apple TV Is Being Kept Off Of Amazon's Best-Selling Gadgets List?)

Even more surprising, to me, is the absence of the iPad, especially given MORE

Airport security loves MacBook Air

The 11-inch model can stay in your bag and sail through checkpoints (but not the 13-inch)

Here's another reason to like Apple's (AAPL) new entry-level 11.6-inch MacBook Air -- besides the 5-hour battery life (30-days standby), relatively cool operating temperature, nearly instant-on flash memory, 2.3-pound avoirdupois and $999 price tag:

You can take it through U.S. airport security checkpoints without removing it from your bag.

Based solely on its diminutive dimensions, the Transportation MORE

One in three iPad owners has never downloaded a single app - Not

Sixty three percent are male, well-connected early adopters, according to Nielsen

UPDATE: Nielsen takes it all back. The percentage of iPad owners who have never downloaded an app is 9%, not 32%, according to their revised press release. Kinda takes the steam out of the post. Their new, corrected chart at right. For howls of outrage that Nielsen could have led the London tabloid press astray, see here.

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