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Today in Tech: Mike Daisey responds to Apple backlash

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* Off-broadway performer Mike Daisey took to his blog in response to mounting criticism that he "partially fabricated" his observations of Foxconn iPad factories. "In the last forty-eight hours I have been equated with Stephen Glass, James Frey, and Greg Mortenson," he wrote.  "Given the tenor of the condemnation, you would MORE

Inside Facebook

How does the social media giant really work? Read this story before you buy the stock.

By Miguel Helft and Jessi Hempel

FORTUNE -- On a Friday morning not long ago, Mark Zuckerberg gathered his troops for a much-anticipated all-hands meeting at Facebook's brand-new headquarters. It was billed as a not-to-be-missed event. Employees who were traveling were encouraged to return to the mother ship, and those in New York, Dublin, Hyderabad, and other satellite MORE

The story behind "Inside Facebook"

Miguel Helft and Jessi Hempel's exclusive look into the inner workings of the social network is full of new revelations.

FORTUNE -- In eight years, the social network Mark Zuckerberg began coding in his Harvard dorm room has become a cyber institution with some 843 million users. Now, as Facebook readies to go public later this year, it is about to undergo the most dramatic change in its short history. Once it MORE

The Facebook IPO: Marketing, hypocrisy, and arrogance

The social media juggernaut's financial filing reveals some uncomfortable truths about Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

By Allan Sloan, senior editor-at-large

FORTUNE -- There's something to be said for being a fossil when it's time to look at a phenomenon like Facebook's pending stock offering. The medium is new, the numbers are high, the buzz is huge, but it's the same old story I've seen a million times in four decades of MORE

The problem with the founder's letter

Like Google and Groupon, Facebook's letter expressed a defiant idealism that -- eventually -- must confront the realities of business.

By Kevin Kelleher, contributors

FORTUNE – For Internet companies going public, the founder's letter is becoming a ritual with a purely symbolic value, a rite of passage into the adulthood of public markets. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started it when Google (GOOG) went public in 2004. Andrew Mason raised it to MORE

Today in Tech: How Facebook's IPO made one graffiti artist a millionaire

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* As speculated, Facebook filed an initial public offering yesterday. The social network, which now reports 845 million monthly active users and net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 billion, plans to raise $5 billion. Here's the letter from Mark Zuckerberg included with the S-1 Registration statement. (Fortune MORE

Why I have Facebook fatigue

With an IPO on the horizon and a record number of users, the social network has a lot going for it. Maybe too much for its own good.

FORTUNE -- When Facebook finally goes public it'll be a big moment for Silicon Valley, not only because it may be the biggest tech IPO ever but also because it will validate the social network's staggering growth to date. When I joined, it was MORE

Today in Tech: Mark Zuckerberg apologizes (again)

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* Facebook, which is inching closer to an IPO, reached a settlement with the FTC after the federal government accused the social networking champ of engaging in "unfair and deceptive" practices regarding privacy, including the act of making user information public without warning or consent. Facebook will now MORE

Transcript: Steve Jobs as Time's 2011 Person of the Year

Apple's late CEO would be the first dead man -- or woman -- to win the honor

Steve Jobs' name came up Tuesday -- it has many times since 1982 -- in a panel discussion organized by Time Magazine to help promote the 2011 Person of the Year.

Jobs was nominated by NBC's Brian Williams (see video here) and the proposal was seconded -- sort of -- by anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist MORE

Today in Tech: Will HP sell the webOS division?

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"People like to talk about war. ... Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook." -- Mark Zuckerberg on Charlie Rose (Business Insider)

* Besides appearing on Charlie Rose recently with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Zuckerberg also MORE