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Facebook to Set Final IPO Price Later Today (CNN Money)
Facebook’s long road to an initial public offering is coming to an end. Late Thursday, it will fill in one last piece of the puzzle: Its final IPO price. Mashable On Wednesday, Facebook announced that an extra 84 million shares will be added to its stock pool for sale. The extra shares will come entirely from insiders and early investors, according to the AP. Reuters But investors who want Facebook shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week may have lost the opportunity. TD Ameritrade and Fidelity’s brokerage arm both stopped accepting orders of Facebook shares as of Tuesday evening, according to representatives for each of the companies. CNET Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is simultaneously becoming one of the richer and more reviled people around, wants to set the record straight. Saverin, who is now a citizen of Singapore after renouncing his U.S. citizenship, said his decision has nothing to do with taxes. Forbes All eyes are on Facebook this week in the lead-up to the social network’s initial public offering, but Google did all it could to steal back a little bit of glory on Wednesday. One of the biggest pieces of news was the search company’s addition of “Knowledge Graph” to its core product, a way to find answers without ever clicking a link and leaving the search results page. Read more

The great conundrum of online privacy – that consumers say they’re worried about online privacy yet readily join social networks and freely release their personal data on the Web – has hit the corporate world, just as the threat of data breach for corporations is more dangerous than ever. So just who, or what, is the biggest threat to corporate security?

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With the tremendous rise in the popularity of smart phones, they have also become a prime target for cyber criminals. According to McAfee, the malware attacks on smart phones and other mobile devices connected to internet rose by 46 percent in 2010 to 967 threats, compared to 704 threats that McAfee registered on mobile devices in 2009.

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McAfee has peered into its crystal ball for security threats in the New Year, and if you’re a fan of Android, iPhone, Foursquare, Google TV, or Twitter, look out.

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Web 2.0 applications such as social media sites and content sharing tools scare businesses, distract employees and cost them millions of dollars. That’s the topline of a new study from computer anti-virus giant McAfee that found 50 percent of businesses cite security as their primary concern for Web 2.0. The survey also found, however, that business executives see Web 2.0 as a way to boost productivity and create new revenue streams. And so, the debate continues, what is the role of social media and technology in the workplace?

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Feeling risky? Go ahead, type Cameron Diaz or Julia Roberts in your Internet search browser, says computer security firm McAfee Inc.

Those two starlets top the company’s annual list of the 10 most dangerous celebrities to search for on the Web.

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