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In what has become a classic Ira Sohn address, David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital presented some interesting ideas, such as Amazon’s profitless revenues being a riddle, buying Apple to benefit from their sales to Chinese consumers (he suggested it could be a trillion dollar company), and the weak position of U.S. Steel...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/05/16/greenlights-david-einhorn-no-reason-why-apple-cant-hit-1-trillion/

If you haven’t heard, Facebook is going public this week, and judging by the recently-upped price range for its offering there is no shortage of interest in the social network’s shares...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/05/16/dont-sweat-missing-out-on-facebooks-splashy-ipo-and-dont-buy-it-friday/

Fab.com has been one of the fastest growing e-commerce startups--it's been called the fastest ecommerce company to 1 million users. One of the keys to its success has been its use of social features, as I noted in a recent story. Now it's adding a whole new set of social features...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/05/16/fab-com-turns-up-social-volume-again/

Groupon reported its earnings for Q1 2012, and has made an impressive comeback with record revenue and operating profit of nearly $40 million. Its revenue increased nearly 90% year-over-year as its gross billings more than doubled during the quarter...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/05/16/groupon-can-reach-14-with-a-focus-on-new-offerings/

If Aaron Sorkin had written a sequel to "The Social Network" that followed the Facebook saga all the way up through its IPO, what happened Tuesday would have been panned by critics as a melodramatic, contrived plot twist. Just days before the big event, with the whole world watching, one of the biggest advertisers on the planet yanks its $10 million Facebook budget, citing concerns about the site's fundamental value as a marketing platform...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/05/16/just-because-facebook-ads-dont-work-for-gm-doesnt-mean-they-dont-work/

A 23andMe user got quite a surprise when she went looking for relatives on the site. She discovered a full brother...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/05/16/dna-site-23andme-outed-parents-who-gave-their-first-baby-up-for-adoption/

Guest post written by Scott Weiss..

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/05/16/generation-gap-how-technology-has-changed-how-we-talk-about-work/

Guest post written by Jon Stein..

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/16/sell-apple-to-buy-facebook-or-how-about-a-nice-index-fund/

Guest post written by Sam Cece..

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/05/16/four-secrets-to-more-effective-e-mail-marketing/

Whereas once upon a time a celebrity lending his or her recognition to further a product was called a sell-out, today getting behind a product and using one’s fame to help it along is called entrepreneurship. And rightly so. The kind of active investment we’re seeing from celebrities like 50 Cent, Ashton Kutcher, Sean Combs and Leonardo DiCaprio is marked by market research, personal engagement in the product and an ownership stake. Sure, a lot of these glitzy moguls-in-the-making have business managers and research teams, but compare their entrepreneurial endeavors to what they could be doing – renting out their likenesses to underwear ads – and you’ve got to admit they are a little bit more engaged...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2012/05/16/celebrity-entrepreneurs-on-the-rise/

Guest post written by Craig Ochikubo..

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/05/16/near-field-communications-more-than-mobile-payments/

Activision Blizzard's Diablo III hit stores on Tuesday, and fans of the video game franchise have already made the release a monster hit. But some new owners are steaming about connectivity issues that made it impossible for them to try out their purchase, and wondering why a single-player game needs to go online in the first place...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2012/05/16/forbes-games-drm-slows-and-game-of-thrones-woes/

So the price of gold keeps falling, and it keeps falling despite the imminent failure of Greece's Euro membership, the looming collapse of Europe's banking system, and the fast-looming debt-ceiling repeat and fiscal cliff in the US...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/05/16/gold-erases-last-summers-gains-but-dont-count-it-out/

Since WikiLeaks first released its flood of classified State Department memos in December of 2010, the secret-spilling site's critics have been searching for evidence that Julian Assange's disregard for official secrecy would directly hurt some innocent bystander. On Wednesday, those critics seemed to have found their best evidence yet of that harm. Nevermind that the facts didn't agree with them...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/05/16/wikileaks-no-media-morons-we-didnt-help-iran-execute-an-israeli-spy/

Something extraordinary is happening in Sweden...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/05/16/meet-the-woman-behind-europes-lunchtime-dance-craze/

How a family in Provo built one of the fastest-growing, most profitable software firms no one has heard of apart from its fanatic customers...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0604/technology-software-qualtrics-ryan-smith-secret-in-utah.html

Bullish times for the Volcker Rule and activist shareholders. Sell CEO shenanigans...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0604/leaderboard-nfl-hedge-funds-google-buy-hold-sell.html

How a family in Provo built one of the fastest-growing, most profitable software firms no one has heard of apart from its fanatic customers...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0504/technology-software-qualtrics-ryan-smith-secret-in-utah.html

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After spending nothing but time on Facebook, I've attracted over 100K followers. After spending $40 million per year on its Facebook presence, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, General Motors has attracted just 378K fans to its primary page. While it does have dozens of other car-related Facebook pages which have also attracted 'likes,' that's fairly depressing and is perhaps part of the reason that the company wants to cut back on its Facebook spending...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/05/16/gm-kiss-off-screams-need-for-facebook-ads-that-follow-users-around-the-web/

All eyes are on Facebook this week in the lead-up to the social network's initial public offering, but one competitor did all it could to steal back a little bit of glory on Wednesday...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2012/05/16/google-upstages-facebook-ipo-with-search-and-android-page-brin-schmidt-make-1-billion/

This evening, my colleagues and I published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that established that the FDA is approves drugs faster than its counterparts in Europe and Canada. Based on a careful review of applications for novel therapeutic agents approved from 2001 through 2010, we found that the FDA was almost two months faster than the European Medicines Agency and Health Canada. Moreover, the majority of the agents that we evaluated were approved first in the United States...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/harlankrumholz/2012/05/16/the-fda-is-faster-now-lets-make-it-safer/

Researchers in the Department of Advanced Robotics (ADVR) at the Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa took their Hydraulic Quadruped (HyQ) robot out of the lab for some real world simulations on a 20 meter track...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2012/05/16/in-italy-a-quadruped-robot-takes-first-steps/

Has the time come to jump into Cisco Systems shares?..

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/16/cisco-time-to-bottom-fish/

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Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/05/16/facebooks-coming-at-100-billion-should-be-closer-to-82/

Global mobile phone sales to end users totaled 419.1 million units in the first quarter, according to market research firm Gartner, down 2% from the year-earlier quarter. Gartner notes that this is the first year-over-year decline since Q2 2009...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/16/global-mobile-phone-sales-fell-2-from-year-ago-gartner-says/

This article originally appeared in the June 4, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2012/05/16/change-agents-it-takes-two/

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The good news: CAPCOM is listening to gamer feedback about its on-disc DLC. The bad news: locked content is included on copies of Dragon's Dogma. CAPCOM has recently found itself at the center of some controversy regarding locked on-disc DLC ("downloadable" content) included in some of their recent titles. This anti-consumer practice continues ..

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/05/16/dragons-dogma-includes-locked-on-disc-content-but-capcom-is-listening/