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In a bit of a surprise move, BlackBerry announced this morning that it has given up on its effort to sell itself to a large investor, and that it will be replacing Thorsten Heins with former Sybase chief John Chen as interim CEO. From the official press release: “BlackBerry (Nasdaq: BBRY; TSX: BB), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today announced that it has entered into an agreement pursuant to which Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (“Fairfax”) and other institutional investors (collectively, the “Purchasers”) will invest in BlackBerry through a U.S. $1 billion private placement of convertible debentures. Fairfax has agreed to acquire U.S.$250 million principal amount of the Debentures. The transaction is expected to be completed within the next two weeks…." ...

Would it be nice to wish your friends on their weddings or engagements with just a single click, just like the current Birthday feature on Facebook? Now, the company released a new “Weddings and Celebrations” feature that will display special events, starting with weddings and engagements, along with friends’ birthdays. It works just like birthday feature which shows up in the top right side of page when you log in. ...

Facebook is rolling out an interesting new feature where it will allow you to edit your own comments with all viewable version history of it. If you made a mistake or want to make any changes to your comment on a post, you can now edit it instead of deleting and reposting a new comment. [Credit] When you edit a comment, you’ll see a note under your comment showing the time it was edited. Anyone who can see your comment can see this and click on the Edited link (highlighted in yellow below) to see what was changed. Facebook tells you how to do that. ...

Facebook filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on February 1, 2012. This highly anticipated IPO was overwhelmed with problems costing thousands of dollars to many small investors and further damaging Wall Street’s reputation. The following video report from The Wall Street Journal explains Facebook IPO debacle in simple English. The stock price was set at $38 each. Its estimated that retail investors may have lost approximately $630 million on Facebook stock since its debut. Trading in the stock, which began on May 18, was delayed that day due to technical problems with the NASDAQ exchange. The stock struggled to stay above the IPO price for most of the day, forcing underwriters to buy back shares to support the price. ...

This could be a record for the most comments on a single Facebook post! Until now, Matthews got around 1,001,291 responses to a single post. She and her 107 friends on Facebook set this new record. This woman told Fox40 that there are some wordy comments on the post, a lot of them consist of just the word ‘go’. If 107 of her friends participated in posting 1,001,291 comments – each person posted an average of 9357 times. The group submitted their post to the Guinness Book of World Records, but has yet to hear if they actually set the record. ...

If you’re looking to make some extra cash, you might want to try turning your efforts toward Craigslist’s local and free online classified ads. Craigslist has been around for a while, but it’s still a place that many people frequent. It’s a great place to meet people in your community for group activities or mutual interests, find or post a job, and buy or sell just about anything at all. If you use it correctly, you can find some great opportunities to earn some extra spending money. Start by signing up for a free account and finding your local page. There are Craigslist sites for hundreds of cities and regions across the country, so find the one or two closest to your location and get started. ...

For all those Facebook chat fans, here is a cool trick to insert your profile picture as emoticon inside chat windows. In fact, this trick works with any of the profile pictures, Facebook pages. This means you can insert Mark Zuckerberg’s face or even Jessica Alba’s picture while chatting with your friends. As shown in the above picture (leave those red rectangles), you can insert profile pictures of Facebook users and also pages inside chat windows. ...

A security flaw in Facebook has been discovered which may reveal your private photos. The world’s largest social networking website with an estimated 850 million users confirmed this bug and issued a statement that it has been fixed. The exploit allowed the hacker to dig into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page inside photos section and revealed some private photos. Before you try this how exactly it works, Facebook might have already fixed this bug. ...

What if Mark Zuckerberg deletes Facebook and kills himself? Nice Piece Productions have created hilarious parody trailer titled “The Social Network 2”. The trailer points how our society and life panics down if Facebook disappears suddenly?

“They just don’t get it” – That’s how Steve Jobs described his digital rivals Microsoft and Google in an interview with his biographer Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs: A Biography which is released today already in the number one place in Amazon’s charts (in all three Biography & History, Business, Technology categories). In CBSNews’ 60 Minutes interview with the author Walter Isaacson, he explains on what Steve Jobs told him before his death for the biography. The author conducted more than 40 taped interviews with Steve. ...