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Groupon's Accounting Lingo Gets Scrutiny
Groupon has attracted scrutiny from regulators over a newfangled accounting metric it is using to market itself to investors ahead of its IPO.

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Sony Slides to Loss, Cuts Guidance
Sony said it slipped to a net loss in its fiscal first quarter, squeezed by the impact of the March 11 disasters, and lowered its earnings forecast for the fiscal year, citing weak sales of televisions as well as the yen's strength versus the euro.
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Alcatel Tumbles as Results Disappoint
Shares in Alcatel-Lucent plunged as the group posted yet another set of mixed results, despite confirming its full-year targets.
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Toshiba Profit Rises
Toshiba's profit rose slightly, as lower restructuring costs and solid energy-saving appliance sales in Japan lessened the sting that the March 11 disaster had on its operations.
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TSMC Posts 11% Profit Drop
TSMC, the world's largest contract chip manufacturer by revenue, cut its capital spending plan and its capacity expansion target after reporting an 11% drop in its second-quarter net profit due to weakening global demand.
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Juniper Sends Grim Signal
Juniper Networks offered some new clues that the U.S. economy is stalling, warning of slowing sales growth that sent its stock plunging 21% in trading Wednesday.
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Missteps Slow Motorola
Motorola Mobility pulled itself out of a deep dive last year by turning out some of the first real competitors to the iPhone, but missteps have handicapped the company this year amid a growing battle with formidable Asian giants.
- Mobile Tech Watch
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LightSquared Bid Stirs FAA Worry
The LightSquared proposal for a high-speed wireless network would "severely impact" the nation's evolving aviation navigation system, according to a new FAA assessment.
Google's Growth Causes Unease in Mountain View
Mountain View is pushing back against Google as the company expands its physical footprint.
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Russia Investigates Web Security Amid Data Leaks
Russia's fast-growing Internet has been hit with its first big brouhaha over privacy, as a wave of sensitive data have been turning up in Web searches.
Study Sees No Cellphone-Cancer Ties
A European study involving nearly 1,000 participants has found no link between cellular-phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents, a group that may be particularly sensitive to phone emissions.
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Microsoft Releases Mango Update
Microsoft stepped up its battle for a share of the smartphone market by releasing the Mango update for its Windows Phone operating system.
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Alleged Hacker Spokesman Arrested
U.K. police arrested an 18-year-old man linked to online activists groups Anonymous and LulzSec, bringing the total number of arrests related to the groups by British police to nine people.
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Blackstone in Talks for Emdeon
Private-equity firm Blackstone Group is in advanced discussions to buy Emdeon, a provider of software and technology services to the health-care industry, for more than $3 billion including debt.
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Moody's Downgrades Nokia
Moody's downgraded Nokia's debt rating two notches, heaping more pressure on the troubled handset maker as it struggles to regain traction in the lucrative smartphone business.
- digits: More Woes for Nokia
- Tech Europe: Cash Pile Perks Up Investors
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Amazon's Growth Is Costly
Amazon is getting even bigger at a staggering—and costly—rate. The company reported that its second-quarter revenue jumped 51% to $9.9 billion, but the increased sales came at a high cost, as the company spends to add warehouses and digital offerings
- Markets Hub: Amazon Shares Jump on Results
- Cloud Watch
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Fox TV Shows Get Pay Wall
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Wal-Mart Offers Video Streaming
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Electronic Arts' Net Jumps
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LG Electronics Net Plunges 87%
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Bryant to Become Intel Chairman
Adlens Sees Future in Adjustable Lens Technology
HCL Says Cooperating With Police in News Corp Probe
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Losing Ground, BlackBerry Resets
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AOL Reshuffles Management
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Smartphone Demand Lifts ARM
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SAP Guidance Lifts Shares
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RadioShack, Verizon Wireless to Partner
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Kodak Loss Widens on Silver Costs
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Business Presses for More Work Visas
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Baidu Profit Jumps on Customer Growth
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Netflix Warns Price Rise Will Clip Growth
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HTC Discusses Innovation Chief's Resignation
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TV Promotions Irked Justice Department
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Booksellers Alter App Sales
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Microsoft Vet Departs for Juniper in Reshuffling
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Texas Instruments Says Supply Chain Mending
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Citadel Again Presses E*Trade
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Copycat Apple Store Prompts Investigation
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Airbnb Fetches $1 Billion Value
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Canon Posts 20% Fall in Net Profit
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Patni Computer Profit Falls Nearly 93%
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India to Announce New Telecom Policy by October
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France Télécom to Bid Adieu to Minitel
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Shanda Games Is Shopping
President of Sharp Pushes Solar Power
Kobo, WSJ Halt Direct Sales on Apple-Device Apps
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Rising Phone Tide Lifts Apple
Facebook Is Fun for Recruiters, Too
Google Bows to Web Rivals
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E*Trade Taps Morgan Stanley to Review Strategic Options
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Verizon Calls Up New CEO
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Chinese Executive Is Sentenced in Bribery Case
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Microsoft's Office Still Sells
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Winklevoss Suit Against Facebook Founder Falls Flat
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Apple Explores Hulu Bid
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Xerox Registers Profit, Lifts Forecast
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CEO Hunt at AMD Drags On
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Icahn Pushes on Patents
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Currency Clients Get High-Tech Tools
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AT&T;'s Profit Declines, but iPhones Hold Steady
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Shrinking Demand Hits TomTom
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Nokia Pulls In Royalties
Bringing PCs Into Tablet Era
Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms
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Yahoo Japan's Net Profit Rises
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Hackers Claim NATO Breach
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Vodafone's Revenues Rise 3.5%
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FCC Stops Clock on AT&T; Merger
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LG Display's Net Plunges 96%
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India Body Proposes Optical Fiber Network
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Acer to Buy Cloud-Tech Firm
New Benefits of Booking Late
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Ericsson's Profits Disappoint
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Zillow Shares Surge After IPO
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Google in Talks to Scoop Up Patents
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Lenovo Unveils Tablets
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Kodak Could Sell Digital Patents
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PayPal Unit Fuels eBay Results

Digits Live Show: Fox Shows Walled Off; Nokia Downgraded
Also: Nick Wingfield explains how EA's taking into account holiday sales boosted the videogame maker's earnings
Feds on Whether They Can Track Your Phone: We'll 'Get Back to You'
The Director of National Intelligence says it's “difficult to answer” whether the government has the right to track Americans' location through cellphones for intelligence purposes.
'Anonymous' Hackers Go Old School With PayPal Boycott
Anonymous, a group famous for its computer attacks, is now asking followers to participate in an old-fashioned boycott of PayPal.
Tech Today: Amazon's Revenue, Spending Jump
At yesterday's earnings meeting, Amazon refused, yet again, to reveal the numbers behind its best-selling Kindle e-reader.
Digits Live Show: Netflix, Amazon, & Zynga's Push into China
Netflix investors react to the company's near-term growth warning.
Study: Shopping on the Tablet Proves Popular
NSA Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans
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Demand for Luxury Cars Accelerates
Luxury car dealers in Silicon Valley are reporting a strong pickup in business amid a resurgence in the tech industry.

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Google+ Grabs 20 Million Users
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For Apple, a $76 Billion Dilemma
Firms Seek Ways to Boost Cell Traffic
A Tablet Laptop Die-Hards Would Love
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Is Facebook Worth $100 Billion?
Tractor, Laptop: Family Farm Tools
Going in Google+ Circles
MicroKit Simplifies Infectious-Disease Detection

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Tips on How to Use Apple's Lion

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Monitoring Kids on Facebook

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Monitoring Kids on Facebook
Parents fret all the time about protecting their kids on Facebook. Walt Mossberg tests a service that strikes a good balance between a parent's peace of mind and a teen's sense of freedom.
- Video: Walt Mossberg Reviews ZoneAlarm SocialGuard
- Mossberg's Mailbox: Lion With Office
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Tips on How to Use Apple's Lion
Katherine Boehret offers some tips and shortcuts to making the most of Apple's new operating system.
- digits: Tips for Taming Apple's Lion OS
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Playing on a Tablet as Therapy
Multitouch technology—which turned smartphones, iPads and other tablet computers into consumer sensations—has a new function: as physical and social therapy.
- Video: Multitouch Therapy for Autistic Kids
First Glimpse of Apple's Plans for Grand Central Terminal
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials offered a glimpse Monday morning at the Apple store proposed for the train station's main concourse.
2011: A Wireless Hi-Fi Odyssey
Ditch the dock and cut the cord. It's never been easier to untether your music and spread those tunes around your home.
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Simple Passwords Open Door to Hackers
The phone-hacking scandal at News Corp exposes how vulnerable phones remain to illegal snooping, partly because of easy-to-guess passwords.
- Insecure Numbers Underpin Voice-Mail Hacking

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Excitement and Innovation at All Things Digital Conference
The ninth annual D: All Things Digital Conference was packed with insight, innovation and, most of all, optimism and excitement.
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Police to Use Device for Face Recognition
Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. are about to adopt controversial hand-held facial-recognition devices—raising fundamental questions about privacy and civil liberties.
- Digits: Is Iris Recognition the New Fingerprinting?
- How the Device Works | Video
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Tech Giants Defend Privacy Practices
Google, Apple and Facebook defended their privacy practices to lawmakers considering how to update privacy laws to include more protections for Internet users.
- Marketing to Children Gets Tougher
Leadership: Information Technology
Want to Use Your iPhone for Work?
The smartest companies are letting employees use their personal gadgets to do their jobs. It's an arrangement that can benefit both sides but has pitfalls, too. Here's how some businesses are making it work.
- Vote: Use your work devices for personal tasks?
- Running Battle Against Alien Technologies
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Top 10 Life-Changing Apps
From a handy way to store a range of passwords to an application that will help keep track of ongoing alcohol consumption, The Wall Street Journal Europe presents 10 apps you can't live without.
Pinning Down the Cloud
It's been likened to the Industrial Revolution in terms of its potential to change lives. But just what is cloud computing and how can companies turn it to their advantage?
- Read the full report.