It's the day some Facebook employees have waited years for: Their paper wealth now has an official cash value, to the tune of $5.2 billion. FULL STORY

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Expectations for social gaming company Zynga were pretty low before their third quarter earnings report Thursday. But sales topped forecasts, sending Zynga shares up more than 15% in after hours trading. FULL STORY

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It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online. FULL STORY

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European antitrust authorities moved a step closer Wednesday to issuing a hefty fine against Microsoft for failing to offer Windows users a choice of Internet browsers. FULL STORY

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Facebook's second earnings report as a public company came in just above Wall Street estimates, but that was enough for investors to give shares a nice boost. FULL STORY

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The full-sized iPad is like a hardback book. The new iPad Mini is the paperback version many tablet users have been waiting for. FULL STORY

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By now, you're probably aware that on Friday Microsoft is launching Windows 8: a touch-enabled, completely reimagined version of its nearly three-decade old PC operating system. FULL STORY

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Apple finally unveiled its worst-kept secret, the iPad Mini tablet, on Tuesday. The teeny device starts at $329, which leaves some breathing room for rivals' cheaper 7-inch devices. FULL STORY

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AT&T activated about 1.3 million iPhone 5s last quarter, double Verizon's totals. FULL STORY

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Barnes & Noble said Wednesday that a data breach at 63 of its stores may have compromised the credit card information of its customers. FULL STORY

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You've probably heard the story of Goldilocks and the three tech-savvy bears. Goldi is wandering through the forest when she comes to a house and enters, unannounced, in search of a mobile device to pass the time. FULL STORY

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Netflix shares plunged more than 16% in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company offered weak guidance for the fourth quarter and reported figures for new streaming subscriptions that fell well short of expectations. FULL STORY

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Zynga laid off 5% of its employees from multiple offices Tuesday. FULL STORY

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Apple on Tuesday unveiled a smaller iPad, dubbed the iPad mini, at a highly anticipated event in San Jose, Calif. FULL STORY

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Facebook's second earnings report as a public company comes out late Tuesday, and the social network is under pressure to prove it can make more money on its 1 billion users. FULL STORY

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An outage of one of Amazon's cloud computing data centers knocked out popular sites like Reddit, Foursquare Pinterest and TMZ for some users on Monday. FULL STORY

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Monday night's third and final presidential debate was a bittersweet occasion for the Twittersphere. The previous two presidential debates, and one equally entertaining vice presidential debate, have provided rich material for the wits of Twitter. Their rapid-fire commentary turned what could have been dry television i… FULL STORY

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has now been on the job for exactly three months -- and while the company is still struggling, its third-quarter results were better than expected. FULL STORY

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the latest federal agency to drop BlackBerry smart phones for its employees, adding to the woes of maker Research in Motion. FULL STORY

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Musician Peter Gabriel wants people to recreate scenes from "Sledgehammer," his popular 1986 stop-motion music video that MTV tells Mashable is one of the most-played clips ever on the TV network. FULL STORY

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Facebook's European chief is quitting the social media giant to spearhead London's efforts to compete as a world leader in technology start-ups. FULL STORY

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Facebook's second earnings report as a public company lands Tuesday, but an even bigger milestone looms later in the week: On Thursday, many of its employees will officially become millionaires. FULL STORY

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Should search engines like Google have to pay publishers like newspapers for linking to their content? France says yes, Google says no -- and it's prepared to go nuclear on the issue. FULL STORY

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For all of its radically redesigned features -- and in part because of them -- Microsoft's Windows 8 won't be an instant success. FULL STORY

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During election season, phones across the country ring with more unsolicited, automated calls than usual. So it's especially timely that on Thursday the U.S. Federal Trade Commission held a Robocall Summit to "explore innovations designed to trace robocalls, prevent wrongdoers from faking caller ID data, and stop unwan… FULL STORY

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History, we are told, is immutable. What has happened cannot be changed and, when lessons are not heeded, is doomed to repeat itself. FULL STORY

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Google laid out the next step of its Chromebook effort on Thursday by introducing a thin, light, Samsung-built laptop attached to a killer number ? $250. FULL STORY

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Neuroscience may not be for everyone. But Backyard Brains co-founder Greg Gage hopes to make it a little less intimidating and a lot more accessible. FULL STORY

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Hundreds of social media messages from around the world were received by CNN for Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani teen activist attacked last week by the Taliban in retaliation to her outspoken efforts to educate girls. FULL STORY

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The silliest thing I ever purchased on impulse through eBay was a signed photo of the late Jerry Orbach from NBC's "Law & Order." Which, I suppose, really isn't all that silly. FULL STORY

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Stuart Henshilwood is a South African father of two (and, in the interest of full disclosure, my former boss). FULL STORY

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On an historic autumn day in 2012, online warriors from both sides of the epic Apple-Samsung feud agreed to set aside their powerful smartphones and resolve their tensions, which had grown intolerable. What follows is the HTML version of their agreement, the Cupertino-Seoul Apple-Samsung Fanboy Treaty. FULL STORY

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CNN's Web and mobile users can use a new tool to follow the day's top stories as they're developing, even when that means going to other news sources for a broader perspective. FULL STORY

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In the crowded mobile payments space, a major player is about to make a long-awaited debut. FULL STORY

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As Microsoft prepares to launch Windows 8 -- a product it hopes will be transformative -- the company posted financial results on Thursday showing that its sales are treading water. FULL STORY

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Google accidentally announced its third-quarter earnings about four hours early, and it wasn't good news. FULL STORY

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Chipmaker AMD announced Thursday that it was cutting 15% of its workforce, with declining PC sales sending its revenues sinking. FULL STORY

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Verizon sold 3.1 million iPhones last quarter, only 651,000 of which were the new iPhone 5. FULL STORY

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Bras can do miraculous things these days (thank you underwire). But can they detect cancer? FULL STORY

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Facebook knows more about you than any company in history. FULL STORY

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AOL, struggling to shed its outdated image, is reimagining one of the most visibly aging parts of its platform: Its email service. FULL STORY

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Forget serious discussion about the future of America. On social media -- from the snark-centric world of Twitter to the picture's-worth-1,000-insults pages of Tumblr -- it's an ill-timed slip of the tongue that fires folks' political passions. FULL STORY

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To cash in on a pithy election sound bite, you have to move fast. The domain name bindersfullofwomen.com was snapped up less than two minutes after the instantly viral phrase left Mitt Romney's mouth on Tuesday night. FULL STORY

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At the end of Tuesday night's presidential debate, CNN's Candy Crowley asked both candidates a question that has plagued Apple since the beginning of the year. FULL STORY

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One of the worst-kept secrets in tech has been confirmed: Apple will hold an event October 23 in San Jose, California, at which the company is widely expected to unveil a smaller, cheaper version of its popular iPad. FULL STORY

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