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Report: Facebook Looking to Buy Waze for $1 Billion

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Report: Facebook Looking to Buy Waze for $1 Billion
6:55:44 AMStan Schroeder
Facebook is considering buying GPS company Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, Israeli daily newspaper Calcalist reports. The talks are in an advanced stage, Calcalist claims. The two companies started talking started six months ago, due diligence is underway and a term sheet was signed. Waze, whose turn-by-turn navigation app uses crowdsourcing to gather real-time conditions on the road, has had 44 million users in April 2013.

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Net-a-Porter Looking to Expand Into Kids, Not Stores
5:54:22 AMLauren Indvik
Luxury e-commerce destination Net-a-Porter launched out of the London flat of founder Natalie Massenet in 2000, a time when few thought $1,000+ dresses and shoes could be sold online in any significant volume. It was the tail-end of the dot-com bubble, and Net-a-Porter survived its burst, turning a profit for the first time in 2004, and selling to Swiss luxury goods holding company Richemont at a value of $533 million in 2010.

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Tesla Reaches Profitability For the First Time
4:03:59 AMStan Schroeder
Tesla Motors had reached a really important milestone in Q1 2013 — for the first time in the company's ten-year long history, it turned a profit. Tesla's GAAP profit for the quarter was $11 million; sales were $562 million, up 83% from last quarter. The company sold 4,900 vehicles in Q1. It expects to sell more than 15,000 vehicles per year in the U.S. and more than 30,000 vehicles per year globally.

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Good.co Helps You Find Employers That Match Your Personality
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:59 PMSeth Fiegerman
Good.co lets you see how well your personality matches up with specific companies and employees so you end up at a place that's really the right fit for you.

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Huggies Device Sends You a Tweet When Your Baby Pees
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 5:00 PMTodd Wasserman
Since the first disposable diapers hit the market until now, parents haven't needed an electronic device to tell them when their baby has wet himself. Huggies Brazil is attempting to address this perceived need with TweetPee, a plastic device that attaches to a diaper and then tweets when your young one has urinated.

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Groupon Stock Jumps 15% After Beating Revenue Estimates
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:37 PMSeth Fiegerman
Groupon may not be out of the woods yet, but it did have a better-than-expected March quarter. The daily deals company reported earnings-per-share of .03 on revenue of $601 million for the quarter, matching Wall Street's consensus estimate for earnings and beating its estimate of $589 million in revenue. That's the first Groupon has come in ahead of Wall Street's revenue projections since the first quarter of 2012.

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RadioShack's Ad for Beats Pill Is Crazy Suggestive
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:01 PMTodd Wasserman
You don't usually expect this sort of ad from RadioShack, which is best known as the place to grab some nano batteries or an Ethernet cord. Perhaps the chain is trying to lure some younger customers to its stores.

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87% of Tech Startups Hiring This Year
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:48 PMSamantha Murphy
If you're in the market for a new job and can't seem to find any openings, you might want to consider applying to a tech startup company.

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Will Donald Trump Ruin Crowdfunding?
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:38 PMSeth Fiegerman
Donald Trump is getting into crowdfunding with a new website called FundAnything. Will that be a good or a bad thing for the industry?

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Oscar de la Renta, Paperless Post Release E-Stationery Collection
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:15 PMLauren Indvik
The Paperless Post has partnered with Oscar de la Renta to release a collection of digital and paper stationery, the second in a series of collaborations with fashion houses including Kate Spade. Paperless Post's in-house designers took inspiration from the runway, using fabric samples, embroideries and lace appliqués to inform the design of card stock, note paper and envelopes.

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The Top 10 YouTube Ads From April
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:56 AMClickZ
YouTube released its top 10 most-watched video ads of April. Leading the way with more than 44 million views is Evian's "Baby&Me / The New Evian Film."

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Here's Why You Should Never Set Out to Go Viral
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:22 AMChristine Erickson
It starts with a small, unsuspecting subject. The perfect human reaction captured in a photo. Some dance move a bored teenager invented in his bedroom. A political figure casually texting while waiting for her flight. Cats — lots and lots of cats. What do all of these things have in common? Absolutely nothing, unless someone made a parody of Hillary Clinton trying to impress McKayla Maroney with a video of a cat doing the Harlem Shake.

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T-Mobile Sells 500,000 iPhone 5s in Less Than a Month
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:34 AMSeth Fiegerman
T-Mobile may have been the last of the major carriers to get the iPhone, but it looks like there's still plenty of demand for it. The carrier revealed in its first quarter earnings report Wednesday that it has sold 500,000 iPhone 5's since the device went on sale April 12. On the day that the iPhone first went on sale, T-Mobile reported having lines out the door (a rare event for the carrier).

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10 Hot Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, New York and More
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:16 AMElisha Hartwig
Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level. Since 2005, Mashable has been committed to bringing the top digital, social and tech news and resources to our readers. Over time, we've built a readership of 20 million people who are well versed in digital trends, social media and all the hottest technologies.

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The Most Popular Branded Boards on Pinterest
Wednesday, May 08, 2013 8:54 AMLauren Indvik
Although the vast majority of brand engagement on Pinterest is user-generated, many branded accounts have achieved an impressive reach of their own. Social media-benchmarking company Unmetric took a look at 5,000 branded Pinterest boards in mid-March to assess which boards generated the most engagement in terms of followers, comments, likes and repins.

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