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China’s Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $1 billion in a long-awaited IPO likely to have ripple effects across the Internet. Tuesday’s filing sets the stage for the technology industry’s biggest initial public offering since short messaging service Twitter and its early investors collected $1.8 billion in its stock market debut last fall. Alibaba could still try to raise more money and even surpass the $16 billion that Facebook did two years ago, depending on investor demand for its stock. For now, Alibaba isn’t specifying how much stock will be sold in the IPO or setting a price range. Those details will emerge as the IPO progresses, a process is likely to take three to four months to complete before Alibaba s shares begin trading on the New York Stock…

An annual spring party in a Southern California beach town devolved into a riot last month when revelers turned violent, rocking cars, smashing windows and throwing rocks. Dozens were injured and about 50 people ended up in the hospital, including several police officers. Today, as authorities seek help with the investigation in Isla Vista, they’re employing a new online and mobile app that designers say was created specifically for this type of situation. “When the public really wants to catch these bad guys as badly as we do, this is the mechanism,” said Los Angeles Sheriff’s Cmdr. Scott Edson, who helped conceptualize the system in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. “They can help us by sending us pictures and video.” The innovation, known as LEEDIR, the Large Emergency…

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Facebook wants to increase its advertising and get more clicks on all kinds of ads. It believes tapping into the lucrative small business market will help it achieve those goals. Sheryl Sandberg, the social media company’s operating chief and “Lean In” author, says the key is showing business owners how to find new customers by creating Facebook pages and by buying ads that appear on individual Facebook users’ pages. The company plans a campaign called Facebook Fit with workshops in five cities to show small business owners the nuts and bolts of using Facebook as a marketing tool. “They don’t have enough customers. This is their No. 1 problem and we can help them solve it,” Sandberg said in an interview with The Associated Press. The small business market has…

Apple Inc is building a team of senior medical technology executives, raising hackles in the biotechnology community and offering a hint of what the iPhone maker may be planning for its widely expected iWatch and other wearable technology. Over the past year, Apple has snapped up at least half a dozen prominent experts in biomedicine, according to Linkedln profile changes. One prominent researcher moved two weeks ago, and Apple is recruiting other medical professionals and hardware experts, although the number of hires is not clear, said two people familiar with the hiring, who declined to be named. Much of the hiring is in sensor technology, an area Chief Executive Tim Cook singled out last year as primed “to explode.” Industry insiders say the moves telegraph a vision of monitoring everything…

Add hackers to the long list of things that give CEOs insomnia. Target’s chief executive, Gregg Steinhafel, is the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a theft of customer data. His exit from the helm of the nation’s third-largest retailer on Monday shows that - in addition to guiding company strategy and keeping Wall Street happy with ever-growing profits- today’s chief executives are being held responsible for lapses in computer security. Daniel Ives, an analyst for FBR Capital Markets, believes many CEOs will be placing calls to their chief information officers today, just to make sure their operations are as fortified as possible. “Ultimately, it’s the CIO and the IT managers that are really more in the weeds,” Ives says. “But just like the head…

Hewlett-Packard Co said it plans to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years to develop and offer cloud-computing products and services. The company said it will make its OpenStackbased public cloud services available in 20 data centers over the next 18 months. OpenStack, a cloud computing project that HP co-founded, provides a free and opensource cloud computing platform for public and private cloud services. “Customer challenges today extend beyond cloud. They include how to manage, control and scale applications in a hybrid environment that spans multiple technology approaches,” Martin Fink, executive vice president and chief technology officer, HP, said in a statement. HP last week inked a deal with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group to make servers aimed at companies that provide cloud computing services. Cloud…

FORMER APPLE CEO SALUTED BY CABLE BUSINESS CHANNEL The American cable and satellite business channel CNBC has just turned 25 years old. To mark the occasion, it recently released a list of the most influential people in business and finance during the last quarter of a century, and unsurprisingly, the technology sector leads the way. Taking six out of the top ten places, it is easy to see just how much of an impact tech has had upon the business world. But who landed the top spot? Well, for Apple fans, there could be only one winner... and they weren’t left disappointed. Steve Jobs has been lauded for many years by those in and around the technological sector, but to be posthumously named as the person who has ’had the…

Twitter Inc investors who heeded the advice of high-profile banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Deutsche Bank AG to buy the social media company’s shares might be kicking themselves. Much more accurate calls were made by Wells Fargo, Atlantic Equities and Macquarie Research, whose analysts advised clients to get out of the high-flying stock about the time it peaked in December. On Wednesday the stock fell as low as $37.24, 50 percent below its peak of $74.73 the day after Christmas, wiping almost $18 billion off Twitter’s market capitalization. The downgrades, and the subsequent swoon by the stock, reflect concern about slowing growth in Twitter’s user base and the company’s ability to reverse the trend. Year-on-year growth in the number of Twitter users has fallen for five straight…

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Walk of Shame Elizabeth Banks stars as Meghan Miles, an aspiring news anchor whose one-night stand leaves her needing to get across Los Angeles - without a car, phone, ID or money - within eight hours if she is not to miss the job interview of a lifetime. This Steven Brill written and directed comedy also stars the likes of James Marsden, Gillian Jacobs and Sarah Wright. FIVE FACTS: 1. Music for the film was composed by John Debney. 2. Elizabeth Banks has described Walk of Shame as being about a “woman at a crisis point who feels like she’s lost control over her life.” 3. At one point, James Marsden - who plays Gordon - ends up wearing the same yellow cocktail dress as co-star Banks. 4. Banks has…

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Microsoft will end support for the persistently popular Windows XP on Tuesday, and with an estimated 30 percent of businesses and consumers still using the 12-year-old operating system, the move could put everything from the operations of heavy industry to the identities of everyday people in danger. “What once was considered low-hanging fruit by hackers now has a big neon bull’s eye on it,” says Patrick Thomas, a security consultant at the San Jose, Calif-based firm Neohapsis. Microsoft has released a handful of Windows operating systems since 2001, but XP’s popularity and the durability of the computers it was installed on kept it around longer than expected. Analysts say that if a PC is more than five years old, chances are it’s running XP. While users can still run XP…

Media company Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) on Tuesday reported higher profit that beat Wall Street expectations for the quarter that ended in March, boosted by the continued strength of its blockbuster animated film “Frozen.” The company said it posted adjusted earnings of $1.11 a share, beating the 96 cent average forecast of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters l/B/E/S. A year ago, Disney reported adjusted earnings of 79 cents a share. Disney shares rose 1.3 percent in after-hours trading, to $82.05 a share. Net income for the quarter increased to $1.9 billion from $1.5 billion a year earlier, lifted by growth at its movie studio. The animated blockbuster “Frozen” continued to propel the studio, which saw its operating income quadruple to $475 million from $118 million a year earlier, partially on…

‘HEALTHBOOK’ APP RUMORS GATHER PACE Everywhere you look on the online rumors pages, there seems to be speculation about the next big revolutionary thing that Apple will do. It’s been more than four years now since the original iPad broke cover, after all, and some of us are getting a little tired of merely receiving incremental updates for our favorite familiar iDevices. Some of us want to know whether the boys at Cupertino are still capable of doing something... ballsy, quite unlike something we’ve seen before. Well, they might just be answering our call behind the doors of those mysterious Californian headquarters, at least if certain rumors are to be believed, as extensively reported by 9to5Mac. Basically, the suggestion is that Apple will launch a mobile health and fitness tracking…

Sony has developed a new storage tape that is able to hold up to 185 terabytes (TB) of data per cartridge. Created with the help of IBM, Sony’s technology allows for tapes that can store the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs. The tape hold 148 gigabits (Gb) per square inch - beating a record set in 2010 more than five times over. Storage tapes are typically used by businesses to hold huge amounts of data for a long time. Analysts IDC predict that by 2020, global data storage will amount to 40 trillion gigabytes -around 5,200 gigabytes per person. Using tape is a cheaper and more energy efficient method of storing data when compared to power-hungry large data centres full of hard drives. However, retrieving data from tape is a…

XSCAPE (Deluxe) Michael Jackson Yes, that’s right, it’s time for another hugely anticipated look into the vaults of the late King of Pop, and the Estate of Michael Jackson will certainly hope for less controversy than greeted the last major release, 2010’s Michael, over the authenticity of certain vocals. The Gloved One purrs that’love Never Felt So Good”on a lead single that makes a fine throwback to his‘80s glory days. FIVE FACTS: 1. XSCAPE features newly updated versions of eight previously unreleased Jackson songs, alongside - on this Deluxe edition - the versions of the songs as the King of Pop left them. 2. Producers on the album include StarGate, Rodney Jerkins, Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon and John McClain. 3. The Epic Records press release stated of the way XSCAPE was…

Bobby Kotick, Activision’s boss, revealed the cash commitment at an industry conference last week. But industry analysts questioned whether an entirely new game like Destiny would prove a hit with fans. The science-fiction themed game is scheduled for release on 9 September this year. “If you’re making a $500m bet you can’t take that chance with someone else’s IP” Mr Kotick said during his speech at the Milken Institute’s global conference. “The stakes for us are getting bigger.”. BIG BET Destiny is being made by the Bungie studio which is best known for its work on the Halo series of games. Set in a post-apocalyptic future 700 years from now, Destiny gives players the job of defending the last human city from invaders and, eventually, expanding mankind’s sphere of influence.…

Apple and Samsung are suing each other in courts and trade offices around the world, each making claims that the other copied patented mobile device features. The companies’ most-recent legal tussle all but concluded on Friday, when a California jury found that Samsung copied some of Apple’s smartphone features. The panel also concluded that Apple illegally used one of Samsung’s patents in creating the iPhone 4 and 5. All told, the jury awarded Samsung $158,400 and Apple $119 million, far less than the $2.2 billion the company sought. Jurors were ordered to return to court Monday to continue deliberations on a minor matter that could result in a higher award for Apple. Before determining whether the companies copied phone technologies, jurors had to consider several patents. Here’s a look at…