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As Facebook inches ever closer to its IPO — which some are projecting may be the biggest-ever in U.S. corporate history — there have been some slightly conflicting stories zipping across the ether today involving another Facebook story line: its $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing service Instagram and a rumored Federal Trade Commission investigation into the deal: The FT is reporting that an investigation could delay the acquisition here. Betabeat is reporting that this could actually delay Facebook’s IPO.

Could it be both? Either? Neither? We reached out to the FTC to get some info straight from the horse’s mouth.

For starters, it should be pointed out that the FTC can’t say one way or the other whether it is investigating the Facebook/Instagram deal. “The commission does not comment on investigations,” Mitch Katz, a public affairs spokesperson, told us. “You would need to check directly with the company.”

However, he did also note that as a matter of course, the FTC investigates all deals with a value greater than $68.2 million. That puts this $1 billion deal firmly into the investigating pile, then.

What next? Once the FTC — or, for that matter, the Department of Justice, which also routinely investigates M&A deals — does initiate an investigation, it can last for up to 30 days and the merger cannot go ahead until that investigation is terminated. (By the way, although the FTC can’t say when it is investigating someone, it can publicly disclose when it has terminated that investigation. Go figure.)

If, when the preliminary investigation period of 30 days is up and the FTC has not yet come to a decision, it can ask for a second request. This doesn’t necessarily mean something suspicious is going on, Katz told me.

“A lot of people think, if we issue a second request, that means we have problems with a deal. But that’s not true,” he said. “It may be that we just need more in

Too busy searching your couch for spare change for the $1,300 Resident Evil 6 “Premium Edition” to keep up with Crave this week? It’s a cool bundle, for sure, but here’s another awesome bundle that you can have for absolutely free! That’s right, it’s another collection of our favorite stories from Crave modern-hacker.

• This is why you should never text and walk!

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• Goodbye Canadian penny, hello glow-in-the-dark quarter!

• If anyone gives you grief for playing too many video games, tell them you’re studying art.

• Imagine trying to tap out the Konami code on this NES controller.

• Vinyl records say, “We’re not going to take it!”

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• Careful where you click, Mac users.

• Boeing might be getting into the smartphone biz. Meanwhile, aviation fanatic and longtime CNET cell phone editor Kent German’s head might explode.

• Birthdays on Facebook: Like or dislike?

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The appeal of social music platform Turntable.fm has been its synchronous music listening in public dance rooms. Anyone can become the MC, playing the tunes and playlists of their choice, just as each listener can choose their own avatar, or chat with other music junkies in realtime http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981228373. And now tech and startup geeks have a new feature to get excited about: Turntable quietly announced via blog post today that users can add stickers from their startup of choice to their laptops while dropping those mad ill beats.

That’s right. For those unfamiliar, when Turntable.fm users choose to DJ in a particular room, their avatar is set up at the DJ station at the front of the room behind a laptop. Previously, those laptops were vacant beyond an Apple logo. But now, simply by going to “Settings,” and clicking on “Laptop stickers,” users can now add stickers to their laptops while they play.

Users can add 20 stickers from a slew of startups, and arrange them as they please on the back of their laptops.

The stickers will also show up on listener profiles, and users can mouse over the stickers for a zoom function to take a closer look, according to Turntable’s blog post.

It looks like the feature isn’t fully live yet for public consumption, but you can check out the sticker launch party landing page here. There are only 11 startup logos to choose from at this point, but we’re hoping it’s not too long before TechCrunch’s logo shows up, as well your startup of choice.

Last month, Turntable officially inked deals with the “Big Four” record labels (Sony BMG, Universal, EMI, and Warner) to license music from their respective collections, but it’s good to see them bringing the startup funk.

There are still a few bugs in the new sti

>(PRWEB) April 01, 2012 Pender’s Music Company, one of the nation’s largest sheet music providers, invites French horn players of all ages and skill levels to help in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the Largest French Horn Ensemble to Perform at One Time and Place http://www.elenaglasberg.com/2012/news/becoming-a-health-and-safety-officer.html. Dubbed “One Thousand Horns”, the fifteen minute concert is scheduled on Long Horn Day, the last day of the IHS Workshop/Symposium, which is being hosted by the University of North Texas. It will feature the premier performance of Sterling Proctor’s “Fanfare for a Thousand,” as well as music by Rossini, Beethoven and Strauss. Long Horn Day is being held in conjunction with the annual workshop which consists of performances, lectures, and demonstrations led by notable horn musicians and contemporaries. 2012 featured artists include world renowned Australian-born French horn player Barry Tuckwell, commonly referred to in many music circles as the God of Horn, and horn virtuoso Tsun Tak Cheung from Hong Kong, who now works in Germany. Many other contributing artists from universities and symphonies all over the country are scheduled to appear, as well as several horn ensembles, choirs, and much more, including UNT’s own multi-Grammy nominated jazz ensemble, the One O’Clock Lab Band, directed by Steve Wiest. Highlights of Long Horn Day include the Texas College and High School Horn Quartet Competitions, as well as, demonstrations and rehearsals by the Alphorn Festpiel, led by Dr. Peggy DeMers, Associate Professor of Horn at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Jasper Rees, London-based journalist and author of the book “A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument,” is set to be at the One Thousand Horns record-breaking performance attempt, t

Sunbury Press has released “Obama’s Great Education Lie”, a polemic by Dr. John Loase, author of “Sigfluence,” critiquing the President’s stance on education. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Obama’s Great Education LiePRLog (Press Release) - Mar 31, 2012 - Camp Hill, PA - Sunbury Press has released “Obama’s Great Education Lie”, a polemic by Dr. John Loase, author of “Sigfluence,” critiquing the President’s stance on education.About the book:President Obama inspired this book, when, in his recent speech at the University of Texas -Austin, he urged the United States to retake the #1 position in college graduation rates by 2020. President Obama must be aware that our current economic and jobs’ crisis will likely plunge us even deeper into an educational quagmire by 2020.Few challenged President Obama’s absurd goal.Dr. Loase invented the word sigfluence in 1984 to define significant, long-term, positive influence. In Dr. Loase’s 8th book, The Sigfluence Generation, John reveals the enormous Potential and Need of our 18-25 year olds to affect sigfluence. However, they need mentorship from Baby Boomers to realize their potential. Our Millennials need honesty, not lies, to positively transform America. The United States is mired in educational denial and neglect. For each of our nine educational lies, this work exposes the lie and details the remedy. Our crumbling educational infrastructure reflects our society at risk. In order to transform American education, we must overcome our denial and transform ourselves. Our 18-25 year olds are ready. Are we?About the author:John F. Loase is Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Concordia College-NY. He earned the only doctorate awarded by Columbia University Teachers College in Mathematics (emphasis Statistics) and Psychology (emphasis Educational and Psychological Measurement). John’s first 8 books were on sigfluence, his new word for significant, long-term, positive influence. John’s 8th book, The Sigfluence Generation, revealed our young people’s high Need and Potential to affect sigfluence. However, they need mentorship from Baby Boomers to transform America in a positive manner. Obama’s Great Lie is a response to President Obama’s recent proposal to establish America as #1 in college graduation rates by 2020. This was deceitful and absurd given our current demographic, economic, political, and educational dynamics. John has received both state and national awards for excellence in teaching, having taught the gamut from violent inner city schools, elite private schools, and college- freshmen through Ph. D. levels. In Obama’s Great Lie, he confronts our collective denial and advances concrete strategies for educational and societal reform.Obama’s Great Education LieAuthored by John Loase List Price: $14.955.5″ x 8.5″ (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Black & White on White paper96 pagesSunbury Press, Inc.ISBN-13: 978-1620060391 ISBN-10: 1620060396 BISAC: Education / Educational Policy & Reform / Federal LegislationFor more information, please see:http://www.sunburypress.com/9781620060391.html# # #Sunbury Press, Inc., headquartered in Camp Hill, PA is a publisher of trade paperback and digital books featuring established and emerging authors in many fiction and non-fiction categories. Sunbury’s books are sold through leading booksellers worldwide….

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>Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 31, 2012 For paper hungry schools and universities, there are good news ahead. What used to be affordable only for Fortune 500 Corporate Learning Centers and Executive Teams in Training, will be made available free of charge, starting in April, 2012 to http://menopausenaturalrelief.com/first-randomized-clinical-trial.html.href)”>Schools and Universities. A student will now be able to see all their course materials, week by week, in a notebook like app. Each week course has the materials, room logistics, the professor profile, related websites and videos. The student can even tweet the teacher, or link with them in LinkedIn or Facebook. Finding Accounting 201 week 3 is just a touch away. Students will be able to answer questions real time from their mobile devices. Launching an Idea Challenge to change the world (”How might we fix the Healtcare System in our country with open source information technology?”), and building innovation skills and entrepreneurship based on the course topic is also a click away. Schools and Universities will now have this mobile app capability for free from Zwoor.com. From School and Universities to Fortune 1000 Corporate Boards, Zwoor Event and Zwoor Survey mobile apps meet the various needs for handling learning needs. The mobile applications are free to download from the iTunes store, Google Android or Amazon Android Marketplace. The subscription model for a school or university to load the course materials and create the mobile surveys can be completely free. Schools and Universities are all about connecting people to people, and people to knowkedge, and the mobile apps from Zwoor.com are amplifying the connection and learning power. And now, are also able to provide real time insights on how much the students understand the topic. A two question quick survey in the middle of the cour

During a day spent torture testing Volkswagen performance models in the Santa Cruz mountains, I took a time out to drive the eGolf, the electrical vehicle based on the Golf hatchback http://www.elenaglasberg.com/2012/news/becoming-a-health-and-safety-officer.html. Volkswagen just kicked off a test program in the U.S. with 20 eGolfs spread around the country.

I got a look at the eGolf last month in Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL). The car uses a 26.5 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack to give it an estimated 93 miles in range.

The eGolf felt lighter than both the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt.

The cabin of the eGolf I drove resembled the standard Golf’s in many ways, not surprising as these cars share everything except the driveline. But the instrument cluster swaps a power use gauge for the tachometer, and a smaller analog gauge shows the remaining range. That all-important number is repeated on a digital display.

Like other electric cars, the eGolf glided quietly forward. As the range display only showed 10 miles, I kept a light foot on the accelerator, so did not feel the full effect of its 199 pound-feet of torque driving the front wheels.

Mark Gillies, Volkswagen’s Product and Technology Manager, rode in the passenger seat, advising me on the eGolf’s unique brake regeneration capabilities. On a downhill slope, I moved the shifter to the B position, which slowed the car substantially. It also delivers about 60 kilowatts of regeneration, according to Gillies.

Putting it back into drive and coming upon another down slope, Gillies advised me to hit the paddle shifter inscribed with a minus sign. Regeneration drag began to slow the wheels a bit, and a small, empty battery icon appeared on the instrument cluster.

Volkswagen installed electric vehicle chargers at its Electronics Research Laboratory.

Tapping the paddle shifter again produced more drag and a low level marker in the battery icon. I was able to tap the paddle two more times, bringing the regeneration level to maximum and filling up the battery

>Westlake Village, CA (PRWEB) March 24, 2012 Vincent Sepe is a stand-out hockey goalie and http.org/our-students-oco/student-athletes/index.aspx” >student athlete with Oaks Christian Online School(OCO). He is a member of the elite Channel Islands Rip Tide team who recently completed a community service project by arranging games and scrimmages with the California Condors special needs hockey team. The California Condors’ home rink is the Valley Ice Center in Panorama City. Players are between the ages of 14-24 and have a varying range of disabilities. The Condors compete in games and tournaments nationwide and in Canada, but they often do not have enough local teams to practice against. “Since there are no other special needs hockey teams in California, I got some of my teammates to come and play hockey with them, hang out and have a small party after the ice time,” said Vincent. At a recent school forum, Vincent shared with his online classmates that many of these Condors’ players don’t get enough exercise, they often can move better on the ice, but they don’t get enough playing time, and there are some players who will actually play sled hockey because of mobility issues. Vincent also reported that the players were competitive but always really happy and seemed to have a lot of fun on the ice. Along with the on-ice practices and cupcakes afterwards, Vincent was also invited to accompany the Condors on the ice during the intermission of a recent Kings / Phoenix game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA, where the team was awarded a $5,000 donation towards travel costs to an upcoming tournament in Texas. Vincent is currently a Midget 16 AA hockey goalie with the Channel Islands Rip Tide team and plays at the Channel Islands Ice Cen

The Montgomery County Toastmasters Club of Hillsboro met at the Challacombe house on Tuesday March 6, 2012. 13 members were present as was 1 returning guest. 3 gave prepared presentations to the club: Mike Meier, Dennis Viehweg & Ryan Goodall. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Meier Veiweg Goodall 3-12PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 18, 2012 - The Montgomery County Toastmasters Club of Hillsboro met at the Challacombe House on Tuesday evening March 6, 2012 http://melanyor.multiply.com/journal/item/8/REMOTE_Conventional_Clinical_Studies.  Thirteen members were present as was one returning guest.  Ron Lawrence served as the Toastmaster (ie, Master of Ceremonies). The three prepared speakers were club members Dennis Viehweg TM, Mike Meier DTM and Ryan Goodall CC.  Dennis delivered just his 3rd speech as a Toastmasters member.  His talk was about his volunteerism with the Litchfield “Meals on Wheels” program.  Viehweg previously received an award from the organization that he’s been assisting for many years.  His passion for this wonderful cause was evident.  Mike Meier is a 7-year veteran Toastmasters International member who is also a self published author.  Meier has written a book about things to know while traveling in China, which is called “A Focused Pursuit In China”.  His speech was called “From Paper to Published”.  He encouraged those in the audience who have ever considered writing a book to get theirs published someday as well.  Mike then shared some pointers on doing so.  Ryan Goodall then gave an advanced manual speech project from the ‘Speaking to Inform’ manual.  The actual project was ‘The Abstract Concept’.  His speech was titled “Specific Policies of Governments”.  Goodall gave examples from both World War 1 and World War 2 eras in his speech.  Toastmaster Alan Saeger coord

Don Bosco Technical Institute will host a math competition open to all seventh and eighth grade students on Saturday, March 31. During the competition, a workshop will be provided for middle school teachers. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 16, 2012 - Don Bosco Technical Institute will host a mathematics competition open to all seventh and eighth grade students on Saturday, March 31. The 40th annual event will challenge students’ creativity and innovative skills in problem solving, offering prizes for highest individual and school team scores. During the competition, a workshop will be provided for middle school teachers, examining each problem used on the test, to facilitate classroom discussion of the concepts. The workshop will be led by instructional expert and textbook author Michael Hattar, a longtime Bosco Tech math teacher. “The competition exposes middle-school students to math problems that are original and creative,” says Bosco Tech’s Math Department Chairman Terence deSousa. “As a STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) school, Bosco Tech supports advanced mathematics in the fields of the sciences and engineering. The competition encourages students to explore mathematics and related fields.”The competition begins at 8 a.m. The cost is $3 per student. Contact Terence deSousa at (626) 940-2123 or tdesousa@boscotech.edu for more information. Online registration and sample tests with solutions are available on the school’s website, www.boscotech.edu. The deadline for registration is March 25.Bosco Tech is the only all-male Catholic high school in the state that uniquely integrates college-preparatory curriculum with a comprehensive, four-year, project-based science and technology program. The academic curriculum allows students to meet university admission requirements while completing extensive integrated coursework in one of five technology and engineering-related fields: Architecture and Construction Engineering; Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; Integrated Design, Engineering and Art; Materials Science, Engineering and Technology; and Media Arts and Technology. For further information about Bosco Tech, please call (626) 940-2000 or visit www.boscotech.edu….

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