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1. Blizzard Breached: 'Diablo III' Player Accounts Hacked, Items and Gold Stolen
   Reports that Diablo 3 user accounts have been hacked and items and gold stolen from players leads to questions about Blizzard's security system and the real money auction house set up for in-game transactions.
2. Forbes Games: Bioware's Hope And Zynga's Dive
   Everything comes to an end -- but sometimes not until fans are ready. In March,  the unsatisfying ending to the hit game Mass Effect 3 mobilized a legion of fans in protest, and convinced developers at Electronic Arts' Bioware division to take the unprecedented step of creating post-game content to fix their mistakes.
3. Robotics Goes Social With RoboBRRD and Erin Kennedy
   RoboBrrd may change the way you think about robots. In fact, this fun creation by Erin Kennedy may be thinking on its own in the near future. It is already interacting and learning from others. I'm not sure if he learned much from Mike at Pixar...
4. RoMeLa's Robots
   The robots of Virginia Tech's RoMeLa research lab.
5. Muck Rack Fine Tunes Twitter for PR
   Twitter has passed the test; it?s a tool not a toy.  Public relations pros who ignore the tons of LOLs, OMGs and mundane observations of celebrities and narcissists can mine real gold by following and contacting relevant media.
6. How Small Business Wins in a Socially Connected World
   Gail Goodman is the CEO of Constant Contact, a leading provider of email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, local deals, and online survey tools for more than half a million small organizations. Gailis the author of the newly released Engagement Marketing: How Small Business Wins in a Socially Connected World. Goodman was named one of Boston?s top 30 innovators by The Boston Globe. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and a member of the Board of Directors of SCORE. In this interview, she talks about why email marketing is still important despite the blog craze, how to stand out and create marketing engagement and more.
7. Google Loans its NYC HQ
   Google is handing Cornell University 22,000 square feet of office space to tide itself over until the school?s new technology campus on Roosevelt Island is completed. Google CEO Larry Page estimated that the donated space is worth about $10 million, according to a report released Monday by Mashable.
8. Macy's 2.0 Sales Strategy Puts the Pedal to the Metal in Digital
   Macy?s management is intent on leveraging every possible channel to maximize sales and gain market share. In its annual meeting, the department store chain which operates 800 namesake locations as well as 27 Bloomingdales stores announced an omnichannel strategy aimed to put all of Macy?s goods at every shoppers fingertips, even if they aren?t anywhere near a store.
9. What Student Entrepreneurs Needs to Know to Succeed (4) Social Media
   In the previous posts in this Series we established the mindset and awareness required, the immersion you need to inititate in your local startup ecosystem, and what you need to do to acquire subject matter expertise, all with the objective of greatly increasing your chances of success as an entrepreneur.
10. Dharun Ravi Gets Off Easy In Rutgers Spying Case: Month In Jail And $10,000 Fine
    Dharun Ravi is sentenced for violating the privacy of Tyler Clementi: 30 days in jail, 300 hours of community service, three years of probation, and a $10,000 fine.
11. A Plaintiffs' Bar Welcome for Facebook to the Public Company Market
    Welcome to the complicated world of public stock trading; now give us our clients $15 billion.
12. Is Global Internet Access In Jeopardy?
    It's hard to get people motivated to fight for something that they don't believe is in danger.
13. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Displays, But Didn't Know Whom to Ask
    A few weeks ago, around the time Pebble was breaking records on Kickstarter, I happened to be exchanging emails with Sriram Peruvemba, a veteran of the display industry and currently CMO at E Ink Holdings.  It struck me that there was probably a bigger story to be told in the world of display, with things like Pebble being just the tip of the iceberg.
14. Did Hedge Funds Steal The Facebook IPO Pop?
    Facebook's 10% decline today has turned the initial public offering of the century into the bust of the century, but consider this: A decade ago, the company probably would have gone public much earlier, say in May 2009 when Digital Sky Technologies pumped $200 million into Facebook at a $10 billion valuation.
15. Facebook IPO Investors Can Blame The Government For Missing Out On Big Gains
    With Facebook?s shares plummeting after its IPO, it is increasingly becoming clear that in the investment world, the biggest winnings produced by Facebook will largely be enjoyed by the investors that bought pre-IPO stock in the social media company.
16. National Inventors Month Everyday Edisons Program Showcases Local Inventions and Boy Scouts
    National Inventors Month celebrates invention and creativity during the month of May. This month also celebrates the latest round of Inventors Hall of Fame inductees, including Steve Jobs. Edison Nation is also celebrating and encouraging the spirit of invention this month with a special casting call for its television program.
17. Metro: Last Light Teaser Promises Misery, Fear and Scenic Subway Stations
    After interviewing CD Projekt and GOG.com of Poland, it's a short conceptual hop to the Ukraine, and specifically to 4A Games, creators of the upcoming Metro: Last Light. Like CD Projekt's Witcher games, the Metro IP, first seen in 4A's 2010 release Metro 2033, are based on the work of a novelist - in this case the Russian author Dmitry Glukhovksy.
18. How Apple Could Revolutionize The TV - And Why You'll Never Own One
    Yes, I'm taking about Apple again, and specifically the Apple TV.
19. Rivaroxaban For ACS Gets Positive FDA Review, But Questions About ATLAS Trial Conduct Persist
    The FDA will offer generally positive but also highly mixed advice to the FDA's Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee  when it meets on Wednesday to consider the supplemental new drug application for rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Johnson & Johnson) for use in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) already taking dual antiplatelet therapy. The FDA posted the briefing documents on its website this morning.
20. What Caused the Facebook Fizzle?
    A week before Facebook went public, I asked people on Twitter what they thought the stock price would be on the close of its first trading day. The consensus was just north of $100.
21. The Emperor Has Been Expecting You
    Everything is proceeding as the Geek Picture of the Day has foreseen.
22. 'Aliens: Colonial Marines' Gets a Release Date and a High-Octane Trailer
    SEGA and Gearbox have announced the release date for Aliens: Colonial Marines. It?s not great news, soldiers. Human-on-xenomorph action won?t commence until February 12, 2013 for the XBox, PS3, and PC, while the Wii U's release date is still TBD. This means we have a whole nine months of wait time before we can get our hands on the aliens who are trying to get their hands (and other parts) on (and in) us.
23. Carlos Slim's America Movil Details Errors In OECD Report On High Telecom Prices, Requests Its Withdrawal
    America Movil is striking back at a report issued by the OECD earlier this year that claimed the telecom giant?s Mexican wireless phone unit charged excessively high prices. The report stated that high telecom prices in Mexico cost consumers there $26 billion a year in opportunity cost. In a call with reporters Monday, America Movil Chief Financial Officer Carlos Garcia-Moreno said the company has requested the OECD to withdraw the report because it contains erroneous data. ?We have been able to confirm that the report was based on erroneous data,? Garcia-Moreno said on the call.
24. Will Diablo III's "Real Money Auction House" Put An End To Gold Farmers?
    Blizzard is trying their hand in the microtransaction sales model with Diablo III?s new ?Real Money Auction House? system that is expected to launch May 29th.
25. Yahoo: 10 Reasons To Get Bullish
    Yahoo shares are trading higher Monday after the company late Sunday unveiled a complex plan to start unwinding its 40% stake in Alibaba Group. At the valuation contemplated for Alibaba in the deal - at least $35 billion - Yahoo's stake would be worth at least $14 billion, or more than 70% of Yahoo's current market capitalization.
26. Lutron Partnership Lights Up Cree's LED Growth
    Cree, a market leading manufacturer of LED products, recently announced the first of its kind agreement with Lutron Electronics. The two companies have joined hands to introduce world's most efficient lighting control and delivery system, by embedding Lutron's technology on a chip in Cree?s luminaries. They hope to accelerate LED adoption and increase energy efficiency among designers, contractors and owners.
27. The Most (And Least) Medically Accurate Episodes Of 'House, M.D.'
    Tonight, House, M.D., the iconic medical show, draws to a close. If you?ve been living in an opiate-induced haze, the show followed a Sherlock-Holmes-like doctor at a major, fictional Princeton, N.J., hospital who has an uncanny knack for sifting through a dizzying array of weird symptoms to diagnose and save the patients no other physician could.
28. Early Reviews of 'Dragon's Dogma' Show New Capcom RPG Off To A Shaky Start
    Capcom's Dragon's Dogma is off to a poor start in the reviews. The general consensus, so far as I can tell, is that the game is ambitious but poorly executed. It's sparse story has left some reviewers confused and unsatisfied. Still, from what I can grasp, the combat sounds hard, the game avoids quick time events, and although it doesn't look stunning in terms of visuals, the reviews so far haven't turned me off to the title.
29. AdVoice: Free Cloud Services in the Face of Crisis: The 'Accidental Heroes' at SOFTBANK Group
    By Dave Hitz, NetApp Founder and Executive Vice President