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It's been a rocky road to going public for Groupon, which has faced scrutiny from investors, analysts, and the SEC leading up to its October 24 IPO road show. Scott Sweet , the senior managing partner of IPO Boutique, a Tampa-based firm that advises companies on the road to going public, says that in his 39 years of analyzing initial public offerings, he's never seen anything like this.

Flying Dinosaur Bot There's a big debate about how modern bird evolved from flying dinosaurs, and another about how those dinosaurs learned to fly: Did they gradually get better at gliding like a flying squirrel, or did they run-flap along the ground giving them better hunting speed and the ability to easily leap onto perches?

Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes "again and again." So why do people keep giving him so much money? td p {padding:10px !important;font-size:12px !important;font-family:arial !important;line-height:1.2em !important;} "I make the same mistakes with every single startup," says Nguyen, pictured here at Color headquarters

Rick Perry's administration has forced a report on the effects of climate change on Texas to remove all references to, well, climate change. But that doesn't change what's happening to the state's climate. Scientists associated with a major study of environmental changes in the low-lying coastal region around Galveston, Texas, have withdrawn their names from the final report after high-level officials appointed by Governor Rick Perry removed references to sea level rise and climate change from the document.

We know what's happened to Apple recently: The company has released a carefully updated edition of many of its core products, over the course of the last eight months (starting with the iPad 2), culminating in the launch of the iPhone 4S. In between the reveal of this phone and it actually going on sale, legendary Apple CEO and cofounder Steve Jobs passed away, finally losing his protracted battle with cancer and its side effects.

Why do millions mourn the death of Steve Jobs, a man they never met? Gawker curmudgeon Hamilton Nolan is right: "Steve Jobs was not God," read the headline to his recent post slamming those "whose remembrances have already taken on a quasi-religious tone" and advising them to "seek help." He was responding to the flood of grief that consumed the media, media watchers, and many others in the hours and days after Jobs' death was announced.

The ability to obtain an accurate three-dimensional image of an intact cell is critical for unraveling the mysteries of cellular structure and function.

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If Amazon's new Kindle Fire doesn't make it; it won't be from lack of hype in the press. Actually, I can give you a list of reasons why the Fire leaves me cool. First however, let's go over the launch details.

A man exercises his right of free speech and gets fired. An IT contractor is claiming the state of New York fired and blacklisted him after he talked to the press when it withheld four months of his paychecks during the 2010 budget crisis. In a lawsuit filed last week in district court, Stephen Anderson of Glenville, New York, is claiming the state violated his constitutional right to free speech and then retaliated against him

How Terra Nova executive producer Brannon Braga realized Steven Spielberg’s vision, managed the most expensive TV budget ever, and survived all those friggin’ dinosaurs without losing his mind. Being in charge of an epic, Steven Spielberg-backed, eco-themed, sci-fi time-travel tale with digital dinosaurs and a reported $15 million pilot is pressure enough. Now add a revolving door of writers, mounting executive producers, debate over pilot length, rain-deluged sets in an Australian rainforest, insufficient footage, visual effects delays, and a circling vulture press and it’s amazing Terra Nova executive producer Brannon Braga wasn’t carried off in a straightjacket.

Netflix must feel like captain Billy Tyne in the The Perfect Storm: Just went it's hit by one massive wave, another one soon drowns the company from any possible respite.

HTC refuses to admit it's new Android "Rhyme" is a chick phone.

As Apple, we assume, gears up for a press event to reveal the iPhone 5--and possibly a handful of other innovations--the rumor mill spins up, and leaks from inside Apple reach the press. Here's what's going on: Leaked Parts A number of leaked parts purporting to show the partly disassembled guts of an updated iPhone have surfaced online

Organizing a group-bought gift for someone special can be a gigantic hassle. Enter Shareagift--which leverages social networking, online payments, and gift-suggestion algorithms--to sweeten the whole deal. "It's your friend's birthday and you know she really wants an iPad, but you only have enough for the classic annual scented candle," teases the press release for Shareagift , a new London startup that brings online payments and social networking to collborative gift-buying