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Facebook Files to Raise $5 Billion in Biggest Internet IPO

Facebook Inc., the social- networking website that in eight years changed the way the world communicates, filed to raise $5 billion in the largest Internet initial public offering on record.

FBI: Predators Lurk On Facebook Despite Laws

It's a law that even the FBI says is difficult to enforce, and the problem may put children at risk. Nebraska and Iowa passed legislation banning predators from social networking sites, but the offenders are still there.

Connecting Memphis: Nonprofit co-op refurbishes computers, gets people online

At least 30 percent of U.S. households don't have the Internet at home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau .

USB cable enables cross-platform file transfer, keyboard sharing

J5 Create announced a USB-based device that allows data, a mouse, and a keyboard to be shared between two computers without the use of a network.

Silicon Valley here? No way

It will create riches beyond most computer boffins' wildest dreams. The Facebook flotation, which could value the social networking phenomenon at $100bn, will also jam Highway 101, the main route through Northern California, with shiny Porsches as software engineers gain the opportunity to cash in their shares in the company. House prices in the vicinity will rocket too.