Facebook reports that its revenue grew to more than $1 billion and its membership to 900 million. (Reuters)
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) sells some of the patents it bought from AOL (NYSE: AOL) to Facebook for $550 million. (Reuters)
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) earnings and projections fail to impress Wall St., which pushed shares down by nearly 15%. (Reuters)
Dow AgroSciences may produce weed-resistent corn. (Reuters)
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may launch an online storage system to compete with Dropbox. (Reuters)
Yahoo! Japan my buy back shares from Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters)
An ITC judge says Microsoft violated some of Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) patents. (Reuters)
Several investment banks will cut employment as deal volume falls. (WSJ)
Social Security and Medicare will run through funds faster than previously expected. (WSJ)
General Motors (NYSE: GM) CEO Ackerson says he will stay as long as the board will have him. (WSJ)
The smartphone business increasingly becomes a race between Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung. (WSJ)
United Continental (NYSE: UAL) to buy 100 737s from Boeing (NYSE: BA). (WSJ)
Jana Partners buys 12% of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS). (WSJ)
Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) earnings press AT&T (NYSE: T) and Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) to do similarly well. (WSJ)
Mexican government officials question the operations of state-owned oil firm Pemex. (NYT)
China’s largest banks are challenged to find more capital. (NYT)
More and more EU officials react badly to Angela Merkel’s stand on austerity. (Bloomberg)
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