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businessweek.com — On May 18, Facebook announced it had acquired mobile gift-giving app Karma. There was other Facebook news that day, but lost in the hullabaloo was the fact that the deal was the social network's second-largest acquisition to date. It totaled more than $80 million, according to two people familiar

businessweek.com — A Texas state judge is promoting his recent decisions favoring a gas driller in its dispute with a local landowner as part of his election campaign, a move some legal scholars say may violate state judicial ethics rules. With aspects of the case still pending in his courtroom, Judge Trey Loftin sent fliers to voters saying he forced the U.S.

businessweek.com — Germany should exit the euro and revalue its currency as "damage control" to avoid the effects of contagion stemming from a Greek exit, which would cripple banks and trade in Europe, according to former Argentine Finance Secretary Guillermo Nielsen. Germany's higher productivity warrants a higher, less competitive valuation for its currency, Nielsen, 61, said in a phone interview yesterday.

businessweek.com — Mark Zuckerberg announced his wedding exactly as you'd expect: with a Facebook status update. The post-nuptial snapshot of him and his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, instantly went viral, with more than 1 million likes and hundreds of comments. Details of the wedding trickled out over the next

businessweek.com — In China Inc.'s biggest move yet into the U.S., Dalian Wanda, the largest entertainment group in China, yesterday announced a $2.6 billion purchase of AMC Entertainment Holdings, the second-largest operator of American movie theaters. The deal is much larger than the previous record for a U.S.

businessweek.com — On March 5, 2010, Patrick Buckley was overcome with the desire to build something. Apple had just announced the iPad, and he had an idea: a retro case for the tablet that had the look and feel of a hard-bound book.

businessweek.com — Private student lenders are stepping up their game to compete directly with government loans. For several years, private lenders offered mostly variable-rate loans that students used as gap funding to cover their needs above what they could get on government loans.

businessweek.com — May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Pandora Media Inc., the Internet radio pioneer, rose as much as 17 percent in extended trading after first-quarter results exceeded analysts' estimates on higher mobile advertising sales. Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman reports on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West."

businessweek.com — May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Hasker, president of media products at Nielsen Co., talks about advertising spending on television and Internet content. He speaks with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)

businessweek.com — Elon Musk leads a life worthy of Dos Equis's "Most Interesting Man in the World" ad campaign. His tweets are about rockets he just launched. Action heroes model themselves on him. His warm-up was founding PayPal. Stanford held his interest for two days. His other job is reinventing the car.