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Groupon has added new information to the risk section of its IPO filing, Reuters reports, telling prospective investors to ignore comments made by co-founder Eric Lefkofsky. A few days after its original IPO filing, Bloomberg News quoted Lefkofsky saying that: “Groupon was going to be wildly profitable,” the company said. In its updated filing, Groupon said:
The reported statement does not accurately or completely reflect Mr Lefkofsky’s views and should not be considered by prospective investors in isolation or at all
Research In Motion is working on a media box codenamed “BlackBerry Cyclone” that will launch later this year, BGR.com says. The rumoured set-top box is said to be similar to Apple’s iOS-based Apple TV box, and include Netflix streaming, YouTube streaming and streaming from media devices connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
In spite of all the speculation that new versions of Apple’s MacBook Air’s would be launched this week, AllThingsDigital reports that the notebook computer will, in fact, be unveiled next week. The new models will have: new Sandy Bridge processors from Intel, support for Apple’s new high-speed Thunderbolt port, backlit keyboards and configuration options of 128GB and 256GB of flash storage.
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