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Facebook Turns Eight; Micron CEO Dies; Apple Amends iBooks Agreement

Facebook continued to make news over the weekend as the world?s biggest social network turned eight years old.

February 6, 2012

Facebook, the world's biggest social network, topped headlines over the weekend as it . From a few IM conversations at Harvard to a to-be-public company valued at up to $100 billion, PCMag commemorated the occasion with a look back at some of Facebook's most eye-opening moments over the past eight years; also check out the slideshow below.

But while the tech community had something to celebrate, it also mourned the loss of Steve Appleton, the long-time chairman and chief executive of flash memory manufacturer Micron. in a small plane crash in Boise, Idaho. He was 51. The company appointed Mark Durcan as Appleton's successor.

Meanwhile, someone in Cupertino noticed over the user agreement for Apple's iBooks Author software. The company to clarify that Apple is not laying claim to content that's produced using the application.

Also making headlines over the weekend:

  • : Approximately 100 refurbished Xoom tablets sold by deals site Woot still contained data from their previous owners.
  • : A new report from the crash report analytics company Crittercism indicates that iOS apps are more prone to crashes.
  • : Vendors shipped 488 million smartphones in 2011 as compared with 415 million PCs.
  • : Officials are heard discussing the cases of Anonymous members who have been arrested for various hacks.
  • : A Taiwanese electronics company released a commercial in which an angelic Jobs impersonator promotes its new non-Apple tablet.
  • : European regulators stepped into the controversy surrounding Google's upcoming privacy changes, asking the search giant to "pause" its update until the EU can conduct an investigation.