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The Drill Down 233: Lies and Rumors
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This week, we look into a scandal involving Scott Thompson, Yahoo‘s CEO, wherein he allegedly lied on his resume about having a CS degree. Later, we’ll poke into a couple of exciting rumors of Apple lowering the price of their Macbook Air to $799, plus their upcoming HDTV offering.

But first, the headlines…Facebook sets its IPO price, Discovery buys Revision3, Draw Something loses 5M users/Mo. after Zynga purchase, AT&T CEO regrets offering unlimited data, Google loses copyright infringement case to Oracle over Java, Google’s Hangouts on Air rolls out to everyone, & Google’s Autonomous cars get an official nod from Nevada.

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The Drill Down: Apple Secrets, Facebook Payday
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Welcome Geeks of Doom readers! The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. You can find all our previous episodes here.

This week, TDD regulars Andrew Sorcini, Dwayne De Freitas, and Christopher Burnor discuss Fortune reporter Adam Lashinsky‘s Apple exposé, Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works, and whether the production of Apple products could ever come back to the United States. Later, we discuss Facebook‘s $5 BN IPO launch.

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