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Twitter’s founding investor expected to net more than $1bn from flotation

Evan Williams will not be the biggest winner, private equity boss Suhail Rizvi is believed to hold 15% stake worth at least $1.9bn

Who are the Twitter millionaires?

Early Twitter backers who can expect an IPO windfall include a Saudi prince, a Hollywood insider and a Murdoch lieutenant

Google’s new concessions on European search will put rivals’ logos into results

Joaquin Almunia says that new commitments on search could avoid legal action by giving rivals greater visibility via auction. By Ian Traynor and Charles Arthur

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer gives final emotional speech to staff

Outgoing chief executive known for September 2000 'monkey dance' hints at internal meeting that he is being pushed out. By Samuel Gibbs

Twitter files for Thanksgiving IPO

The social networking platform has submitted documents to the SEC and is expected to reveal its flotation plans this week. By Alex Hern

Europe’s tech sector should hold its nerve – the rewards are out there

Jemima Kiss: More than 40 European tech companies are worth more than £500m, venture capitalists say. Are things really looking up?

How BlackBerry users may be affected by sale – Q&A

The effect on consumers if the technology firm changes hands

How BlackBerry buyout could bear fruit

The man billed as Canada's answer to Warren Buffett is preparing to take a gamble on technology industry basket case

Twitter’s cast of characters see few limits to profits as IPO approaches

Having learned lessons from Facebook's public pratfall, founders and investors look set for a stock market payday

Dyson accuses Samsung of vacuum cleaner ‘rip-off’

UK firm says Samsung's Motion Sync vacuum cleaner used technology found in two Dyson appliances, the DC37 and DC39

Microsoft buys Nokia handset business for €5.4bn

Deal delivers Europe's last big handset maker into US ownership and moves Microsoft firmly into device-manufacturing business

BlackBerry sales hit by fears over company’s future

Firm's financial woes appear to be worrying clients such as Morgan Stanley, which has delayed upgrade to latest model

Steve Ballmer heads for retirement, but where now for Microsoft?

The software giant made huge profits under its departing CEO – but it will need to adapt to the era of tablets and smartphones

Facebook’s value climbs above $100bn for first time

One year on from its record low, the company closed at $41.34, bringing its value by market capitalisation to $100.6bn. By Jemima Kiss

Tech giants may be huge, but nothing matches big data

When Nasdaq stopped trading this week, it again showed how global firms are at the mercy of a power that created them

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  • How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’
  • SpaceX overtakes Amazon as world’s fifth most valuable company
  • France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider
  • UK defence spending plan ‘well short of what’s required’ and harder choices needed, says John Healey – as it happened
  • Cate Blanchett promises ‘creative rumpus’ in new role: Oxford professor
  • Abdullah Ibrahim obituary
  • Toy Story 5 review – Pixar franchise needs new batteries
  • UK social media ban could cut lifeline for disabled children, campaigners warn
  • Tom Holland confirms that he and Zendaya are married
  • Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
  • ‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work
  • Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth
  • ‘What an adventure Broadway will be!’ Paddington musical packs suitcase for New York
  • Russell Crowe says Gladiator II failed because ‘it didn’t have a moral core’
  • Thirst review – member-dismembering Icelandic gore fest rips it up in trashy 80s style
  • ‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history
  • The Death of Robin Hood review – Hugh Jackman darkens a heroic tale in grim drama
  • ‘He experienced a full life of trauma’: documentary explores troubled tale of Gregg Allman
  • ‘Streaming gave me a space to be myself’: Twitch creators on what it’s like to grow up on the platform
  • Girlfriends review – love and growing pains in queer coming-of-age tale that goes from Hong Kong to Taiwan
  • Alienated by Disclosure Day? You are not alone
  • Nightwatchers review – desperate struggle of migrant crisis under surface of picture-postcard ski resort
  • Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state’s child social media ban
  • Impact of social media ban for under-16s in UK hinges on how firm it is
  • The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue
  • Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened
  • ‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban
  • Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully
  • UK 16 and 17-year-olds: we would like to hear your views on the government’s social media ban for under-16s
  • ‘We’re coming for his ass’: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Bette Midler target Trump at New York benefit concert

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