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AP Top Technology News At 5:34 p.m. EDT

• Day after historic IPO, Facebook's Zuckerberg weds
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week - from birthday, to IPO, to I DO....
• Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
  ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials....
• Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week....
• A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?
  EDITOR'S NOTE - Facebook began selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. The stock closed 23 cents above its initial offering price, at $38.23. Two Associated Press business writers debate whether the stock is a smart buy....
• America expands once again _ digitally, this time
  NEW YORK (AP) -- The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend....
• Facebook stock finishes flat in debut
  NEW YORK (AP) -- In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initial public offering....
• Sudden wealth part of Silicon Valley's everyday
  MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- In Silicon Valley, where sudden wealth is hardly something new and CEOs favor hoodies over bespoke blazers, Facebook's IPO on Friday didn't bring everyday life to a halt....
• Reports: Yahoo nears deal to sell stake in Alibaba
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell half of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba....
• App scans faces of bar-goers to guess age, gender
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out....
• FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public
  It's Facebook's big day....