Facebook has whipped up unprecedented interest in a Wall Street IPO.

As the world’s top social network gets ready for its big debut, the company has continued to tackle tough questions regarding if and how Facebook will successfully monetize mobile in the future.

“In March 2012,” Facebook stated in its amended prospectus this week, “we began to include sponsored stories in users’ mobile News Feeds. However, we do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our ability to do so successfully is unproven.”

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And the fight goes on.

On Thursday, reports surfaced that Proview – a Chinese company that has battled Apple for the rights to use the iPad name – failed to reach a settlement agreement with the Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker.

China’s Beijing Times says that Apple offered Proview a settlement deal worth 100 million yuan, or $16 million dollars.

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Nothing like a hot mobile rumor in an otherwise ordinary Wednesday.

This morning, Digitimes reported out of Asia that Apple’s sixth generation iPhone will be unveiled in September.

In recent weeks, speculation has swirled that Apple will release the next new iPhone either in June at the company’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, or in October – 12 months after the iPhone 4S was released.

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Yahoo and turmoil are now as synonymous as Google is with web searches.

Today, as reflected by global headlines, prominent hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb says Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has to go.

Loeb wants to see an immediate resignation and asks for Yahoo’s CFO or global head of media to serve as interim CEO until a permanent replacement can wisely be selected.

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Today, only half of all iPads sold are those with a corresponding radio that now only lends users a new connectivity option, but also requires more cash up front for the hardware.

But in a new interview with Macworld, Glenn Lurie – president of emerging devices at AT&T – says that cell radios should – and probably will – soon be standard features on a tablet that won’t require users to pay more up front.

All devices should have all capabilities built in from the beginning,” he says.

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Mobile users are perhaps much more friendly toward Groupon than we realized.

This week, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason published a letter to investors, outlining both Groupon’s charted course of expansion, and also its huge backing from the mobile community.

According to Mason, 30 percent of all transactions on Groupon’s platform now come from mobile devices.

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The Federal Trade Commission is coming for Google.

That’s the latest insight from sources close to the matter, who say that the agency may fine Google upwards of ten million for allegedly skirting Safari privacy controls.

The source, who spoke with Bloomberg, wants to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak on the record about the matter.

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