document: Five Stories We Wish Were April Fools ' Jokes What a day . Most media outlets took the April Fool 's day opportunity to post a few gag stories that -- well , sometimes -- seemed remotely plausible . It was sometimes tough to figure out the real stories from the jokes . What 's even funnier is that some of the stories that might as well have been jokes turned out to be the real . Here 's a list of the top stories from today -LRB- and a few others -RRB- that the VentureBeat staff has agreed should have been just an April Fools ' Day prank . A corporate development employee at Facebook was terminated for purchasing shares of Facebook on secondary trading markets . Michael Brown was fired from Facebook after purchasing shares on a secondary market , which the company considers insider trading . TechCrunch reported that the trading was related to a deal in which Facebook raised $ 500 million from Goldman Sachs . Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tried to hide his political contributions from Google Search . Schmidt asked the Google Search team to remove information about a political donation from the Google Search results , according to BusinessInsider . The information came to light in journalist Stephen Levy 's new book , `` In the Plex : How Google Thinks , Works and Shapes Our Lives . '' Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might have signed off on a $ 5 billion deal in a Mexican restaurant in Palo Alto . A patron of Palo Alto Sol on California Avenue told VentureBeat that Zuckerberg sat at a table in the back of the restaurant with one other man and appeared to be signing papers Tuesday . At one point , Zuckerberg was overheard saying , `` So we 'll do it at $ 5 billion ? '' Microsoft files an antitrust complaint against search giant Google . Oh , how the tables have turned . Microsoft and other companies claim that Google has undermined its competition when it comes to search , its Android mobile software , and online advertising . In particular , Microsoft says that Google prevents other search engines from fully indexing information from its services like YouTube . Social photo app Color raises $ 41 million in its first round of funding from Sequoia Capital . Okay , so there 's a lot of money and an all-star team . What does the app actually do ? The goal was to create a social experience that 's `` native '' to mobile and really takes advantage of smartphone technology rather than simply transferring a Web-based experience to the phone . That 's worth $ 41 million . Tags : april fools ' day , wtf Copyright 2011 VentureBeat . All Rights Reserved . VentureBeat is an independent technology blog . Read More '' ''
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