It’s Official: Google Acquires Slide
Google has officially acquired Slide, the social application company founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, in an effort to “make Google services socially aware.”The news of the acquisition surfaced...
View Article5 Terrific Twitter Mapping Tools
Twitter is undeniably useful as a standalone service, but it becomes so much more fun when you start factoring in all the cool tools and awesome apps available.We’ve previously brought you various...
View ArticlePayPal For Android Gets a “Bump”
PayPal has just released version 2.0 of its Android app, adding new features like the ability to use bump technology to quickly and easily transfer funds between devices.As PayPal notes in its blog...
View ArticleExplore the Titanic Wreck Site via Social Media [EXCLUSIVE]
A team of archaeologists, scientists and oceanographers will soon be revisiting the wreck of the Titanic for further scientific discovery and documentation. The entire process will be shared in near...
View ArticleApple Introduces Genius for iPad
Apple has enhanced the iPad App Store with a Genius section that provides two new ways to discover iPad apps.While there’s yet to be an official announcement, the Genius option started appearing for...
View Article10 Incredible iPhone Photographs
You don’t need a fancy-pants DSLR, a gazillion megapixels and a lens as long as your arm to take great pictures, as this stunning set of iPhone photographs proves.We’ve collected ten amazing snaps by...
View ArticleDigg Gamed by Conservative Conspiracy; How Does Digg Bury It?
A massive conspiracy to censor left-leaning political stories on Digg has been uncovered, in which tens of thousands of stories were “buried” by a right-wing group calling itself the “Digg Patriots.”...
View ArticleFacebook’s Founding President Now Working with Chatroulette [VIDEO]
If you were ready to write off Chatroulette as just a passing Internet fad, don’t. Sean Parker, the man who founded Napster and helped shape Facebook’s early years as founding president, has revealed...
View ArticleHP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns Over Sexual Harassment Investigation
HP has announced that Mark Hurd, the company’s CEO, President and Chairman, is resigning all of his positions with the company, effective immediately, following an investigation into a sexual...
View ArticleTwitter Users Who Rack Up the Retweets Top Most Influential List
Got a lot of Twitter followers? So what? Unless they’re listening to what you’re saying and actually passing it on, you’re likely not all that influential, according to a new study by HP Labs.According...
View ArticleDemand Media Files for IPO
Content farm Demand Media has filed to become a publicly traded company with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The IPO filing was originally anticipated back in April when reports...
View ArticleUniversal and Vevo Pull Content from MTV.com
Fans of Lady Gaga will no longer be able to view her videos on MTV.com, now that MTV and UMG (Gaga’s record label) have failed to come to an agreement over licensing. The tempest in this teapot seems...
View ArticleYoko Ono: Beatles Not Coming to iTunes Store Any Time Soon
Yesterday, Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon and part owner of the Beatles music catalogue, revealed that there’s been no progress in negotiations with Apple when it comes to getting the band’s music...
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View ArticleOur Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Dancing Edition
Yes, I know that at present your face is likely stuck to your keyboard, but weekend is bass-booming right around the corner, and I don’t know about you, but for me that means only one thing: Dancing!...
View ArticleEnd of iPhone Exclusivity Won’t Have Negative Impact on AT&T? Yeah, Right.
AT&T’s profits rose by 26% in the last quarter to $4.01 billion. Driving that growth was 1.6 million new wireless subscribers. Guess which phone the majority of those new customers got?If you...
View ArticleTop 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
Entertainment takes the trophy home again this week, as Twitter was awash in updates about movies, music, and sport.The Leo DiCaprio film Inception took the top spot for the third week in a row,...
View Article10 Entertaining eBay Facts You Might Not Know
As the world’s largest marketplace, eBay has hundreds of millions of listings live at any given moment. Since its founding in 1995, the company has grown from just one curious computer programmer to...
View ArticleTop 5 Tips for Aspiring Music Bloggers
So you wanna be a music blogger? Congrats! As any struggling artist can tell you, putting your finger on your passion can take a while. You, however, are halfway there. Well, before you venture past...
View ArticleNetflix Streaming Is Coming to Your Android Phone [APP]
Netflix is working on a streaming video application for smartphones running Google’s Android operating system, a Netflix employee and online job listing have each confirmed. Netflix has posted two job...
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