Although pricing and the exact launch date for Netflix’s launch in the UK and Ireland have yet to be disclosed to eager potential customers, another major studio has partnered with the streaming video service to provide content for new UK […]
In the realm of web news, who would you peg as major players? CNN? Fox? MSNBC? You can probably tell where this is going, since you read the headline. But CNN.com’s vice president and managing editor Meredith Artley says when it […]
While most news outlets, traditional and new, have picked up Twitter as a tool to disseminate their content, few are tapping into the full potential of social media because their usage of such services tends to flow only one way, […]
Salman Rushdie, who you may remember from the release of the controversial book The Satanic Verses back in 1988 and subsequent high profile fatwa issued against him by Iran, has come up against another bit of censure. The acclaimed writer […]
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Although details are scant, Mashable is reporting that Diaspora co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy has died at the age of 22. Cause of death for Zhitomirskiy has not been disclosed, but friends of the entrepreneur confirm that he did indeed pass away last […]
Well, that’s one way to force people to act right during the emotionally charged period surrounding the dissolution of a marriage. In modern breakups, often the presence of social media and dating apps makes moving on while simultaneously twisting the […]
It’s official, the BlackBerry is no longer cool, according to the Los Angeles Times. While the line of devices has been slipping in prominence steadily since the iPhone was introduced and an army of Droids followed, the paper has declared […]
The New York Times is beefing up its coverage of the business of tech on its Bits blog, and has brought on three new people to work on the expansion in scope and content. In addition to news that is […]
Ah, autocorrect. The feature available on iPhone that apparently was developed part-time by the guys who post up ad hoc signs on supermarket doors and public restrooms- so poor is its spelling and grammar- has spawned a cottage industry of […]
Tech blog VentureBeat has entered into a “content sharing partnership” with newspaper and news site the Washington Post, both companies have announced. VentureBeat wrote up a post on the new pairing, and says that a selection of VentureBeat’s daily offerings […]
Celebrity gossip is a huge driver of traffic on the web, and Entertainment Weekly‘s EW.com has surpassed the one billion pageview mark, it has been reported. The brand has experienced strong “digital media growth across platforms” in 2011, hitting the […]
Citing “people familiar with the talks,” the Wall Street Journal says Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are close to an accord on the issue of user privacy. The dominant social network has come in for user criticism too many times […]
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Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart stopped by Google to chat with Marissa Meyer for their @Google Talks series, discussing her new cookbook, her feelings on mobile publishing and how to engage a web audience. Stewart is releasing a new tome titled Martha’s […]
Although there is a panic that comes and goes surrounding the possibility of “bullying” on social networks and sites like Twitter and Formspring, a new study indicates that teens indicate mostly positive experiences on Facebook and its ilk. There are […]
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