You’d have to be under a pretty big rock not to know Facebook dominates much of the social web experience, a hub for communications, socializing, self-promotion, gaming and pretty much every other web activity you can imagine. But a new […]
It may be chump change to Apple, but the company was sanctioned in Italy to the tune of $1.2 million dollars after it was determined that Apple’s policies violated consumer protection laws in the country. As a happy Apple owner […]
Although watching a trainwreck usually doesn’t feel good, you could be forgiven for getting a little bit of pleasure from the mass exodus from GoDaddy after the company initially threw its support behind the internet-killing Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) […]
The Huffington Post has publicly- and passive-aggressively- ceded the name for its new parenting channel, announcing to readers that it never really wanted the “Parentlode” moniker for its new vertical in the people-with-kids arena. In case you missed it, HuffPo […]
2011 has been a big year for Spotify, first the company launched in the United States with hundreds of thousands of paying members, then they announced a major partnership with Facebook which brings the service to 800 million user accounts […]
With the internet an integrated part of many people’s lives it might surprise some of our readers to learn that search engines are still the preferred choice of navigation for many online users. A recent study conducted by Experian Hitwise […]
After a short fling, microblogging site Twitter and public relations firm Edelman have parted ways. AdAge reports that the official reason behind the short dalliance is management shakeups at Twitter, and a source at Edelman seems to confirm the break-up cause […]
An announcement earlier this month that the Chicago Sun-Times is joining the ever-growing number of major regional papers employing the New York Times paywall structure has been followed up by an announcement that the broadsheet is building out its web presence […]
GoDaddy on Friday announced their withdrawal of support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The announcement comes after thousands of customers began abandoning the company for its support of the program. One of those customers was Ben Huh who’s I […]
Rhapsody on Friday announced that the music streaming platform has surpassed the one million paying subscribers milestone on the heels of its 10-year anniversary. The company also announced that they are now delivering more than 10 million songs to […]
Via Gawker comes this Christmas miracle manifested by Reddit. A Redditor turned to the site with a heart-rending request- asking the site to find his birth family for him. And- as seems to frequently be the case with the site- […]
So, Louis CK’s experiment– self-producing, distributing and selling a successful comedy special without the use of services like iTunes- seems to be a rollicking success. The latest update on the comic’s figures (and very humbly astonished reaction to such) comes […]
Holiday shoppers have flocked to the Apple website in record numbers, allowing the company to score more visitors than Walmart, Best Buy, Sears, eBay and other popular holiday shopping locations. According to a recent comScore report Apple’s website scored 79.2 million unique […]
Veterans on Facebook may find information about their benefits easier to access as the organization expands its social media presence, most notably featuring 152 Facebook pages- one for every center in the US. A press release detailing the Department of […]
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