How Much are Your Tweets Worth?
Twitter was recently valued at $10 billion. “How do the millions of Twitter users fit into this?” you ask. Well, Esquire has the answer.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsFourteen Hilarious Valentine's Day Tweets
Valentine’s Day is upon us. A time of joy and celebration for those of us sitting in happy coupledom, and a time of angst and bitterness for those of us forever alone. What better way to celebrate than a list of hilarious tweets from musicians, comedians and various other people worthy of note? Check out 14 of the funniest we could find on Twitter below:... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesAOL Acquires Huffington Post
AOL Inc. will buy The Huffington Post for $315 million, creating a media group that will reach a combined 117 million visitors in a month in the U.S. and 270 million monthly visitors globally, AOL said in a statement.... read more
Found in: Industry, NewsAwesome of the Day: M. Ward and Jim James' Creme-Bru-Log
What does folk supergroup Monsters of Folk have to do with crème brulée? More than you might think, it turns out. In fact, two of the group’s members have recently started blogging about it.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the DayFacebook Profiles Scraped for Dating Website
Facebook celebrated its seventh anniversary by preparing a lawsuit for a dating website that took 250,000 member profiles from the social-network giant.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsTorrent Study Shows Surprising Results
For much of the past decade, record companies have used music pirating as an excuse for explaining their crumbling revenues and broken business model. But compared to other entertainment industries, music labels may have it easy. According to a recent P2P file-sharing study funded by NBC Universal, music pirating only constitutes a small portion of the total file-sharing going on at just under three percent. Contrary to popular belief, music is shared in surprisingly small amounts compared to pornography (35.8%), movies (35.2%), TV (14.5%), Games (6.7%) and Software (4.2%).... read more
Found in: Industry, NewsGoogle Catches Microsoft's Bing Using Google Search Results
Like any major corporation, Microsoft has garnered some negative attention over the years. But now, it looks like Google caught the company using Google’s search results in Microsoft’s Bing search engine.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsAmazon Considers Streaming Video Service
Amazon may be gearing up for battle with Netflix in the coming months, as the Internet giant is considering a jump into steaming video subscription services.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsMPAA Shuts Down 50+ Torrent Sites
The Motion Picture Association of America and Dutch anti-piracy advocacy group BREIN terminated over 50 torrent sites after bringing their massive copyright violations to the attention of each respective site’s hosting providers.... read more
Found in: Industry, NewsMTV Announces Digital Music Awards Show
MTV recently announced that they are developing a digital music awards show expected to debut this spring. The cable channel already plays host to its own European Music Awards, Movie Awards and the Video Music Awards.... read more
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