How Much are Your Tweets Worth?

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

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Fourteen Hilarious Valentine's Day Tweets

Fourteen 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

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AOL Acquires Huffington Post

AOL 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

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Awesome of the Day: M. Ward and Jim James' Creme-Bru-Log

Awesome 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

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Facebook Profiles Scraped for Dating Website

Facebook 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

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Torrent Study Shows Surprising Results

Torrent 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

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Google Catches Microsoft's Bing Using Google Search Results

Google 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

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Amazon Considers Streaming Video Service

Amazon 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

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MPAA Shuts Down 50+ Torrent Sites

MPAA 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

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MTV Announces Digital Music Awards Show

MTV 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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