Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:31:44 EST
A Google Employee Is Running Microsoft's Pub
The co-owner of the Spitfire pub at Microsoft HQ
now works for the software company's archenemy Google. Talk about hedging your investments. (NB to Microsofties: We hear the Google-friendly pub spikes your drinks with a productivity-killing chemical. It's called "alcohol.")
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:10:36 EST
Heidi Montag's Sad Dream
Heidi Montag dreamed of starring in a pointless remake of an absurd film;
Nicholas Carlson imagined nailing Facebook's CEO to the wall; and
Perez Hilton envisioned getting his mom back. The Twitterati were in fantasyland.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:27:33 EST
Creepy Apple Wants Control of Your House, Wallet
In addition to to providing your digital music, movies and "print" media, Apple would also like to be the gateway to your home and bank account. Meet the iKey, the invention that lets
Steve Jobs mediate your most private spaces.
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:09:32 EST
Google CEO Can't Keep His Ex-Mistress's Blog Down
Video producer
Kate Bohner has re-published
her autobiographical blog, just two weeks after taking it offline amid threats from
Eric Schmidt's lawyers. There's been one especially noticeable change: the character "Dr. Strangelove" is gone.
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:54:46 EST
Inside the Low-Paying Cheezburger Empire
Ben Huh's media startup is focused on LOLcats and other internet animal memes. Things are less cute behind the scenes, where underpaid and overworked humans lurk, according to several company veterans who answered our
recent request for information.
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:02:19 EST
Mark Zuckerberg Will Personally Hack Your Facebook Account
You have another reason to be worried about your privacy on Facebook. A new investigation reveals the company's founder hacked into the personal profiles and email of both his personal rivals and journalists. More »
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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:01:51 EST
Scam-Trafficking Games Company Insists Its Haiti Charity Was Not a Scam, Too
The investigative bloggers at Brazil's Folha Online say Zynga confirmed keeping half the money in certain fundraising campaigns linked to Haiti relief. Zynga says it's been open about this all along. But these aren't questions the company behind Farmville relishes.
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:08:49 EST
Will Steve Jobs Watch the New Play About Him?
An "elite" monologuist is mounting a play about Apple's CEO. It's titled
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs; it promises to "dive into" the "epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka;" and it opens in Jobs's back yard.
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:36:41 EST
Middle-Eastern Forces To Invade Tech Conference
Dell kept hanging up on
Chris Anderson; Neel Shah mounted a pro-Shake Shack counterattack; and
Irin Carmon worried about the "invasion" of SXSW. The Twitterati were dealing with true offensives.
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:49:48 EST
13 Intimate Facebook Messages You Weren't Supposed to See
Here's a cache of the private messages misdirected by Facebook last week, messages about sex and divorce, devotion and infidelity, cancer and rubdowns. Messages underlining how deeply digital networks run through our lives, and how important online privacy has become.
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:52:01 EST
Janice Min's Internet Future
Former
Star editor Bonnie Fuller left the celeb magazine world to start a
wondrous vapid celeb website. Now,
WWD says former
Us Weekly editor
Janice Min is working on a website of her own. Can she avoid post-magazine online doom?
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