Nothing is ever truly serious unless a politician says it or does it. So there can be no question that Facebook has been been rocked to its sneakers ... read more »
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Class, we need to go over this again: when you post things on Facebook, it is likely that they will go far beyond your few thousand friends. This rem... read more »
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Microsoft--furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook--has been considering a wide range of options, including lega... read more »
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(Credit: USGS) An 8.9-magnitude earthquake and series of major tsunamis struck Japan on Friday, generating an upswell of news and concern from u... read more »
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Even when the group in question is slightly whiny and humorless, if enough people band together, they can pull off a revolution. In this case, I happ... read more »
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Turkey's ban on YouTube has ended two years after the government cut off access because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder. The ... read more »
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There are few things we love more here at Springwise than seeing a good idea spread. So we couldn''t resist mentioning CASHurDrive, a new carvertising... read more »
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Everyone's favorite government agency, the Internal Revenue Service, has launched its own mobile application. The IRS&39's new iPhone app Released... read more »
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The $129.99 Kobo eReader Touch Edition will ship in June and comes in multiple color choices. (Credit: David Carnoy/CNET) The day before Barnes &... read more »
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There seems currently to be a debate about whether we should all have one identity online (as Mark Zuckerberg would prefer) or whether we should be a... read more »
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Gawker Media&39's new look, as shown on the site io9.com. (Credit: Gawker Media) When blog network Gawker Media announced last year that it would ... read more »
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For the first time, a group of Hollywood film studios has filed a copyright lawsuit against a cyberlocker. File-hosting service Hotfile has mad... read more »
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Groupon understands the American mentality. We are not charitable. We are not drippy, caring, altruistic, do-gooders. We want a deal. We love a deal.... read more »
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One of the tech world's greatest lawyers told me the other day that he thought the retweet was the greatest way of saying something truly nasty about... read more »
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When she was in high school, all of her friends wanted to work at Google. So offered Lady Gaga as she wandered into the Googleplex and showed them ... read more »
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Someone from Yahoo has accused Google of overpaying for YouTube. Google CEO Eric Schmidt (Credit: Elinor Mills/CNET) Oh, the irony. Steven Mitze... read more »
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NEW YORK--Edgar Bronfman Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group and heir to a huge beverage fortune, received more than $17 million in total compensation for... read more »
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(Credit: Columbia Pictures) Its fortunes didn't fare quite so well as the company it was based on: "The Social Network," a controversial recounting... read more »
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Amazon plans to increase the amount of sales revenue it shares with the publishers of newspapers and magazines. (Credit: Amazon) Amazon announce... read more »
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(Credit: Matthew Moskovciak/CNET) The Google TV platform was already struggling after Hulu and every major TV network started blocking its devic... read more »
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