The Week's Top 20 in Social Media
Each Friday we're taking a tally of the companies getting heard on social media, what they're saying and why it matters.
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The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
Each Friday we're taking a tally of the companies getting heard on social media, what they're saying and why it matters.
The people who make shows for NPR stations, dinged by the perception that they're a bunch of kneejerk liberals, are proving themselves to be very, very touchy about how their employees participate with Occupy Wall Street.
The tech blogs are abuzz with news that Samsung is now selling more smartphones than Apple, in a big win for the Korean company's press team.
Following two months of rampant plagiarism charges from around the world, President Viktor F. Yanukovich just published the English translation of his first book.
Steve Jobs was characteristically coy when he told biographer Walter Isaacson why he felt no need to have a license plate on his Mercedes.
Sean Parker, the partyboy genius worth an estimated $2.1 billion, wants everyone to back off him about being the 1 percent--he "was broke and couch surfing just a few years ago!"
James O'Keefe's lastest undercover investigation has blown the lid off the rampant liberalism at New York University: journalism professors Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen have been outed as opinionated men.
Stunning stop motion animation and pretty embroidered book covers make Spike Jonze's latest project look both gorgeous and gruesome.
As the name for a protest, the word "Occupy" works okay when you put it in front of "Wall Street," but as it becomes a worldwide political movement, it's pretty iffy.
Google's photographic tour of everywhere on always seemed a little bit limited by the term "Street View," but with photos of business interiors now appearing on Google Maps, it's breaking free of that constraint.
In the next few days, the world population will hit the 7 billion mark, and the United Nations, aided by the media, is scaring us to death about it.
For as long as the internet has been around, companies have been trying (and failing) to get people to behave online, but a new social networking site called Nextdoor isn't discouraged.
If you've seen Free Willy, you'll understand the emotional appeal behind PETA's latest lawsuit, but the organization has a spotty history equating human slavery with keeping animals in captivity.
Despite a solid 44 percent spike in sales, Amazon reported a staggering 73 percent drop in income on the heels of its new lineup of recession-friendly Kindles.
The demise of Google Reader's share features is affecting everyone from RSS-junkies to Iranian freedom fighters, and many of them are very displeased.
Less than 24-hours old, the Huffington Post's new parenting blog is already the target of legal action from The New York Times and insults from Times staffers.
Sometime this week, Google Reader will retire its social features many confusing sharing features, forcing their small but passionate community to relocate to Google+.
As more Libyan rebels are flaunting Qaddafi's golden handguns, we can't help but wonder what they're doing with the warehouses full of surface-to-air missiles.
Like the boxy mp3-players everybody hated a decade ago, the digital thermostat has long been low-hanging fruit in terms of redesign potential.
The danger of a double-dip recession is scaring everybody, but not enough to keep them from buying frivolous things.
Walter Isaacson didn't leave anybody guessing about his admiration for Steve Jobs, but reviewers seem pleased about learning the darker side of the visionary.
While everybody else is waiting in line to buy Steve Jobs's biography, you can get a pretty good idea of the major points from Sunday's night's interview with author Walter Isaacson.
A pair of writers unions are abandoning their seven-month-long boycott against The Huffington Post protesting the website's use of unpaid bloggers citing an agreement, but the web news giant says it's not changing its rules for unpaid writers.
A lot of people are not pleased with President Obama after he approved a plan for BP to drill up in the Gulf of Mexico, the first of its kind since last year's Deepwater Horizon explosion.
As the Libyan government scrambles to figure out how to bury their dead dictator, curious onlookers with cameras are flocking to the meat store where his body is being kept.
We figure there were lots of media outlets that called NYPD Det. Rick Lee, also known as the Hipster Cop, looking for an interview (including us), it looks like he settled on GQ for a very specific reason.
The Associated Press got its hands on an advance final copy of Kansas's abortion clinic regulations, but some say they're still too extreme.
London's iconic cathedral survived bombings from Hitler, but it's having a hard time with the Occupy London protesters.
Facebook continues to fend off Google for the top spot, but this week sees an impressive surge from Coca-Cola which has risen to number three.
There is no shortage of blurry cell phone videos and eyewitness accounts, but everyone is still having a hard time figuring out exactly what happened in Qaddafi's last living minutes.
This year's slew of scandals should produce an especially ugly show at Fox Studios, where News Corp.'s annual shareholder meeting will take place on Friday afternoon.
Colombian blogger Carlos Andres Jimenez got ahold of an released video tour of Gmail's redesign, and it looks awesome.
Like much of the internet, we're fascinated by the now widely circulated image of the Libyan rebel triumphantly holding up the golden gun he took off Muammar Qaddafi's dead body.
The Obama administration's new Facebook-powered jobs program is just the latest sign that the social network is establishing a heavy presence in D.C.
Minutes after unconfirmed reports of Qaddafi's death broke, pundits started arguing over whether or not Obama deserves credit.
At their main trade show GEOINT this week, the intelligence community talked a lot about making progress in preventing the next Bradley Manning from leaking government secrets.
As they are wont to do with just about everything, Apple is being incredibly secretive about how they're paying tribute to Steve Jobs.
The committee investigating phone hacking laughed when Labour MP Tom Watson announced that he'd bought News Corp. shares so that he could speak at the company's annual meeting.
Jack Hanna, the guy in cargo pants who's always getting bitten by monkeys on Good Morning America, is leading the effort to collect the escaped wild animals in Zanesville, Ohio.
Apple underwhelmed analysts' predictions with their fourth quarter earnings, sending the company's stock tumbling, but some numbers suggest that the iPhone rumor mill is at least partly to blame.
Google's new Good to Know privacy portal, which explains how and why the company collects user data, is a little bit like reverse engineering Facebook's privacy nightmares.
Despite revenue dipping 24 percent and profits sinking 26 percent, the company's third quarter results weren't as bad as Wall Street expected
The basic idea behind Dropbox, the cloud-based file service which announced a new $250 million round of investment giving it a $4 billion valuation, is pretty straightforward, but like any successful tech sensation, its users have taken that idea and run with it.
With a bevy of strong growth stats at his back, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is getting pretty ambitious about his company's increasingly prominent status not just as a tech start-up but as a new kind of media company.
As the world is gearing up for another Johnny Depp-powered glimpse into the life of Hunter S. Thompson with the release of The Rum Diary later this month, Playboy is opening up their archive of correspondence with the writer.
James Wolcott got his first job with help from Mailer, but he was one of many who received writing guidance
The partially taxpayer-funded hangar looks like it could take off and fly away
Time to make a mixtape: married bandmates Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon are divorcing
Citigroup's profits are up 74 percent only three years after the government saved them
The new New York Times executive editor is profiled by The New Yorker's Ken Auletta
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