The Week's Top Twenty in Social Media
Google scores a win by taking the top spot on the Dachis Group's Social Business Index
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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.
Google scores a win by taking the top spot on the Dachis Group's Social Business Index
Kayak is the latest company that doesn't want to go public in this market
It's a real change of heart after all that trash-talking he did during the Bush years
Beck says "’Liberty Treehouse’ will not only entertain children and young adults but it will respect them"
The former Facebook president's new venture will have monthly essays and daily commentary
Kindle Fire comes preprogrammed with Amazon's streaming service
The GOP candidate earned $239,000, pushing his earnings above $1 million
This and other revelations in a new scientific study on what tweets tell us about our moods
The bank plans to charge customers $5 a month to use their debit cards
RIM cut prices on their PlayBook, but they may be getting out of the tablet business entirely
Congress is calling for an FTC investigation into Facebook's tracking practices
There are four times as many people using the streaming service than downloading files
Low-price Kindles are made possible by turning people into purchasers of other products
The animal rights group, known for its sexy tactics, likens it to "necrophilia"
Team Windows just signed Samsung up for a patent licensing deal. It's also a good reason for them not to use Google's OS
Everybody from Susan Sarandon to Roseanne Barr has made an appearance in solidarity
Forget Andy Samberg: Mark Zuckerberg should have hired Jon Hamm
The 92-year-old commentator is taking a step back after over three decades on the show
The average American family's health insurance costs topped $15,000 this year
Believe it or not, the Motor City is one of the only two markets where prices rose
But The New York Times's content farm didn't have many staffers to begin with
As Steve Jobs once said, "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower"
New York startup-types did not like Y Combinator founder Paul Graham's take on their city
The social network is struggling through awkward corporate adolescence
Like Google and Facebook before it, Twitter is opening an international office in Dublin
They're still making boatloads of money, though
A Twitter user helped save a team on The Amazing Race last night. Why doesn't this happen more often?
His first post--which promises he'll do the same thing he did at TechCrunch--got lots of comments
In a leaked company-wide memo, CEO Jerry Yang admits he's talking to potential buyers
It's time for Aisha Qaddafi to power up her propaganda machine again
Former police consultant Neil Wallis traded bribes for exclusives
Paul Carr quit his TechCrunch job with great fanfare and is now starting a new company
Apple even secured patents on the buildings' unique design elements
Coke has an arty new marketing campaign and Best Buy looks a little clueless
The new DVD-by-mail and streaming service looks pretty cool…if you're a Dish Networks customer
A judge refused the government's requrest to throw out an ACLU class action suit
Just like it sounds, "Back to Work" is about jump-starting the economy
Replacing Leo Apotheker as CEO, the former eBay chief has to turn the company around quickly
Two new arrests--one in San Francisco, one in Phoenix--show progress in the hacker crackdown
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook's updates will allow for a completely new class of social apps
Andy Samberg posed as Mark Zuckerberg at f8--just like Noah Wyle posed as Steve Jobs in 1999
Against the WikiLeaks founder's wishes, "An Unauthorised Biography" is now for sale in the UK
Facebook says they're going to knock our socks off
America's struggling youth are looking more and more like Japan's lost generation
Silicon Valley is not impressed by Hewlett-Packard's board of directors
At least the Senators were imaginative during Eric Schmidt's grilling
9,000 iPads in classrooms is a good start, but Apple could be doing so much more
The scatter-brained billionaire's greatest creation may have been Mark Zuckerberg
Which probably explains why TV ad prices are rising despite declining viewership
The company with White House ties has been on a GOP hiring tear
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