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Unlike other networks, which are fearful to put stuff on the Internets, NBC's not worried about losing money on its free stream of this year's Super Bowl.
In a rare out of company hire, Tim Cook has appointed John Browett, current chief executive of British electronics retailer Dixons, to head up Apple's retail arm.
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With Lana Del Rey's album Born to Die debuting today, we've finally entered the backlash-to-the-backlash phase of the singer's Internet fame trajectory.
After a couple of weeks using a partially functional site, MegaUpload's users will now feel some real pain as the fed threatens to delete the site's data starting Thursday.
The technophobic author has now taken to hating on a technology that enables his career, e-readers.
Everybody flipped out on Thursday when Twitter announced it had developed the capability to censor tweets in specific countries, should that country's government require it by law.
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Expensive sports channels are pushing cable bills to levels that make Internet-only subscriptions seem ever-more appealing.
One month and 12 million views later, the original 'Shit Girls Say' video is still inspiring copycats and we don't expect them to stop anytime soon.
We didn't need a New York Times article to bring to our attention to the fact that certain companies bribe their customers for good Internet reviews in exchange for rebates.
Twitter just announce a new policy that sounds scarier than it is, especially following all the talk about censorship these days.
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Even after reporting an increase in high-speed data customers alongside a decrease in video subscribers, Time Warner still doesn't think that the Internet is replacing the traditional pay TV model.
The latest numbers out of Airbnb lead us to believe that the service, which helps people rent out their homes as hotels, has overcome the reputation it developed over the summer as the type of business that lets drug addicts and slobs ruin houses.
We have become so obsessed with our iGadgets that not only do we accept the unsafe working conditions that it takes to produce our iPads and the like, but we've also put our own health at risk.
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Google doesn't do a very good job identifying us based on our Internet habits, according to our very small and not-too-scientific, 12-person study of The Atlantic Wire staff.
While Europe moves ahead with its right to be forgotten, as seasoned Internet stalkers, we've gone through and ranked the best and easiest places anyone can find your personal data on the Internet.
There's a real live person behind the fictional Honey Badger viral star and turns out he has a life off of the Internet, too. Just barely.
The developers of Tiny Tower shouldn't be surprised that Zynga blatantly copied their popular game. Zynga's in the business of game cloning.
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Now that Virgin America has named one of its fleet after Steve Jobs, branding its Airbus A320 with one of his popular quotes, "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish," we wonder what objects will be next to receive The Steve Jobs distinction.
This morning Verizon reported a fourth quarter loss of $2.02 billion, or 71 cents per share and even though it doubled iPhone sales over the holiday season to 4.2 million, the loss had a lot to do with those very sales
Six months after the Google+ debut, Google's trying to lure users into engaging it by playing to our egos with its new social search features.
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To prove a point, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter employees have joined forces to create a hack that gets around Google's preferential social search, providing the real, most relevant social-network related results.
Research in Motion's new CEO Thorsten Heins doesn't look like the kind of guy who would help the BlackBerry maker lift itself out of years long decline after smarter, cooler phones moved into the market.
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The blogging service that once catered to emo-teenagers is poising itself for a comeback, LiveJournal general manager Anjelika Petrochenko told FastCompany's Neil Ungerleader, but it turns out the site has done pretty well since many of us deactivated our profiles.
Though Foxconn is spinning CEO Terry Gou's comparison of his workforce to zoo creatures as a cultural mis-communication, it doesn't change the fact that the company actually treats its workers like animals.
Google's making its Google+ user engagement sound like a bonanza success story, but is it really as great as the company suggests?
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Apple has filed a patent for its iPhone bot, securing its ownership of the popular feature while revealing the company's lofty plans for Siri's future.
Though Amazon loses money on the production of each Kindle Fire, the company more than makes up for it in digital media sales -- just as planned.
After years of user complaints about site redesigns and new features, Facebook has figured out ways to minimize damage with its latest overhaul, Open Graph.
News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch's reaction to a Google TV presentations is the best explanation yet of why we won't be seeing truly integrated Internet TV any time soon.
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We know Apple operates in a shroud of secrecy, partially to keep its fanboys hungry, but the latest inside look at the company from Fortune's Adam Lashinsky describes a intense culture more akin to an organization protecting life-or-death secrets.
With the U.S. government trying to pass what Google's Sergey Brin has called "China-like censorship," China has found a new way to tamp down free expression on the Internet: make people use their real names.
Sides both for and against SOPA are preparing for Wednesday's day of action, as other big Internet sites, like Wikipedia and Google, have joined Reddit in its protest.
Discovered: the dangers of headphones for pedestrians, troubling obesity rate numbers, our sun's future, and the impact of medical marijuana on traffic accidents.
After making Timeline widely available, Facebook's following up with its Open Graph promises, debuting its frictionless sharing apps tomorrow, AllThingsD's Liz Gannes reports.
With Apple having forced In Icons to discontinue manufacturing its ultra-lifelike Steve Jobs, hungry Steve Jobs fanatics have taken to eBay, hoping to get their hands on the doll while they still can.
Other big Internet players haven't rallied behind Jimmy Wales, after the Wikipedia founder confirmed that the site would go dark this Wednesday to protest SOPA.
It's no surprise that mall staple clothing chain Anthropologie recruits college kids for menial tasks like hanging signs and shelving items, but now instead of paying minimum wage, they offer college credit for their Visual Display Internship.
Google still doesn't think it did anything wrong, even as the Federal Trade Commission folds its new search features that promote Google+ into its anti-trust investigations of the company.
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Pushing Moore's law to its limit, researchers at I.B.M have figured out a way to store one bit of data on 12 atoms, something it takes a computer 1 million atoms to do.
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