The social media sphere continued to spin this week as spring set in. National Amusements topped the charts, bumping Disney down to number two. Whereas the rest of the top 10 stayed stagnant, there was a lot of movement in the teens, with NBC Universal and WWE both winning the biggest mover status.
PayPal pulled back the curtain on their new mobile payments device on Thursday afternoon, surely the product of much sweat and tears from some design team. And goshdarnit: Everybody's making fun of it.
The sudden emergence of the Knicks superstar guard has also brought out the best in our unlicensed T-shirt designers
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.
AllThingsD's Kara Swisher has the scoop that Yahoo is ready to name Scott Thompson, current president of eBay's PayPal service, as its next CEO.
Regardless of whatever you read about the social media bubble leaking air, America's biggest companies have so much money, they have to make up reasons to spend it -- like paying rock stars ungodly sums to play at corporate conferences.
In a scoop for Michael Arrington's new Uncrunched, news broke this morning that Ebay would acquire crowd-sourced search startup Hunch for $80 million.
Twitter, Flickr and eBay are all helping clean up the mess in the UK
Bids jumped north of $2 million in less than 24 hours, which is weird
An early PayPal employee jumped ship and took confidential information with him
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