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Above is a picture of Quebec resident Natalie Blanchard. She lost her insurance benefits because of the above photo and several other photos that were on Facebook. Blanchard was on a long-term disability for 18 months because of a depression diagnosis. Her insurance company ruled that she ...
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Chegg is the biggest online textbook rental company and they are aggressively funding themselves in order to expand their business. The company raised $57 million in Series D equity funding led by Insight Venture Partners. Insight Venture Partners also provided Chegg with $25 million in ...
Other
Insight Venture Partners
Pinnacle Ventures
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired Teracent . Teracent is a service that allows advertisers to build smarter display ads by capturing the images, colors, and text themes. Teracent can also capture the geographic location, language, and content of the website and customize banners.
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Online
Yahoo
AT&T is getting aggressive when it comes to marketing. AT&T’s temporary restraining order against Verizon for the “there’s a map for that” advertisements fell through so they had to respond. First AT&T hired Luke Wilson to be a spokesperson and now ...
Mobile
Verizon
BNO News (also known as @BreakingNews on Twitter) has over 1.4 million followers. The company also has a very popular iPhone application and has decided to start syndicating content from sources for their Twitter followers. One of their first partners is MSNBC.com. While MSNBC.com manages ...
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Michael Dell
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Last night at the American Music Awards, Jennifer
Lopez was doing a live performance. In one of
the dance steps, she climbed on top of a guy’s back and then had to jump off. It turns out that she took a nasty spill as soon as she jumped off and this cropped video is circulating ...
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J Lo Falls At The AMAs, Becomes A Viral Hit [Video]
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ESPN has disallowed editor Bill Simmons from writing for two weeks because he criticized sports radio station WEEI on a tweet. In a blog post , ESPN editor-in-chief Rob King wrote “we’ve taken appropriate measures.”
ESPN and WEEI have a radio partnership that began on ...
Software
Bill Gates
The American Music Awards is an award ceremony that started in 1973 and was conceptualized by Dick Clark. The award ceremony is starting at 8PM EST today on ABC but if you don’t have access to a TV you can watch it embedded below (after the jump).
Live performers include Jennifer ...
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Because of the picture above Lucie Kim decided to sue Miley Cyrus for $4 billion. The lawsuit was class-action and it was a high amount because she claimed that Cyrus was violating a statute that does not allow businesses to discriminate against minorities. Los ...
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QuinStreet is an online media and marketing company that owns the domain names Insure.com and Internet.com. Insure.com was bought for about $16 million and Internet.com was bought for $18 million. Quinstreet has filed an IPO in order to raise $250 million. The company will be listed under ...
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Sutter Hill Ventures
Split Rock Partners
Granite Global Ventures
Focus Ventures
Rosewood Capital
VSP Capital
Earlier today I called a friend for his birthday. I would not have known it was his birthday unless I logged into Facebook and checked the bottom right side-bar of the homepage. Facebook does not give prime homepage real estate to birthdays and that seems pretty inconvenient to those who ...
Online
India currently has a population of 1.14 billion people. One of the fast growing mobile market segments in the subcontinent are the rural areas. As a matter of fact Manoj Kohli of Bharti Airtel is predicting that there will be about a billion mobile phone users in India by 2015. His company ...
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When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was released, the game made $310 million in 24 hours and $600 million in 5 days. The first question that might be on a financial analyst’s minds may be, “how much of that was profit?” It turns out that the game costed roughly $40-$50 ...
Gaming
Activision
Blizzard
The Verizon Droid has not been out for that long, but retailers want to capitalize on the hype around the new Google Android phone, designed by Motorola. Verizon is selling the phone for $200. Then Amazon.com decided to chop the price to $150. And now Dell.com decided to beat Amazon’s ...
Mobile
Amazon
Verizon
Android
Motorola
The newest Palm smartphone with 3G connection, QWERTY keyboard, social networking applications built-in, EV-DO connectivity, GPS through Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV, Amazon.com MP3 store, and 5 hours of talk time has been reduced to a mere $25 on Amazon.com with a 2 year contract of ...
Online
Amazon
Sprint
QWERTY
EV-DO
Like.com has acquired Weardrobe.com . Weardrobe is a website that allows visitors to upload pictures of themselves and follow other users whose wardrobes they like. Like.com will be rolling their technology into Weardrobe . Weardrobe started as one of the eighteen companies from the ...
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Vevo is an upcoming music video website that will be similar to Hulu. Rio Caraeff is the head of Vevo and the company is rumored to have raised $300 million. The company expects to stream about 450 million videos per month. The company will be ran by about 45 people initially.
Vevo is ...
Hardware
Sony
Hulu
YouTube
Torrent search engine service Mininova.org has hit a major milestone. The company hit about 10 billion torrent downloads earlier this week. Mininova started in January 2005. “We never really expected anything. We don’t really tend to focus on these numbers, we are just trying to run the ...
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Nick Scott Studio designed an animation video of The Story of Google starting from the time that Sergey and Larry met each other to the point of the Google Chrome OS. The Studio put together the animation video using After Effects, Cinema 4d, and a little bit of film. The video was a ...
Online
Larry Page
Google Chrome OS
MTV
AOL has hired Allen & Company along with Morgan Stanley to try and find a buyer for ICQ. ICQ is an instant messaging software that competed with AOL Instant Messenger before being bought out. There are supposedly two non-U.S. based firms that already have an interest in buying out ICQ ...
