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Twitter adds lolcatz to language options, somehow fails to be clever with it

Twitter adds lolcatz to language options, somehow fails to be clever with it

It should have been one of the easiest Easter eggs in the world to pull off for a progressive social...

Trending on Twitter now costs $200k a day in the US

Trending on Twitter now costs $200k a day in the US

In 2008, Twitter introduced the ability for advertisers to buy promoted trends, a way of taking over a portion of...

Google chief Schmidt to sell 42% of shares valued at $2.5 billion

Google chief Schmidt to sell 42% of shares valued at $2.5 billion

Google is trying to limit the damage done from the news that their former CEO and current Executive Chairman Eric...

Illegally uploaded full-length movies pop up again on YouTube

Illegally uploaded full-length movies pop up again on YouTube

It was a problem that had been solved for all intents and purposes years ago when YouTube put the power...

Facebook is getting into new smartphones whether you want it or not

Facebook is getting into new smartphones whether you want it or not

Facebook may or may not have abandoned its long-rumored dream of having its own branded handsets, but that doesn't mean...

An unlikely alliance forms between Google and Yahoo

An unlikely alliance forms between Google and Yahoo

Yahoo knew that when they brought Marissa Mayer over from Google to run their struggling company, that they would be...

The real takeaways from the Super Bowl social media debate

The real takeaways from the Super Bowl social media debate

There's a minor journalistic debate currently happening surrounding the marketing, particularly how social media played into the Super Bowl ads,...

10 cool views of America as seen through Google Street View

10 cool views of America as seen through Google Street View

Traveling can be logistically hard and fiscally challenging, even when staying in the boundaries of the United States. There are...

ARGUS is DARPA’s ultimate 1.8-gigapixel eye in the sky

ARGUS is DARPA’s ultimate 1.8-gigapixel eye in the sky

Imagine a camera, drone, and integrated video storage system that can shoot detailed images of a 15-square mile area that...

Techi week in review

Techi week in review

This week was loaded with big mobile news from regulars such as Apple to an old school mobile giant, that...

Daily deals are dying

Daily deals are dying

In 2011, we wrote about how Groupon must fail to save the internet. At the time, there were already some...

Google’s attack on N. Korean concentration camp gets hit with user reviews

Google’s attack on N. Korean concentration camp gets hit with user reviews

The human rights atrocities in North Korea are no laughing matter and Google is doing their part with a different...

End the vertical video madness

End the vertical video madness

There was a faux-PSA posted last year that was enjoyable to watch but that rang a truth within its contents....

Stop making infographics that suck

Stop making infographics that suck

In many ways, infographics help to fulfill one of the important promises of the internet in general and social media...

What is Big Data and Why It’s Bigger Than You Realize

What is Big Data and Why It’s Bigger Than You Realize

Big Data refers to datasets on an extremely large scale filled with complexities that make it impossible to process and...

Which is better, Siri or Google Voice Search?

Which is better, Siri or Google Voice Search?

The Apple versus Google battle has been waging since well before anyone even knew there was a rift between the...

5 types of Facebook content that make local businesses stand out

5 types of Facebook content that make local businesses stand out

In an environment with a billion users, millions of business pages, and just about every company in every industry trying...

Twitter’s Vine video app almost lasts half a day before Facebook cuts it off

Twitter’s Vine video app almost lasts half a day before Facebook cuts it off

The cold war between Facebook and Twitter continued Thursday and nobody was really surprised by it. Vine, the new video...

Is Google in cahoots with the government to hide the depths of privacy infringement?

Is Google in cahoots with the government to hide the depths of privacy infringement?

Put your tin foil hats on. It's conspiracy theory time. Since 2010, Google has been tracking and releasing their bi-yearly...

Silicon Valley is buying protection from DC through skyrocketing lobbying spends

Silicon Valley is buying protection from DC through skyrocketing lobbying spends

The greatest threat to startups is lack of momentum. For companies that make it over the startup hump, it's competition....