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2 million ‘people’ that follow Michelle Obama on Twitter aren’t people at all

It's not uncommon. Newt Gingrich had them. Justin Bieber has them. Now the First Lady is the latest to have her Twitter account followed by a massive amount of fake...

Made (by robots) in China

There's a challenge with economic freedoms. Every country that expands capitalism finds that there are benefits, but one of the hardest parts to stomach is the increase in necessary wages....

Don’t park your car in a garage on Grand Theft Auto V

Games in virtual worlds as massive as Grand Theft Auto V are bound to have glitches. Other games that operate in open landscapes have had some comical glitches, such as...

Part of BlackBerry’s problem: they failed to reach young consumers

BlackBerry built its reputation while it was Research In Motion as a company with products that every old, stuffy business executive needed in their briefcase. When that could no longer...

Unlimited data plans not sustainable according to Verizon CEO

Some say the "digital age" has been replaced by the "data age". It's no longer just about what hardware you have. The ability to retrieve the data quickly and in...

New York is making it easier to stop and text while driving

Texting is one of the most dangerous activities one can do while driving, but the constant pings from smartphones makes it still very common. Now, New York is trying to...

Links used in Supreme Court opinions nearly half rotted away

There's a "disease" on the internet that plagues any entity that relies on other sources and exists for long enough. It's called link rot, and thankfully it's not contagious. It...

Oracle sued for refusing to pay $33,540 strip club tab

It apparently takes a lot out of people when they're working at Oracle. An employee ran up a $33,540 tab at a strip club and paid it on the corporate...

Prem Watsa, the ‘Warren Buffett of Canada’, is trying to save BlackBerry

The large buyout that Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is attempting on BlackBerry isn't just a bargain. They're in it for self preservation as well. The man behind the move is...

New $50 million funding round will help Flipboard unify content consumption

Flipboard has been able to stay on top of the extremely competitive arena of content presentation and distribution for a couple of years now. This latest round of funding against...

What companies can learn from BlackBerry’s failures

They were the go-to device for anyone in the civilized world who wanted to be successful. They smelled like good business and walked like a superior being. Now, they're being...

Fake online reviews get costly in New York

The good ol' days of faking online reviews for the sake of giving your business a better reputation may be behind us. New York may be the first, but they...

Valve makes simple living room gaming a reality with SteamOS

...and yes, it's free. Valve is done teasing. Today, Valve has revealed SteamOS, its own operating system based on Linux, designed for living room gaming PCs. It's the first step towards Valve's Steam...

Oracle promotes new database technology that’s ‘100 times faster’

The technology itself will be lost on anyone other than the most tech-savvy, but that's not important. When a company can use a phrase like "100 times faster," everyone is...

Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry

Oh, Canada. Will you be able to bring the once-proud smartphone pioneer out from the ashes of failure? We'll soon find out. Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. has put together an...

Gaming numbers are making Hollywood numbers look tiny

A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? A billion dollars. That's the message from the gaming industry after the success of recent games, including Grand Theft Auto V....

Mobile ad giant Flurry points to IPO as ‘inevitable’

When you have a mobile ad reach greater than Google's and you have more business than you can handle, there's no other option than to go public. That's what Flurry's...

BlackBerry executives may be flying coach after jet selloff

When a company is failing, they usually check to see what luxuries the executives can live without once they've cut the workforce down. That's what's happening at BlackBerry. First, they...

Twitter hopes advertising by TV networks can boost them before IPO

It took Facebook a year to get its IPO jumpstarted. Twitter hopes to cut straight to success with their IPO and getting big deals from TV networks might just do...

The internet needs more women according to the United Nations

There are 1.5 billion men online worldwide compared to 1.3 billion women. The conclusion from the UN study is that device makers should consider it an "emerging market" bigger than...