Entertainment Earth, an online shop with plenty of geek gear, is having a rather great summer blowout sale. There are plenty of treasures to be found at prices discounted by up to 90%
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Get Action Figures, Games, and Miscellaneous Geek Gear Up To 90 Percent Off [Dealzmodo]
Breaking news, fresh off of the wire: HP just finalized agreements to buy Palm for $1.2 billion dollars. HP’s $1.2 billion dollar purchase breaks down to roughly $5.70 per share of common stock
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HP To Buy Palm for $1.2 Billion
We’ve all had the experience. You visit cnn.com looking to catch up on the day’s news and have a total WTF!?
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How Much Does CNN.com Suck? WTFCNN.com Shows You
Plastic Jungle, a marketplace for gift cards, is hoping to shakeup the gift card market by allowing gift card owners to use certificates for a given store at another online retail establishment.
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Can Plastic Jungle Create A Market Around Gift Cards?
Have you seen Lady Gaga’s new music video with Beyonce , launched on Vevo and YouTube last month? The one that mixes busty blonde babes with Wonder Bread, Miracle Whip, Virgin Mobile, and a host of other brands? Troy Carter, Gaga’s manager who helped put together this video, will be speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt next month. Carter will join Google President and head of Business Development Nikesh Arora , Facebook product head Chris Cox, Google’s VP of engineering Vic Gundotra , and other executives at Disrupt to discuss our core themes of what’s now in content creation, distribution platforms, and –everyone’s favorite — monetization of media
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How Does Lady Gaga Make Money On YouTube? Find Out At TechCrunch Disrupt.
Last week I walked through the set of American Idiot , a new broadway musical featuring the songs of the skiffle band, Green Day. I’m not big on musical theatre – I was never given even a chorus part in high school and ended up doing crew, which was much more fun, so maybe it’s sour grapes – but this musical has 44 different video screens on stage, each doing something different, making it one of the most technically impressive productions on Broadway
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Wake Me Up When The Circuit Bends: Inside American Idiot On Broadway
Klout , a startup that measures influence on Twitter, has secured $1.5 million in Series A funding from a number of investors, including Allen Morgan of Mayfield Fund, Nova Spivack of Lucid Ventures, Zelkova Ventures , Paige Craig , Tom McInerney , Michael Yavonditte of Quigo Technologies, and Ofer Ronan. Klout, which recently released a new API, evaluates Twitter users’ behavior with complex ranking algorithms and semantic analysis of content to measure the influence of individuals and topics around the web.
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Klout Raises $1.5 Million To Measure Influence And Authority On Twitter
So you bought your child an iPhone and you gave him or her an iTunes account and password and told them that they can simply download as many apps as they want, 24 hours a day, even if they cost money. But what’s this? Junior or Julia has started downloading saucy sex sensors and card games containing images of ladies in various states of undress?
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Think Of The Children: Parents Television Council Finds iPhone Apps Too Saucy
Online media company Internet Brands (aka INET) today announced the acquisition of ExpertHub , a network of websites that connects consumers with attorneys and other professionals. The network will get folded into the company’s Money and Business vertical. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is perfectly in line with Internet Brands’ growth-through-acquisition strategy.
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Internet Brands Snaps Up ExpertHub Network
AOL just released its financial results for the first quarter of 2010, reporting another drop in total revenues.
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AOL’s Total Revenue Drops To $664 Million For The First Quarter
