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Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account Hacked, 17 Million Followers Offered ‘Free’ iPads

Lady Gaga may love her little monsters, but not enough to give each and every one of the 17 million-plus that follow her on Twitter a free iPad. That's why, when she appeared to do that very thing yesterday, people were understandably cautious...and with good reason.

Look at This Dream Team: Lady Gaga and Eric Schmidt Back Social Startup

She’s the pop powerhouse dressed in those unforgettable costumes. He’s the Executive Chairman for the web’s largest search engine. Though worlds apart, Lady Gaga and Google’s Eric Schmidt now have something in common: They’re both investing in a new startup called Backplane, co-founded by Gaga’s business manager, Troy Carter.

Amazon Offers 99-Cent Lady Gaga Album Again (with New No-Crash Promise)

If you stumbled over yourself to download Lady Gaga’s new Born This Way album when it was priced at 99 cents from Amazon on Monday, you may have found Amazon’s servers to be working about as well as a porcupine at a child’s birthday party (does NOT work—trust me).

Cash Crop: ‘FarmVille’ Maker Zynga Preparing for IPO?

As anyone who’s ever been bombarded by others’ status updates knows, no company better represents the current shift in the gaming landscape than Zynga. The casual game revolution caught fire on social networks like Facebook and brought in millions of players who are otherwise uninterested in hardcore console and PC games. Now, rumors abound that [...]

Amazon’s 99-Cent Lady Gaga Album Heralds Cloud Music Wars

As if it weren’t enough of a reason to freak out that Lady Gaga’s much-anticipated album Born This Way is out today–on a Monday, even though most albums come out on Tuesdays–Amazon.com has sweetened the deal.

No Surprises: Research Confirms Indie Musicians Dominate Online

It’s no secret that the internet’s been the great leveler across many sectors, with no category leading the charge as fervently as the music industry. What’s believed to have resulted is a less “hit-driven” music economy, and one that allows smaller independent artists to shine in a light they previously haven’t had access to.

Follow the Leader: Lady Gaga Breaks 10 Million Twitter Followers

Lady Gaga must be feeling good about her promotional prospects for new album Born This Way. Not only has she taken over social media gaming to break ground for GagaVille, but she’s also just become the first person on Twitter to gain 10,000,000 followers.

Lady Gaga Partners with Zynga For… GagaVille?

Let’s play a game. On one hand you have Lady Gaga: living-breathing performance artist, best-selling singer, and wearer of designer dresses made of tenderized meat. On the other, Zynga: creators of mass appeal time-sucks like FarmVille, FrontierVille, and a game I should really be a lot better at, Words With Friends. What do these two drastically [...]

TechFast: Amazon Tablets, Facebook Bans 20k Every Day

Good morning! Here’s this morning’s top tech headlines.

Rebecca Black Beats Lady Gaga (On YouTube At Least)

Okay, let’s make this the final word on the human meme that is Rebecca Black.

The Year’s Most Popular Web-Searches Explain 2010 To Us All

As we close the door on 2010, you might find yourself wondering, “What was that year all about?” Well, finally you can find out, thanks to Hitwise listing the most searched-for terms on the internet over the last fifty-two weeks. For example, Facebook owned the year. Not only was “facebook” the most searched-for term of [...]