They’re sleek, stylish and iconic in their own right, not to mention places that a lot of us spend a ridiculous amount of time. Considering just how much we love Apple Stores, do you ever find yourself wondering why Apple’s competitors haven’t followed suit and set up a number of Google stores, or Microsoft stores, or whoever stores, all …
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YouTube to Train, Fund ‘Next Chef’ and ‘Next Trainer’
Google is continuing to try and make the world a better place—and, of course, promote its own product—with the announcement of the next two programs from the YouTube NextUp initiative: YouTube Next Chef and YouTube Next Trainer.
Each program will allow 16 selected students to participate in a three month virtual class on making …
Tila, Quarterlife and $#*!: Why Social Media and Old Media Don’t Mix
The news that Warner Bros. has purchased a movie pitch as the result of posts made on Reddit shouldn’t come as a surprise to many people; if there’s one thing that social media has proven over the years, it’s that it exists as fodder for the creation of “mainstream” media like movies, television shows and music—as well as numerous news …
Report: Apple Stores to Close for One Hour on Wednesday for Steve Jobs Memorial
Apple Stores will reportedly close for an hour on October 19th, according to 9to5Mac, to allow employees to watch the company’s on-site memorial to former CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs.
The closure will apparently happen between 1pm and 2pm Eastern this Wednesday, at which point employees will be able to watch a webcast of the event …
IRS Investigating Google over Foreign Subsidiaries
If you think being audited by the IRS is scary, imagine how Google is feeling. According to Bloomberg, the company is undergoing a private audit over its offshore subsidiaries and their use in avoiding federal income taxes.
The agency has requested information from the company about offshore deals following three large acquisitions, …
The Digital Media Revolution: Analog Strikes Back
If you consider the move towards predominantly digital media to be a slow but inevitable one, recent events in the worlds of movies and comic books might make you want to reconsider that last part.
In the past week, protests by movie theater owners have pushed Universal to scrap plans to test a premium video-on-demand release for the …
Report: AOL Still Wants to Merge with Yahoo
Those AOL-Yahoo deal rumors you’ve probably forgotten about? They’re apparently still a possibility, with anonymous sources saying that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with shareholders over the past couple of weeks to try and sell the idea of a buyout of the onetime online giant.
Yahoo has been downplaying the possibility of a …
Sickweather Offers Forecasts for the Good of Your Health
The current change of the seasons means many things: Shorter days, the return of pumpkin spice lattes to your coffee shop and, of course, worries that the tickle in your throat may, in fact, be a sign of some terrible disease that’s just about to envelop your very being and make death itself seem like a tempting alternative. But if, like …
Twitter Owns #OccupyWallStreet Chatter
Even as concerns continue to be raised about the lack of media coverage of Occupy Wall Street, one thing is becoming clear: Twitter is handily picking up that slack.
Information from data analysis company “Attention” shows that despite reports that activists themselves are moving away from the service, Twitter dominates the OWS social …
Groupon Admits to Fiddling with ‘Deal Counter’ Numbers
You might think that Groupon’s "Deal Counter" display would exist to show exactly how many customers had purchased a particular deal on offer from the site, but apparently, you’d be wrong.
In a blog post this weekend, Groupon revealed that it is purposefully fudging the numbers in order to prevent people from making "consistently
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Twitter Drops Lawsuit in Exchange for ‘Tweet’ Trademark
Twitter owns “tweet.”
Twitter has dropped a lawsuit against the company Twittad over its use of the word in its advertising, reports the Wall Street Journal, in exchange for Twittad transferring the registered trademark for the word “tweet” to Twitter. As part of the settlement, Twitter will also restore Twittad’s Twitter account, …
Decision 2012 Goes Viral: YouTube Launches Politics Channel
If your dream for the next year is to spend as much of it as possible watching political campaign ads and the parodies thereof, then YouTube has just made your life a lot easier (Also, you might want to think up a more fulfilling dream). The site launched YouTube Politics yesterday, a new channel dedicated to “the latest campaign ads, …