When Facebook advertiser Joshua Niamehr logged in to his ad campaign’s account, he knew he had an outstanding balance. He didn’t think, however, that he’d racked up a bill of $8.8 million.
Niamehr’s account, however, showed this statement:
There is an outstanding balance of $8,804,978.14 USD on your account. Your ads will not be
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Taking a cue from the likes of Bing and the latest foodie startups, Google has jumped on the recipe search bandwagon with its latest feature, Google Recipe View, which debuted yesterday.
Luckily for the less tech-savvy home cooks everywhere, using it is pretty simple–just search for an ingredient or dish as usual, and when you get …
Picking up your landline phone and dialing in to vote for Clay Aiken on American Idol is so 2003, and texting ‘VOTE’ over and over for the sake of David Archuleta is so 2008. The latest way to vote for your favorite Idol? Via Facebook.
Entertainment Weekly reports that ‘American Idol’ has finally decided to take advantage of social …
If you were Steve Jobs, what better way to celebrate your 56th birthday than with a launch of a new line of MacBook Pros?
After news of a meeting in which retail employees signed a non-disclosure agreement, the Internet is abuzz with rumors of an upcoming product launch. Sources at BGR speculate that the new line of laptops will be …
In honor of the Year of the Rabbit, Google Chrome announced its newest beta release today, which features a new version of the V8 JavaScript engine that’s proven to be 66 percent faster than the version in Chrome 9.
In addition to JavaScript that’s as fast as a bunny rabbit and GPU-accelerated video, Chrome 10 also simplifies a user’s …
These days, it seems like everybody wants to be famous, or at least relatively Internet-famous. Google was probably banking on that idea, at least a little bit, when it announced its “Demo Slam” competition last October. The publicity stunt of a competition, for which it appears the only reward will be lots of Internet fame, asked users …
Plenty of parents worry about their kids’ online activities and their presence on social networks. Last week, the first lady even weighed in on the topic, saying that her daughters, ages 9 and 12, shouldn’t be on Facebook. But what’s a parent to do with their Internet-savvy tween who wants to stay connected with friends?
A new startup …
Plenty of us spend hours using our laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles and other gadgets. They come with us everywhere, and when they malfunction or break, it’s often hard to go on without replacing them immediately. But can you actually be in love with a possession? Researchers at Arizona State University say it’s possible.
It’s …
Is there anything that Google doesn’t do?
Google Docs announced this week that it’s rolling out a new organizational tool for all those bridezillas called Google Weddings, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Despite its corny nature, Google Weddings could actually be a really useful tool–it allows users to do everything from plan …
At long last, the day has come–the Verizon iPhone went on sale this morning at 7 a.m. at Verizon and Apple stores, Best Buy and their respective websites. It’s been a long road for Verizon to get here, but it’s finally happened. While you wait in line to get a shiny new iPhone, why not mull over the difference between the AT&T and …
When Michelle Obama told the Today Show this morning that 12-year-old Malia and 9-year-old Sasha are too young for Facebook, it got us thinking about Facebook’s policies and age restrictions. What’s Facebook’s policy, anyway, and what are they doing to enforce it? What are the dangers of being underage on Facebook? Read on for …
Mobile apps usually aim to entertain, inform or help us be productive. All in all, they usually don’t incite the Internet into political debate. But people have a lot to say about the pending iOS release of Owlchemy Labs’ instantly infamous game, Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration.
Owlchemy Labs would have to be beyond clueless to …
