Apple is on a roll. Not content with becoming the biggest tech company in the world, the company has also ended Google’s four year reign as the world’s most valuable brand, according to a new study of global branding. And that’s not the only upset at the top of the chart.
Apple rose a stunning 84% in value globally to take the top …
He’s got 99 problems, and Egyptian copyright law just happens to be one. Jay-Z has lost the first round of a legal battle over a sample used in his song “Big Pimpin’,” with a California court giving the plaintiff the go-ahead to sue the occasional Lucky Lefty for moral copyright infringement.
The plaintiff in this case is Osama Ahmed …
Like trying on glasses, but hate having to actually touch the glasses in question? Japanese glasses company Zoff has come up with a solution for this seemingly unsolvable problem.
A new service on the Zoff website allowes users to virtually try glasses, with a downloadable plugin ensuring that the online specs will stay on your face …
Still not convinced the moon landings weren’t faked? That the moon isn’t made out of cheese? That it’s not a giant disembodied man-face, floating free of earthly tethers? Why not hop a space capsule and see for yourself?
You’d have to be filthy rich to spring for a ticket, but say you’re flush and fearless: private space tourism …
Facebook has grown too big for its britches and its now having to relocate to Menlo Park. Bye bye Palo Alto, it’s time to go back to school work.
They’ll join the ranks of the bad boys now, moving into Silicon Valley’s Google-occupied Menlo Park. The company has plans to add an additional 9,000 employees over the next six years, …
The long, drawn-out and brutal war of high-profile videogame-centric websites – a battle so severe that you may not even have known it was happening – has finally ended with the news that News Corp., owners of IGN Entertainment, will purchase UGO Entertainment from Hearst Corp. for an undisclosed sum.
The deal will create what the …
The Mounties are sick of playing copyright police.
According to a 2006 diplomatic cable between Canada and the U.S. that recently came to light through WikiLeaks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officially express “skepticism” about movie piracy via camcorder users, and believe that their time would be better spent chasing down real …
CBS and CNET have apparently been supporting – and profiting from – internet piracy for years, and finally some pop music hasbeens have decided to make them pay for it. A group of artists including members of 2LiveCrew, Pretty Rocky and Force MDs have joined a lawsuit against CBS Interactive and CNET that alleges that the companies have …
You’d think that the trailer for Rise of The Planet of The Apes would be enough to remind people that screwing around with nature can lead to disasters even James Franco can’t endure. Apparently not, in light of news that researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard under lab conditions.
The team, led by biologist Peter …
If you’ve ever dreamed of being able to fly to the moon, here’s some good news: It may be possible within the next five years. And the bad news: It could cost you more than $100 million.
Virginia-based Space Adventures – a company that’s already sent seven private citizens into space to visit the International Space Station – is hard …
Just to make sure guests aren’t going to be a pain in the royal you know what, Prince William and Kate Middleton will be jamming cellphones in the church when they exchange their vows. Nothing like a Rebecca Black ringtone going off at the moment of “I do.”
The 1,900 people packed inside Westminster Abbey (which will include …
Sterling Draper Cooper Price would be dead in the water by now. Advertising Age is reporting that 28% of US ad agency revenue in 2010 came from digital services, up 19.6% from the year before.
According to AdAge’s study, more than half of the estimated $8.5 billion spent on digital went to agencies that specialize in digital …
