Facebook Email Will Hammer Google and Yahoo, and There's No Escape
By instituting an email service -- a move that has been obvious for months -- Facebook can undermine the business strategies of both Yahoo and Google without much danger in return.
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Apple Censors New Kanye West Album Cover to Send a Message to Artists
By censoring album art, Apple is going into a dangerous new area of judgmentalism over iTunes content.
How Managers Cope -- or Fail to Cope -- With the Data Deluge
Executives and managers across the nation are suffering from an addiction to the flood of data the can access each day. It's a habit that's costing them time, money and customers.
Amazon Goes on Pedophilia Scrub, Removes Videos of Nude Young Girls
Apparently the turmoil over having pro-pedophilia books for sale sent Amazon into spring cleaning overdrive, as it found a number of questionable videos featuring nude girls under 18.
Google Raise for All Employees Is Nothing: Engineer Gets $3.5M Offer To Stay
Google has been handing out some large retention packages to keep certain engineers from moving over to Facebook. But in the process, management is killing the corporate culture.
Here Comes the Obama Privacy Steamroller to Flatten High Tech
High tech companies and the online advertising industry have pleaded for self-regulation of privacy and consumer data issues. Now the administration is saying no, and that could be expensive.
Google vs. Facebook: The User Data Fight Gets Childish
Google has decided to counter Facebook in the battle for customer data by giving a warning that is petulant and childish in tone that Facebook will lock up contact information for good.
Indecent Proposal: Free Hotel Stay If You, Um, Perform for the Cameras
Hotels are considering free room-and-board to couples filmed having sex. It's just the next level in consumer content creation.
Amazon Kills One Pedophilia Book -- but Keeps Another
Amazon takes a strong stance for freedom of expression and then drops the controversial book on pedophilia that it defended, while keeping another pro-pedophilia title.
Google Masters Bad PR: Fires Engineer Who Leaked Pay Raise Memo
By firing the engineer who leaked the memo about the massive pay increases and bonuses, Google showed itself inept and unfair and actually undermined what the raises were for.
RIM Goes for a Price Fight to Regain Lost Ground in Smartphones
RIM will set the introductory price for a Wi-Fi only model of its new PlayBook tablet at under $500 to compete directly with the Apple iPad. And AT&T halved the price of the BlackBerry Torch.
Facebook Joins the Patent Smackdown Culture on a New Front
Facebook is in the middle of a patent fight with an east coast media company over common social networking features. Are we seeing the start of businesses trying trying to control the industry?
James Bond E-Books Show New Killer Publishing Model
The Ian Fleming estate takes over its e-book publishing, cutting Penguin out of the deal and foreshadowing a dark future for publishers.
Google's 10% Pay Raises: A Desperate Move to Buy Employee Loyalty
Google has announced large raises and bonuses for all employees. It's certainly welcome by the individuals, but a bad sign of what Google must do to retain talent in lieu of other means.
How Apple Lost the Kinect to Microsoft -- and Why That's a Good Thing
Apple may have lost out on the foundation of Kinect, but it didn't seem to fit its gameplan anyway.
California couple at center of surrogacy scandal arrested
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Iran's Houthi allies deny losing ground as Mideast crisis engulfs Yemen
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The life and travels of an alleged Chinese agent
Eva Marie Saint, "North by Northwest" star, dies at 102
Olympian accused of damaging Reflecting Pool seeks probe of potential misconduct
Christa Pike is conscious, speaking after botched execution, attorneys say
Ex-CIA official found with $40 million in gold bars admits to sprawling scheme
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Former Cornell frat members ask university to clear their names
