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Jul 02, 2009
As Michael Jackson’s body is being prepared for transport to a public viewing at the Neverland Ranch, his music rules the charts once again.
Billboard’s latest sales charts show the king of pop as the first artist ever to sell more than a million downloads in a single week, among other firsts.
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Jul 02, 2009
comScore has aggregated some data based on its World Metrix audience measurement service and put together a study on social networking worldwide. Surprisingly, it appears that the Russians are more engaged with social networking than the rest of the planet (or the biggest slackers at the office, dep...
Jul 01, 2009
Did you know you can switch tabs in Firefox by making a twisting motion with your fingers on a multi-touch surface? I did. Turns out I’ve been doing it for months — I thought I was late to the party and was too ashamed to mention it to anybody for fear of an epic internet ribbing (”What, you just fi...
Jul 01, 2009
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen left YouTube months ago, but word only broke yesterday.
In November 2008, NewTeeVee reported that he was forming a startup incubator. But as VC-star Peter Thiel will tell you, that's "cushy" work.
So where is the man who earned $326.2 million when Google bought You...
Jun 29, 2009
LinkedIn has bolstered its position as America’s leading business social network by the month lately, with Germany-based Xing as the only company regarding itself a worthy competitor in the last few years. But now those days seem to be over - in the US and China, at least.
Today German newspaper ...
Jun 29, 2009
Tomorrow, YouTube is going to release a very important addition to its suite of advertising products, and it has the potential to have a huge impact for politicians, brands, and charities alike. The funny thing is, you probably thought it was already out there.
The product’s official name is the ...
Jun 29, 2009
Google's move to let software run natively on Android devices opens the door for a version of Firefox that can run on the operating system.
At present, Android applications are written in Java and run on Google's Dalvik Java virtual machine. Last week, though, Google announced the Android Native ...
Jun 29, 2009
Microsoft (MSFT) lobbyists mopped the floor with Google (GOOG) last summer and fall, convincing anyone who mattered that Google's plan to sell ads against Yahoo (YHOO) search results was the plot of a dangerous monopolist.
Eventually, the government tipped that it would challenge the deal and Goo...
Jun 26, 2009
Sorry, but it's rant time.
From time to time, we hop on over to Google Blog Search in order to see which sites are linking to BusinessInsider.com, a function for which it does okay, though it's hardly spectacular.
The service has been around for awhile, though last October it relaunched as som...