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Rupert Murdoch warns about Facebook, sees echo of 'crappy' Myspace
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Facebook's initial public offering, a milestone that often prompts reflection and introspection. And in the case of Rupert Murdoch, the occasion provided an opportunity for a nanny-nanny-nah-nah tweet: "Look out...
Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Media Industry, Viacom Inc., Computer Networking and Internet, Social Media
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'The Mothers' follows one couple's attempt to adopt
Our cultural obsession with babies and motherhood has raged for decades. The media take stock of every new celebrity baby bump; women go to undreamed of lengths to procure progeny, freezing eggs, implantation and surrogates. As in the culture at large,...
Tags: Book, Human Interest, Social Issues, Animals, Adoption
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Fox veteran Peter Levinsohn named Universal Studios president
Longtime digital media veteran Peter Levinsohn will join Universal Pictures as president and chief distribution officer, overseeing worldwide home entertainment, new media and digital strategy and international and domestic television distribution....
Tags: Xbox, Amazon.com Inc., News Corp., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Laguna Niguel man pleads guilty in 'cookie stuffing' scam against EBay
A Laguna Niguel man admitted defrauding online auction giant EBay Inc. out of potentially millions of dollars in a scheme of “cookie stuffing,” which is a lot less savory than it sounds. Brian Andrew Dunning, 47, pleaded guilty to wire fraud...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Auction Service, Corporate Crime, Fraud, Computer Crime
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Managing your meds can be fun and games, Mango Health app maker says
“Take 500 milligrams of this medicine every twelve hours in combination with amoxicillin and lansoprazole for 14 days. Don’t forget it should be taken with food, and I will see you in three weeks.” Ever get a complicated prescription...
Tags: Apple iPhone, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemical Industry, Target, Gaming
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SXSW 2013: Justin Timberlake brings hot jams to packed warehouse
Booking Justin Timberlake for South by Southwest is like riding a limo to a garage sale. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Timberlake, in the middle of a multimillion-dollar media blitz to support his new record, “The 20/20...
Tags: Smashing Pumpkins (music group), Music Industry, Music, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Justin Timberlake
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SXSW 2013: Kendrick Lamar convinces a capacity crowd at AMH
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticThis post has been corrected. See below for details. At the Austin Music Hall on Friday night, Sway Calloway of MTV delivered a grand introduction for the night’s headliner, Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean bring fresh sounds to L.A....Tags: Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Notorious B.I.G., Sway (music group), Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar
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SXSW 2013: Justin Timberlake's MySpace gig sparks rumors, buzz
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticJustin Timberlake is certainly making up for lost time. This week he released “The 20/20 Experience,” his first new album in six years, and christened it with a double-whammy hosting/performing stint on "Saturday Night Live" and a full week of...Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Social Media, Entertainment, Culture, Music
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SXSW 2013: Napster film 'Downloaded' comes alive as a documentary
AUSTIN, Texas -- More than a decade ago, Alex Winter saw a revolution brewing. Winter is perhaps best known as Bill, the blond-haired high school slacker from the 1989 comedy “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” But he’s also a tech...
Tags: File Sharing, Napster Inc., Film Festivals, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Entertainment
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FTC: Give mobile device users more privacy disclosures -- or else
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Trade Commission called on the fast-growing mobile device marketplace to do a better job of alerting consumers to what the various market players do with their personal information. It released guidelines for mobile...
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, Social Media, Conservation, Kamala D. Harris, Networking
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Stock sell-off shows an emotional investment in Apple
A friend of mine, a weatherman for a local TV station, always greets me the same way: "Time to sell my Apple stock?" And I always offer the same response: Do you still like the company? "Yes." Then don't sell it. Investors were wringing their...
Tags: Friendster Inc., Steve Jobs, Human Interest, Social Media, Apple iPad
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DUI suspect in pedestrian death was drug counselor
L.A. NOWThis post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details. Sherri Wilkins wrote in a MySpace profile that “she used to be into drugs very heavy” and “with that came terrible choices.” Wilkins was trying to turn her......
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