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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: Television Industry, General Motors Corp., Apple iPad, Economy, Business and Finance, MySpace
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Facebook Goes Public
And with the opening bell, Facebook is now a publicly traded company, valued at more than $100 billion. Financial strategist Clark Hodges bought shares from underwriters as the market openedm partly for its low price of $38 a share, but also because...
Tags: Social Media, Media Industry
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Doh! Top 10 tech fails of 2011
CNNCan't win 'em all, can you? The highs were pretty high in the tech world in 2011, as new gadgets, updates and advances delighted the masses. I mean, Facebook made a change that most people (so far) seemed to actually like. What are the odds? But the...Tags: Gaming, Gaming, Amazon Kindle Fire, Motorola Xoom, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Netflix kills plan to split
NEW YORK - To the ranks of New Coke and the Edsel, we can now add Qwikster. Less than a month after announcing a plan to separate its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services, Netflix reversed course Monday and said it would keep the two services...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., File Sharing, DVDs, AOL LLC
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Google shuts down Slide, Max Levchin departs
L.A. Times Tech BlogGoogle shuts down Slide after 1 year, CEO Max Levchin departs: Google has closed down Slide, the social media app and game maker it purchased just about a year ago. And while many of Slide's employees will be sticking around at Google, joining other... -
Google Plus: Social Network Overload?
Google, the most popular search engine, now has its own social networking site named Google Plus. Will it become the next Facebook? Eventually fizzle out like MySpace? Do we even need another social network at all? Rich DeMuro takes a look at the...Tags: Mass Media, MySpace, Sociology, Networking, Twitter, Inc.
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The Morning Fix: Plot around Hulu thickens! Time Warner Cable and Viacom hit pause in fight. Will Charlie Sheen's character meet ugly demise?
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before finding out if Whitey Bulger's apartment is available. The Skinny: Is it better to go into work and then get crushed with deadlines and pressure, or to know going in that it's going to be a...... -
French Government Says No Uttering Of Facebook and Twitter On-Air
KIAHFollow us on Twitter at twitter.com backslash blah-blah-blah and on Facebook at Facebook.com backslash blah-blah-blah. How many times a day can you hear those words? Well apparently not anymore in France. The government has banned TV and radio show...Tags: Mass Media, Sociology, Television, Entertainment, Online Advertising
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'30 Rock' recap: Forced hiatus
Show TrackerBack in December, when it was announced that Tracy Morgan was undergoing an emergency kidney transplant and would be missing several episode of "30 Rock," my response to the news was selfish: "30 Rock" without Tracy Morgan? How will I...... -
Dust-Up: What's the true impact of illegal downloading on jobs and the arts? [Round 3]
Opinion L.A.On the final day* of our piracy Dust-Up, Harold Feld, legal director of Public Knowledge, and Andrew Keen, advisor to Arts and Labs, discuss the impact of illegal downloading on the economy and the arts through the lens of copyright...... -
Men’s Health Magazine ranks O-town behind San Fran as socially-networked city
Tech for the Rest of Us - Orlando SentinelTweet this: Orlando made the Top 10 most socially networked cities in America. We beat out Dallas, St. Louis, Las Vegas and even Boise. O-town ranked No. 7. Here’s how they figured the list: We started by calculating the number of Facebook and...
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