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Twitter Breaks Record During Super Bowl XLVI: 12,233 Tweets Per Second

Meanwhile, TV viewership of the New York Giants' 21-17 defeat over the New England Patriots remained flat, if not a bit down, from last year. READ»

Memberly Helps You Give Your Day Job The Finger

From coffee to crafts to paywalled blog posts, Memberly customers are building businesses based on predictability.
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Infographic: Android's Uptick in the Giant Shadow of Dumbphones

How fast is Google's mobile platform rising in popularity? And does it make a dent in the greater dumbphone world?READ»

CEO Alan Mulally: Ford Still in Black but Also Green, Partners With Microsoft Hohm [Video]

[Photo: Stephen Wilkes]Ariel Schwartz contributed to this report. At his keynote address at New York's International Auto Show today, Alan Mulally rallied the nation's car manufacturers with a call to arms--and just a hint of ...READ»

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Inside the Vamp-artment of Twilight's Edward Cullen, Buy It for $3.3M!

Must every facet of Twilight's sparkly-skinned lead vampire Edward be irresistible? He may be a blood chugger, but his interior design sense doesn't suck. The character's (played by Robert Pattinson) digs are featured prominently in ...READ»

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Hank Risan on BlueBeat's $20 Million Gamble...on 25-Cent Beatles Tracks?

Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John ...READ»

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7-Eleven House Wine Taste Test: My Mom Takes a Spin Down Yosemite Road

I don't know about the chardonnay, but if Yosemite Road Cabernet, 7-Eleven's house brand, were a song, it'd be "Red, Red Wine." Not Neil Diamond's original. Or even Tony Tribe's excellent rocksteady version. It'd be the UB40 cover, ...READ»

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BlueBeat's Hank Risan: That's Not the Beatles, It's a "Virtual Cover Band"

If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it's an understandable error. The music sounded identical to songs by those artists. ...READ»

'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Speculation, Writes Cisco Into Last Night's Episode

Cisco got one hell of a pitch man in Jack Donaghy. Last night's 30 Rock wasn't just notable for the its usual cavalcade of shenanigans, or even the NBC in-house fun-poking (Brian Williams as a stand-up comic? Jack saying something ...READ»

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Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

For $30, the blue Weezer Snuggie--$50 for the "Snuggie Safari"--comes with a copy of the band's new album, "Raditude."READ»

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BlueBeat Defiantly Selling Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin Right Now for Cheap

Download site BlueBeat seems to have looked squarely in the eye of litigious record label legal eagles and various judges who've sided with them--then figuratively dropped trou and shot 'em a moon.READ»