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Can Livestrong Survive Lance Armstrong and a Doping Scandal?

The world's most famous cancer survivor has been his foundation's biggest asset, even as it grew into an innovative force in health care. Now his legal troubles may make him a risk.READ»

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Should Albums Cost $1.50?

A top record label exec says radically slashing album prices could drive sales of 200 million copies for major releases.READ»

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Record Biz Nails Online Porn Companies With Stiff Fine for Copyright Violation

A nice pair--of porn companies, that is--is being sued by the music industry for featuring songs in their XXX-rated clips without permission. The copyright infringement suit was filed at the U.S. District Court in L.A. last week, ...READ»

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E3 Day 0: Wins for EA, Ubisoft, and Microsoft - But Activision Shows Us a Good Time

EA: Gamer's GamesEA showed that it really wanted to connect with its fans, announcing a reward community for those who play its shooters dubbed EA Gunclub (a name so politically charged that it's certain to arrive with a bang). To ...READ»

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The Hip 3-D Shades of the Future

Moviegoing is adding a dimension, and so are 3-D glasses: style.READ»

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Rollingstone.com Relaunches With Exciting Extras, but No Screams

Rolling Stone has rolled out its new Web site today, er, tomorrow. Or something. More importantly, for the first time in a long time, it's in charge of its own online destiny. A deal with RealNetworks, which ran the magazine's online ...READ»

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Twitter Gut Checks Foursquare With "Points of Interest," Adds "Places," Introduces Will.i.am, and Reveals Promoted Tweets

UPDATE 5: Now onto Q&A with Twitter's COO, Dick Costolo, whose talk you can read about in the previous update. People have a lot of questions about how "resonance" will work and be tracked--looks like Twitter will have to work ...READ»

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Most Innovated Companies - Web

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Jeff Koons to Design Car for BMW

The pop artist has been tapped to create the latest in a long line of "art cars." Should be wild, judging from recent history.READ»

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Facebook Joins the 2009 Web Trend Party

Facebook's released a very detailed analysis of the trends in status updates for 2009, and it's fascinating stuff. For example, did you know Facebookers are depressed on Mondays, and mourned Patrick Swayze about as much as Michael Jackson?READ»

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This Year in Web Videos, Four Different Ways

Ah, digital photography and videos--my old, er, new friends. And powerful tools too: Good for capturing the passing moment. Or for documenting the passing year. Here are four videos that do just that, in very very different ...READ»

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Twitter's and YouTube's Trends of 2009 Couldn't Differ More

Slightly prematurely, both YouTube and Twitter have released the list of top trends on the two services in 2009. The lists overlap in one or two places, but in general they're as different from each other as chalk and ...READ»

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Ustream's Top 10 Videos of 2009: "Twilight," KISS, Michael Jackson [Exclusive]

On YouTube, the most viral videos showcase quick, one-off events: a baby biting a finger, a dowdly singer wowing a panel of judges, a man doing the Robot (and the Macarena, and the Twist, and the Moonwalk). What's missing, says John ...READ»

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Facebook and Twitter Offer Businesses Opportunities and Challenges

Facebook and Twitter offer businesses both opportunities and challenges around the world: About 60% of users are outside the United States.READ»

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The NBA's most jealous superstar

Today's plucky boasts interesting names such as Kobe and Bulls would suffer again in 1989 and the Pistons, now famed, "Jordan Rules" cover simplified in once again eliminating the Bulls.In 1990 the Bulls emerging talent surrounding ...READ»

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Generational Equity

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The real fashion,Crazy Ed Hardy

Madonna now has disappointed me yet again. ed hardy Diamond Tee graffiti has often been photographed Britney Spears and Heidi Klum and other techniques, creating a feeling of excess attrition in the light from a master hand at the use ...READ»

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Atlantic City Welcomes Stevie Wonder at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City

Stevie Wonder will be performing live, in concert, at The Borgata Casino in Atlantic City. The best selection of tickets is on sale now through ACTickets.com. READ»

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$3.7B in Digital Sales? That's Entertainment!

Shawn Baldwin from CMG discusses how private equity is investing in the media and entertainment industry.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Facebook Measures "Gross National Happiness"

Facebook maps how happy its users are, based on the words in their profiles.READ»

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Social New, Now & Next: The Baltimore Marathon on "Social Media Steroids"

I'm always interested in organizations that are taking the use of social media to the next level. And, Corrigan Sports qualifies. They plan to use some latest social media hotness, R2iSMASH, to showcase the Baltimore Marathon on Oct. 10.READ»

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NIGERIA'S BRANDS AND SOCIAL MEDIA, CONTENT MARKETING

As a frontline Nigeria’s social media advocate, blogger in Branding, Public relations and social media category whose blog has earned international recognitions  which includes Top 100 Branding blogs in the world as well as Top ...READ»

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How to Go from Anonymity to Fame With Just One Tweet

How can a self-proclaimed geeky company with no knowledge of public relations go from virtual anonymity to media darling with just one tweet? This is the story of how social media is changing how companies make news and how the new ...READ»

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Has Twitter Handicapped Our Ability to Mourn?

In the weeks following Michael Jackson's death, more than 150,000 people commented on his Facebook wall and MySpace page. Some were straightforward ("I like the song beat it"); some were heartfelt ("Michael Jackson, you are the ...READ»

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Twitter Accuses PR-Hungry Pay-for-Followers Service of Spamming, Says PR-Hungry Pay-for-Followers Service

Web promotions company uSocial, which offers ridiculous deals such as "1,000 new Twitter followers for $87," has reportedly gotten itself on Twitter's bad side. According to a uSocial statement making its way 'round the Web, Twitter ...READ»