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Facebook Police: Timeline Violations Will Not Be Tolerated! (Video)

And friend your momma, or else!

Kara Swisher in Social
January 27, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

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Viral Image: The Biggest and Bluest Marble

in Media on January 27 at 1:33 am PT

Our beautiful home in the deep, dark universe.
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Yahoo CEO Meeting With PE Firms — PIPE Might Be Dead, but What Else Is There?

in News on January 26 at 7:56 am PT

The beat goes on … and on … and on.
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Viral Video: Fake Kim Richards’s Guide to the Oscars

in Media on January 26 at 12:07 am PT

It’s hard to mock the already ridiculous “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — but this effort is superb.
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Honest: Jessica Alba’s Now an E-Commerce Geek (Video)

in Commerce on January 25 at 10:05 am PT

Can a Hollywood star sell online consumers on a healthier lifestyle for them and their kids?
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Pulling Back Apple’s Magic Curtain: Fortune’s Lashinsky Talks About New Book (Video)

in Media on January 24 at 10:01 am PT

And you’ll be interested to see what he found.
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Viral Video: Steven Spielberg Really Is a Geek

in Media on January 24 at 1:22 am PT

And that’s meant as a compliment.
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Lucky 13: After More Than a Dozen Failing Quarters, How Will New Yahoo CEO Roll the Dice?

in News on January 23 at 1:49 pm PT

Maybe Yahoo should take its earnings to Vegas and bet it all on red!
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Yahoo Reorgs U.S. Ad Sales After Talent Departure (Internal Memo, Natch!)

in Media on January 20 at 1:15 pm PT

I love the smell of reorg in the morning!
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News Byte

WashPost’s Narisetti Takes Over WSJ.com

in Media on January 20 at 12:30 pm PT

Raju Narisetti, who is currently managing editor of the Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Wall Street Digital Network. Narisetti, who has worked for the News Corp.-owned WSJ in the past, replaces Kevin Delaney, who recently left the site to start a global business news site venture at Atlantic Media.

The Full Valenti: Dodd Trades His Olive Branch to Tech for a Howitzer, After SOPA/PIPA Gets Delayed

in Media on January 20 at 11:32 am PT

What would Jack do? (And would it work anymore?)
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Viral Graphic: A World Without Wikipedia

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, January 20, 2012 at 1:13 am PT

The Valley Girl Takes On Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg (Video)

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, January 19, 2012 at 4:38 pm PT

Jerry Yang’s Short Goodbye: The Official Letter

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 19, 2012 at 2:31 pm PT

The Times of Its Troubled Life: A 2007 Visit to Kodak (Video)

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, January 19, 2012 at 11:54 am PT

As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 19, 2012 at 5:10 am PT

Atlantic Media Officially Announces Unnamed “Global Business Brand” Site

Two Last SOPA/PIPA Videos — One Silly and One Serious (Both Terrific)

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, January 19, 2012 at 2:55 am PT

Uh-Oh: Yahoo Loses a Top Sales Exec to Amazon

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, January 18, 2012 at 5:36 pm PT

Viral Graphic: Visualizing the Facebook IPO

Posted by Kara Swisher in Social, January 18, 2012 at 4:17 pm PT

Jerry Yang’s Decision to Leave Yahoo Was His Own — Even if It Was Inevitable

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 17, 2012 at 5:54 pm PT

Sources: Four More Board Members Will Be Following Yang Out the Door

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 17, 2012 at 2:53 pm PT

Former CBS Interactive Head Neil Ashe to Lead Wal-Mart’s Global Online Commerce Biz

Posted by Kara Swisher in Commerce, January 16, 2012 at 2:45 pm PT

Boss Talk: Zynga Chief Talks IPO, Lessons Learned

Posted by Shayndi Raice in Commerce, January 16, 2012 at 1:02 pm PT

Symantec Buys LiveOffice for $115 Million

Viral Video: On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, His Moving (And Prophetic) Last Speech

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, January 16, 2012 at 10:25 am PT

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Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype

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Tely Labs’ telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs instead of computers.

The Digital Solution by Katherine Boehret

App Makes Readers’ Thoughts an Open Book

Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.

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What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard.

— Mark Pagel, fellow of the Royal Society and professor of evolutionary biology, in conversation with Edge.org