Viral Video: Miley Cyrus Is Occupying Wall Street (With a Remix)

The 1% supports the 99%.
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Google Deal for SayNow to Make Google Voice More Interesting

Ever since GrandCentral became Google Voice, it’s been a lot less fun to use. Maybe that’s one of the reasons behind today’s acquisition by Google of SayNow, which made its name connecting celebrities with fans.

Viral Video: Miley Cyrus Just Says No (Sort Of)

Here’s a skit from “Saturday Night Live” this past week that makes fun of the controversy over what former Disney star Miley Cyrus was smoking from a bong, seen in a video that recently rocketed around the Internet.

Viral Video: Miley Cyrus Says Goodbye to Hannah Montana Forever

Our little girl has, um, certainly grown up. In fact, so much so that this music video for a new single–titled “Who Owns My Heart?”–from Miley Cyrus is causing a major ruckus, with complaints from groups such as the Parents Television Council.

YouTube’s Most Popular Clips: 10 Videos, a Lot of Music and Half a Billion Views

Susan Boyle you know. But what about Pitbull and Keri Hinson?
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Sarah Palin Is a Hit for Vanity Fair. But She’s No Jessica Simpson–Or Miley Cyrus!

Vanity Fair’s prescient decision to put all of Todd Purdum’s Sarah Palin profile on the Web last week paid off big on Friday. But it would have done even better had the story featured a slideshow with photographs of attractive young women.
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Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff: How to Make Money While Music Becomes “Demonetized”

As a longtime music executive and talent manager, Irving Azoff has had to find a way to work with everyone from inebriated rock stars to David Geffen. But he’s never had to placate Washington, D.C. before. But that’s what Azoff needs to do in order to pull off the deal of a lifetime: A merger between his Ticketmaster Entertainment, which dominates the ticketing business, and Live Nation, which dominates the live concert business. When Azoff isn’t busy trying to convince people that the merger doesn’t violate antitrust regulations, or running his ticketing company, he manages the careers of everyone from the Eagles to Christina Aguilera. Note the one thing in the music business he doesn’t spend time on: Selling recorded music.
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3-D: Coming to a Theater Near You (at a Glacial Pace)

A billion dollar investment in digital technologies, struck between a handful of Hollywood studios and a consortium of big theater chains, got little notice earlier this week. Under terms of the deal, the entertainment companies agreed to help defray the costs of rolling out more advanced digital technologies in 20,000 theaters, which will eventually lead to being able to see more movies in technologies like 3-D.