Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 21, 2011 at 9:44 am PT
All forms of online gambling are illegal in the U.S., but there’s a small loophole: If you are wagering on yourself in a game of skill, it’s completely fair game. That’s where Playhem enters the picture.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter this year was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based company tonight.
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Voices in News on November 29, 2010 at 10:51 am PT
It’s that time of year again when we are privy to a peek (disturbing as it may be) into society’s collective news appetite as reflected by the year’s search trends. Today, Microsoft’s Bing offered its insights. While last year’s top search queries included serious topics like the stock market, swine flu and Michael Jackson, this year’s Top 10 is almost all celebrity names. The single most popular search on Bing in 2010: Kim Kardashian, by a wide margin over No. 2, Sandra Bullock. The list from there: 3. Tiger Woods; 4. Lady Gaga; 5. Barack Obama; 6. Hairstyles; 7. Kate Gosselin (the sole repeater from last year); 8. Walmart; 9. Justin Bieber; and 10. Free.
John Paczkowski in News on September 15, 2010 at 7:22 am PT
Jimmy Lai’s Next Media Animation, the outfit responsible for the Tiger Woods accident re-creation, has taken a shot at imagining what the Steve Jobs Ninja throwing stars incident might have looked like had it actually happened, and it’s pretty much everything you could hope for. Video after the jump.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 29, 2010 at 8:25 am PT
So you’d like to start advertising on YouTube but aren’t sure how to do it? Google’s video site has some advice: Make awesome clips that people want to watch!
Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 9:34 am PT
No surprise that Nike’s creeptastic Tiger Woods ad, featuring the disembodied voice of the golfer’s dead father, is a hit on the Web. Even more popular: Satires and spinoffs.
Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 19, 2010 at 2:32 pm PT
Tiger Woods may have more atoning to do with Elin Nordegren, but a preliminary pulse-taking online suggests that at least some of his fans are coming around.
The golf star apologized Friday for his infidelity and the ensuing sex scandal, and according to Zeta Interactive, a New York digital-marketing firm that measures online reputations, that helped boost his ratings.
Beth Callaghan in News on February 13, 2010 at 10:14 pm PT
Rogue waves aren’t completely unheard of during surfing competitions in Northern California, but a foot of snow in Dallas? About as likely as Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz grilling Kara Swisher in front of a packed auditorium. All right, it was a cafeteria packed with Yahoo employees, but still.
Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2010 at 5:30 am PT
Yesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the “Parisian Love” advertisement got, adding that the possibilities for spoofs were endless.
“I have a feeling that making fun of it will probably be a good thing for Google,” sighed the exec, who would dearly like such attention.
And, indeed, it did not take two seconds before the takeoffs on the ad–an unusually sentimental, but effective, ongoing story about love in Paris, using only Google’s iconic search box–appeared.
