Yesterday saw what is believed to be the paper of record's first-ever foray into the world of parenthetical exclamation, The Observer (!!) reported. Today brings another groundbreaking development: a heart. (♥) Although our money was on the Style section, the heart made its appearance in Education Life, in the headline "A L♥ng-Distance... MORE»
Talent and media giant IMG has sold their eight year-old fashion week newspaper The Daily to founder Brandusa Niro, reports Jeff Bercovici. So, yeah, not the super-hyped Rupert Murdoch tablet newspaper The Daily. Any confusion would be warranted, according to... MORE»
The leak of Facebook's off-the-cuff financials show the social network is more profitable than expected, and investors are trying to get in on the action from all sides. OMGPOP, formerly known as iminlikewithyou.com, is a New York-based real-time gamemaker and platform for social games. OMGPOP releases games for Facebook, iPhone and the... MORE»
New York-based Boxee, maker of the eponymous $199 set-top Internet teevee box, is out in Vegas right now for the Consumer Electronics Show. But the startup is sending home good news. First, it's making friends. Boxee announced yesterday that CBS would begin selling episodes through Boxee later in the year--the first content deal Boxee has scored with a major television network. CBS has been especially picky about selling its shows through new... MORE»
We wonder what attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas happening now think when they see the Trojan booth, set up next to the bar. What would a condom company being doing at a gadget show? Debuting the iCondom? Revealing some cutting edge touch screen sex technology running Android 3.0? Is it a condom that tweets during? "We have some amazing innovations of condoms that are unlike anything that's been offered before," a vendor from Trojan told... MORE»
The truth about Facebook's financials is leaking out. Turns out the company is more profitable than most expected, at least going by its internal, unaudited numbers. Facebook earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010 on revenue of $1.2 billion, Reuters reports, according to a source who got hold of the financial statements Goldman Sachs provided to its clients on... MORE»
Today Vogue Paris announced fashion director Emmanuelle Alt will succeed Carine Roitfeld's as editor in chief, reports the Huffington Post. Naturally, Alt's a very stylish lady. And like many stylish ladies who are photographed all the time, Alt has a signature... MORE»
First, investor Charlie O'Donnell called on New York's tech scene to add 250 developers to the work force. "What I'd like to figure out is how we can create a much more sustainable and much more robust pipeline of developers into the NYC innovation community and I'd like to propose a lofty goal to inspire some solutions," O'Donnell wrote on his... MORE»
Maybe "Silicon Alley" can actually be a thing now. Tech companies have been loading up on New York real estate and it's starting to add up. Number of square feet at 111 Eighth Avenue, which Google bought in the largest single building sale in the country last year: 2.9 million square feet. AOL's lease at 770 Broadway: 228,207 square feet. Number of square feet Facebook could expand into at 335 Madison, if it wanted to:... MORE»
The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment has a new campaign to make New Yorkers feel bad about downloading movies. In one spot, a vendor at a table offers free movies in Union Square. Take one, he warns, and the haggard boom operator standing next to him will lose her job. "What's more important: a movie, or this human being?" the man asks. The boom operator pleads silently with her... MORE»
Some characteristically selfless civil service from today's New York Post, via FishbowlNY: This cover is very 'old person's blog that another old person prints out to read.' We dig that. kstoeffel@observer.com ::... MORE»
A 22-year old girl stalked a 26-year old man in Scotland for nine months using Foursquare to track his whereabouts, according to a story in Metro. They'd only met for a few minutes, the man told police, but since then he's been "under siege" because of "foursquare, a site which allows users to ‘check in' to venues where you live and find other... MORE»
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The finance industry may feel like it's under cyberattack with Wikileaks poised to drop incriminating documents about a major U.S. bank. But now experts are saying that high frequency-trades are also highly susceptible to attacks by hackers. By introducing microseconds of latency, hackers could skew prices and make millions of dollars in just a few seconds, reports InfoWorld's Bill... MORE»
There was hope that Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg would announce a Verizon iPhone during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show today--he... MORE»
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