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You Can't Get Fired for Whining About Work on Facebook

You Can't Get Fired for Whining About Work on Facebook

A judge orders a company to hire back employees it had fired for complaining about their jobs on the social-networking site More »

A Groupon for College Courses Actually Makes a Lot of Sense

A Groupon for College Courses Actually Makes a Lot of Sense

Why a Groupon for a university class makes better business sense for a school than a latte coupon does for a coffee shop More »

Clearest Images Yet of How Astronauts Marked Up the Moon

Clearest Images Yet of How Astronauts Marked Up the Moon

NASA has released new photos showing the trails machine and man left behind during Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972 More »

When Crowdsourcing Fails: Google Places Edition

When Crowdsourcing Fails: Google Places Edition

In the past two weeks, Google has noticed that many "perfectly healthy" businesses have been reported as closed on their Places page More »

Appeals Court Upholds 'Existing Relationship' Abortion Law

Appeals Court Upholds 'Existing Relationship' Abortion Law

South Dakota law mandates that an abortion provider tell a woman seeking an abortion that she has a relationship with her unborn fetus More »

Lenovo's New MacBook Killer Looks Just Like a MacBook

Lenovo's New MacBook Killer Looks Just Like a MacBook

Like the MacBook Air, the laptop is billed as an ultra-thin, ultra-light (less than three pounds) and ultra-expensive machine More »

Apple Promotes Eddy Cue: Is This the Next Steve Jobs?

Apple Promotes Eddy Cue: Is This the Next Steve Jobs?

The promotion shows that Apple is trying hard to hold onto that Steve Jobs sparkle -- and not just through new CEO Tim Cook More »

It Looks Like Apple Lost Another iPhone Prototype in a Bar

It Looks Like Apple Lost Another iPhone Prototype in a Bar

If the reports are true, Apple is experiencing iPhone leak deja vu. Last year Gizmodo purchased a lost (also in a bar) iPhone 4. More »

Staring Down Microsoft, Google Launches Offline Gmail, Docs

Staring Down Microsoft, Google Launches Offline Gmail, Docs

In a direct challenge to Microsoft's Office Suite, Google announced that it will soon introduce offline versions of its popular programs More »

Syrian Hackers Target Columbia University's Facebook, but Miss

Syrian Hackers Target Columbia University's Facebook, but Miss

The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government online force that Assad has praised, sent hundreds of messages to the wrong page More »

Groupon, Daily Deal Sites Take Summer Nose-Dive in Traffic

Groupon, Daily Deal Sites Take Summer Nose-Dive in Traffic

Facebook and Yelp are reducing their forays into the coupon market while smaller niche coupon projects are going out of business More »

Apple Recruited Pfizer Employees to Combat Piracy in China

Apple Recruited Pfizer Employees to Combat Piracy in China

Facing a wave of knockoff iPods and iPhones, Apple enlisted members of Pfizer's security team to crackdown on the counterfeit industry More »

The Rockets That Could Still Save the Day for NASA

The Rockets That Could Still Save the Day for NASA

A list of the many launch vehicles, capsules, and space planes being considered as alternatives to the faulty Russian Soyuz rockets More »

Study Finds the Internet Is Actually Bad for Revolutions

Study Finds the Internet Is Actually Bad for Revolutions

Twitter and Facebook can help spread a message, but they can also create confusion, and, when it comes to action, don't do much More »

Who Profited From Irene? The Weather Channel

Who Profited From Irene? The Weather Channel

This weekend's massive storm could cost more than $7 billion in losses. But for the Weather Channel, the bigger the storm the bigger the ratings More »

Facebook Ditches Groupon-Like Deals After Only Four Months

Facebook Ditches Groupon-Like Deals After Only Four Months

Deals worked in tandem with the Places product, which was also recently axed, so it's not a complete surprise that Deals is being killed More »

Major Record Labels Are Suing a YouTube Downloading Site

Major Record Labels Are Suing a YouTube Downloading Site

Sites like TubeFire allow users to download and store their favorite videos from YouTube. Major recording labels don't particularly like this. More »

Cliche Watch: 'Come On Irene'? Come On, Guys

Cliche Watch: 'Come On Irene'? Come On, Guys

As Irene gained strength and set her sails for the east coast this week, a familiar Celtic fiddle started sounding in America's head More »

See 1,000 White-Clad New Yorkers Eat a Formal Guerilla Picnic

See 1,000 White-Clad New Yorkers Eat a Formal Guerilla Picnic

The French bring an unusual combination of civil disobedience, fashion, and food to Battery Park City More »

How JPMorgan Racked Up $88 Million in Federal Fines

How JPMorgan Racked Up $88 Million in Federal Fines

The international bank's transactions with Cuba, Iran and Sudan violated a trove of embargo laws More »

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