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The Many Brawls of TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington

The Many Brawls of TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington

The editor of Silicon Valley's most influential news site is once again ruffling feathers in the tech space with his abrasive temperament More »

Bitcoin's Speedy Fall: EFF Halts Donation, WikiLeaks Cashes Out

Bitcoin's Speedy Fall: EFF Halts Donation, WikiLeaks Cashes Out

Faith in the once-hot virtual Bitcoin currency continues to drain following multiple heists and repeated hacks of users' digital wallets More »

Poll: Daily Chatter on Fox News Is Less Civilized Than Twitter

Poll: Daily Chatter on Fox News Is Less Civilized Than Twitter

A survey of Americans about uncivil behavior finds that the constant stream of tweets, ranks and witticisms on Twitter isn't so bad More »

Internet Domains Expand From '.com' to Pretty Much Anything

Internet Domains Expand From '.com' to Pretty Much Anything

An announcement from the Internet's ruling global body means that $185,000 will buy you just about any domain extension you want More »

Meet the Fake Twitter Identities Who Tried to Seduce Weiner

Meet the Fake Twitter Identities Who Tried to Seduce Weiner

Even Anthony Weiner, widely considered the least Internet privacy savvy figure around, managed to avoid one major pitfall, it seems More »

Prepare to Have Your Email Read by the NSA

Prepare to Have Your Email Read by the NSA

With a new major hacking incident almost daily, the Department of Defense is scrambling to find the right shield against future attacks More »

Facebook's Leaky Product Team Are Accidental PR Geniuses

Facebook's Leaky Product Team Are Accidental PR Geniuses

"Project Spartan" illustrates how having a chatty team is actually a rather underhanded and potentially fantastic PR strategy More »

What Twitter Users Are Doing With LulzSec's 62,000 Leaked Logins

What Twitter Users Are Doing With LulzSec's 62,000 Leaked Logins

The hacking group has left the task of exploring the new information to its Twitter followers, who are taking the challenge to heart More »

This Bitcoin Business Is Entirely Out of Hand

This Bitcoin Business Is Entirely Out of Hand

Bitcoin is like that fake Federal Reserve experiment you did in high school economics class, except it's real and a bit more utopian More »

What Chris Matthews Reads

What Chris Matthews Reads

In the latest installment of The Atlantic Wire's Media Diet series, the "Hardball" host tells John Hudson how he gets his news More »

Careless Tweets Cost Lives: British Ads Against Oversharing

Careless Tweets Cost Lives: British Ads Against Oversharing

It's hard not to make fun of the British Defense Ministry's new public service announcements about how to use social media More »

Facebook Hires Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart

Facebook Hires Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart

The social network's latest high-level hire was able to successfully serve as Clinton's press secretary during the impeachment hearings More »

Gingrich's Nonprofit Paid His Business

Gingrich's Nonprofit Paid His Business

The disclosure raises questions about the former speaker's network of interests More »

Why You Should Think About Buying an Unlocked iPhone

Why You Should Think About Buying an Unlocked iPhone

Having an officially sanctioned means to unlock is something Apple's customers have been seeking since the iPhone's initial launch More »

Palin Supporters Hack Twitter Feed of Company Posting Her Emails

Palin Supporters Hack Twitter Feed of Company Posting Her Emails

Pro-Palin messages were sent out over Crivella West's account, including "Weiner's America or Palin's America-That Is the 2012 Choice." More »

Facebook Is Considering a $100 Billion IPO for Early 2012

Facebook Is Considering a $100 Billion IPO for Early 2012

The latest IPO speculation and record high valuation is prefaced by a mixed bag of recent numbers showing flagging usership More »

U.S. Funding Secret Internet Access for Dissidents Abroad

U.S. Funding Secret Internet Access for Dissidents Abroad

After the UN declaration that using the Internet is a basic right, the Obama administration looks to safeguard access around the world More »

Palin Supporters Hack Twitter Feed, Retaliating at Email Dump

Palin Supporters Hack Twitter Feed, Retaliating at Email Dump

Tech-investigations firm Crivella West posted the released documents online for MSNBC More »

Weiner Considers Resigning

Weiner Considers Resigning

According to the New York Daily News, the congressman is mulling it over as he seeks treatment More »

MySpace's Value Steadily Declines as Facebook's Rises

MySpace's Value Steadily Declines as Facebook's Rises

Reports suggest that the one interested buyer isn't offering close to the $100 million Murdoch asked for when he last considered selling More »

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