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  • As expected, 500 people get laid off. That's 47% of their work force. I actually was putting this in the show, this little item, and I struggled…

  • So this French guy, Mathieu Weschler, spent two years playing Grand Theft Auto IV on a PC, saving clips of himself playing it, and turning those…

  • The shopping site Groupon is getting big. They received nearly a billion dollars in new investment and promptly bought up three companies in India,…

  • On our show this morning we talked about the Justice Department trying to take down Wikileaks. But at the same time, the State Department is making…

  • The question mark there at the end is because evidently the January 19th date could still slip. But the plan is for Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs…

  • Kind of a dippy use for a technology but whatever, Google. Google Goggles is a visual recognition and search application that lets you do stuff…

  • There is a hearing in a San Francisco court today regarding the long-running dispute between Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss and Facebook founder Mark…

  • We reported last week that Apple employees were told they couldn't take vacation in late January or early February. I assumed that was for the…

  • Really interesting article in the Times. Not sure if it says more about Facebook or more about Japan but the social network is a total bust in that…

  • Officials in Virginia's public school system are set to vote on, and expected to pass, a series of recommendations for how teachers and students…