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Lady Gaga’s New Social Network Resembles Pinterest, Reddit [PICS]LittleMonsters.com Pop megastar Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful, digitally-willing paws deeper into the online world with the closed beta launch of her new social network. LittleMonsters.com -- the first product created by startup Backplane -- gives Gaga's fans... Prop 8 Is Unconstitutional — Social Media (Mostly) Says Good RiddanceA federal court decided on Tuesday to uphold a ruling from 2010 that declared the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional — and it caused a hubbub on the interwebs. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a lower court’s decision that decl... Zuckerberg to Be Taxed at Lower Rate Than Most Facebook EmployeesFacebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s future tax rate is likely to be in Mitt Romney territory while more recent Facebook employees will be taxed around the rate of Warren Buffett’s secretary. While the gulf in rates raises 1% vs. 99% tax fairness issues, the picture is more comp... An Idea for Fixing Education: Skip College, Work at a StartupSkip college, work at a startup. That’s the idea behind a new two-year program called Enstittue that started accepting applications Tuesday. As newspaper headlines about recent college graduates read along the lines of “educated, unemployed and frustrated” and the average colleg... Yahoo Chairman Steps DownYahoo‘s chairman of the board, Roy Bostock, is leaving the company. Bostock has been chairman since 2008. Bostock revealed the news to shareholders in a long letter describing the company’s recent restrategizing. A far cry from a resignation letter, Bostock is upbeat about Yahoo’... Fashion Startup Moda Operandi: Now Opening to the WorldModa Operandi, the closely watched online retail operation from ex-Gilt exec Aslaug Magnusdottir and Vogue contributing editor Lauren Santo Domingo, is in transition. Once accessible only via application, the year-old site is opening its doors and bolstering its content offerings in an attempt t... Google Celebrates Charles Dickens’s 200th BirthdayToday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens. Born on Feb. 7 1812 in Landport, England, Charles John Huffam Dickens grew in tough, working-class conditions. At age 12, after his father was thrown into a debtors’ prison, he was forced to work at a blacking... Apple Says it Will Boot Developers Who Manipulate App Store Rankings [VIDEO]Apple says it will not tolerate manipulation of App Store rankings even if a third-party service is responsible for doing the dirty work. Making it to the top of the charts is tough, considering more than 500,000 apps are available for download. Apple knows app developers pay third-party... Anonymous Hacks Syrian President’s Email. The Password: 12345Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of his office’s emails on Monday. While Anonymous is infamous for its hacking know-how, it doesn’t take a gen... Ferris vs. Ferris: Super Bowl Ad and Movie Compared [VIDEO]Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. What do you get when you combine an iconic movie with a buzz-winning Super Bowl ad? An overdose of awesome. The skilled editors at AkooTV juxtaposed scenes from John Hughes’s 1986 masterpiece ... |