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Google, Facebook Censor Themselves in India After Court OrderGoogle India and Facebook have removed web pages considered offensive to India’s political and religious leadership to satisfy a court order in a censorship case. Indian prosecutors are suing a host of Internet companies on behalf of a Muslim religious leader who has accused them of hosting... Verizon, Redbox Ready to Take on Netflix With Streaming ServiceVerizon announced Monday that it is taking a crack at the video streaming business. The company is joining forces with Coinstar, the parent company of popular DVD rental kiosk business Redbox — a move that will take on rival video rental company Netflix. Verizon, which didn’t elabo... How to Follow New York Fashion Week OnlineSnapshot from Nanette Lepore’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Fashion Week returns to New York Feb. 9, and once again designers and the press are heading to the web to engage consumer audiences. Building off success from past seasons, many brands — roughly one-third showing at Linc... Google Launches ‘Solve for X,’ Think Tank for Fixing Global Problems [VIDEO]Google just debuted a project dedicated to attacking some of the biggest problems facing civilization, such as global warming, and proposing “radical” ideas for solving them. Called “Solve for X,” the idea resembles TED (Technology Entertainment and Design), the series of co... Honda’s ‘Bueller’ Super Bowl Ad Got the Most Buzz [REPORT]Ferris Bueller took the day. Honda’s CR-V ad featuring Bueller star Matthew Broderick taking a day off (above) was the most-buzzed Super Bowl ad, according to Zeta Interactive. Honda’s ad received 91% positive buzz, narrowly beating out M&M’s “Mrs. Brown” ad and... Why Didn’t Apple Advertise During the Super Bowl?During the third quarter of the 1984 Super Bowl, viewers witnessed one of the most memorable commercials ever, “1984.” Twenty-eight years later, Apple ignored the most widely watched television event of the year and is instead mocked by one of its chief rivals. Did it make a mistake by skip... Pinterest: How Do You Turn Pins Into Projects?Pinterest is perhaps the most buzzed-about service of early 2012 and an unexpected startup success story. For those who haven’t joined (the site is invite-only), Pinterest is a curatorial site that calls itself a “virtual pinboard,” which allows users to capture and organize ima... Coca-Cola, Acura Websites Crashed During Super BowlThe New England Patriots weren’t the only ones who choked Sunday night. Websites from Coca-Cola, Acura and film Act of Valor crashed Sunday night after being overwhelmed by Super Bowl ad-driven traffic. In Coke’s case, a Facebook app featuring animated polar bears in the ads buckled ... |