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Your New Facebook Status: 63,206 Characters or LessTwitter, as everyone and their tweeting dog knows, limits your status updates to 140 characters. But Facebook? Facebook laughs in the face of such limitations. On Facebook, 140 characters is barely clearing your throat. In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook’s Journalist Program Manager (and M... Angry Birds Launches First Fully Branded Game ‘The Hunt for the Golden Pistachio’The relationship between Wonderful Pistachios and Rovio’s Angry Birds entered a new level Thursday with the launch of The Hunt for the Golden Pistachio, the first fully branded Angry Birds game. The game, which rolled out Thursday morning on GetCrackin.com, requires a Chrome browser and fu... WikiLeaks Releases Surveillance Documents, Yahoo Acquisition Rumors Heat Up: Today’s Top StoriesWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today. Spy Files: WikiLeaks Releases Surveillance Industry Documents WikiLeaks has ... Amazon Santa App Helps Parents Find the Right Gifts [VIDEO]Amazon has launched an app for iPad and Kindle Fire that lets kids create holiday gift wish lists that parents can then browse and share with other family members. Learn more about the free app — dubbed “Santa App” — in the video above. More About: amazon, Christ... Amazon Launches Spanish, Italian Kindles and StoresAmazon has launched a Spanish and Italian Kindle Store with a large selection of Spanish-language Kindle books, as well the first Spanish-language Kindle. The Spanish Kindle store offers more than 900,000 titles, 22,000 of which are in Spanish. Some of the authors included are Mario Vargas Llosa... Spy Files: WikiLeaks Releases Surveillance Industry DocumentsWikiLeaks on Thursday released the first 287 documents from a database containing “hundreds” of documents from contractors in what WikiLeaks calls the “mass surveillance industry.” For this project, WikiLeaks teamed up with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well ... Shaq’s Social Media Guru Shares Her SecretsShaquille O’Neal — all 7-plus feet and 300-plus pounds of him — isn’t just known for casting a huge shadow on the basketball court. He looms large in social media, too, as America’s most-followed athlete (second in the world behind Brazilian soccer star Kaka) and Twi... Hands On With Spotify’s New App PlatformWhat's New The newly designed "What's New" screen features new albums and trending playlists and tracks from Spotify friends.Click here to view this gallery.Spotify just announced its new app platform. Partnering with the likes of Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboar... Tom Sawyer Gets Google to Paint the Fence for Mark Twain’s BirthdayGoogle is celebrating Mark Twain’s 176th birthday with one of the largest Google Doodles we’ve seen so far, referencing a famous incident from Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” where Tom cleverly gets other boys to paint a fence instead of him. Mark Twain, who... Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: 7 Ways to Enjoy the Experience OnlineSupermodels won’t be the only ones spreading their wings Tuesday night during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on CBS. The broadcast’s digital team also is strutting their stuff behind the scenes to enhance your online experience. Before, during and after the televised extrav... |