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Ben Huh’s popular Cheezburger Network websites — Fail Blog, The Daily What and I Can Has Cheezburger? to name a few — have filled web browsers with laugh-inducing content since 2007. But 10 years ago, Huh’s world hummed a far less cheerful tune. With funds depleted after d...

Move over Sophia Petrillo, there’s a new Golden Girl in town sharing her timeless advice on how to act on various social networks and Internet hangouts. Props to Chacho Puebla and his latest project, Grandmother Tips, a humorous collection of tips our grandmothers never taught us, but we mi...

The iPhone topped Yahoo‘s U.S. top searches list for 2011, edging out Casey Anthony, Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry. It’s the first time since 2002 a tech device has topped the list, when PlayStation 2 took the number one spot. “The iPhone transcended gadget status,” says Vera Cha...

Twitter, 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...

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...

Welcome 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 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 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...

WikiLeaks 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 ...

Shaquille 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...