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Facebook on Tuesday announced it was hiring the co-founders of MailRank, a startup that focused on prioritizing email. Co-founders Bethanye McKinney Blount and Bryan O’Sullivan will be joining Facebook in December and shutting down MailRank, the two announced on MailRank’s blog. R...

Welcome to meme fight club. In the red corner: a YouTube short about a new movie studio devoted to making cat videos. In the blue corner: a YouTube short about a new advertising agency devoted to making cat videos. Gentlemen, sharpen your claws. Toronto-based ad agency John st. decided to generate s...

After our initial Kindle Fire review, we wanted to take a closer look at how Amazon’s new tablet compares with the iPad 2 as a media consumption device. Like Apple, Amazon has paired the Kindle Fire with a complete end-to-end media solution. Users can buy apps, books, music and video files ...

Apple has added Disney CEO Bob Iger to its board of directors and appointed former Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson as its non-executive chairman. Levinson first joined Apple’s board of directors in 2000, when he was still Genentech’s CEO. He has served as the co-lead director of the boa...

Updated: A judge has ruled against the Occupy Wall Street protesters, meaning that the protesters will not be allowed to camp in the park, the New York Daily News reports. The Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City is awaiting the decision from a judge that could allow it to stay in Zucco...

As the next movie in the Twilight Saga film series nears its premiere, malicious hackers are taking advantage of Twilight fans by poisoning links in Twilight-related searches with malware, Norton’s experts warn. Some of the search terms that will return results infected with malware are &#...

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Facebook is investigating violent and pornographic images spammers have planted in its network. Offensive content that has popped up in Facebook news feeds includes hardcore porn images, pictures of extreme violence, animal abuse and even a Photoshopped image of Justin Bieber in a sexual...

Social media best practices change faster than you can tweet or “like” whatever people agreed on last week. The idea for this piece came about while prepping IJNet’s internal social media guidelines: our Twitter followers are taking flight, so many people “like” us n...