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According to new information from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, tablet ownership has jumped from about 1 out of every 10 Americans to approximately 19 percent. The previous study was conducted around the middle of December, thus the massive increase in tablet ownership can likely be attributed to the holiday shopping season. While Apple's iPad definitely helped boost that percentage, less expensive tablets… Read More

Despite giving tons of the stuff away, Bill Gates still has loads of it. And even more than he had this time last year. The vast wealth of the Microsoft co-founder has ensured he retains his position at the top of Forbes’ latest list of the richest people in the US today. The list, published on Wednesday, puts his net worth at $59 billion, up $5 billion on last year’s figures. But look who’s coming up the list – that’s right, Facebook… Read More

John W. Byers and Georgios Zervas of Boston University as well as Michael Mitzenmacher of Harvard began researching the effect of daily deals on the overall average of a Yelp rating. The trio looked at both Groupon and LivingSocial relationships with businesses that were listed on Yelp and found that the typical rating was 10 percent lower when a business participated in a daily deal. In addition, the volume of reviews increase by about 44… Read More

When you think of the hackers behind the mysterious group Anonymous, you might think of anything from James Bond-esque computer wizards to cyber-security professionals who lead secret double lives to over-weight college kids with too much time on their hands and a hankering for mischief. What many of you probably didn't think of, however, was a teenage girl who works at a salon. According to Forbes, one of the four hackers responsible for… Read More

As Facebook's value has surged, so have the fortunes of its founders. On the 2011 Forbes “World's Billionaires” list, six of Facebook's early architects have made the cut. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits atop the company's richest, ranking in as the 52nd richest person in the world. That's a significant jump from last year, which had him at number 212 on the Forbes list.… Read More

Bill Gates could have been the wealthiest person in the world, reports Reuters. But he gave it all away. In fact, the Microsoft founder has given away so much of his fortune in the last year that it pushed him down to lowly number two on Forbes' upcoming list of 2011 billionaires, just behind Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu. Had he not given so much to charity — primarily through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — Gates would be worth… Read More

It's no surprise that Bill Gates still reigns supreme on the Forbes 400 list of richest people in America. His estimated wealth valuation is $54 billion. In a not too distant second place, Warren Buffett came in with an estimated $45 billion. Rounding out the top three on this list of I-have-more-money-than-I-can-shake-a-fist-at was Oracle Founder, Larry Ellison, with $27 billion. What is surprising is to see 26 year old Mark Zuckerberg,… Read More

Forbes editor Daniel Lyons has admitted to being “Fake Steve Jobs,” the author of the satyrical blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs which pokes fun at the high tech industry, while inviting scrutiny of Silicon Valley and the individuals who run some of its influential companies. Lyons admitted to being Fake Steve after New York Times reporter Brad Stone asked him if he was behind the spoof, citing several similarities between… Read More

San Francisco-based Blinkx debuted a free, novel service which uses speech recognition technology to scan and index radio and television programs available via the Internet, and deliver search results to users via the Web or via customized RSS files called SmartFeeds. The Blinkx service, currently in a beta form, offers video from mainstream news sources such as CNN, Reuters, NBC, CNN, Forbes, E!, iFilm, The New York times, ITN, and C-SPAN,… Read More