January 2012
Family says former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in major college football history, has died. Paterno had resigned last year after a former assistant was accused of child molestation.
[brightcove video=”1399854969001” /] Google has apologized — via Google+ and by phone — to the CEO of an African startup whose databases were compromised by a Kenya-based team working for Google. Nelson Mattos, Google’s vice president for product and engineering for Europe and emerging m…
An Olympic games, a U.S. presidential election and the end of the world are already planned for 2012, but we’re more excited about the startups. Here are six of them (in no particular order) that we expect to help define the coming year. We chose companies based on the momentum they gained in …
Deleting your social media account may be the most difficult breakup you’ll ever have. Networks try various techniques to get you to stay, and they often leave you wondering if it’s you and not them. Let’s take a look at some of these clever little tricks that make it hard to delete your social p…
Opening This Week:
The Devil Inside
★ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide - It’s enough to make one want to break into the projector’s
booth and burn the celluloid. The more the mind ponders “The Devil Inside,”
the more cheap, pointless and cockamamie it reveals itself to be. Horror
fans hoping to start 2012 with a bang are about to be in for a very rude
awakening.
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Norwegian Wood
★★★ (out of ★★★★)
Select Cities - Low-key and sweeping, intimate and classically melodramatic,
“Norwegian Wood” never deviates from focus on its characters, but places
them within a tableau where falling in love and meeting an awful end are on
the same mounted-and expected-wavelength.
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Shane Snow is a New York-based tech journalist and co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for brand publishers and journalists. In 2010, New York City startup, Birchbox launched a blog about beauty products before it had any customers. The beauty sample delivery service – and its blog …
