In an unprecedented move for a major Internet economy, the government of Egypt appears to have cut off web access for most of its citizens. It comes as protestors prepare for a big weekend of demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak, who has been the country's president for nearly 30 years. The shut [...]

Up-and-coming rock stars, watch Lady Gaga. She'll show you how it's done. The pop star proved once again that she's the queen of social media today when she released the lyrics to her yet-to-be released single Born This Way on Twitter today. Fan have to wait until February 13th to hear [...]

Rupert Murdoch doesn't get on a plane for just anyone. Murdoch's News Corp. has finally set an official, public launch date for The Daily, its iPad-based news publication. Or news service. Or news product. Whatever. Look, the point is that The Daily was originally supposed to debut on Jan. 17 [...]

Claiming to offer “Earth’s biggest selection” of retail goods, Amazon.com posted earnings after the bell on Thursday, beating expectations but disappointing investors on falling margins and slowing growth. The Seattle, Washington-based tech company posted net income of $416 million for the fourth quarter, an 8% gain over the same period a [...]

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie thinks the NBA should put a team in the Prudential Center, home of New Jersey's Devils and Nets, when the basketball team moves to Brooklyn in two years.  According to Christie, the region can support another NBA team along with the Nets and Knicks because [...]

UPDATED: Higher than expected quarterly earnings helped Microsoft cruise past the unsettling prospect of reporting lower earnings than Apple for the first time since 1990 Thursday. Microsoft's net income fell to $6.63 billion or 77 cents per share from to $6.66 billion or 74 cents per share during the year-ago period, [...]

My post from yesterday on the staggering dumbness of so much of the how-to content produced by Demand Media generated a lot of response, much of it positive, but some from readers who thought I was unfair. Several commenters accused me of being jealous of and/or threatened by the content [...]

Most people assume that Hollywood runs on big movies like Avatar, Toy Story 3 and Iron Man -- movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make and can bring in as much as $1 billion (or $2.7 billion in the case of Avatar) at the box office alone. But [...]