Image: Wikimedia Commons NEW YORK (AP) — Credit card rewards are the new social currency. Citibank customers can now use Facebook to pool their rewards points online. The bank on Tuesday launched a Facebook application that lets users team up to use their points, whether it’s for charity, a group gift or a personal...
The Verified Twitter Account for Rupert Murdoch’s Wife Was Fake Twitter verified the account of @Wendi_Deng but it turned out to be a fake account. While the account was only verified for a short time, the Twitter account garnered significant attention based on tweets that fake-Wendi sent to Ricky Gervais and real-Wendi’s husband,...
The game is on. Iowa Caucus results (which is important because it kicks off voting and is viewed as an indicator of which Presidential candidates have a chance at winning the Republican nomination) have started pouring in at 7pm CST tonight. So far it looks like it will be a three-way race between Ron Paul, Rick Santorum...
Vizify, a social tool for creating a great first impression online and a recent grad of TechStars‘ Seattle accelerator program, is announcing today that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from a group of entrepreneurs and investors, which includes Picnik Founder Jonathan Sposato, Founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim...
According to a report from Inside Facebook, people who really hate Timeline and are looking for ways to get rid of it are becoming victims of scams on the social network. By searching for “remove Timeline” or “disable Timeline” on Facebook, you’ll find a slew of groups and pages promising step by step instructions...
If ATT-Mo’s failure taught us anything it’s that if the big U.S. operators are going to grow they can’t do it by acquiring each other. Instead they’re going to have to buy up what unused spectrum is left on the market to stockpile bandwidth for their future mobile broadband networks. While ATT was distracted...
New data from InsideSocialGames reveals more about the top most-played Facebook games. When people had downtime this holiday season, they were more likely to play Words With Friends and Farmville. The number of Words With Friends players went up 9% to 15,100,000 monthly average users. A total of 1.3 million users joined during the...
Because I live in a small household, and use my computers for pretty boring stuff, I’m not all that paranoid about who looks at my laptop. But I do understand the desire to know if anyone has been looking at your MacBook, whether it be nosy co-workers or family members. This simple trick, shared...
Abraham Hyatt compiled a juicy list of tech tattoos for you to ogle (and mock). A dozen or so of them were representations of tech luminaries like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (not kidding). This made us wonder who might be worthy to be permanently inked onto our own bodies. What do you think?...
I’d like to start off by saying that this particular story scares the crap out of me. Apparently, Quebec resident Martin Reisch decided to travel to the United States to deliver Christmas presents, but forgot his passport. Surely he’d be turned away and sent back home, right? Nope. How did Reisch make his way...