California’s 9th Circuit Court made a monumental ruling on Tuesday, Feb. 7th in a 2-1 decision to strike down Proposition 8. California voters passed Prop. 8 in 2008, banning gay marriage after thousands of same-sex couples had exercised their brief legal right to marry, effectively stripping away a minority group’s civil rights. This was finally [...]
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Facebook’s rumored to be filing its paperwork for its initial public offering Wednesday and is reportedly trying to raise $10 billion, which would give it a valuation of $100 billion. How do these numbers match up? Historically speaking, if Facebook has raised that much for its initial public offering, it would: — be the sixth-largest [...]
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More and more, politicians are getting into the social media game. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign was by far the most aggressive we’ve seen, and now Republicans are following the trend. Obama’s success in 08 was largely due to his demographic being younger and more tech savvy, so does the Republican cross-over work? In the [...]
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Yesterday, Google announced a new change in their privacy policy that will begin on March 1st. Google already has a bad reputation for snooping through users’ information in order to target online ads, but this will go to another level. The new privacy policy will be a cross-platform agreement allowing Google to monitor and use [...]
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From Huffington Post: “As lawmakers held their first public hearing on legalizing same-sex marriage, a previously undecided Democratic senator on Monday announced her support for the measure, all but ensuring that Washington will become the seventh state to allow gay and lesbian couples to get married. The announcement by Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, [...]
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Google is know for their advanced search algorithms that keep SEO agents and techies on their toes. But lately, Google’s updated search method has been keeping other social media websites on their toes. Google’s new program, “Google Plus Your World” puts results for Google+ pages above sometimes more relevant pages like those on other social networks. [...]
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More Netflix drama in the news this week – a group of investors is forming a class-action lawsuit again Netflix and several of its executives over misleading investors with false financial projection data and failing to inform investors of financial hardships when the company’s stocks took a dive in 2011. The lawsuit was filed in [...]
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Today, Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This decision was due to several factors, but the main ones being the out-lash against the unpopular bill on online forums, and the fact that the White House threatened to veto the bill if pushed through. However, [...]
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If you’re an internet junkie, you’re probably pretty aware of the impending loom of the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) Bill which could cause a LOT of problems for many tech websites, small businesses, and avid internet users. [Click here to see why SOPA is bad, and to sign the petition!] This coming Wednesday (January 18th, 2012), [...]
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