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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. In case you were wondering, it’s official, “Kris Allen is, without a doubt, the American Idol,” Fox and FremantleMedia said. According to AT&T, “a few local AT&T employees” were invited to attend local viewing parties in Arkansas, “Caught up in the Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian firm, has invested $200 million in Facebook in return for 1.96% of the company. They’ve also agreed to buy about $100 million in common stock from Facebook employees. Some people are saying that this investment values Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. It’s getting tough to be Twitter. They’re short on employees, short on revenue and, some say, short on service. The good news is that both Evan Williams and Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founders know that they’re in over their head and they Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he plans to take his case with the Entertainment Software Alliance over the sale of violent video games to minors to the Supreme Court. Governer Schwarzenegger introduced and passed the bill in 2005, which was Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told a Reuters conference that the company is “not pursuing advertising.” Instead, Stone noted that Twitter will give businesses access to analytics for a price, as well as a database of commercial data. Stone also said that Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Palm’s hotly anticipated Pre is set to go on sale in the first week of June. The smartphone, which has multi-touch capabilities like the iPhone, is expected to make Palm a notable competitor to Apple and Research in Motion. Unfortunately for Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Media mogul David Geffen is seriously interested in purchasing a large stake in The New York Times Company. Rumors of Geffen’s interest have increased in the past few weeks, especially after Google said they were not interested in the publishing company. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google experienced a bevy of screw-ups yesterday. Users were complaining all over Twitter that the search giant’s GMail service, as well as Google News and Reader, were experiencing outages during the morning. While problems have been resolved, the outages were prevalent Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Craiglist announced that it will get rid of the “erotic services” portion of its site. The popular web-based classifieds site has been under scrutiny over the section, which houses thousands of ads for sexual services, many of which are probably illegal. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. France is set to enact a series of laws which could give the government the power to cut off internet access for users deemed as pirates. French Parliament, which recently tried and failed to enact a three-strike policy, passed a bill Continue Reading →