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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Best Buy Can’t Send All Online … Continue reading →

GoDaddy is one of more than a hundred companies catching flak online for supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Many website operators have threatened to move their domains away from GoDaddy, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has said … Continue reading →

For Amazon, it’s going to be hard to top 2011. After all, this was the year the gargantuan online retailer launched a cloud storage service, opened the doors on its own Appstore, and released a tablet, the Kindle Fire, that … Continue reading →

Chevrolet will pick the most-shared video among a pool of about 40 crowdsourced videos to determine which will run in next year’s Super Bowl. The General Motors brand on Thursday presented about 35 of the films on ChevroletRoute66.msn.com. Chevy will … Continue reading →

Google Search has put its own spin on the conventional caption-writing contest. To test your wit, it wants you to view a cartoon in which one of the characters is performing a Google search. Your task is to write a … Continue reading →

More than a quarter of photos and videos shot by individuals in the U.S. are now being captured by smartphones, according to an online survey of 3,300 Internet users ages 13 and up. Sales data suggest smartphones are replacing consumers’ … Continue reading →

After you watch this video, you might have a bad taste in your mouth about FedEx delivery personnel. But I think this guy is an aberration, an outlier against a corps of FedEx employees that I’ve noticed are second to … Continue reading →

  After you watch this video, you might have a bad taste in your mouth about FedEx delivery personnel. But I think this guy is an aberration, an outlier against a corps of FedEx employees that I’ve noticed are second … Continue reading →

Ever since Twitter unveiled its first Twitter-branded version of TweetDeck, there have been complaints about the Twitter dashboard’s stability and overall performance. Now Twitter is finally rolling out TweetDeck 1.1 for the desktop, as well as an update to the … Continue reading →

We live in a world of absolutes: Here’s what happened. Even when we look to the future, our predictions are couched in the world’s sometimes difficult realities. It can, to be honest, take all the fun out of guess work. … Continue reading →