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California Senate approves protections for minors on Internet
Despite opposition from Internet firms including Facebook and Google, the California Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would require social networking sites to remove identifying information about teens and younger children from their pages...
Tags: Politics, Ellen M Corbett, Media Industry, Punishment, Social Media
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California state Senate OKs social network, drug bills
SACRAMENTO — Social network sites such as Facebook would be required to remove personal information about minors when asked to do so by their parents under a measure approved by state senators Thursday. Separately, the lawmakers voted to allow...
Tags: Theft, Politics, Safety of Citizens, Lawyers, Social Media
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'Mortal Kombat' creator Ed Boon back with DC superhero game
Ed Boon was pulling punches. I could tell immediately: Why else would Aquaman be wiping the floor with Batman? Not to mention, I was playing Ed Boon in a video game, a fighting game, that Ed Boon, the king of the fighting-game genre, created. The game...
Tags: Sony Corp., Bankruptcy, Midway Games Inc., Politics, Gaming
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The day ahead in business April 24
Reports: MBA mortgage index for week ended April 20, 6 a.m.; Durable goods orders for March, 7:30 a.m.; Crude inventories for week ended April 20, 9:30 a.m. Local earnings: Boeing Co., First Midwest Bancorp Inc., Horace Mann Educators Corp., Morningstar...
Tags: Standard Parking Corporation, Ford Motor Co., USG Corporation, Churchill Downs Inc., Boeing Co.
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Mark Zuckerberg's foray into politics is delayed by leaked memo
SAN FRANCISCO -- In Silicon Valley, start-ups launch in beta all the time and work out the kinks as they go. Apparently that approach doesn't work as well in Washington. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's new political advocacy start-up hasn't even...Tags: Politics, LinkedIn Corp., Immigration, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates
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Not all fun and (video) games
Big Huge Games in Timonium closed last May, taking nearly 100 jobs with it. Nine months later, a local studio that was launched from the ashes of the video game-maker shut down, too. And Zynga, which created FarmVille and Words with Friends, closed its...
Tags: Gaming, Computer Hardware, Petroleum Industry, Hunt Valley, Highlandtown
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Nick D'Aloisio, 17, suddenly rich, famous after Yahoo buys Summly
SAN FRANCISCO -- Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old British entrepreneur sensation who just sold his popular news-reading app to Yahoo Inc. for close to $30 million, instantly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made technology millionaires. It'...Tags: Telecommunication Service, Yahoo! Inc., Media Industry, Ashton Kutcher, Li Ka-shing
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Snoop Dogg was gangsta; Snoop Lion is Rasta
Snoop Dogg had come to Burbank to let loose the lion. Engulfed by a haze of marijuana smoke thick as London fog in a hotel suite high above the so-called Media Capital of the World, the gangsta rap superstar surrendered himself to a hairdresser's...
Tags: Politics, Diplo, Artists, Dr. Dre (music artist), DMX
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'Oz' fest: Chicago startup creates 'Wizard of Oz'-themed game
For RedEyeIt's not exactly the Yellow Brick Road, but a proverbial hop, skip and a jump up the Kennedy Expressway from the wizard of Oz's birthplace lies the origin of a new kind of Oz creation. More than a century after L. Frank Baum penned "The Wonderful ...Tags: L. Frank Baum, James Franco, Social Media, Blu-ray Discs, Halloween
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Zynga closes Timonium video game studio in broader consolidation
Zynga, the video game maker best known for FarmVille and Words With Friends, has closed its Timonium office as part of a broader corporate consolidation, company officials said Monday. The company also made changes at three other offices, closing and...
Tags: Gaming Industry, Gaming, FrontierVille, Career and Workplace, Media Industry
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Atari founder on venture capital documentary, Steve Jobs
My experience over the years is that Nolan Bushnell, the guy who founded Atari and once hired Steve Jobs, doesn't talk to the press much. So when the opportunity to talk to him came up, I jumped at it. "I basically look at PR as something you do if...
Tags: Movies, Gaming Industry, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Apple iPhone, Entertainment
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Facebook Year in Review feature shows your top moments of 2012
Top 10 lists and year-in-reviews are a dime a dozen in December, but what about your own top moments of 2012? Facebook has put out a nifty little feature that gathers your top 20 moments of the year and presents them to you in reverse chronological...
Tags: The Hunger Games (movie), Culture, Social Media, Sociology, Apple iPad
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