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Wow: Justin Bieber Accounts for About 3% of All Activity on Twitter

"The social networking site has previously claimed that Bieber, a singer who shot to fame on YouTube, is mentioned 60 times a second on its website, which publishes 65 million tweets every day," reports Telegraph.com. According to the report, "The…

Google Logo Mystery Solved

The Google logo on its flagship search page and the mystery of what the company was doing with it all day yesterday and part of today, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, has been solved, CafeMom’s The Stir reports. It’s been Google’s…

Betty White’s Career Keeps Rolling Along—What’s Next, Betty White: The Graphic Novel?

If anyone in Hollywood can say their career is currenlty on a roll, it’s 88-year-old Betty White. Next up for the popular actress isn’t a graphic novel, but close. White will be the basis for a comic book called "Female Force:…

Wanted: Executive Who Can Reinvent Old Business for Digital Age, Keep Costs Down — And, Oh Yes, Run Global News Coverage

With David Westin stepping down as the president of ABC News, the challenges facing network news came into the spotlight this week,reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The next president of the division won’t just be deciding who…

Google Will Launch Its Free TV Service This Fall…

Google will launch its free TV service this fall, Eric Schmidt, the company’s CEO, announced at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Reuters reports. According to the article, "CEO Eric Schmidt said the service, which will allow full Internet…

…Meanwhile Google’s Break-Apart Logo Tuesday Was a Mystery to Many

Google changes its logo often, and users just usually scroll over the modified logo to see whatever Goolge is honoring for the day. But not on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. For U.S. and U.K. users, the logo on the google…

Feeling Recession, Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon Raises Less Than Last Year

The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon may have felt the effects of the recession with this weekend’s annual fund-raising event, as the program raised about $1.5 million less than last year, reports the Las Vegas Sun. The program raised $58.9 million,…

Coming Soon: Company to Produce a Physical Keyboard For the iPhone

We iPhone users hear this complaint at least once a day from our blackberry-using colleagues: "I’d switch, you know, if the iPhone had a physical keyboard instead of a virtual one." It looks like that will happen before the end…

Will Simon Cowell’s British Shows Get Neglected in Favor of U.S. Version of ‘X Factor’?

The U.K. television programs "The X Factor" and "Britain’s Got Talent" are facing an uncertain future, as host Simon Cowell hasn’t yet signed a contract because he wants to focus on the American version of "The X Factor," reports the…

The End of Serendipity—Why Barnes & Noble’s Closing of Its Store Across From Lincoln Center on New York’s Upper West Side is a Bad Thing, Including Bad for TV and the Studios

It’s not like Barnes and Noble is some great monument to independent bookselling–quite the opposite, in fact. Nevertheless, TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross, in today’s entry, tells why the closing of the Barnes and Noble bookstore across from LIncoln…