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On Facebook, Rihanna’s Entire New Album is Streaming for Free

Shakira and Barack Obama may currently be besting Rihanna in Twitter rankings, but the Barbadian songstress is doing her part on the social media scene to change the status quo. Last week, RiRi, as she’s known to her fans, let pop music lovers everywhere get a compete earful of her newest album, “Talk That Talk,”

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Backlash to Facebook’s Awesome Timeline

Around the start of summer, Facebook brass kept commenting about a “something awesome” that would soon be unveiled. Well, as of yesterday everybody knows what the social network’s most awe-inspiring launch to date is: the FB Timeline. It seemed media watchers couldn’t keep pace with the torrent of positive feelings and thoughts that were too

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Just in Time for the First Week of School, “The Big Lebowski” for Rent on Facebook

This post was at first going to be dedicated to the news that “Retweet” and “LOL” had just been added to the revered Oxford English Dictionary. However, even bigger news has surfaced in the social media fray: “The Big Lebowski” can now be rented directly from its Facebook page. That’s really no LOLing matter; the

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Quepasa Pays Myyearbook $100 Million in Merger Agreement

Quepasa, the social network with its sights firmly set on a Latino audience has just paid the sibling trio from New Jersey, Geoff, Catherine, and David Cook, $100 million for their fraternal creation, Myyearbook.com. The payoff is considered part of a merger agreement between the two companies. Accordingly, Quepasa is putting up $82 million in

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