Groupon may have gotten its start in Chicago, but everything about it is Silicon Valley.
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Farming is making a comeback, and it’s not just the fans of local food and organic produce who are behind the shift. It’s the Internet. About 20 percent of the total population now plays Zynga’s Farmville.
Sean Connery’s missive was the “Best letter ever!” if you trust what people say on Twitter, but The Washington Post has discovered that Connery’s letter to Steve Jobs was actually a fake, put out by the humor site Scoopertino.
Japan has announced a new supercomputer, the Fujitsu K, which it says will be capable of doing 10 quadrillion (1 followed by 15 zeros) equations per second, making it more powerful than the combined capabilities of the next five supercomputers in the world.
LulzSec has been making some new friends and some powerful enemies over the weekend. Rumors that the group was feuding with Anonymous, another famous hacker consortium, proved to be little more than wishful thinking, now that the two groups have announced that they will be collaborating to take on banks and government agencies.
Steve Jobs has been after Sean Connery to participate in an Apple commercial for some time. Connery has turned Jobs down not once but several times, saying that he would not “sell his soul for Apple or any other company.”
After six years of negotiations, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has agreed to dramatically expand the number of suffixes available for websites around the world.
The Wikimedia Foundation that manages Wikipedia and various other free information sites may soon become the largest repository of free servers too.
Following Microsoft’s announcement that it plans to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the successful European VoiP company is firing top brass in an attempt to reduce the value of their payout.
LUSH Cosmetics invited the public to kiss at their stores in support of same-sex marriage.
