Viacom Posts Higher-Than-Expected Profit

The owner of MTV Networks, Paramount movie studios and Nickelodeon cable channels said its second quarter profit fell less than 1 percent.

Disney Acquires Web Site for Children

Aiming to solidify its position in online entertainment, the company acquired Club Penguin in a deal that could total $700 million.

3 Free Apps To Get Things Done Faster On The Mac

3 Free Apps To Get Things Done Faster On The Mac These three utilities will make you more productive on the Mac. And the price is right - they're free. Namely is a simple application launcher that works from the keyboard, ...

Heroes Gets Printed, Played

The latest superpower bestowed on the "Heroes" ensemble: multimedia expansion. It was announced Thursday that both a video game and a series of graphic novels based on the Emmy-nominated...

BARBARIC!

He's describing dogs fighting or Conan. We're not sure which.

Oscar the Cat Predicts Patients' Deaths

In Brief: "MySpace has identified more than 29,000 ...

"MySpace has identified more than 29,000 registered sex offenders on its social network." [Ad Age]

Drew Carey, Come On Down!

Drew Carey...come on down! You are the next host of The "Price Is Right"! The quick-witted comic announced his new gig during a Monday taping of CBS' "Late Show with David...

Lindsay's Drunk Driving Rerun

The second time apparently wasn't the charm for Lindsay Lohan. Just 11 days after completing her second stint at Promises Malibu rehab facility, the actress has been arrested for drunk...

Should Google Buy Yahoo?

Robert Young at Publishing 2.0 argues that Google needs to face facts and finally kick down for Yahoo. Why would Google pay for a second rate search engine and a bunch of Web 1.0 apps?

Review: Two Weeks With An iPhone

Our Apple expert takes the deepest dive ever into the iPhone, offering perspective on apps and corporate integration you won't find anywhere else.

Yahoo Still Can't Close Search Gap With Google

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Brands matter in search, now more than ever. Recent adjustments to both Google's and Yahoo's search algorithms were made to push rich brand-marketing sites up the page of paid search results. But unfortunately for Yahoo, the initial boost Panama provided brands appears ...

Nominations for 59th Annual Emmy Awards

The complete list of nominees for the 59th Annual Emmy Awards.

Good Eats: In-N-Out-N-NYC?

As Eater mentions, plutocrat magazine Departures recently ran a story on burgers in which it is written "Los Angeles burger haven In-N-Out is rumored to be planning a New York debut, but burgers have...

What is Facebook worth?

There's been a debate raging on Techmeme, the website that turns the tech blogosphere into a mail list, about the value of Facebook. I have two answers to the question: 1. A lot. 2. Or very little. Depending on what they do. The next evolution of the web is to deconstruct social networks ...

The Reality of Magazine Cover Model

Jezebel blog has an article about how already-beautiful people are photoshopped into skinnier and even more beautiful cover models. Here’s Faith Hill, the real, amazing country singer and the Redbook cover version: Link - Thanks M.H.!

No Kidding: Media Site Sells For $23 Mil

I don't see where the value is here. But congrats to Laurel Touby for sweet-talking the Jupitermedia Corporation, an Internet research company, into buying her Mediabistro.com site for job-seeking and job-networking media and creative professionals. The New York Times story says Mediabistro received ...

The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks.

Here are the origins of several symbols we use in everyday life. Question Mark Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio - meaning "question" - at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, ...

Find your hobby.

Which hobby best suits your personality? Mine would be travel (if I had the time and money). Getting there is half the fun and for you the other half of the fun means going even further once you’re there. You’re ready to travel anywhere at the drop of a hat: your passport is always up to ...

Mobile Phones: Map it with GOOG-411

1-800-GOOG-411 has added a new feature - the ability to get maps of the businesses that you're looking for texted to your mobile device. All you need to do is call the number, say "map it", and the text message will come to you with a map of what you're looking for right there on your phone. It's an ...