AP - Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.

AP - Netflix pressed the rewind button on its fourth-quarter earnings after settling allegations that the video subscription service violated a consumer-privacy law.

AP - LinkedIn provided further evidence of online networking's popularity and moneymaking potential with a fourth-quarter performance that got a glowing review on Wall Street.

Yahoo! News - Chocolates that you picked up from the grocery store on the way home from work a few minutes before the big V-Day date are� not sexy. In the world of fine taste, they rate somewhere around� squirt cheese,� Spam, and� tuna casserole — which &

Yahoo! News - If Albert Einstein were alive to witness Italy's� Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) in action, he might just start dancing. That's because the tungsten sphere, just over a foot in diameter, is meant to orbit the Earth and help scientists prove part &

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AP - She's been a sensation since she's been born, and now Blue Ivy has made her public debut.

Reuters - A privacy debate surrounding fledgling social network Path went viral this week, triggering discussions on blogs and on Twitter about how far social networks can go in using members' private data.

Reuters - Security researchers said they found a vulnerability in the Google Inc mobile payments platform which is currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel Corp.

Appolicious - One area in which Google has yet to catch up with Apple is home entertainment. That may soon change, as Google is reportedly working on an Android-based home music system called Android@home. Such a system would likely be among the first products to come out of Project Tungsten, which Google demonstrated at their I/O conference last spring. There, Google showed a tablet that could manage various aspects of the home, including turning lights on and off, sending music from the Internet to a hi-fi, and speakers laced with an NFC chip to initiate music play.

Digital Trends - “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain famously said upon hearing that a newspaper had published his obituary.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY| What happens when a young teenager disrespects her parents on Facebook? For Tommy Jordan, it meant posting a video on YouTube and Facebook, putting 10 hollow point bullets into his daughter's laptop and grounding her for the foreseeable future. Did he go too far?

Appolicious - Apples mobile devices apparently have been taking a bite out of the larger PC market, but theyre also eating up some of Apples own computer market share, a new web traffic study suggests.

Digital Trends - Try to imagine you are Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer. You’re weary of Apple’s perennial coolness, and of� the fact that Mac sales have been growing at a startling clip. Your company basically invented the tablet 10 years ago, but didn’t have the chutzpah to take it mainstream, and now Apple has built the most valuable company in the world on the popularity of mobile devices. You’re still essentially minting money, Windows 8 is just over the horizon, but a voice in the back of your head is nagging that something needs to change. Found in this position, you might direct all your company’s resources toward innovation, to creating fascinating new products the world can’t live without. Or, you could just start building Microsoft retail stores directly across the mall from Apple Stores. As Ballmer told Business Week recently, “Well, the traffic is going to be there, and we’ve got to beat them anyway.”

Appolicious - Google made a grand gesture in launching the Chrome browser beta for Android. Gaining popularity on the desktop, it was only a matter of time before Google merged its browser and mobile efforts with an Android version of Chrome. Vonage also made a splash with its Android debut, competing with established players like Skype and Googles own VoIP service. Rdio has completely reworked its Android app in hopes of making its mark on the Android Markets music scene, while Zlango reached 1 million users just a few months after its launch.

Digital Trends - There’s no doubt about it: Apple will, at some point in the near future, release the next version of its market-ruling tablet, the iPad. Nobody outside Apple’s walled garden can say for sure what the new device will offer — but as with any Cupertino creation, there are plenty of tips, rumors, speculation and good ol’ fashioned guesses to satisfy us till launch day. Here, a quick round-up of the most-likely details surrounding the iPad 3 (or whatever it’s called).

Appolicious - One of the big pushes Google is making for the future of its Android mobile platform is in Google Wallet, the near-field communication software that lets users make purchases in brick-and-mortar stores using only information stored and broadcast over short range by their smartphones.

AP - On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM, both of which have been on a tear.