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

AP - It turns out Netflix's fourth-quarter earnings aren't quite as good as the video subscription service told investors a couple weeks ago.

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 &

Mashable - [More from Mashable: Fisker Karma Electric Supercar Struts Its Stuff at CES 2012 [PICS]]

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 - Incoming CEO Kazuo Hirai aims to re-shape Sony Corp by linking hardware and software through online networks -- a model he used at its PlayStation unit -- dismissing any suggestion the battered brand would revert to a gadget-centered strategy under his management.

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 - 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.

AP - Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | You weren't charged it when they rang your smartphone up at the register, and your receipt won't have any mention of it. But if you bought an Android smartphone in the last year or so, odds are you paid Microsoft $5 for the privilege of using Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard as quoted in Business Insider. Meanwhile, Google stands to collect about a billion dollars a year from Apple on account of people who buy the iPhone, according to John Paczkowski of AllThingsD.

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.

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.

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 - Way back in the fall of 2011, when we were just being introduced to Siri in all her (short lived) iPhone 4S exclusivity glory, we wrote about Speaktoit. It was among the first legitimate answers to Siri that came hot on the heels of the iPhone 4S announcement. Â

AP - If your financial life is simple and you have basic computer skills, using do-it-yourself software is an "EZ" way to file your tax return.

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.