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 &

Mashable - Alex Goldfayn is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute. His new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple, Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn't).

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.

Digital Trends - Racking up over 3.5 million views on YouTube over the last 48 hours, a North Carolina man named� Tommy Jordan, father of a� fifteen-year old teenage girl named� Hannah, decided to respond to his daughter’s complaints about their family life. His daughter posted a lengthy rant about her parents on Facebook and attempted to hide the post with the privacy settings Facebook provides for all users. However, her father somehow ended up with a copy to her diatribe� and decided to film a video response� called “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen”. He had recently spent over $100 as well as several hours of his time upgrading her laptop, thus the actions on the video were very much an emotional response to what he� perceived� was a lack of gratitude on her part.

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.

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 - 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.”

Mashable - iTunes Store users have long reported curious problems with Apple's digital store -- mysterious purchases, gift card money disappearing, changes to account information. And recent reports have revealed that those complaints account for more than 70 pages on an Apple forum.

Digital Trends - When it comes to purchasing equipment, most military machines around the world will spend their time leafing through catalogs packed with bullets and bombs. The US Air Force (USAF), however, is also taking a close look at something else—Apple’s iPad.

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.

Mashable - One Pirate Bay user successfully ported the whole of The Pirate Bay onto a USB drive. This is made possible now that the site has transitioned to magnet links to save on bandwidth and likely because it leaves behind less potentially incriminating evidence on The Pirate Bay's own servers.