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Actor Verne Troyer sues TMZ.com over sex tape

June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dwarf actor Verne Troyer, a star of “The Love Guru,” has sued celebrity Web site TMZ.com and other defendants seeking more than $20 million in damages over a sex tape he said was stolen and posted online.

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Husband of YouTube Star “mortified” by publicity

June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Broadway producer whose wife found YouTube fame after posting monologues about their failed, high-society marriage described himself in court on Friday as “mortified” and “violated” by the experience.

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Apple’s Complete My Album emerges as marketing tool

June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

DENVER (Billboard) - Releasing a single for digital download before an album’s debut is about as standard these days as making it available to radio.

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Web animation site aniBoom raises $10 million

June 27th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Internet

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AniBoom.com, an Internet home for animators to create and share their work, has raised an additional $10 million in funding led by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

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He said, she said: Which is it? Facebook asks

June 27th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Internet

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network site Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as “they” or “themself.”

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MTV broadens use of Web with slate of new shows

June 27th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seeking new ways to entertain audiences, music television network MTV has recently begun allowing fans of new and upcoming shows to discuss and post their own versions of music videos on the Web.

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Oil sands: Canada’s next vacation wonderland?

June 27th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - If it’s sand you crave on your vacation, then Greenpeace might have just the travel idea for you.

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Judge backs Facebook deal in suit over origins

June 27th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of cash and stock to settle a long- running legal battle over whether founder Mark Zuckerberg stole ideas for the site from fellow Harvard students, according to court documents released late on Wednesday.

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Spurned N.Y. wife-turned-YouTube star defends videos

June 27th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British actress who found YouTube fame after posting monologues about her failed marriage to a Broadway theater owner and producer defended her popular videos in a New York court on Thursday.

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Get ready for .smith, .sports or .love on the Web

June 27th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Internet

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet regulators on Thursday voted to relax rules on domain names like .com or .edu, which could pave the way for companies or individuals to create an array of new addresses for the Web.

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