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The 54th Grammy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you on scene in Los Angeles and remotely from New York City. Join us…

Online activist group Anonymous have reportedly taken down a number of Greece government run websites in response to the the uprising in Athens. This latest attack comes just over a...

Just when you thought you had mastered the job search on all social media platforms, along came Pinterest. You’ve optimized your Facebook and…

More musical chairs on the deck of the S.S. Yahoo!

Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche trend not only crept into the mainstream, but is starting to really make a big splash. Gamification has become one of the hottest buzz words in the industry and is probably in the process of taking over a website or user experience near you. For the uninitiated, gamification, said simply, is the use of game design techniques and mechanics to solve problems and engage audiences. Over the last year, even large companies and enterprises are starting to get in on the game, with Gartner saying that all CIOs should have gamification on their radar, and M2 research predicting that the gamification market will reach 2.8 billion in direct spending by 2016.

Think "new YouTube app", not "Everything. Just. Changed."

If you’re a music lover and a font fan, then a kinetic typography video beats the more traditional genres hands-down. While you’ve no doub…

While startups across the world are doing their best to disrupt mobile networks with clever voice call apps, like Viber, there remains the basic issues of actual voice and data access which still requires some chipping away at. It's a particular in places like Europe where you can drive for only a couple of hours and cross two or even three borders and see your mobile roaming bill spin up or down like a yo-yo. For the past few years we've seen players like Truphone and Maxroam attempt to gnaw away at the telcos, but now Maxroam is going one further, launching a virtual network operator of its own.

Social Media Week is upon us, so we thought it would be appropriate to delve into the social media industry and see how its salaries stack up. Social…

With the bounty of apps available for mobile devices, it would take a full-time job to customize the best apps to suit our needs and populate our devi…

While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.‘s next-best-selling UK newspaper fare?

It’s that time of the year again and if you haven’t started thinking about what to get that special someone in your life, better start thinking fast, or Cupid’s arrow might just speed right past you. Luckily, we live in a world where our smartphones have become pragmatic problem solvers. Need the perfect gift? There’s an app for that. Can’t get a restaurant reservation? There’s an app for that. Girlfriend being a royal V-Day diva and it’s only 9 a.m.? There’s an app for that. (Well, not really, but it’s only a matter of time). Here are five unique ways that mobile apps will not only ensure you get through "le jour d’amour" with flying colors, but will provide you with time and cash-saving tricks that you can use any day of the year.

Enjoy uploading pictures to the Internet via Instagram? Now you can turn your collection into a poster. Thanks to London-based online retailer F…

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Pinterest is the fastest growing website of all time, having amassed ten million users in just nine months. So why has Pinterest been such a success? Pinterest is all about creating a category like "cool houses" and filling it with relevant images. It's a simple formula, but it works. Unlike other blogging tools like Tumblr, Pinterest is more of a posting board for ideas to inspire others. Here are our favorite "pinboards" on Pinterest. Maia McDonald's "Nature" pinboard is filled with gorgeous and exotic flora and fauna: http://pinterest.com/maia_mc... This pinboard is filled with the coolest tree houses we've ever seen: http://pinterest.com/alanaal... This pinboard features some of the fanciest cars, jets, and boats: http://pinterest.com/joewood... See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow SAI: Tools on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: If You Have An iPad, You Need To Download This New Twitter App Right NowGoogle Doesn't Like It When You...

Music artists have invited fans deeper into their lives through social media for years, but is the content they share online starting to captur…

Pinterest is hot. White hot. The 2011 Crunchie award winner for Best New Startup has been on a roll lately, hitting almost 12 million monthly unique visitors and crossing the 10 million milestone faster than any previous independent site, according to comScore. And a new report from Shareaholic indicates Pinterest is already generating more referral traffic to websites than YouTube, Reddit, Google+, and LinkedIn combined.

Consumers are expected to spend $17 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts this year, roughly a fifth of which will be spent online. That’s acco…

More than ever before, venture capitalists are digging in. To stay competitive and top-of-mind, VC’s are no longer loaning their advice and their capital, but actual “core” services that portfolio companies need. This shift isn’t necessarily new. For example, top VC firms like Kleiner Perkins and Greylock play a hands-on role in helping recruit talent. Recently, we’ve seen firms roll up their sleeves for another core competency: public relations. More often, I'll be pitched on a story on a startup by the in-house PR rep for an investment firm that has invested in the said startup. Traditionally, either the startup or an outside PR agency tends to do the outreach when it comes to launches, trend pieces, financings or other news items. And the rise in pitches from the VC firms themselves (as opposed to the startups) got me thinking about the evolution of the role of the VC, specifically in the context of PR. But in the past year or so, we've seen a rise in the addition of top PR and...

If you're unfamiliar, Brooklyn-based MakerBot Industries sells 3D printers can make nearly anything out of plastic. Using CAD software on your computer, you can sketch out a 3D model and use your MakerBot to manifest it in the real world. Commercial 3D printers can cost more than $25,000. The cost of a MakerBot? $1,100 or $1,750, depending on which model you spring for. This price difference gets at the heart of what the company is all about -- the democratization of manufacturing, or making it easy for people to create the objects they need without leaving the house. MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis told us that "When you think about it, we can print out a bottle opener, a whistle, a new doorknob. We needed a doorstop yesterday, so we printed one out. Rather than go out to be a consumer and buy something that's been manufactured overseas and put on a boat and brought to a store on a truck, you can go to your living room." MakerBot maintains Thingiverse, a user-generated collection of...

The other day I ripped into Pinterest a bit for its spammy email actions for new users. Not long after, a friend of mine called me out indirectly, saying that...

Yesterday  I published a piece about Newry in Northern Ireland, which is looking to help boost its economy by encouraging a startup ecosystem. A little later, a post entitled ‘You...

“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” - Irene Peter I’m not going to argue with Irene here, music is still music. But, the ways in which we discover, consume...

Don’t like what you see in your Facebook‘s news feed? Do the company’s algorithms that determine what you see drive you nuts? Are yo…

Thanks to technology and innovation, it's never been easier to live a healthier lifestyle. There are a ton of excellent gadgets and apps that are dedicated to helping you eat better, sleep well, lose weight, and track your progress. In this list, we present you with some excellent choices to start living a better, healthier, and more active lifestyle. Start by improving your mental health with Stress Free with Deepak Chopra app With this six week interactive course you will learn to eliminate daily stress with exercises for the mind, body, and soul. The app is compatible with your iPhone, iPad, and iPod and can be purchased for $1.99 Get in the right mind for the change with hypnosis Complement your meditation with a hypnosis app that will get you in the mind frame to lose weight, stop smoking, build your confidence, relax and much more. The hypnosis apps by Benjamin DeFoor come with options for music, ways to get inducted into hypnosis, and options on how to come out of the hypnosis....

When Saturday Night Live decides to make fun of Verizon, there’s something deeply satisfying about it. See if you agree when you watch this s…

Apparently Google TV has some big product announcements coming up tomorrow. But as Ed Bott pointed out this morning, the only way you'd know this is by looking at Facebook. The official Google TV page on Google+ just kicked off on Friday and has nothing about an upcoming announcement -- just a few pictures. Instead, the Google TV team posted this note on their Facebook page: "Get ready for Monday. We have some big announcements coming." This seems to contradict Google's policy of pushing Google+ at every opportunity. But the Google TV team knows where the audience is. We'll be monitoring Facebook closely to see what the announcement is. Maybe it's some shipping products from the crop of Google TV partners announced at CES, or perhaps something to do with the in-home entertainment system that Google is reportedly testing. Here are the two pages as of noon ET on Sunday, February 12. Facebook: And Google+ Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story »...

Undaunted by fear of safety regulations, auto makers are piling new technologies into their vehicles: everything from 17-inch dashboard screens to services that check Facebook and buy movie tickets

Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston’s death on Saturday night, the story was on Twitter, repor…

Apple has passed the landmark of one million iPad sales in South Korea, where its tablet device is a considerable distance ahead of rival Samsung’s efforts on its home turf....