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Facebook’s first video ad is a bit strange. It compares chairs to Facebook. Because, you know, reasons. Obviously. The video parody here uses slightly naughty language and shows people sitting on toilets, thus earning the NSFW label. But it’s funny. And ironically more accurate and insightful than the original.

SNL’s Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics Saturday Night Live’s latest parody sketch gives life to that oft-quted phrase ‘first world problems’. (Here’s an alternative link if the one above doesn’t work). In a biting take-down of some of the legitimate, but sometimes whiny niggles us tech press have with the new iPhone 5, the show assembled a mock Tech TV show ca

Hoxworth ban on gay/bisexual men's blood donations set to end

A Founder’s Guide To Replacing Yourself: A Few Weeks Ago I Made My Toughest HR Decision Yet — I Fired Myself Editor’s note: Suranga Chandratillake launched blinkx in 2005, ultimately taking it public on the London Stock Exchange in May 2007. Prior to founding blinkx, Suranga was U.S. CTO of Autonomy Corp., responsible for growing Autonomy’s research and development division. Follow him on Twitter.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall Editor’s note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD, is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a roya

Media & Entertainment 3 Lessons That Startups Can Learn From Facebook’s Failed Credits Experiment Editor’s note: Peter Vogel is co-founder and CEO of Plink, an online-to-offline loyalty program that rewards members for dining and shopping at their favorite national restaurants and offline stores. Reach him via email or follow him on Twitter. Startups face an ever-changing series of challenges. Luc

The Evolution of Windows OS From Beginning to Present [INFOGRAPHIC] Long-time Windows users can walk down memory lane with an exclusive infographic, below, that shows the operating system evolve over time. Starting from 1985, Windows' OS appears in its various incarnations in chronological order: Windows 1.0, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and the latest

For every time your best friend has challenged you to offer free hugs to strangers, pretend to be a celebrity or just eat something gross, have you wished more was at stake than just your ego? Now, there’s an app for that. Klash, a social-rewards network, is the digital intersection of truth or dare and Foursquare. Launched two weeks ago, Klash allows users to log in to the app via Facebook or Twi

Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an avid traveler and entrepreneur who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. In my opinion, the smartphone is the greatest travel tool ever created. They enable you to be in a completely foreign place, yet immediately have access to maps, directions, restaurant recommendations, and m

[brightcove video="1897124055001" /] After a more than two-year love affair, Hacktivist collective Anonymous is distancing itself from Wikileaks. In a tweet sent from one of the many accounts controlled by Anonymous, the group said goodbye to the whistleblowing website controlled by Julian Assange. "The end of an era. We unfollowed @Wikileaks and withdraw our support. It was an awesome idea ruined

Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here. To an outsider like myself, the Bay Area is the epicentre of a massive disruption which shook the games industry to its foundation. Call it the “San Francisco Revolut

[nggallery id=8171] It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week we found an app that will help you find a lost phone even if your battery is dead, and another that will make sure you don't forget the name of that book your friend recommended.

The New VC Kids On The Block Helping Europe’s Startups To Pick Up The Pace In dribs and drabs, the European venture capital scene has started to look gradually more like it will develop a broader range of VCs than in the past. True, the majority of European VC funds have not performed well. But I’m not here to talk about the incumbents, but rather the new breed, which are taking cues from their Am

[nggallery id=8187] The seventh-generation iPod nano is yet another full redesign of Apple's music player, but it's a welcome move away from the smaller form factor of its predecessor. The new Nano is taller and slimmer, with a 2.5 inch capacitive touchscreen display. It also has a physical home button, which many people were missing. I spent a few days with the new nano, and though I have an iPho

You may have caught on to the Verizon-flavored Nokia handset floating around the rumor mill. But just in case you missed it, a few recent leaks have led us to believe that the red carrier will lay claim to the Nokia Lumia 822. And here’s the real shocker: it should only cost $49, according to WMPowerUser. Now, that could sound like only a slight variation from the Lumia 820, headed to AT&T, but th

Time for a roundup. Our friends at Skylines went through 34,999,744 unique Twitter pictures over the course of the week to find out which ones were the most shared. Like last week, the collection's pretty heavy on the One Direction and Justin Bieber side of the spectrum. Some others, like singer Demetria Lovato, also made the cut.

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