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You May Be Reading This in the Bathroom, on Your Phone
Give Microsoft credit for this one: It’s ginned up a press release I have no choice but to pass along to you. It’s designed to get me to mention today’s Windows Phone 7 launch (Katy Perry! Maroon 5!),...
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Daily Deal Deflated: Groupon-Google Talks End
The acquisition talks between Google and Groupon have ended. “It’s as over as these things get,” said one person close to the situation. The reasons for the collapse of the discussions are not clear...
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Viral Video: "Let It Be" With D-List Celebs in Norway (Really!)
Here is one of the oddest videos out on the Web right now. It’s a six-minute ad for a Norwegian television talk show called “Gylne Tider” in which a strange collection of some very...
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Little-Known Cricket Wireless Tries a New Take on Subscription Music
Bundling a music subscription into other goods and services has been tried a lot, mostly without success. However, Cricket Wireless is hoping to succeed where others have failed. The company, best...
View ArticleViral Video: Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on "Why We Have So Few Women Leaders”
Yesterday, BoomTown posted about how the five hottest Web 2.0 companies have no women on their board of directors. In the middle of the report, I embedded a video from a recent speech Facebook COO...
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Viral Video: Shazzazz Is Back Doing It
On “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” earlier this week, the host and Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow revived their mock ’80s R&B duo Shazzazz, after a first music video in May on the late-night...
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Cricket Wireless's All-You-Can-Eat Music Plan Stumbles on Way to the Buffet
Cricket Wireless had hoped to use the Consumer Electronics Show as the ideal backdrop to launch its unlimited music plan, which bundles all-you-can-download music into the cost of a monthly cellphone...
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Viral Video: Sofia Vergara's Punk of Perfection
Let’s cut to the chase: BoomTown adores “Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara, for her ridonkulously charming comic persona. It’s on full display here in the hidden-camera prank she did for Ellen...
View ArticleWhat's Better Than One Screen? Two! Sprint Unveils Kyocera Echo.
Ahead of Apple’s iPhone launch on Verizon later this week, Sprint unveiled the Kyocera Echo, a dual-touchscreen smartphone. The Android phone, which looks a lot like a Nintendo DS, is being positioned...
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Viral Video: Awkward, Party of Aniston
BoomTown is still cracking up over this video, another in the faux television talk show series on Funny or Die called “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.” His genius of an unlikely pairing this...
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Viral Video: Humpilates Hysterical
This mock fitness video by late-night television talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is so funny that it made BoomTown do several spit-takes watching it. It is for a product called “Hottie Body Humpilates,”...
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Viral Video: Fallon Does Sheen Does "Winning" Perfume
While BoomTown has had just about enough of the media frenzy around the wacky ruminations of actor Charlie Sheen, this spot-on impersonation of the high-on-life-and-other-stuff star by late-night...
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Viral Video: "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" (at SXSW)
Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight...
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Flixster Update: Warner Bros. Very Interested, as Yahoo Drops Out of Bidding...
Recently, BoomTown reported that Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site–was in early acquisition discussions with several suitors. Now,...
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Viral Video: Pretty As a Picture, Sweeter Than a Swisher (No, Really)
Here’s Keri Hilson performing “Pretty Girl Rock” recently on “The Ellen DeGeneres” television talk show. Her hit song has some saucy lyrics, including the refrain: “Pretty as a picture/Sweeter than a...
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Biz Punches Back at Fortune's Twitter-Bashing (Sort Of!)
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took time off from his myriad of witty talk show appearances to slap around a just-published Fortune cover story that was titled–get it?–“Trouble@ Twitter.” Wrote Stone,...
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Viral Video: Christoph Waltz Slays on "American Idol" (No, Really Slays!)
BoomTown loves the spoof videos that late-night television talk show host Jimmy Kimmel does–Hello, Humpilates!–and this one featuring actor Christoph Waltz is another great one. Waltz always plays...
View ArticleViral Video: Kimmel's "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye (to Oprah Winfrey)"
This is yet another hysterical video from late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, in a Boyz II Men tribute to the queen of daytime talk shows. Enjoy:
View ArticleNew Tech Gadget News Site Name: The Verge
A new tech site, which has been founded by a number of former staffers of AOL-owned Engadget and operating temporarily as This Is My Next, will be announcing its new name — The Verge — during an...
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AsiaD Adventures, Japan Edition: Walt and Kara Visit Digital Tokyo! (Video)
On our weeklong trip to Asia in preparation for our upcoming AsiaD conference in the fall — including a stop in South Korea earlier in the week — Walt Mossberg and I have spent the last few days in...
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