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AOL: Trying Hard to Get Silicon Valley Cred

  • May 3rd, 2011 by Damian Davila
Look who’s trying to hang out with the cool Silicon Valley startup kids. AOL has a new Palo Alto, CA workspace (395 Page Mill, Palo Alto, CA 94306 and former headquarters of Agilent Technologies) and hopes that this new space infuses entrepreneurial energy to the company. AOL is hoping to keep on top of the latest developments, so it can… Read more

MJ Dies, Social Networks Buckle

  • June 28th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Michael Jackson’s death not only affected millions of fans worldwide this week, but he nearly brought half the Internet down with him. Within minutes of TMZ breaking the story, traffic on Twitter spontaneously doubled, while Facebook updates tripled. Widespread slowdowns and outages plagued entire networks, with a mass effect not seen since the Google Failure earlier this year.… Read more