Facebook's Value: What's the Price of a Billion People Watching Each Other? The Atlantic TheGlobe.com's population was nearly the size of New Mexico and couldn't make money. Facebook's is nearly the size of India and it just made a billion dollars. Still, the New Yorker's John Cassidy calls Facebook "the ultimate dot-com," and he doesn't ...
Redefining 'Crossover' in Latin Pop New York Times Every few songs someone in the audience unfurled a large Mexican flag. Hardly a word of English was spoken or sung from the stage. And the band, a rock group called ManĂ¡ from Guadalajara, Mexico, was the proud record holder of the most sold-out shows, ...
Jay DeMerit Journal: The Vancouver Whitecaps have found their 'bouncebackability' Goal.com America Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a few of the band members from Coldplay. They were playing a show in town at the weekend and one of the things the band always likes to do when they arrive in a new city is to have a kick around with their road ...
Dear Abbeys Turn 20 BU Today Since its inception in February 1992, the singers have performed in venues from Alaska to Hawaii to San Francisco, New Orleans to Texas to New Mexico. Along the way, they've released eight albums, making them a growing force in the national a cappella ...
The Breakfast Meeting: Facebook's 'Global Citizen,' and a Crossover Act in Spanish New York Times (blog) A new feature embedded in digital video recorders sold by the Dish Network automatically skips ads recorded on most prime-time network shows, no channel-flipping or fast-forwarding necessary, Brian Stelter reports. To broadcasters and advertisers, ...
May's best music from across the MAP The Guardian (blog) CANADA: Quick Before It Melts The Rest - Always On My Mind The story of The Rest's new album, SEESAW, will be one of legend. First, their dear friend and producer Dan Achen passed away suddenly just as they started recording.
Flo Rida Announces New Album 'Wild Ones' Release Date Capital FM 'Wild Ones' will feature Flo Rida's recent singles 'Good Feeling' and the album's title track, as well as future single 'Whistle', which Flo Rida shot a video for recently in Mexico. "With this album, there's gonna be a lot of No.
Mike Hughes: One week to 'Big Bang' season finale The Salinas Californian Also, Coldplay has its first "Idol" performance. Then we learn which of the five singers is ousted TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE II: "Independent Lens," 11 pm, PBS (KQED 9). This seems like old Americana: A circus rolls in and sets up behind the only gas ...
Senegal stand tall to take final Olympic place The Independent So the Ricoh Arena, as it is normally known, was not rocking as it is likely to do next month when Coldplay play to the venue's first 40000-plus crowd. This, however, was a "test event" as well as a play-off between Africa and Asia, ...