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Weiner’s political career on stake

Sarah Lacy What everyone wants to know is whether or not Rep. Anthony Weiner, New York Democrat, can politically live through the Weinergate humiliation. A lot of people are expecting him to quit, and the Democratic Party’s control, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and DNC Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz did not speak in his [...] (Continue reading)

Violent Republican competition picks up pace

Sarah Lacy An impossible-to-foretell competition is recounting for the Republican jiggles to beat President Barack Obama in 2012, confusing the conservative party’s tendency of favoring smear successors. Following months of cat sleep, which saw more than a few potential aspirers look for their souls prior to interdicting a run, the Republican field has come into [...] (Continue reading)

The Broadway League releases another Broadway app titled ‘ILoveNYTheater’

Alec Ronin The Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway industry, has recently released a new official app entitled, ‘ILoveNYTheater’ for almost all iOS device including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This release day is very much in line for their annual Tony Awards ceremony, which is scheduled to take place only [...] (Continue reading)

Sina Weibo to launch its English version worldwide, directly competing with Twitter Inc.

Alec Ronin It is hard to believe that there are still other microblogging services in this world other than Twitter. But one of these unheard of microblogging companies, Sina Weibo from China, is planning to soon make its English version and be as popular in the English-speaking world as it is in the Chinese-speaking world. [...] (Continue reading)

Recently grown Flickr alternative, 500px, raises $525K in series A

Alec Ronin Owing to the towering complaints by the Flickr users, its Toronto-based rival company, 500px, has gotten the opportunity to grow its consumer base substituting the Flickr’s consumer base. The number of users of 500px has risen from 1000 in 2009 to almost up to 85 thousand users today. Even more indicatively, around 45 [...] (Continue reading)

Problem for John Edwards: public vs. private?

Sarah Lacy The official case in opposition to two-time presidential contender John Edwards targets on where to sketch the line between the public and private in an elected official’s life, a partition he daringly overlapped all through his entire career and family life. Edwards is not the only one. The personal actions and apprehensions of [...] (Continue reading)

Pakistan minister: very likely al Qaeda’s Kashmiri is dead

According to Pakistan’s interior minister, he was 98 percent certain that leading al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri died in a U.S. drone attack on the Afghan border. U.S. spokespersons in Washington were doubtful over information that Kashmiri, considered to be among the world’s extremely dangerous radicals, passed away. A U.S. National Security executive said he [...] (Continue reading)

Official biography of Steve Jobs available for pre-order

Alec Ronin A biography of Steve Jobs, which has been officially authorized by Mr. Jobs personally, has just been made available on Amazon.com for pre-ordering. This book, entitled ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs’ is available to pre-order for any Apple user from iBookstore as well. Both the retailing sources have coined the date of 6th [...] (Continue reading)

Gates: Armed forces on way to deliver blow to Taliban

Sarah Lacy According to the Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the forces in Afghanistan are on the right track to give a critical blow against the Taliban. Gates was ending a four-day tour of the war front spotlighted by trips to US troop bases in isolated parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan. Gates is retiring by [...] (Continue reading)

Edwards emails acknowledge payments

Sarah Lacy In case the ex- presidential runner John Edwards is dragged to court, prosecutors intend to emphasize on his own emails with a previous supporter to help demonstrate a significant component of their case against him. Anonymous sources informed The Associated Press that Edwards and his previous speechwriter Wendy Button communicated via emails shaping [...] (Continue reading)