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• Google: More Domain Names Can Expand Service Options by Laurie Sullivan

  Google said Thursday it submitted applications for more than 50 top level domain names (TLDs) for .google, .docs, .youtube, and .lol to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The goal to expand the Web's suffixes could allow the company to offer a variety of new services related to emerging technologies, such as Project Glass, and original programming on YouTube. ...Read the whole story

• entertainment (RED) Gets Into Gaming For Good by Aaron Baar

  As part of the organization's (Red)Rush to Zero campaign, the group is hosting Red(Rush) Games, giving average players the chance to play against and alongside celebrities such as Kate Upton, Kris Allen and Michelle Rodriguez. ...Read the whole story

• Google, Facebook Eye Vevo Stake, Ad Agreement by Ross Fadner

  Both Google and Facebook want a piece of Vevo, the popular music video service that is a joint venture of Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Abu Dhabi Media Co. The tech giants are exploring an advertising partnership in addition to a possible equity stake. ...Read the whole story

• Apple Overtaken By Netflix in Online Movie Revenues by Ross Fadner

  Apple, Inc.'s iTunes fell from its perch as the top U.S. online movie business by revenue in 2011, overtaken by Netflix, according to market intelligence firm IHS iSuppli. In fact, Netflix has seen its share of the domestic online movie market grow from less than 1 percent in 2010 to 44 percent in 2011. Apple's iTunes, by comparison, dropped to 32.3 percent in 2011 from 60.8 percent in 2010. ...Read the whole story

Teens Still Into Bedroom TV Viewing by Jack Loechner

According to Nielsen, 12-17 year olds represent an outsized share of game console usage, more than triple that of their share of TV or DVR usage, and watching or playing just about anywhere in the home, including basements and garages. 52% of their time spent with a gaming console happens in either non-traditional spaces or bedrooms while 48% is spent gaming in more social environs, such as a living or family room. ...More

• "Tom Brady's Wicked Accent" Makes Eli Manning Look Like Sidney Poitier by Larry Dobrow

  Adventures in high-fiving notwithstanding, I've never been as entertained, delighted or otherwise be-giggled by viral-video depot Funny or Die as most everyone else has. After a clip or two, the whole OMG-it's-a-celebrity-playing-against-type-and-providing-conclusive-evidence-that- he/she-is-in-on-the-joke! thing gets really tired. "Oh, look, it's Bieber trying to transition out of teen-idoldom! How fantastically, impossibly droll!" Etc. That's just one guy's opinion; you might feel differently. The freedom to disagree on the Internet is what makes America both great and rhetorically perverse. ...More