Judge sentences man to send 144 compliments after he sent 144 ‘nasty’ messages to ex
A Hawaii man got his comeuppance for sending more than 100 mean texts to his ex-girlfriend.
Last week, Daren Young, 30, was ordered to send his ex 144 compliments after he texted and called her 144 times, violating a court-ordered protection issued i…
It’s Christmas now: Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ has entered the iTunes charts
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And thus, it was Christmas. For Mariah had decreed it so.
That’s right, folks: the holiday haters in your life are wrong. Even though it’s only Nov. 2 and I still have fake spiders all over my apartment, it’s officially the holiday season.
Why? Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is on the iTunes charts.
To be fair, Mariah has known that it’s Christmas for a while — she put her tree up at the beginning of October. Now, though, we’ve finally listened to our wintry empress. Her flawless holiday bop is currently at #58 on iTunes’s “Top Songs” chart, which reflects top downloads. (You can buy the song for $1.29 — a steal if you consider it the source of all holiday spirit.) Read more…
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Tosca Musk raises $4.75M for Passionflix, a streaming service that’s all about romance
We’ve seen streaming services emerge around art movies, horror movies and comedy (R.I.P. Seeso) — so why not romance? That’s the thinking behind Passionflix, a startup that’s announcing that it’s raised $4.75 million in seed funding. It’s not like romantic comedies are missing from theaters, or from Netflix, but Passionflix co-founder Tosca Musk (she’s… Read More
Apple is just $100 billion away from being a trillion-dollar company
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Tomorrow, we’ll see how much the world loves the latest iPhone. Today, we’ll have to settle for another spectacular report on Apple’s revenue.
Apple brought in $52.6 billion last quarter, a 12 percent increase from the year prior. The device manufacturer blew past analysts expectations of just over $50 billion. Its guidance for 2018 revenue also beats previous estimates.
The company’s happy news sent its stock up by more than 3 percent in after-hours trading and bumped its valuation to more than $900 billion — only $100 billion short of being the first $1 trillion company. Read more…
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View More Apple is just $100 billion away from being a trillion-dollar companyThe silliest items on Oprah’s iconic Favorite Things 2017 list
The true marker of the impending holiday season is not the removal of Halloween decorations or the scent of $6 holiday candles wafting in the air.
It is, in fact, the annual drop of Oprah’s iconic Favorite Things list, a compendium of stuff you…
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View More The Top 10 Movie Twists of All TimeApple delivers on its much-hyped promise to Wall Street in spades
As Apple looks to set itself up to Wall Street as the de-facto standard of what a smartphone can — and should — look like as consumer demand evolves over time, it was able for the large part to deliver on that claim as it showed up with a big beat in the fourth quarter.
Apple had already set the tone going into this quarter that things were going to be better than what industry… Read More
ThinkGeek and Marvel are showing off some sweet street wear to stylize your inner nerd
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From a guy in a super suit to an Asgardian god to a talking raccoon, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become a household name for anyone who goes …
ThinkGeek and Marvel are showing off some sweet street wear to stylize your inner nerd
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From a guy in a super suit to an Asgardian god to a talking raccoon, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become a household name for anyone who goes …
Super Mario Odyssey is the US’s fastest-selling Mario of all time
Nintendo’s having a good year, and it looks like the latest Mario is set to make it even better. Super Mario Odyssey is the fastest-selling Mario ever, in the U.S. at least, breezing past a million sales in under five days here and selling more than 2 million worldwide — and counting. Read More
Silicon Valley is obsessed with fasting. Experts call it ‘highly irresponsible.’
Silicon Valley has long been obsessed with optimizing people’s lives.
From voice-activated assistants to devices that micromanage physical activity down to the last step to remote-controlled home temperature systems, Silicon Valley just won’t r…
Silicon Valley is obsessed with fasting. Experts call it ‘highly irresponsible.’
Silicon Valley has long been obsessed with optimizing people’s lives.
From voice-activated assistants to devices that micromanage physical activity down to the last step to remote-controlled home temperature systems, Silicon Valley just won’t r…