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Hollywood's major gripe with pirating movies, or the act of seeing them for free, is that it brings down box-office revenues, costs jobs and hurts the economy. 

Not so fast, according to a survey conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota and Wellesley College.

Google has always been quirky, and never done the conventional thing.  Now we're getting word that the company's X Lab, it's top-secret project, may be launching its "Solve for X" website.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last few weeks, you’ll be aware that the New York Giants are taking on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday. With the pre-game hype set to reach fever pitch, IBM has joined forces with the University of Southern California to gauge the social media feeding frenzy.

So Tumblr wants your dollar.

The popular blogging website is introducing a feature that allows users to pay the tidy sum of $1 to have their post featured of the Tumblr Dashboard, increasing their traffic and getting their blog much more well known to the masses.

Nearly everone in the country (and perhaps soon to be the world) has Facebook, but not everyone has the new profile, entitled "Timeline."  That is soon to change, whether you like it or not.

In a blog post earlier today, Facebook announced that it will soon make everyone have a profile with the new Timeline interface over the coming weeks.

This isn't the wonderful land of Oz, but the "Wicked Witch" is dead, or at least shelved for the time being.

This goes to show you how important SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is in the minds and lives of the American public.

A tweet from Uber Facts said that SOPA was mentioned 488,000 times yesterday, which is seven times more than teen pop sensation Justin Bieber.

There was plenty of skepticism in 2011 about the daily deals site, and it looks like that skepticism was warranted, with nearly 800 daily deal sites going bust during the year.