http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5412151&view=rss&microfeed=true The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5411780&view=rss&microfeed=true News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5411269&view=rss&microfeed=true Stop everything, The Internet: AOL is now Aol. Whether superimposed on a fish or a hand or just some swirly crap, this logo makes the bold statement: We can no longer afford capital letters. [Ad Age] http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5411198&view=rss&microfeed=true Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race, and his silence-breaking TV interview was a... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5410970&view=rss&microfeed=true Couldn't get a Twitter book deal like Nick Douglas, Twitterature, or business huckster Garyvee? Don't fret! Thanks to TweetBookz you don't even need a deal to see your precious 140-character musings... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5410917&view=rss&microfeed=true Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5410352&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5409646&view=rss&microfeed=true Neel Shah got his scandal-phone returned; Kevin Marks got retweeted by ghosts and Al Yankovic was surrounded by nobodies. The Twitterati were haunted, in a good way. Neel Shah, Page Six gossip and... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5409368&view=rss&microfeed=true A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5409318&view=rss&microfeed=true The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy, the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5408866&view=rss&microfeed=true A Twitter engineer said Google's new "Chrome" OS is something you resign yourself to; a CNET writer said it's something you are infected with; and Mediaite might hang out awkwardly on Tumblr with it.... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5408833&view=rss&microfeed=true Courtenay Semel, the sapphic spawn of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, is quoted in the lesbian magazine Curve dissing former lady friend Lindsay Lohan. Then she complains that the media twists her... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5408768&view=rss&microfeed=true Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does:... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5408472&view=rss&microfeed=true Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5408473&view=rss&microfeed=true Below, find the initial complaint in the federal class-action suit against online gaming company Zynga and social network Facebook, alleging the companies are liable for the scammy actions of their... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5408438&view=rss&microfeed=true Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5407882&view=rss&microfeed=true Condé Nast says it is already racing to repackage its magazines for Apple's forthcoming tablet, starting with Wired, even while toeing Apple's line that the device doesn't exist. Publishers are... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5407797&view=rss&microfeed=true Rachel Sklar went without pants, Julia Allison went without sleep/discretion and Adam Lambert said you can go without him being too obviously gay in your magazine. The Twitterati were deprived and... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5407683&view=rss&microfeed=true the PayPal co-founder and artificial intelligence enthusiast, explaining to Business Insider that Luddites may well be the first up against the wall when the robot revolution comes. The new order... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5407591&view=rss&microfeed=true Ricky Van Veen announced the production schedule for his brand-new TV studio, and it would appear the CollegeHumor founder believes the future of the small screen lies in the past, because he's...