Google Resolves Book Search Lawsuits

Google's book-scanning and -sharing problems are, in short, almost gone.  Pending the approval of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Google has agreed to a host of steps that will satisfy the Authors Guild, John Wiley & Sons, the McGraw-Hill Companies, Pearson Education, the Penguin Group, and Simon & Schuster.

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Is Social Media Good or Bad For Business?

Business owners often struggle with the question of whether or not their employees should be using social media in the workplace. There are obvious reasons why they shouldn't, but there are certainly potential benefits as well, and unfortunately not a lot of clarity to the matter. So let's look at this from several different angles. Stats

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MTV Offering…Music Videos?

With the launch of a single site, MTV has apparently put my biggest knock against the network to bed. That's the lack of music videos of course.

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Guy Goes to Jail After Pointing Cops to His YouTube Video

What you post about yourself online can come back to haunt you. Who doesn't know this? Well, a motorcyclist in the UK named Sandor Ferenci apparently didn't until now. He posted videos of himself doing tricks and speeding at 130 miles-per-hour around Banbury, Oxfordshire before being arrested.  

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