Internet
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Netflix announces price increase
Oct 09, 2015 11:00 pm - Netflix announced Thursday that it will raise its prices again, this time by $1 to $9.99 a month, giving the streaming video service more money to develop original conte...
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Facebook tests new emojis to change how you 'like' posts
Oct 09, 2015 11:00 pm - Move over, long-rumored dislike button: We now have more details on how Facebook is thinking about expanding its “likes,” and it looks as if the service is considering a...
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The growing strength of LinkedIn's weak connections
Oct 09, 2015 11:00 pm - I've got a bunch of endorsements awaiting my approval to add them to my LinkedIn profile. But what does it mean that people I barely know have endorsed me for “Content S...
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Review: Zoom Interiors, Havenly put decorators a click away
Oct 09, 2015 11:00 pm - Interior design, once known for its unhurried pacing and pricey payoff, is going virtual with clients looking to the Internet for immediate and affordable advice. Two w...
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Twitter said to be considering plus-size tweet, above 140-character limit
Oct 03, 2015 6:37 am - In August, Twitter announced that it was ditching the 140-character limit on direct messages, the so-called "private side" of the social media giant that lets users comm...
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Everyone you know will be able to rate you on 'Yelp for people'
Oct 03, 2015 6:36 am - You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple - basically ...
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Don't feel bad if you fell for the Facebook copyright hoax
Oct 03, 2015 6:36 am - We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook, where its copy-paste offspring continue spreading rum...
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Amazon Flex: Retailer's Uber-like effort to bring you packagesOct 03, 2015 6:35 am - Editor's note: Amazon chief executive Jeffrey Bezos owns The Washington Post. Amazon.com said this week that it is building its own network of delivery couriers th...
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Why it's so hard to kill Facebook privacy hoaxes
Oct 03, 2015 6:32 am - Facebook privacy hoaxes just won't die. It seems like every few months, some extended family member or high school "friend" will post a big block of legalese-style text,...
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Smack talk is cheap: .sucks domains are going for 99 cents a year
Oct 03, 2015 5:38 am - We've all heard the stories about big, famous people like Taylor Swift and Mark Zuckerberg buying up Web addresses ending in. sucks. But now low-level peons like you and...