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The Troubling Rise of Facebook’s Top Game Company
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Beyonce causing controversy in Egypt
Diva Beyonce Knowles strutting her stuff in the conservative Middle East? Al Arabiya reported that organizers, seeking to avoid a similar fate for Beyonce, decided to hold her concert hundreds of miles away from Cairo at a thinly populated Red Sea resort
Google changes to aid music searches
The Internet’s most popular search engine should get smarter about music, as Google updates the algorithms that power its searches this week, a company spokesman said. “It wasn’t really like going to the movies, it was more of going to a V.I.P.
The hot new musical instrument: Your smartphone
Often in the middle of the night, while his wife sleeps beside him, John Sheridan picks up his iPhone from the nightstand and shakes the device like it was a conductor’s wand on fire. Sometimes he goes on like this for more than an hour at a time
Singer Leona Lewis attacked at bookstore, label says
British singer Leona Lewis was “understandably shaken” after a man attacked her during a book signing in central London Wednesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for her record label said. A 29-year-old man was arrested after he punched Lewis at the Waterstones bookstore in Piccadilly Circus at 4:36 p.m
Britney Spears: Behind the Pop Star’s New Tour, Success
What was the craziest thing to happen to Britney Spears last week?
Music’s Health Benefits: Calmer Patients
For as long as humans have pounded drums and plucked strings, listening to music has affected people’s sense of well-being, lifting their spirits and — as new research shows — calming their nerves. Literally.
Swift dominates American Music Award nominations
If Taylor Swift has any lingering insecurities after the Kanye West incident at the MTV Video Music Awards, the six nominations she received for the American Music Awards should clear those right up.
Snippet of Jackson’s new song apparently leaked
A snippet of the new Michael Jackson song, “This Is It,” was apparently leaked online before its planned release on the late singer’s Web site early Monday. About 45 seconds of the song made the rounds online Sunday