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Hulu is receiving bids from up to five potential buyers, including Dish Network, according to a report. The potential buyers’ bids all include programming rights, according to a report in Bloomberg Business Week, which cites “people with knowledge of the situation.” Hulu’s owners — Walt Disney...

Hulu is receiving bids from up to five potential buyers, including Dish Network, according to a report. The potential buyers’ bids all include programming rights, according to a report in Bloomberg Business Week, which cites “people with knowledge of the situation.” Hulu’s owners — Walt Disney...

Amazon’s rumored tablet will sport a 7-inch screen, run Android and sell for $250, according to a report. The device, called “Amazon Kindle,” also uses a back-lit, color screen that is “two-finger multi-touch,” according to TechCrunch, whose MG Siegler reports he got hold of the tablet. The...

Volkswagen has designed a unique single-seat electric sports car it calls NILS. The radically designed concept vehicle is inspired by open-wheel F1 race cars. While its electric motor can only crank out 30 hp, the 10-foot-long aluminum-framed vehicle is so small and light, you might think you’re...

Google is mulling a Twitter-like suggested user feature for Google Plus. Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product at Google, floated the idea via a tweet Friday afternoon: A Google rep confirmed that the search engine giant is “exploring suggested users” and wants to start a dialog with...

Dish Network is preparing to launch its own movie streaming service to compete with Netflix, according to a new report. The company acquired most of Blockbuster’s assets in April for $320 million and will reportedly introduce the service under the Blockbuster name. Bloomberg reports that the...

Google will soon shutter Aardvark, the social search and question-and-answer service it purchased for $50 million early last year. “As part of the shutdown of GoogleLabs, Aardvark will be shutting down at the end of September,” Aardvark co-founder Max Ventilla writes in a blog post on the site...

For the final installment of the Summer Fridays Turntable.fm room — brought to you by Mashable and Musebox — Nat and Alex Wolff of Nickelodeon fame will spin on the ones and twos from 4 to 6 p.m. ET. The brothers first shot to fame in 2004 when they starred in “The Naked Brothers Band” rock...

Google +1 buttons are becoming more ubiquitous thanks to an update that carries them over to the mobile web. The mobile-optimized +1 button made its debut on select Android and iPhone browsers Thursday. “The button will automatically be visible to anyone on Android 2.1+ and iOS 4.0+ browsers,”...

Many of us remember how fun (not to mention therapeutic) it was to pour our innermost thoughts into a pen-and-paper diary, but how many of us take the time to keep a personal journal today? As you no doubt take your mobile everywhere you go, a diary app for your iPhone means you can get...

Facebook has introduced a “Like” extension for the Chrome browser. Now you might be asking: Wasn’t there already a third-party Chrome extension that did this? Yes, but this official Facebook one’s better, showing you how many others have clicked Like on the page you’re viewing. We tried it...

What will happen to webOS, the mobile operating system HP purchased from Palm Inc. for $1.2 billion last year? That’s still up in the air. But we know one thing that’s not going to happen: Samsung has no interest in buying it from HP, according to its CEO Choi Gee Sung. As he took the stage at...

Another day, another iPhone 5 rumor. If the latest reports are true, Apple’s next iPhone will be considerably thinner and somewhat wider than the current model. Italian blog MacityNet posted an extensive set of photos of a purported iPhone 5 case. The photographs show the current iPhone 4 as...

Blues-rock duo The Black Keys chose YouTube to announce the upcoming album from their side project Blakroc, a collaboration with hip-hop entrepreneur Damon Dashon. Blakroc features various emcees rapping over original music from The Black Keys. Per the trailer, Blakroc 2 will feature rappers...

When the Google mobile ads team was looking for the best way to promote the Google Search app for iPhone, the company turned to its in-house AdMob platform for help. In the software industry, there is a term known as dogfooding — where a company uses its own products to achieve a certain task...

Comic books have finally gone fully digital with DC’s release of Same Day Digital. The program will release digital versions of new comic books the same day that they are available in print. The comics will cost $2.99 and drop down to $1.99 after four weeks. Other companies and publishing houses...

Are you looking to get a job in social media? Of course, we’d highly recommend jumping into this lively line of work, but the field is highly competitive and there are lots of people looking. This infographic from online training software company mindflash.com can help you stand out from the...

Apple has agreed to make older versions of Final Cut Studio 3 available for purchase, following several months of customer backlash against the radically redesigned Final Cut Pro X. When Final Cut Pro X was released in June, Apple touted the release as “the biggest advance in Pro video editing...

Christian Olsen is the head of Levick Strategic Communications’ social and digital media practice. Follow him on Twitter @cfolsendc. Recently, online properties like Hulu, MSN and Flixster have been caught using a tougher version of the common cookie. These “supercookies” (aka “Flash cookies”...

Amazon’s rumored tablet will sport a 7-inch screen, run Android and sell for $250, according to a report. The device, called “Amazon Kindle,” also uses a back-lit, color screen that is “two-finger multi-touch,” according to TechCrunch, whose MG Siegler reports he got hold of the tablet. The...