August 2014 News

Conan O’Brien Gets Payback From Kate Mulgrew
Conan O'Brien isn't afraid to get silly with his guests, but one guest says she's still holding on to a grudge from fifteen years ago after he almost destroyed her career with his...
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Groupon Earnings Released, Revenue Up 23%
Groupon just released its earnings report for the second quarter with gross billings of $1.82 billion and revenue of $751.6 million. The company also reported adjusted EBITDA of $5...
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Earthquake Kills at Least 398 People in China
At 4:30 pm local time (4:30 am EST), a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Chinese province of Yunnan...
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Justin.tv Shuts Down After Seven Years
There was a time when Justin.tv was one of the biggest sites in streaming video, but that time has passed, and the site is now shutting down. It did, however, spawn Twitch, which...
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Kristen Stewart Back To Brunette
Hard to tell what gets more press. Is it Kristen Stewart's ever-changing hair color or her tumultuous love life? Today Stewart is in the news because she finally...
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Second Ebola Infected Patient Arrives in Atlanta
A North Carolina missionary who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia was...
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Facebook Outage Led To 3% Decline In Traffic To News Sites [Report]
Last Friday, Facebook went down for somewhere between a half an hour and an hour fo...
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Keke Palmer is Broadway’s First Black Cinderella
When pop-star Brandy stepped into Cinderella's glass slipper in 1997 for the made-for-TV movie, the world took notice; it was the first time a black woman had been cast for the rol...
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Etsy Wholesale Graduates From Beta
Etsy Wholesale launched in beta over a year ago. Today,...
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Kendall Jenner: Is She Hooking Up With Justin Bieber?
It’s been a wild week for Justin Bieber and if he wasn’t getting enough attention for getting in a fight with Orlando Bloom, rumor has it he is now hooking up with Kendall Jenner....
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Gmail Starts Recognizing Non-Latin Characters In Email Addresses
Google announced that Gmail will now recognize addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters, so suers can send emails to, and receive them from, people how have such cha...
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Conan O’Brien Relevant Again Thanks to ‘OITNB’
Gone are the days when Conan O'Brien was a household name. Since the late night host's departure from NBC, he has been relegated to the deep, dark corners of late nights on TBS, a...
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Michigan Boy, 9, Fatally Stabbed at Playground
A 12-year-old boy fatally stabbed a nine-year-old at a Kentwood, Michigan playground...
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Clayton Kershaw Hopes to Continue Domination of MLB
Each year, MLB teams play 162 regular season games. Due to this plethora of contests, most players never feel performance nerves until the end of the season when their team is tryi...
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Elon Musk Continues to Warn of Impending Robot Apocalypse
While the rest of the country freaks out about some possible Ebola–Dustin Hoffman–Rene Russo scenario, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is keeping his eye on the ball. Musk,...
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