Hell hath no fury like a video game programmer scorned. Last week, Electronic Arts shut down its LA-based Pandemic Studios, which it bought two years ago as part of an acquisition that cost $775 million in cash and stock, a record at the time, according to the Los Angeles Times.    Read More

The singers at VERSUS, known for their parodies, are out with their first holiday carol spoof. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot More Riskless," is sung to the tune of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas".    Read More

Clawing one's way to the top of the topless biz isn't for the faint of heart. "Topless Prophet" details the ups (sex) and downs (being shot at) of trying to revolutionize the strip club business.    Read More

Facebook is getting ready to connect powerful brands and the customers who love them for Black Friday. Facebook has 300 million plus users, and they're all potential customers for the hundreds of thousands of retailers and brands with a presence on the Facebook site.    Read More

Facebook is slowly inching its way to an IPO. CEO Marc Zuckerberg has long said that the company wants to stay independent, rather than be acquired, and he wants to stay at its helm.    Read More

Last night I shopped for Thanksgiving at Vons, owned by Safeway spacer, and bought everything, including a 14-pound turkey, for the lowest price I've ever paid: $32.    Read More

I'm woefully behind on reader emails, and there have been so many good ones, as usual. I'm going to divide them up in a few posts over the next couple of days.    Read More

In 2003 Buffett gave me the opportunity to write what would become The Snowball, the book he will never write himself. I jumped at the chance. People couldn’t get enough of his witty, insightful nuggets of wisdom. And yet I was certain even more business lessons could be learned by observing him at close range. Not only that, I wanted a peek behind the curtain at the real man behind the elusive billionaire’s public image," writes Alice Schroeder, author of "The Snowball."   Read More

In order to experience the madness of the holiday shopping season, one author wanted to experience for himself what it's like to see the American consumer in action when greed sometimes replaces need - so he got a job at Target as a floor walker.   Read More

Rupert Murdoch's latest gambit has the potential to have huge impact on the value of content industry wide; he could also risk losing a huge chunk of News Corp's readership.   Read More