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Dec
31

Lady Gaga (25) got the most important task in New York’s New Year’s Eve transmitted. You should set in Times Square by pressing a button the crystal ball in motion.

“What an honor for a New Yorker,” the singer was happy late Thursday at the Short message service Twitter.

Lady Gaga follows in the footsteps of former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary and boxing legend Muhammad Ali Continue Reading…

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Oct
27

Many stood in disbelief as Apple recently announced their yearly financial numbers ending in October of 2011. Over the course of a year, Apple saw an 85% increase in net profits alone, shattering many records for sales throughout each quarter. If this was not enough, Apple had one more number to add to this pile: 4,000,000.

Within just three days of releasing their highly-anticipated iPhone 4S, Apple announced that they had officially sold 4 million units in just 72 hours. This outpaced nearly every other mobile device launch that has ever been carried out, including Apple’s own records Continue Reading…

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Feb
25

1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollar, he won’t even bother to pick it up because Continue Reading…

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Feb
17

Some days ago the UK press was in a buzz around a 104 year old woman who was using Twitter. This is obviously a world record, and it says a lot about the penetration of the 140-character messaging service. But was it real?

According to TechCrunch, it was not. In a post titled The REAL story behind the 104-Year-Old who joined Twitter they explain that the old lady had joining Twitter just one day before, and that she was convinced to do so by a company called The Geek Squad. Here is a quote from the article Continue Reading…

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Feb
16

National Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan’s largest bank and the team that Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif used to represent in domestic cricket in the country, has decided not to renew the contracts of the three players. Butt was banned for 10 years with a five-year suspended sentence, Asif for seven years with a two-year suspended ban and Amir for five years by the ICC’s three-man tribunal that found them guilty of spot-fixing during the Lord’s Test last year Continue Reading…

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Mar
31

Former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik is set to marry Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, a union of two of South Asia’s most well known sports personalities.

The marriage is sure to attract attention because neighbouring Pakistan and India are longtime rivals, and have fought three wars since 1947.

“The news of me marrying to Sania is true,” Malik posted on Twitter on Tuesday. “Inshallah (God willing) will get married in April.”

The Pakistan Cricket Board has fined and banned Malik for Continue Reading…

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