Apple iOS 6 Released

The launch of the Apple iPhone 5 and new iPods last week, we now have the Official release of iOS 6 for the rest of the world. Less of a huge jump than iOS 5 and more of a refinement, iOS 6 brings some much expected changes that makes life easier for all of us.

Other notable updates include:

- Maps is now visually beautiful with spoken turn-by-turn directions
- Siri has more features like sports stats and movie reviews, and more
- Facebook/Twitter is even more integrated throughout iOS
- FaceTime now works on Cellular networks, not just Wi-Fi
- Camera Panorama, you can now take panoramic shots with the native camera app
For a more in-depth look head over to Apple.

Jay-Z Launches Facebook Game

In a new business venture, rapper Jay-Z has launched the beta version of a new Facebook game he and his team are developing called Empire. It's far from complete, but players can already sign up and "live" the rags to riches story for themselves

"EMPIRE takes you on a journey from the streets of Marcy Housing in Brooklyn to the hotspots of the rich and famous: from hustler, to entrepreneur, to business mogul. But, don’t forget friends and family, or your karma will suffer. Make the right choices and you can have it all: cash, bling, fame, street cred, and good karma."

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Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion

Facebook has acquired the popular photo-sharing app Instagram for a massive $1 billion in a combination of cash and stock, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on his Facebook Timeline on Monday. The sale is expected to close later this quarter, and will bring the nine-person staff of Instagram to the social network. “For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family,” Zuckerberg said in the post, “Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.” Zuckerberg added that the company will be building on Instagram’s strengths and features and growing the app independently rather than “just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.” Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom echoed Zuckerberg’s statements on the Instagram company blog adding “We’re psyched to be joining Facebook and are excited to build a better Instagram for everyone.” It will be exciting to see what the acquisition leads to in the near future.

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"Mark Zuckerberg has a posse," - OBEY

– Tagging Mark Zuckerberg: The Facebook founder and chief exec has been the subject of street-art stickers bearing a Shepard Fairey-style image of his mug on stickers that read "Obey" (Fairey's logo) in the Facebook font and coloring. On the sticky portraits is also scrawled, "Mark Zuckerberg has a posse," "6.9 billion," and "500,000,000 friends" — all plays on Fairey's "Andre the Giant has a posse" campaign of the late 80s/early 90s. source artinfo