Taylor Stein, the mother of ex-Estée Lauder CEO William Lauder's love child, is going to court to get him to pay a $9.5 million settlement he agreed to in exchange for her silence. On February 17, Stein's lawyer, Ed Hayes, filed a petition with a New York court which oversees trust funds, seeking t...

Whatever happened to Chris Hughes, the Facebook cofounder who joined Barack Obama's fledgling campaign in 2007 and powered it to victory using social networking? He's joined a D.C. PR firm. How crushingly disappointing! Hughes has kept a low profile since the election. He gave a speech in Washington...

The geniuses at Google, the world's most arrogantly clever ad sellers, have announced plans to target ads to Internet users based on their "interests." You can opt out — but there's a catch. Susan Wojcicki, the Google vice president who's also the sister-in-law of cofounder Sergey Brin, announ...

Gavin Newsom, the politically ambitious, Google-loving, baby-making, gay-marriage-crusading mayor of San Francisco, is meeting with Twitter CEO Ev Williams today! Possibly on the agenda: How can he get tipsy female relatives to stop using it? Chloe Newsom, who once loudly claimed to a reporter that ...

With RNC chairman Michael Steele already a laughingstock inside the Beltway, he seems determined to cement that reputation nationwide. Techies will roll their eyes over a proposal Steele sent out for a new GOP website. It's understandable that the Republicans want to get hip to this Internet thing. ...

Twitter CEO Ev Williams and his wife, Sara Morishige, are building a house. What took so long? San Francisco's most disorganized Internet boss dude has been rich since 2003, after he sold Blogger to Google. The house news came as an afterthought in a first-person New York Times profile of how Willia...

Andrew Keen has gone insane. The author, who has railed against the Internet for destroying our culture, now says we all must become self-promoting, Facebook-friending, constantly Twittering monkeys like unemployed videoblogger Robert Scoble. "We are all Scoble now," Keen writes. Who? Scoble, a tech...

Ignored in high school, the geek princes of social media now thrive on attention from eager fanboys (and calculating flacks). Relentless Fast Company egoblogger Robert Scoble was their king. Until he got dethroned. Scoble — chubby, bespectacled, and awkward, the unlikeliest of all video person...

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, the world's largest compendium of rewritten Google search results, claims he hired a computer hacker because he never bothered to Google him. Now his employee is headed to jail. In a mass email, Calacanis wrote that he and Mahalo's CTO, Mark Jeffrey, were ignorant...

L.A. prosecutors have charged 19-year-old R&B singer with beating his girlfriend, fellow artist Rihanna. He could get almost five years in jail if convicted of the two felonies. According to a detective's affidavit, Brown and Rihanna got into a fight early Feb. 8 after the "Umbrella" singer checked ...