Newsweek Study: Americans Will Work For 25 Cents an Hour

In America the minimum wage is currently $7.25/hour however some Americans are willing to work for far less money, accepting jobs on Amazon's freelance  market Mechanical Turk for positions that pay as little as 25 cents per ... continue

Newsweek owner Sidney Harman dies at 92

Sidney Harman, who purchased ailing weekly magazine Newsweek in August of 2010, has died, The Daily Beast is reporting. Harman, a "stereo equipment mogul," purchased the struggling property late last summer for a buck and the assumption of Newsweek's ... continue

Daily Beast chews up Newsweek and wins the battle of sites

In what has to be one of the strangest, yet very interesting, match-ups of old and new media we get news that after Daily Beast and Newsweek joining forces the Newsweek site is going to be shut ... continue

Ailing Newsweek hooks up with The Daily Beast

After extensive negotiations that looked like a non-starter not too long ago, troubled print publication Newsweek has announced a merger with The Daily Beast. Tina Brown, who edited Vanity Fair and The New Yorker before founding The Daily ... continue

The one Newsweek Tech prediction that would give Microsoft fans wet dreams if true

So Newsweek has published its technology predictions for the coming year and while most of them are borderline possibles there is one that stands out. In at number nine is the prediction that Steve Ballmer will be ... continue

Sarah Palin Claims Newsweek Cover is Sexist

Failed GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin features on the cover of Newsweek this week, and the photo used has got the darling of the uber-right fuming. The Sarah Palin Newsweek cover uses a photo originally taken for Runner’s ... continue

Dan Lyons Says Kiss My Ass and Quits Blogging

LATE BREAKING: Dan Lyons, the writer/ journalist formerly know as The Real Dan Lyons formerly know as The Fake Steve Jobs is quitting blogging after having a post yanked this week by his employer Newsweek. Jordan Golson from the ... continue

Has Newsweek thrown the gag around Dan Lyons?

Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs is well known for his abrasive style posts where no-one is immune from his sarcastic wit that can cut to the bone at times. All the time he was working at ... continue