Ashton Kutcher

"To leave hundreds of millions of dollars vulnerable does not seem like a wise choice," says one matrimonial lawyer. Still, many of the rich and famous keep heading down the aisle without a prenup. It's a choice some eventually live to regret.

While it seems celebs hardly work for their money, their pre-fame resumes tell dramatically different stories: rife with tales of cleaning toilets, delivering beer and asking sweetly, "Would you like fries with that?" Turns out that America's most glamorous hotshots held down all kinds of...

Twitter, the much-hyped online social networking service, is now exploring the wonderful world of fake news. Following the "is it really newsworthy?" spectacle of its five billionth tweet, Twitter demonstrated why it's not a reliable news source as a celebrity death hoax echoed through the...

Ashton Kutcher -- with almost three million followers, the world's most popular Twitter user -- says social-networking and other online collaboration has forever changed media. "You can broadcast to millions of people, who can respond and influence that media," Kutcher said today at the Fortune...

For some, Twitter represents the end of the world -- or at least the death of human communication. In an increasingly "less is more" internet-writing trend, the incredible brevity of Twitter messages, or "tweets," leaves no room for deeper thought or connection. And the medium's ease of use...

Proving you don't have to be a celebrity to get half-a-million Twitter followers, Sockington the cat has more than 545,000 wanting to know what's new. It's not just people who want to hear about his latest adventures. Many of Sockington's followers are animals themselves. This fame didn't happen...

As the old saying goes, if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. But what if your tool isn't quite so functional? What if your mousetrap doesn't really have a purpose, your company doesn't have a business plan, and your audience doesn't really know what to do with...

Oprah, Ashton Kutcher and even CNN hosts may have to pause Friday and Monday while Twitter repairs itself. Friday at 5 pm and Monday, May 11, at 9 am New York time, for an hour each day, Twitter may be putting Tweets on hold. Twitter is calling it a "significant database upgrade" that will...

Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams appeared on Oprah to talk about Twitter's meteoric rise to fame. Oprah sent her first Tweet and got all giddy when she was Tweeted back from Shaq and Ellen DeGeneres. Williams was on the show for about a segment (to use TV jargon) when Oprah asked how he...

Singer John Mayer has mixed feelings about Twitter. In a recent interview with Eonline.com, Jennifer Aniston's ex-boyfriend called the social networking site "stupid," which is interesting considering he has a Twitter account with more than 291,000 followers. Here is a recent tweet (Twitter...