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Many industries complain that new government regulations are bad for business; now, we're hearing it from the adult film biz. A proposed L.A. city regulation to require porn actors to use condoms has adult film makers threatening to leave Tinseltown -- and to take the lion's share of an $8 billion-a-year industry with them.
Twitter Hacked: Malicious Tweets Push Pop-Ups and Porn
12:17PM 9/21/2010
Think twice about tweeting Tuesday. A vulnerability on the Twitter.com web site is infecting users who merely mouse over malicious tweets, according to security experts. The hack sends some users to porn sites.
Apple's New Guidelines Mean App-solutely Nothing
4:45PM 9/09/2010
After much criticism about its capriciousness, Apple has published new guidelines to help developers know what sort of apps are likely to get approved or rejected. Sounds good. But if anything, they only add to the confusion.
Coca-Cola is facing flak for using porn to attract children on Facebook in a promotional campaign gone wrong.
Coke has withdrawn the ads and apologized for its Dr. Pepper promotion, where users allowed their Facebook status box to be taken over by the company. More than 160,000 people signed up...
Playboy Enterprises to Cut More Jobs in Bid to Restructure
12:08PM 6/30/2010
Playboy Enterprises is downsizing again as it continues its transition from a lifestyle and media business into a brand-management company. The company expects to save more than $3 million annually.
If you're looking for a way to block porn and adult content on the computers in your house, FamilyShield from OpenDNS is a new free tool that can quickly give you a tool to restrict what your kids are looking up online. Unlike other software tools, which need to run on a specific device,...
Porn, not cartoons, appear on Kids on Demand preschool channels
3:00PM 3/17/2010
Some North Carolina toddlers whose parents subscribe to Time Warner Cable television got a surprise recently when they tuned in to the Kids On Demand Preschool channels. Instead of promos for SpongeBob SquarePants, they saw nude women from the Playboy Channel dishing dirt about sex.
The...
Initial Penthouse Offering, Take Two: Go Public or Go Bust
3:20PM 1/25/2010
FriendFinder Network, formerly known as Penthouse, needs money fast. The weight of hundreds of millions of dollars of debt has prompted it to turn to public capital markets. It%u2019s a desperate move -- in fact, the same move the company made a year ago under the same circumstances.
Even Porn Stars Get the Recession Blues
8:00PM 1/08/2010
Porn DVD sales are off nearly 50% from their peak in 2006, when they hit nearly $4.3 billion. Reports from the annual Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas confirm the industry is feeling the effects of the economic downturn.
The porn business is going to keep its elbow room. A petition by an AIDS advocacy group to require that adult film companies use condoms when shooting movies has been denied by a Los Angeles judge.
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