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CNET News' multimedia team visits the San Francisco studio of Obscura Digital, a company that aims to push the boundaries of digital marketing and advertising.

At 23, the pop singer cut her teeth on MySpace, and her song "I Kissed a Girl" is a hit on iTunes. Just don't look for her to leave her label, a la Radiohead or Trent Reznor.

Its woes were hardly private, so it's not like anyone didn't see this coming: The podcast start-up has been acquired, with reports placing the price at around $500,000.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Borrowers who have lost their homes, thousands of dollars and their good credit ratings can at least have a laugh thanks to real estate agent and Web site creator Lisa LaShawn.

Effective immediately, longtime Wikipedia community member Michael Snow will take over as chairman of the board from previous head Florence Devouard.

Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Listen to the 2600 hacker conference--If you can't attend The Last HOPE conference, you can tune in over the internet. AMD, Intel Centrino 2 make strange bedfellows--Advanced Micro Devices is making gains at Hewlett-Packard, even in Centrino 2 notebooks. Comcast customers: Are your e-mails going missing?--Peter Glaskowsky reports on a surprising problem: the internet addresses of Comcast customers are associated with spam and listed on some e-mail blacklist services. Earnings: Microsoft and google disappoint, while IBM soars--Earnings are up across the board, but profits are down...but not everywhere.

Internet pioneer has devoted a lot of precious pixels on yahoo.com site to its fight with Carl Icahn over control of the company.

Google is buying its way into the accounts of more than 40,000 Russian advertisers and signed a search and advertising pact with Rambler.

PC Magazine - For years, bleacher bums could pretend that their home run ball was hit by Barry Bonds, rather than Duane Kuiper. No longer. Major League Baseball will now validate home runs with a special holographic sticker, which fans can verify in an online database.

Prince accused Stephanie Lenz of violating his copyright. His label have backed down, and now it's Lenz suing the artist for violating her right to post her baby video under Fair Use.