Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl Card professional Annie Duke plans to be the commissioner of a new league that is hoping to become the PGA of poker, defining the game’s best players and hosting invitational tournaments for only its biggest stars. The yet-to-be-named league is planning four televised regular-season events plus a $1 million championship freeroll at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas this year, league executives said.
Get Your Personal Gnome(Human Genes) Machine!!!!!
Life Technologies’ new Ion Personal Genome Machine is More then an iPod dock, it’s… a personal genome machine. @TatWza
Paramore Split Gets Nasty
When Paramore announced this past weekend that they had parted ways with brothers Josh and Zac Farro, they did so by taking a not-so-subtle jab at their former bandmates, writing, “None of us were really shocked. For the past year, it hasn’t seemed as if they wanted to be around anymore … We want Josh and Zac to do something that makes them happy, and if that isn’t here with us, then we support them in finding happiness elsewhere.” @funkmasterflex
B.M.F. Founder Big Meech Working On Ringtones!????
Incarcerated accused drug boss Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory may be behind bars, but the Black Mafia Family (B.M.F.) founder still has his sights set on the music industry via a new deal with ringtone makers Myxer.com. (Do people still even buy ringtones!!!????) @funkmasterflex
Dell Makes $960 Million Purchase
Dell Inc plans to buy data storage company Compellent Technologies Inc for about $960 million, in a bid to shake its reliance on hardware, but it may need to do more to compete in new technologies like cloud computing. @funkmasterflex
