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L.A.'s the place for YouTube stars seeking wider fame

Nov 19, 2014
YouTubers flock to Los Angeles, and an entertainment industry that caters to them.

Cat videos find a place of homage: A film festival

Jul 11, 2012
Cat videos are much more than LOL clips that cubicle dwellers email to each other. In going viral, they're eating up companies' bandwidth.
The infamous "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat!" video on YouTube.
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A newer, tinier iPad is said to be on the way

Jul 6, 2012
Apple looks to compete with Microsoft's and Google's smaller tablet models. Also, Google builds a robot brain that becomes keen on cat videos, and women post unflattering pictures of each other on Facebook.