The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas for preliminary investigations around the bribery and phone hacking scandal that has ridden News Corp. over the last few weeks,according to the Wall Street Journal. The subpoenas still require approval from the department’s top leadership, and would require News Corp. management to divulge the information it has regarding all of the controversial scandals that the company has been called on in recent times....

Justin.tv’s gaming arm,TwitchTV, today unveiled anexpansion to its partner programthat will greatly grow its size and impact. TwitchTV,launched specifically to cater to gamers, both those who stream games live and those who watch, is currently in beta. Its partner program, a way to share advertising revenues with top streamers, had previously been a handcrafted system: certain people were invited, others were not. TwitchTV is now moving to make the entry process simpler....

We’ve kept a slightly closer eye on gaming recently, which has put into our sight one of the hottest sectors of the industry, livestreaming. Justin.tv, one of the Internet’s largest streaming services, has been focusing on providing gamers with tools that are tailored to their needs. To that end, the company built and released a separate brandcalled TwitchTV, apart from its larger Justin.tv aegis, for gaming. We wondered when it launched it the investment would pay for itself....

You’ve heard the story before. It’s why Instagram outcooled Hipstamatic, why Facebook killed MySpace and why Apple is dominating. These are companies that arrived later to the playing field and thus dominated by watching the mistakes and innovations of their predecessors. In a sense, it’s why the tortoise won the race. The youngest of the blogging tools currently used is Posterous, which is 3 years old, followed by Tumblr, which is 4 yrs old....

Kanye West has many talents, but punctuality is not among them. He was latefor registration; he waslate for orchestration. He even wrote a song about his tardiness, the aptly titled “Late.” The most irritating instances of Ye’s procrastination are undoubtedly the delays to his album releases. Fans have become particularly infuriated by the endless postponements to the launch of his latest record, DONDA. I asked the man himself for an update — and got some concerning answers:...