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Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, a man who typifies American innovation, will have the best seat in the house at President Barack Obama's Statue of the Union address tomorrow evening.

The executive will be joining Michelle Obama in the first lady's box, CNET has confirmed with a White House official.

The first lady also extended special invitations to victims of gun violence, immigration reform advocates, and middle class families whose lives will benefit from the policy proposals the president plans to discuss tomorrow night at the White House.

Last year, Laurene Powell Jobs, the wife of late Apple … Read more

First Lady Michelle Obama officially joined Twitter this morning, and after only four tweets, she has 185,000 followers and counting.

"Hi, everyone, and thanks for the warm welcome. Look forward to staying in touch with you here. -mo," she first tweeted.

As the 2012 election season heats up, it's all hands on deck for Team Obama. The president, who joined Twitter during his 2008 election campaign and has almost 12 million followers, welcomed his wife onto the social networking site. "It's not every day we get to welcome the First Lady of the United … Read more

I imagine that if your dad's the president, your relationships with other kids aren't exactly the usual.

You have to wonder about what you can tell them. And you certainly have to wonder what technologies you can safely use without inadvertent consequences.

However, in an appearance this morning on NBC's "Today" show, First Lady Michelle Obama said she's not really a fan of Facebook for kids, even if their dad wasn't the president.

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The owner of the Web site that had published an offensive caricature of Michelle Obama has removed the image, and it is disappearing from Google Image Search.

Google took out an ad earlier this week above Google Image Search results for Michelle Obama to explain why an offensive rendering of the First Lady was the top result in Google Image Search. But the Guardian noticed Wednesday that the image had been removed from the "Hot Girls" blog where it had been posted, alongside an apology written in Chinese.

Google Translate came up with this English version of the … Read more

Google has reserved one of its valuable ad spaces on Google Image Search to explain why an offensive image of Michelle Obama appears as the first result for searches on her name.

Search Engine Land noted that last week, Google had removed the image after claiming the site hosting it was spreading malware, but it's back with the ad featured prominently above the image results. "Sometimes our search results can be offensive," Google said in the ad copy. "We agree. Read more."

Clicking on the ad takes you to a special page on Google's site … Read more

I am sure you go to many sites for news. I tend to go to those that I know lean one way politically or another, as I like my information garnished with a little feeling.

So on Monday, I cast a glance at the Huffington Post and happened upon the fact that some of its videos are now carrying Google Ads. I am beginning to suspect that these ads may have subliminal messages attached to them.

First, I watched a clip of the deep and decorous Elizabeth Hasselbeck defending Michelle Obama's wardrobe. (I do have my priorities straight, you … Read more