British TV Company To Buy Virgin Media – John Malone’s Liberty Global will avoid a battle with Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB over expensive content like English Premier League soccer, the U.S. company said after agreeing to buy BSkyB’s biggest rival. [reuters]

Suddenly Google Is Going To Sell Ads On Yahoo – Yahoo just announced that Google will start selling some ads on Yahoo’s websites and mobile services. Specifically, it’s going to sell contextual ads—ads keyed to words that appear on pages. [sfgate]

Ramphele ‘Party Launch’ May Steal Zuma’s Thunder – The launch date of academic Mamphela Ramphele’s political party could be on Tuesday — pre-empting President Jacob Zuma’s opening of Parliament next Thursday. [bdlive]

DA: Zuma’s Lawyers Know Spy Tapes Will Be Damaging – It is clear President Jacob Zuma’s lawyers know the so-called spy tapes could be damaging and do not want them to get out, says the DA. [mail&guardian]

Boeing May Follow Elon Musk’s Advice To Fix The Dreamliner’s Battery – Boeing is considering a fix for the batteries in its Dreamliner jet that appears to take into account criticism by Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX. [busins]

White SA Beggars Are Making R10,000 a Month – White beggars are supposedly swimming in money. It seems you can comfortably make R10 000 a month, if you have the right complexion. [news24]

Largest Prime Number Found — And It’s 17,425,170 Digits Long – The largest prime number has been discovered — and it’s 17,425,170 digits long. The new prime number crushes the last one discovered in 2008, which was a paltry 12,978,189 digits long. [nbc]

Apple’s iTunes Reaches 25 Billion Songs Sold – Apple on Wednesday announced that music lovers have purchased more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes store. [pcmag]

BlackBerry Boasts Record Early Sales For Z10 in U.K., Canada – The phone maker says it nearly tripled the sales of its best performance over the first week in the U.K., while it had its best first day ever in Canada. [cnet]

Africa Cup of Nations Semi-Final Wrap For Dummies – Nigeria absolutely hammered Mali, sealing its spot in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. Burkina Faso and Ghana, meanwhile, had to settle the score on penalties in a match which had some rather questionable refereeing decisions. [dailymaverick]

Game of Thrones Creator George R. R. Martin to Develop New Shows for HBO – Game of Thrones fans, time to get excited — or, perhaps, just conflicted: George R.R. Martin, the creator of the Song of Ice and Fire novels the series is based on (and occasional episode scriptwriter), has signed a new deal with HBO. [wired]

Grammy Warning to Performers: “Thong Type Costumes are Problematic” – The Grammy Awards will be broadcast this Sunday, Feb. 10, but a memo sent to artists scheduled to appear on the show means that you might want to take “wardrobe malfunction” off your awards-night bingo card. [time]

Quest to Squash Beyonce Photos a Hilarious Failure –  Pro tip for celebrity publicists: If you try to get a website to remove “unflattering” pictures of your client, it won’t end well. [newser]

Monopoly Board Game Ditches The Iron And Adds A Cat – Members of the international boardgame-playing community, not to mention fans of small symbols of domestic drudgery, have been left reeling by the news that the iron counter is to be permanently exiled from Monopoly and replaced with the tiny metal effigy of a cat. [guardian]

Did You Know That Barack Obama Won A Grammy Award? – Barack Obama swept the “Best Spoken Word” category in 2008 with the audio book version of “The Audacity of Hope,” joining Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton among the Presidential Grammy Winner elite. [buzzfeed]

Chris Brown Showed Up In Court With Rihanna – Chris Brown was in court this afternoon for allegedly faking the community service he was ordered to do for beating the shit out of Rihanna in 2009, so naturally she came along to support him for completely ducking any and all consequences for his actions. [thesuperficial]

The Top 10 Most Disliked Athletes In America – You’ll never guess who took Forbes List’s Number 1 spot of the most disliked athletes in America.. [forbes]

‘Friends’ Reunion: Courteney Cox Heads to Matthew Perry’s ‘Go On’ (Exclusive) – NBC’s freshman comedy Go On is staging its first onscreen Friends reunion, with Courteney Cox checking in for an episode of the Matthew Perry comedy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. [hollyrep]

‘Car Sleepers’: US Middle Class Hit By Crisis – The shocking reality of the true cost of the financial crisis on middle-class Americans could sweep thousands of regular families into an ‘epidemic’ of homelessness. [skynews]

Dog With ‘Human Face’ Looking for Human Dog-Lovers to Take Him Home – It’s unclear how or why Tonik the eerily humanoid poodle/Shih Tzu mix ended up in a kill shelter in Kentucky, but the good news is that he is no longer there. [gawker]

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