The founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based startup Breakr, which helps "connect fans and fandoms," claims his company played an instrumental role in perpetuating the #AlexFromTarget hashtag on Twitter.

The Internet's latest obsession with attractive retail service workers continues onward with a slew of spin-off characters both based in real life and fiction, like Kieran from T-Mobile and T-Bo from Groovy Smoothie (iCarly).

It looks like Jeremy Meeks has some new competition after Santa Cruz resident Sean Kory was booked this weekend for attacking a man dressed as a Fox News reporter at a Halloween parade.

Last Thursday, Facebook launched the application "Rooms" for iOS mobile devices which allows users to create their own custom chatrooms separate from the social networking service.

This weekend's rumored studio raid and arrest of the elusive street artist in London turns out to be a hoax orchestrated by National Report, a satirical "news site" that has previously fooled the Internet with somewhat believable hoaxes like the Fukushima radiation scare and Sarah Palin's racist interview scandal.