Kanye West gets political action committee, presidential jokes go viral

Images of Kanye West's face on Mount Rushmore and a potential White House takeover by the Kardashian reality TV clan fired up social media on Monday, a day after the rapper virtually hijacked a rambunctious MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) show as he declared he planned to run for U.S. president in 2020. West, who is married to Kim Kardashian, sparked dozens of satirical memes on social media after his rambling, 13-minute speech on Sunday – when he admitted he had “rolled up a little something earlier in the night – while accepting the Video Vanguard award for lifetime achievement

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Dating site eHarmony aims to mix work with pleasure

As a marriage counselor years ago, Neil Clark Warren saw first-hand how incompatibility led to unhappy matches. “(The career market) is such a big market that we do expect it to grow faster than our core product,” the octogenarian clinical psychologist and eHarmony CEO said in an interview. The market is dominated by Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, owner of Match.com as well as other sites for the lovelorn.

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U.S. considering sanctions over Chinese cyber theft: Washington Post

The White House is considering applying sanctions against companies and individuals in China it believes have benefited from Chinese hacking of U.S. trade secrets, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The newspaper, citing several unidentified Obama administration officials, said a final determination on whether to issue the sanctions was expected soon, possibly as early as the next two weeks.

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