Long Island resident Melanie Spanopoulos hit her cousin Giselle Penagos with a mini-van and tried to drive over her twice. The reason for the feud is because a man rejected Melanie’s Facebook friend request, but he accepted Giselle’s request. Melanie is being charged with assault and was released on a $20,000 bail.

Amgen, a human therapeutics company that focuses on advances in recombinant DNA will be acquiring BioVex Group for $1 billion. BioVex is a biotechnology company that works on the treatment of cancer.

At the Ben-Gurion International Airport, an Israeli woman was caught trying to smuggle 44 iPhone devices under her clothes. She even stuffed some of them in her stockings. The woman was in her 60′s and was returning from London. The full-body scanners detected the 44 phones under her clothes, which happened to be a traditional Georgian outfit. She looked like she was walking with difficulty so that is how she got the attention from Customs. Looks like we have another Hall of Shame here.

Recently Amazon.com has acquired LOVEFiLM International Limited. LOVEFiLM is known as the Netflix of Europe where people across the continent to rent movies and games through the mail or stream movies on demand. LOVEFiLM streaming movies work on Internet-enabled TVs and the PlayStation 3. This acquisition gives Amazon.com a stronger presence abroad.

Zadspace is an online mailing label advertising and packaging company that has raised $4.2 million. It is unknown who the investors are, but we do know that DFJ Frontier and Crosscut Ventures are existing investors in the company. Zadspace is led by Todd Outten.

50 Cent is not too pleased with WorldStarHipHop.com. He sent out a tweet to his 3.8 million followers about how he got the website shut down by Homeland Security. The website went down temporarily, but was back online within 24 hours. The founder of WorldStarHipHop.com said it was a problem with his servers. “I don’t know why people underestimate me. I just shut down WORLDSTAR for future advertising contact thisis50.com suckers lol,” said 50 Cent in a couple of tweets. “I put worldstar to bed, you don’t believe try me I will shut your shit down. Lol.” 50 Cent said that WorldStarHipHop.com uses 50 Cent’s content and images without permission and he filed a lawsuit against them in November 2009.

Zynga has acquired Area/Code, an indie game studio company based in New York. This is Zynga’s ninth acquisition in the last 8 months. Area/Code will now be known as Zynga New York City. Area/Code makes games for Facebook and mobile devices, including CSI: Crime City, Parking Wars, and Drop7.e puzzle. Demetri Detsaridis and Frank Lantz were the Area/Code game studio heads and now they will be general manager and creative director.

Freelancer.com, the company that used to be known as GetAFreelancer.com has acquired two European freelancing websites. Freelancer.com acquired Freelancer.de, a German competitor and EUFreelance.com, a freelancer website that covers Europe as a whole. Freelancer.de launched in the summer of 2007 and it has over 120 categories of freelance work. EUFreelance.com appears to have a larger focus on tech and programming jobs with about 52 categories.