In the world of social media, discovering that worthwhile original idea for your app or website is by far the hardest thing to get right. It's so hard, in fact -- and the field so potentially lucrative -- that many parties who jump into the field ten...
Kazuo Hirai is Sony's new CEO and President, replacing Howard Stringer, the company has announced. The change is effective April 1st, and comes after a couple of rough years for Sony, with 2011 being particularly troublesome. The company's earnings w...
How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling? NASA has launched a multi-player Facebook game to test just that. Space Race Blastoff poses a series of surprisingly tough questions -- for example, who launched the first liquid-fueled ro...
A chubby dog gets in shape to chase a Beetle in Volkswagen's long-awaited sequel to its "The Force" Super Bowl ad from last year. And don't worry, there's a shout out to Star Wars as well. Mark Hunter, CCO of Deutsch LA, which created "The Force" and...
About half an hour before Amazon announced Q4 earnings, Barnes & Noble released a new statement saying it will not carry titles published by Amazon—including the Amazon titles that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is selling in print—in its “store showrooms...
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,†a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Facebook's IPO Likely in the $5 Billion Range Fa...
What if the 232 million people who log into Zynga's Facebook games each month instead spent hours working through online learning resources? At least where teens are concerned, a new Pearson-backed startup Alleyoop is betting the result would be more...
Searching for images on Google isn't always an easy task using words alone. Your search is going to rely on how images on the web are tagged or captioned. A new tool, however, lets you use self-created images, rather than words, to find pictures on t...
As Steve Ballmer promised in January, Microsoft has released version 1.0 of the Kinect for the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). Improvements since the Beta 2 version, which was released in November 2011, include support for up to four Kinect s...
Fresh off reaching 3 million users in January, social media management dashboard HootSuite is adding three apps to its App Directory and releasing its Engagement API. Users can now integrate Digg, InboxQ and Trendspottr into their dashboards starting...
Augmented reality could soon be used to solve crimes. Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created AR goggles that let investigators create 3D videos of crime scenes, tag evidence and then virtually re-visit the scene...
It’s true, people are getting very excited about the idea of Kinect coming to desktops and laptops (it's available now): Imagine being able to control Windows 7 or 8 with a wave of your arm or finger. However, that seems like child’s play when compar...
Best Buy's Super Bowl ad will celebrate mobile technology inventors by featuring the creators of the camera phone, Instagram and Square. The 30-second spot is a creative change in direction for the retailer, which tapped Ozzy Osbourne and Justin Bieb...
Tony Bennett has been on a bit of a tear supporting his new album of all-star duets. Now, Bennett is premiering his video for "One For My Baby (And One More for the Road)" with John Mayer exclusively on Mashable. The track appears on "Duets II: The G...
By collecting 1 million photos in two years, Foodspotting has proved that some people really do want to share what they had for lunch. But even so, the startup's latest apps, launched Tuesday, focus on the much bigger group of people who just want to...
Julian Assange, the embattled 40-year-old founder of WikiLeaks and self-described "protector of victims," appealed his extradition to Sweden before Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday. The appeal is Assange's latest move to avoid being sent to Swede...
If you're in the mood to contribute to the viral "Sh*t People Say" madness, head over to Has Anyone Said This Shit. The simple website lets you watch, submit and search for videos by stereotype. The first iteration of the unstoppable meme -- "Sh*t Gi...
Shopify, which powers more than 20,000 online stores, announced Wednesday that it has acquired a mobile studio in Canada called Select Start (S3). More accurately, it has acquired its team of more than 20 mobile engineers and designers. "The S3 acqui...
Windows users can't get enough of Internet Explorer 9. That's the message Microsoft is driving hard, releasing statistics that show its most recent web browser is growing strong among users of Windows 7 PCs. IE9 is now the primary browser on 36.2% of...
For some people, flying robots are a dream; for others, they are a nightmare from a dystopian sci-fi novel. Whichever camp you fall in, you'll probably appreciate a video showing flying machines performing some pretty advanced maneuvers. A flying nan...
Facebook who? On the same day the tech world awaits the social network's IPO filing, fledgling rival Google+ is set to break 100 million users, according to one analyst. Paul Allen, a Google+ watcher, says the network will hit 100.8 million users by ...
Motorcycles may be sexy, but the industry is crowded with fierce competitors like Yamaha, Suzuki, KTM and Honda. How did Kawasaki, a relatively small brand, race to the front of the pack? Answer: Social media. Check out the latest episode of Behind t...
If you've been thinking Google's privacy changes have gone too far, you're not alone -- Microsoft is with you. Frank X. Shaw, VP of corporate communications for Microsoft, wrote in an Official Microsoft blog post Wednesday that the company noticed Go...
A BlackBerry enthusiast site claims to have an image of the Research In Motion's BlackBerry 10 smartphone, called the "London." The image, which appears to be part of a larger presentation, shows a slim touchscreen phone that looks more like a Droid ...
Jevon MacDonald is the co-founder and CEO of GoInstant, a shared browsing service used for sales and support co-browsing. He blogs at StartupNorth.ca and was previously a founding partner of Dachis Group. Follow him on Twitter @jevon. Enterprise soft...
A number of U.S. senators are opposed to amending the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act to let Netflix automatically publish user views on Facebook via frictionless sharing. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who sponsored the VPPA, said in a hearing on ...
The Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers more than purpose-built electric vehicles -- it delivers smart mobility services. Visit bmw-i.com or fo...
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Cute alert: U.S. President Barack Obama has met Internet celebrity Keyboard Cat in a Google+ Hangout. We wish this adorable encounter were true, but it's...
It's version 10. Do you know where your Firefox is? Yes, rev up your update engines. Firefox 10 -- the latest in a dizzying series of upgrades -- is now available for your browsing pleasure. This is Mozilla's seventh major browser release in the last...
Want to help the New York Giants get pumped up for Super Bowl XLVI and learn more about their pregame preparations? You can do that on Thursday evening as the team is hosting a set of Google+ Hangouts with players including star wide receiver Victor ...
