Facebook beat out Google as the number one most-visited site in the U.S. in 2010, according to the web analytics firm Hitwise. How was Facebook able to outplay the former web champion, and can Google make a comeback in 2011 and beyond? Facebook, once...
If you're not sure which topic hit the top of the trends in late December, you deserve to be permanently unfollowed. Yes, Virginia, Christmas ranked number one for the second week in a row as tweeters wished each other the merriest on the day of. Bey...
Happy new year! Oh, sorry, was that too loud? We all may be nursing festive hangovers from spilling too much bubbly, food, or maybe we're just winding down from the end of the (overlong) holiday season. Whatever the cause, tuck into your favorite rea...
2010 was a busy year for social media and the web. It began (more or less) with the launch of the Apple's genre-defining iPad tablet and culminated with the ascent of Facebook as the web's most visited site. In between we had the fall of Palm, the ri...
Many of us like to use the iPhone as an alarm clock, but if you're thinking about setting a one-off alarm to wake you up Sunday morning (January 2, 2011), don't do it. Twitter was abuzz with complaints and comments about the iPhone bug that failed to...
Microblogging service Twitter is on a hiring spree, having raised $100 million in September 2009 and another $200 million earlier this month. Between that period, Twitter roughly tripled its employee base to more than 300 and disclosed plans to "have...
A submarine once seemed about as ridiculously impossible as an invisibility cloak seems today. But while technologies like the submarine, bomb, radar and tank once captured the imagination of science fiction authors, science has brought them to the m...
Some kids grew up wanting to drive DeLoreans or throw LightDisks at each other. Some kids wanted to be rock stars and play for the crowds. These instruments combine both of those dreams into one tech-filled bonanza of light and sound. Technology has ...
It's time for a fresh start in lots of ways, but what about your tech life? Our team of editors found a lot to look forward to in 2011. We foresee big innovations in the mobile space, gaming taking an even more agressive stance with motion detecting ...
Maria Ogneva is the director of social media at Nimble, a social relationship management solution that transforms your entire community into business opportunity by leveraging the best of customer relationship management, social media and communicati...
When Apple's alarm clock app failed, letting down a multitude of users on New Year's Day and January 2 due to the bug the company still hasn't fully explained, we started looking for alternatives. Apple said yesterday that the failure of its clock ap...
From the maker of designer/developer community Forrst comes Facto.me, a highly self-referential app that's at least mildly addictive, entertaining and social. The premise is simple: We all have stories to share about ourselves, but sometimes, they do...
It's finally happened: We're so lazy that we can't even bother to take a dust mop to our wood floors. Criticisms of our society aside, this little Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner will be more than happy to accomplish that task for us. Working like a min...
Facebook has received a massive new round of funding: $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, according to a new report. Facebok has raised more than $800 million over five rounds of fund...
Now it's your turn to react to the news of Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technology's $500 million investment in Facebook at a valuation of $50 billion. Even with the social network on track to serve 1 trillion display ads per year, it's still a surp...
Toshiba will announce a new, yet unnamed 10.1-inch Android tablet this week at CES, Engadget reports. The device is not yet ready for production as it awaits the new version of Android (Honeycomb), which is believed to be optimized for tablets. Howev...
Under the terms of Facebook's massive new round of funding, Goldman Sachs will invest $450 million in the social network, while previous investor Digital Sky Technologies will add an additional $50 million. Not only that, but Goldman Sachs will help ...
Online education is often dismissed as a pipeline for expensive degrees of little value and a sponge for veterans’ tuition payments. But while it’s true that for-profit universities have made a hefty business out of e-learning, it’s becoming apparent...
Samsung has announced that it has sold more than 10 million of its flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S, in just less than seven months. Samsung's Android bet has paid off from the start; after an extensive marketing campaign, Samsung shipped mo...
Vizio, a company best known for its LCD TV products, has announced the launch of an Android-based smartphone and tablet. Known as the Vizio VIA Phone and Vizio VIA Tablet (which may or may not be their final names), the devices share a solid amount o...
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. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Facebook Raises $500 Million in Funding Fa...
AdKeeper, the online advertising company led by About.com founder Scott Kurnit that lets consumers save online ads for later viewing, raised $35 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Oak Investment Partners, comes as AdKeeper's "Keep" button...
Good news PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners, Angry Birds will be available for download as a PlayStation mini title this week. PlayStation minis are smaller games that can be downloaded to the PSP or PS3. The mini version of Angry Birds s...
Caroline Giegerich is the blogstress behind the Daily Marauder and a digital marketing consultant. Follow her on Twitter for more social media and emerging tech insights. Within the spectrum of social media, the act of sharing essentially amounts to ...
It's the Monday after New Years, so this is likely to blow your addled mind just a little more than usual: I give you, Kanye West's "Monster" as sung by the Muppets. Again, this video is NSFW -- if your workplace frowns on swearing puppets, that is. ...
From apps to podcasts, Facebook to Twitter, Flickr to YouTube, and more, mainstream media has embraced a number of new, technology-driven -- and often social -- platforms in the past decade to grow and engage its audiences. These tools have, in addit...
Apple has surpassed $300 billion in market capitalization, achieving a distinction shared currently by only one other company in the world. By Monday at 12:10 p.m. ET, the price of Apple Inc. shares has risen by more than seven points to 329.75, givi...
In an attempt to earn some credibility in the consumer electronics category, Sears has enlisted some top CE bloggers for the Sears Blue Blogger Crew, which is making its debut by chronicling CES on behalf of the retailer. The lineup, which includes A...
Dan Finnigan is CEO of Jobvite, an SaaS platform for the social web that companies use to find and hire people. You can follow him on Twitter at @DanFinnigan and read his Jobvite Blog. In 1997, McKinsey, the leading business consulting firm, publishe...
Remember how, as a child, you threw screaming tantrums when your prize of choice slipped through the metallic fingers of those claw machine games? Well, now you can reclaim your youth by testing out "The Santa Claw," a mammoth claw game you can play ...
