Facebook's new Timeline design gives users a large "cover photo" space at the top of the page. We think this revamp is a great opportunity to get creative with your profile presentation. We recently asked the Mashable readership to share how they've ...
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: TwoSides Quick Pitch: TwoSides makes it...
Google, Apple and Facebook are the tech trifecta, so we found facts that could help you land a job at one of these companies. No doubt, there will be stiff competition: Nearly one in four young professionals wants to work at Google, for instance, but...
Ever since the launch of Facebook Subscriptions, the Mashable team has been excited to jump into this new way to interact with our community. Just like we did with Google+, we wanted to give the Mashable community an easy way to locate our team on Fa...
We sniff out a boatload of tech stories every week, but this week was unusual -- it was outlandishly rich in bounty and packed with punchy techo-goodness. There were so many stories, we couldn't even get to them all, but we didn't want you to miss ou...
As innovative and influential Facebook is, the company still mostly relies on a technology that’s been around since 1994: display advertising. Facebook’s display ads get fewer click-throughs than those that run elsewhere, at least according to one re...
Pretty much everyone knew that Amazon would introduce a tablet PC last week, but what may have come as a surprise to many was that the company also planned to get into the browser business. Amazon Silk, as the new browser is known, is a somewhat unus...
Apple's iPhone event is rapidly approaching, and most of us are wondering precisely what's going to be announced. So now we come to you, the millions of Mashable readers, asking you to answer our 10 poll questions so we can crowdsource this informati...
There are some people who think Facebook has become too complicated. There are other people who agree with those people. Mashable Comics are illustrated every week by Kiersten Essenpreis, a New York-based artist who draws and blogs at YouFail.com. Mo...
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Some of the most respected influencers on the Internet today were viewed a...
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Each weekend, Mashable picks startups we thin...
This week seemed to go by fast, am I wrong? You barely had time to finish last week's roundup -- it was a doozy with 61 stories -- before our newest list rolled out this week. Not to worry! Mashable has organized all of our features into manageable c...
Expecting Apple to unveil the iPhone 5? You may be in for a disappointment, according to various reports. New evidence and speculation points to the existence of an 9to5mac. Apple's inventory system contains references to an iPhone 4S as well, under ...
Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite. "Moves Like Jagger" from Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera -- both Best New Artist Grammy winners -- lands atop Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week....
Despite a few flops along the way, Nintendo has been one of the most successful players in the video game industry since the early 1980s. But how much do you know about Nintendo? Did you know it's over 100 years old? Do you know which American sports...
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. UK retailers are losing more than £8 billion ($12.6 million USD) per year ...
Oct. 1 marks 10 years since Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo flipped the switch on the world's first 3G network in Tokyo. Heralding new speeds and amazing possibilities such as "real-time videoconferencing or sending and receiving e-mail attachments with ...
In the coming days, if you don't restrain your enthusiasm for Apple's new iPhone introductions, you'll invariably be called fanboy or fangirl (fanperson?). Last week, in part 1 of our 3-part series of iPhone 5 infographics, we dug deep into the quest...
The Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of nationwide demonstrations that opposes corporate greed and social inequality, has caught fire in recent days. What started as a single protest in New York City has spread to multiple cities and resulted in...
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Research indicates businesses increasingly rely on the public relations in...
When Klout announced in mid-September that Blogger and Tumblr would play a role in determining your Klout score, WordPress users immediately asked, "What about us?" Klout responded by quietly adding WordPress.com to its scoring system, which already ...
Facebook is introducing a new type of ad that will expand if a friend "liked" the brand. The ad unit, which will be announced this week at Advertising Week in New York, is subtly different from Sponsored Stories, which rolled out in January, in two w...
Facebook has overhauled its Pages Insights analytics tool and added a new metric to gauge the health of a page: "People Talking About." That statistic, which users will see on Pages below the total number of "Likes," will be one of four tracked by Pa...
To no one's surprise, 18 of the 25 most-shared Mashable stories in September were about Facebook. Your share-happy fingers went into overdrive because Facebook announced a barrage of changes involving your profile (Timeline, anyone?) and News Feed, b...
AT&T's version of Samsung's flagship smartphone -- which is a bit different from the versions sold at Sprint and T-Mobile -- is now available for purchase. Samsung Galaxy S II comes with a 1.2 GHz Exynos CPU, Android 2.3 Gingerbread and 16 GB of stor...
This weekend was dominated by Facebook and Apple. The former launched several new ad products, and speculation is rampant as Apple's iPhone event on Oct. 4 approaches. We posted several other useful resources this weekend too, including hot tips on g...
Several HTC Android handsets, including EVO 3D, EVO 4G and Thunderbolt, are susceptible to a security flaw that exposes users' private data, including emails, phone numbers and SMS data, according to a report from Android Police. HTC recently added a...
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. Apple Might Only Launch iPhone 4S New evid...
Yahoo and ABC News have announced an agreement to share content including stories and web videos. Under the deal, announced Monday, Yahoo and ABC News will reach 100 million users a month and redistribute content including GoodMorningAmerica.com, whi...
UPDATE: Nothing in the most recent legal filing indicates that Facebook changed its Timeline launch date as a result of the suit. However, several developers have noted that a message saying that Timelines would automatically publish to the public on...
