Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. You might have heard Google is in the process of changing the de...
David Carey, president of magazine publisher Hearst Corp, expects the company will have more than 1 million paying digital subscribers by the end of 2012. "We do expect in 2012 at some point to be able to have more than a million on e-subscriptions,"...
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: Objective Logistics Quick Pitch: Object...
Men, beware. The Wi-Fi from your laptop could be hurting the health of your sperm. A new study, published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility by researchers from Argentina and the U.S., found that semen samples placed a little more than an...
Carrier IQ, a diagnostic tool installed in millions of smartphones all over the world, is gathering a lot of info about your activity - possibly even recording keystrokes, content of SMS messages and more - and sending it to a third party. It's prese...
Let's face it: The future of journalism is online and digital. And now, as if that trend needed any more confirmation, journalism's highest honor has gone digital too. Beginning with the 2012 Pulitzer Prizes -- recognizing work done during the calend...
Shaquille O'Neal -- all 7-plus feet and 300-plus pounds of him -- isn't just known for casting a huge shadow on the basketball court. He looms large in social media, too, as America's most-followed athlete (second in the world behind Brazilian soccer...
WikiLeaks on Thursday released the first 287 documents from a database containing "hundreds" of documents from contractors in what WikiLeaks calls the "mass surveillance industry." For this project, WikiLeaks teamed up with Bugged Planet and Privacy ...
Amazon has launched a Spanish and Italian Kindle Store with a large selection of Spanish-language Kindle books, as well the first Spanish-language Kindle. The Spanish Kindle store offers more than 900,000 titles, 22,000 of which are in Spanish. Some ...
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 four particular stories of interest today. Spy Files: WikiLeaks Releases Surveillance ...
The relationship between Wonderful Pistachios and Rovio's Angry Birds entered a new level Thursday with the launch of The Hunt for the Golden Pistachio, the first fully branded Angry Birds game. The game, which rolled out Thursday morning on GetCrack...
The iPhone topped Yahoo's U.S. top searches list for 2011, edging out Casey Anthony, Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry. It's the first time since 2002 a tech device has topped the list, when PlayStation 2 took the number one spot. “The iPhone transcended...
Ben Huh's popular Cheezburger Network websites -- Fail Blog, The Daily What and I Can Has Cheezburger? to name a few -- have filled web browsers with laugh-inducing content since 2007. But 10 years ago, Huh's world hummed a far less cheerful tune. Wi...
Yahoo's stock rose as much as 9% in pre-market trading Thursday and more than 3% after the market opened as rumors surfaced that Alibaba and Softbank Corp are in "advanced talks" to make a bid to acquire the company. The bid is rumored at $20 per sha...
Troy Williams is Vice President and General Manager of Macmillan New Ventures, the global media company’s division that discovers, develops and markets innovative technologies that make learning more engaging. It’s not revelatory that the academic an...
In a month that brought us "Nerd New Year" on 11/11/11, your share-happy fingers found interest in stories about the year's worst passwords, Starbucks's interactive holiday cups and Adobe's decision to cease production of its Flash Player. Making a l...
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We're excited to host one of our best parties of the year, MashBash, which celebrates the best of digital from the Mashable Awards winners at CES in Las Vegas. Come have fun with the Mashable community, industry leaders and digital influencers from t...
What started as a local market for odd jobs is also becoming a way for small businesses to find leads -- for free. Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace Zaarly has signed up 1,250 businesses in New York City to fill requests from its users, and it is launc...
Google's Chrome surpassed Mozilla's Firefox as the world's number two browser behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer last month, according StatCounter. The findings, reported in The Wall Street Journal, peg Chrome's worldwide market share at 25.69% and...
Prasad Thammineni is the CEO and co-Founder of OfficeDrop, a digital filing cabinet with scan-to-cloud apps for Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad and Android. App stores aren’t just for selling games – they have also become increasingly important distribution ch...
McDonald's 43-year-old Big Mac is getting more social this month with a LivingSocial deal and a planned Facebook app, among other initiatives. The LivingSocial offer, which went live on Thursday, offers a booklet of five Big Mac vouchers and five vou...
ONE and (RED) have jointly launched (2015)QUILT, a digital crowd-sourced tapestry built in HTML5, to bring people together behind the cause of an AIDS-free generation by 2015. The launch coincides with World AIDS Day Dec. 1 and the 30th anniversary o...
The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by FedEx. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how. The Holiday Season is under...
When it was discovered that Siri, Apple’s much-hyped voice assistant in the iPhone 4S, would not reveal the location of abortion clinics when asked, many wondered if it meant Apple was taking a stand in the divisive abortion debate. Now Apple has com...
Twitter's long-awaited self-serve ad platform was quietly introduced in November with a "handful" of advertisers, according to the company. The program, which Twitter announced in April 2010, is available to anyone with a credit card who wants to tak...
It's finally time for file-sharing buffs to pour a little liquor on the ground for Napster, the original gangster of major peer-to-peer music sharing sites. On Thursday, Napster will officially merge with Rhapsody, the largest on-demand music service...
Call of Duty’s popular zombie warfare mode has arrived as a separate iOS app. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is available now for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad. Created by Activision Publishing, Inc., the $6.99 app is based on the popular console h...
The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet debuted last month with the promise of being the only tablet with a real shot of challenging the iPad, mainly because of its rock-bottom price: $199, less than half the price of the cheapest iPad model. Now it appears to...
The oft-discussed dilemma of whether to share your Facebook profile with your mom often overlooks an important factor: Does she want to share hers with you? A recent study suggests that about half of the time, the answer is no -- at least not the who...
