Yahoo has released its annual "Year in Review" report, a dive into the top searches and search trends on the world's second largest search engine. The report, released every year by the Internet giant, determines what queries topped user interest bas...
GameStop's social games publisher Jolt Online has just released its latest Facebook game, Playboy Party. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. In a world where it seems perfectly natural to tend to a virtual farm or manage a village of Smurfs, perha...
Google Editions, the Internet giant's book store business promised for last summer, is set to launch before the end of 2010, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google Editions will have a significantly different sales model from most competitors, such ...
Amidst the whirlwind of acquisition rumors, Groupon decided to stir the pot some more by announcing the next (possibly the most important yet) step in its long-term strategy: Groupon Stores. Groupon's basic idea - offering one deal per day per city -...
SoundCloud, an audio platform favored by many a musician, has added a "Record" feature that should appeal to bands, as well as those who favor Instagram-like shareability. The new feature launches today on SoundCloud's online platform, as well as in ...
Facebook and social media have been blamed for a lot of ills of late -- divorce, teens run wild and even asthma attacks. Good thing YourTango is out with a PSA warning us all about the hazards of social media addiction. In case the campy outfits didn...
Opera.com has a very special front page today, featuring the entire "inbox" of Opera co-founder Jon S. von Tetzchner. You can actually read all the messages in Jon's e-mail folders (check them out, some of them are quite amusing). However, the most i...
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. Non-Profits Raise Awareness via Social Medi...
This post is part of the Mashable 10, Mashable's gift guide of the 10 hottest gadgets that that our editors think should be on everyone's wish lists this holiday season. Read about all 10 gadgets here. After telling you what we think are the hottest ...
Google is honoring African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who 55 years ago today refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Because of the stand she took on December 1, 1955, Parks was arrested, sparking a boycott of the M...
Nielsen has just released the data from its U.S. smartphone survey in October 2010. According to the report, Android and iOS are essentially tied as the "most desired" smartphone operating system amongst mobile users planning an upgrade. The report a...
Although Groupon already has a multi-billion buyout offer on the table from Google, it looks like the Chicago-based startup is still ready to do some buying of its own. The daily deal giant announced Wednesday that it has acquired Ludic Labs, a small...
The United Nations AIDS Program (UNAIDS) is calling for a "Prevention Revolution" today on World AIDS Day. UNAIDS is hoping to capitalize on last year's massive social media mobilization to get its hashtag -- #PreventionRevolution -- to trend worldwi...
Matthew Latkiewicz works at Zendesk.com, customer support software. He writes for and edits Zengage, Zendesk’s blog about customer engagement. He also writes about wine for McSweeney’s and imagines stuff at his own website, youwillnotbelieve.us. Just...
Verizon Wireless confirmed this morning that its 4G network would launch on Sunday, December 5. Long Term Evolution (LTE) service will be available in 38 cities and 60 airports immediately upon its launch. The network will support 5 - 12 Mbps downloa...
Evernote has added two of its most requested features to the latest version of its desktop application for OS X. Evernote 2.0 Beta for Mac now features in-app notebook sharing and Notebook Stacks, a new notebook organizational feature. Users of the d...
Top Chef fans gearing up to watch Wednesday night's premiere of Top Chef All-Stars can now play a new Facebook game featuring their favorite "chef'testants." Top Chef Challenge — which launched today — gives players a chance to show which chefs they'...
New data from comScore suggests that Cyber Monday may have been the heaviest online spending day in history with a record-breaking $1.028 billion in online spending -- a 16% jump in spending when compared against the same day last year. The figure al...
The Smarter Products Series is supported by IBM. Find out more about how IBM is working to create a Smarter Planet. Few teachers are drawn to the profession for its administrative duties. But the reality of attendance taking, lesson planning, grading...
The Mashable Awards, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. After receiving 700,000 nominations, we've narrowed down the 40,000+ nominees to just five finalists per category. You have from now...
Net Applications has just released its browser usage share statistics for November 2010, and the decline of Internet Explorer continues to be a cogent trend. Meanwhile, Google's Chrome browser continues to increase its share of the market, topping 9....
As a companion to the list of stylish keyboards we recently brought you, we've turned our attention to another vital PC peripheral: the humble computer mouse. Whether you're a Mac or a PC, you don't have to put up with a boring, bland input device. A...
Google Reader has finally arrived on Android, with an app that allows users to access most of the features of the popular RSS tool from their smartphones. It’s a bit curious that it took so long for Google to develop an app for Android – its own oper...
Christmas Eve might not be for another 23 days or so, but Google and NORAD already have the online Santa Tracker ready to go. NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, has been tracking Santa and his sleigh since 1955. Since 2007, Google h...
YouTube has officially launched its new TrueView ad format, allowing site visitors to avoid watching ads they're not interested in. Users will now be able to look for a countdown button that will let them skip an ad after it plays for five seconds. I...
Alphonso Labs is releasing an update to its popular -- and now free -- Pulse News Reader app for iPad that now offers users the ability to consume three different types of Facebook streams. The update is a big step forward for the young startup and r...
At the start of next year, businesses, publications and brands will be able to join StumbleUpon as "Pro" users, curating both their own content and suggested content in order to reach a larger audience. The StumbleUpon team -- founder & CEO Garrett C...
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has been kicked off Amazon.com's U.S. servers after moving its operations just a day ago. The move by Amazon comes after questioning from U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the House Security Committee. "This mor...
The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Hacker News is one of our favorite places to find interesting stories, learn about apps and side projects from th...
Yet another single from Michael Jackson's posthumous record, Michael, has hit the web and this time it can only be found in one place: on Apple's newly minted social network, Ping. The release of "Much Too Soon" follows close on the heels of previous...
