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AOL Attempting to Buy Yahoo [REPORT]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL and several venture capital firms are in talks to buy Yahoo.Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group are rumored to be in on the deal. Currently, AOL’s...
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Newest Calculator Adds Smartphone-Like Apps and Graphics
Unless something drastic happens, Texas Instruments might be getting ready to eat Casio’s dust.The latter consumer electronics company has just released a graphing calculator with a gorgeous color...
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Klout Now Measures Your Influence on Facebook
Social media analytics service Klout, well-known for its Twitter influence measurement scores, has finally launched a version of its platform that determines your influence on Facebook.Klout currently...
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Badgeville Gives Publishers Trendy, Plug-and-Play Game Mechanics
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup...
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Facebook Working with GLAAD to Stop Anti-Gay Bullying
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has teamed up with Facebook to reduce the amount of hate speech and anti-gay bullying that goes on around the Internet.Members of the gay...
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Mobile Q&A Service ChaCha Raises $20 Million
ChaCha, a service that lets you ask a question via a call or a text message from your mobile and quickly receive an answer, has nabbed another $20 million in a round of funding, led by Rho Ventures and...
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NASA Teams with Gowalla on Moon Rock Scavenger Hunt
NASA has made one giant leap for a national governmental agency: It’s creating a roster of virtual items for a mobile-based scavenger hunt through Gowalla.The two companies are working together to get...
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Opera 11 to Get Extensions, Opera Mobile Coming to Android
Web browser Opera will get support for extensions – software enhancements that extend the browser’s functionality, similar to add-ons in Firefox – in its next major iteration, Opera 11.Announced at...
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Skype Gets Serious Facebook Integration
Skype 5.0 for Windows has just been released with a slew of improvements and feature additions, most significant of which is the inclusion of a Facebook tab that allows users to SMS, chat or call their...
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Buy Your Friends Starbucks on Facebook
The generous types among us now have a convenient way to treat friends to Starbucks from afar. Facebook members can credit their friends’ Starbucks cards without ever leaving the site, thanks to an...
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Apple iPad Is Coming to Verizon Wireless
Apple and Verizon Wireless announced this morning a partnership that would bring the iPad to Verizon Wireless Stores across the U.S. on October 28. While the collaboration won’t see Verizon compatible...
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This Morning’s Top Stories in Social Media and Tech
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...
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Nokia N900 to Get Dual Boot to MeeGo
Owners of Nokia N900, originally based on Nokia’s Maemo platform, will be able to dual boot their device into the MeeGo operating system with the next firmware update.The Nokia N900 is somewhat of a...
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20 Years Later, “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out” Gets Reimagined on iPhone [SCREENSHOT]
Boxing icon (and more recently supporting actor in “The Hangover”) Mike Tyson is set to make his return to the video game world with a new title for iPhone and iPad.Children of the ’80s (and maybe the...
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6 Tips on Starting a Digital Business from the Founder of Pandora
The Digital Entrepreneur Series is supported by Egnyte. Egnyte Hybrid Cloud File Server delivers critical business infrastructure — online storage, file sharing, collaboration and backup — at LAN...
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How Much Are Social Media Shares Worth? [STUDY]
Popular event ticketing site Eventbrite used its in-house social analytics tools to study the effects Facebook shares, tweets and other social sharing behaviors have on ticket purchases.Looking at data...
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Dolby High Definition Audio Coming to Netflix
Netflix subscribers who stream video will soon get a major audio enhancement. On October 18, Netflix will bring Dolby Digital Plus 5.1-channel surround sound to its “Watch Instantly” Internet streaming...
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CSS Inventor Talks About the Web’s Visual Future [VIDEO]
The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.Mashable spoke with Håkon Wium Lie, the CTO of Opera Software and...
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Flash 10.1 Tops 1 Million Downloads on Android Phones
Flash 10.1 has officially surpassed the 1-million-downloads mark for Android smartphones, according to information we’ve just received from Adobe.The software has been in public beta since Google’s I/O...
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RedLaser Now Scans QR Codes
Popular barcode-scanning, comparison shopping iPhone app RedLaser has just been updated with support for QR code scanning.eBay-owned Occipital released the new version of the application earlier this...
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