Mozilla Names SAP Mobile Exec as New CEO
Mozilla Foundation, the creators of Firefox, has announced that it has chosen Gary Kovacs, senior vice president of mobile products at SAP and former general manager of mobile at Adobe, as the new CEO...
View Article4 Game-Changing Trends in Web App Design
The Web Design Trends Series is brought to you by the Intel AppUp℠ Developer Program, which provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel...
View ArticleInvolver Raises $8M for Social Media Marketing Services
Social media marketing company Involver announced Thursday an $8 million Series C round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.While many of Involver’s marketing efforts revolve around Facebook, the...
View ArticleTop 5 Developer Questions About HTML5 Answered
Paul Gubbay is vice president of engineering for design and web at Adobe. He has spent the past 25 years working in the software industry with a specialized focus on creative and web professional...
View ArticleHBO Offers Discounts for “True Blood” Checkins
In a partnership with HBO, entertainment checkin service GetGlue is now offering True Blood fans a way to save on show-related products through checkins. The discount announcement follows news that...
View Article3 Creative Social Good Campaigns that Will Make You Smile
Frank Barry, professional services manager at Blackbaud and blogger at NetWits ThinkTank, helps non-profits use the Internet for digital communication, social media and fundraising so they can focus on...
View ArticleObama Answers Tweets During Town Hall Event
President Obama will participate in an hour-long youth town hall event airing on MTV, BET and CMT this afternoon, starting at 4:00 p.m. ET. Notably, he’ll be answering a number of questions submitted...
View ArticleWhy Twitter Influences Cross-Cultural Engagement
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.Twitter...
View ArticleGoogle Shares Soar on Impressive Earnings
Google has posted its latest earnings report, and early indications suggest that investors are more than impressed, with shares of the company trading up more than $40 after-hours (about 7.5%).The...
View ArticleYahoo Down
Yahoo -– one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world –- is currently down (as of 5:40 p.m. ET). [Update: As of 6:10 p.m. ET, Yahoo appears to be back online]The homepage of Yahoo is simply...
View ArticleMobileMe’s New Calendar Available to Everyone
Apple has just made the new MobileMe Calendar interface and featureset available to all MobileMe members.The new MobileMe Calendar, which mimics the iPad’s calendar app, has a number of new features,...
View ArticleHOW TO: Accept Credit Card Payments on Mobile Devices
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.In recent months, a few...
View ArticleTED Brings “Ideas Worth Spreading” to the iPad
TED, a small nonprofit dedicated to spreading the ideas and reflections of leading minds, released its first official app Thursday morning, which is available exclusively for the iPad.The free app...
View ArticleStarbucks and L’Oreal Test Location-Based SMS Coupons in UK
UK network provider O2 has partnered with location services platform Placecast to enable brands to automatically deliver targeted SMS and MMS to more than one million opted-in O2 customers based on...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Billion-Dollar Businesses
During today’s Q3 earnings call, Google not only discussed its impressive earnings, but it did something it has never done before: It broke down the numbers from some of its key businesses, including...
View ArticleThe Average Teenager Sends 3,339 Texts Per Month [STATS]
If you needed more proof that texting is on the rise, here’s a stat for you: the average teenager sends over 3,000 texts per month. That’s more than six texts per waking hour.According to a new study...
View ArticleHow Lijit Hopes to Turn 12,000 Publishers into $6 Million in Revenue
This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups...
View ArticleThe Original Microsoft Windows 1.0 Press Release
On November 20, 1985, a small technology company out of Bellevue, Washington launched a 16-bit graphical operating system for the PC. Originally called Windows Premiere Edition.1, it soon became the...
View ArticleThis iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million
Stuart Hughes, the British jeweler known for his expensive remakes of popular gadgets, is at it again, this time with a diamond-clad iPhone 4 with a price tag of 5 million pounds, or roughly $8...
View ArticleHOW TO: Earn Some Inexpensive Online Exposure for Your Small Business
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.So you’ve started a...
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