Foursquare Partnership Paves Way for TV Series
Independent production company Endemol USA will develop a television series that incorporates Foursquare’s location-based mobile gaming platform and may emulate the competition and travel aspects of...
View ArticleLibox for iPad Makes Accessing Your Music and Videos a Snap
Libox, a company that is hoping to reshape the digital media sharing experience, just launched its new iPad app. The free app [iTunes link] makes it super simple to access the media library on your...
View ArticleHow the Fortune 500 Use Social Media to Grow Sales and Revenue
Jamie Turner is the chief content officer of the 60 Second Marketer, the online magazine for BKV Digital and Direct Response. He is also the co-author of How to Make Money with Social Media, now...
View ArticleeBay Infiltrates Local Commerce With Latest Acquisition
eBay has acquired local shopping startup Milo in a strategic move to infiltrate the increasingly significant local commerce market.Milo is a local shopping search engine where consumers can look for...
View ArticleAndroid Gingerbread User Interface Gets Quick Demo [VIDEO]
Google’s Hong Kong group released this seemingly innocuous video last week, demonstrating Google Voice Search in Chinese. It went mostly unnoticed until it was realized that the device in the demo was...
View Article3 New Mobile Devices Poised to Make Waves Next Year
Sometimes a device doesn’t get it right immediately. It might get rushed to market, or maybe some bugs just slip through the final tests. It’s expected, and it happens to the best of them.Fortunately,...
View ArticleWhat’s Hot in Social Media This Week
Welcome to this week’s edition of “What’s Hot in Social Media,” a series in which we revisit the week’s most popular stories concerning social networks.We’re keeping our eye on three interesting...
View Article“CityVille” Launches: “FarmVille” Meets “SimCity”
Last night, social game maker Zynga officially unleashed its latest creation, CityVille, upon the world.CityVille, which is a variation of Zynga’s other successful Ville franchises (see FarmVille and...
View ArticlePlaylist-Maker Powered by YouTube, Last.fm & Billboard Amps Up Music Discovery
There’s a new YouTube jukebox on the scene that combines Last.fm, Billboard and YouTube to create a playlist builder that should come in handy during all those parties you have planned this weekend....
View ArticleThe 5 Nominees for “Most Influential Social Good Champion” Are… [MASHABLE...
This post is brought to you by Yahoo!, sponsor of the Mashable Awards’ “Most Influential Social Good Champion” Category. Yahoo! is proud to sponsor this Mashable Award because Yahoo! is focused on...
View ArticleZynga Acquires “Games With Friends” Maker Newtoy
Zynga is continuing its quest for casual gaming domination with Thursday’s acquisition of Newtoy, Inc. The Texas-based mobile games studio is behind the popular Games With Friends series that includes...
View Article10 Free Holiday Icon Sets to Give Your Site a Wintery Makeover [GALLERY]
If you really like to get into the spirit of things during the winter, then you might want to add some festive or seasonal design touches to your website or blog.We’ve found a wealth of winter and...
View ArticleLivingSocial Lands $175 Million Investment From Amazon
LivingSocial just closed a massive round of financing totaling $183 million. Amazon has invested a majority of that sum — $175 million to be exact — but repeat investor Lightspeed Venture Partners has...
View ArticleThe 5 Nominees for “Best Social Media Customer Service” Are… [MASHABLE AWARDS]
This post is brought to you by Research In Motion, sponsor of the Mashable Awards’ “Best Social Media Customer Service” Category. RIM creates innovative wireless solutions, including the BlackBerry®...
View ArticleGoogle to Block Piracy-Related Terms from Autocomplete
If you were hoping Google would help you save precious seconds in your search for “Sex and the City 2 torrent,” prepare to have your hopes dashed. The search giant is cracking down on piracy in a few...
View Article“The Social Network” Snaps Up a Trio of Prestigious Awards, Is an Oscar Next?
And we’re off! The awards season has officially kicked off with the National Board of Review’s cadre of honors, which David Fincher’s The Social Network handily swept.Nabbing Best Film, Best Director,...
View ArticleWhy Amazon Dropped WikiLeaks
Amazon has issued a statement explaining why it dropped WikiLeaks from its web servers.Yesterday, we learned that the controversial whistleblower site had been kicked off Amazon Web Services (AWS). The...
View ArticleNetflix Prepares to Open Its Wallet for Newer TV Content
Netflix has built up a large library of catalog television content that can be streamed to subscribers on demand. Now, the company wants to get access to current episodes of primetime TV shows, and...
View ArticleBy Traffic, Groupon Is Ten Times Bigger Than Its Nearest Competitor
While we don’t have access to the internal financial documents of companies in the local/group coupon-buying space — one of the hottest verticals to emerge in 2010 — we can tell by looking at site...
View ArticleGe.tt Offers Instant, One-Click File Sharing
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...
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