Nissan Wants to Make the Car Modern Again
Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of automobile giants Renault and Nissan, says that the automobile industry has failed for decades to innovate, but that the electric car is the breakthrough that will bring the...
View ArticleHackers Defend WikiLeaks by Attacking PayPal and PostFinance [UPDATE:...
A group of hackers connected to the online imageboard 4chan, often referred to as Anonymous, have retaliated against several sites which have denied service to WikiLeaks shortly after the site started...
View ArticleMicrosoft Must Really Be Embarrassed By Windows Phone 7 Sales
Microsoft, despite all of its evangelism over its new mobile platform, is still not opening up about how many phones the company has sold.At the LeWeb Conference in Paris, Charlie Kindel, the general...
View ArticleTwitter’s VP of Product Stepping Down
Jason Goldman, Twitter’s VP of product, has announced at the LeWeb Conference that he is stepping down from his role and instead is taking on an advisory role at the company.Goldman says that he...
View ArticleVerizon 3G Network Is Down
Verizon’s 3G network is down nationwide, claim numerous reports that are pouring in on Twitter this morning.Verizon’s Twitter accounts are currently silent about the issue. However, the problems seem...
View ArticleSalesforce Acquires Ruby Cloud Platform Heroku for $212 Million
Salesforce has announced that it has acquired Heroku, a popular cloud platform for Ruby web apps, for $212 million in cash.“The next era of cloud computing is social, mobile and real-time. I call it...
View Article“Pet Society” Sells 90 Million Virtual Goods Per Day
If you weren’t convinced that social gaming and virtual goods are big business, here’s a stat for you: EA’s Pet Society sells 90 million virtual goods per day.Sebastien de Galleux, co-founder of...
View ArticleNokia Wants to Revolutionize The Mobile UI in 2011
Nokia plans to embrace a completely new approach to the mobile UI, and it plans to launch first devices based on the new approach with Meego in 2011, said Director of Design Strategy at Nokia Marko...
View ArticleInvolver Releases Programming Language for Rapid Facebook App Development
Social marketing platform Involver has released its own programming language for Facebook called Social Markup Language (SML). The language is designed to allow brands and agencies to build, customize...
View ArticlePayPal Responds to WikiLeaks Controversy
On December 4, PayPal announced that it had permanently restricted the account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. At the time, the reason the company gave was that Assange had violated the PayPal...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Defended, Chrome OS Announced & Verizon Down: This Morning’s Top...
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...
View ArticleGowalla Partners with Sundance Film Festival
Gowalla is heating up the location space with a number of recent updates to its service and list of partners. Later this morning, Gowalla is scheduled to announce a partnership with Sundance Film...
View Article7 Tips for Succeeding as a Social Media Strategist
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.The role of social media...
View ArticleDell To Launch Social Media Listening Command Center [EXCLUSIVE]
Dell’s CEO Michael Dell and CMO Karen Quintos will officially launch the company’s Social Media Listening Command Center today.We first heard wind of this development in October when Dell’s Vice...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Facebook Doesn’t Comply With Our Privacy Laws
Facebook doesn’t comply with South Korean privacy laws because it doesn’t ask for users’ consent before getting their personal data, a South Korean regulator said Wednesday.“Facebook violates the...
View Article“Angry Birds” Hits 42 Million Free and Paid Downloads
Just how popular is Angry Birds? Its founder has revealed that the top mobile game has been downloaded more than 42 million times, and more than 25% of those downloads were paid.Rovio CEO Mikael Hed...
View ArticleFoursquare Surpasses 5 Million Users
It’s official: Foursquare has 5 million users, increasing its user base by a factor of 10 in just nine months.The revelation was made by Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley on the stage of the...
View ArticleSalesforce Unleashes 5 New Platforms for Rapid Cloud App Development
Salesforce is using its Dreamforce conference to reveal a bevy of news including Database.com, Chatter Free and its acquisition of Ruby platform Heroku for $212 million. The enterprise software company...
View ArticleDoes “TRON: Legacy” Deliver the Goods? [MOVIE REVIEW]
TRON: Legacy is one of those rare movies that manages to do justice to its source material without being a slave to it. The film carefully and dramatically balances soaring neon landscapes with enough...
View ArticleWin Today’s Holiday MashPack With 14 Tech and Social Media Prizes [GIVEAWAY]
This year, Mashable has been getting into the holiday spirit by talking about the most gift-worthy gadgets on the market and inviting readers to host Mashable Holiday Meetups.But what spreads holiday...
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