Evernote By the Numbers [STATS]
You might have already heard that popular note-taking service Evernote has 5 million members, but did you know that it has 160,000 paying users helping it generate around $800,000 per month? Or that...
View ArticleApple Ramps Up Song Previews in iTunes to 90 Seconds
As announced in November, Apple has tripled the song preview length in iTunes from 30 to 90 seconds.Unfortunately, the lengthier song previews are only live in the U.S. store, only work for certain...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg to Donate Most of His Wealth to Charity
At only 26 years of age, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world’s youngest billionaires, but he’s not keeping it all for himself. By signing on to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s initiative called the...
View ArticleZynga Has More Than 45 Million Daily Active Users
The creators of FarmVille are on a roll: not only has Zynga’s newest game gained 3 million daily active users in just one week, but it has 45 million daily active users across all of its...
View ArticleThis Morning’s 4 Biggest Stories in Social Media & 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 four particular stories of interest...
View ArticleYouTube 2.1 for Android Brings Revamped UI & Smoother Interaction
Google has launched a new version of its YouTube application for Android devices, YouTube 2.1. The update is noteworthy not only because of the improvements it brings, but also because YouTube app...
View Article9 Web Tools to Keep Your Business Running Smoothly During the Holidays
This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, a world leader in managed DNS, powering the best brands on the web including Gowalla, Mashable, Twitter, Wikia and more. Follow @DynInc on Twitter.The holidays...
View ArticleBarcode Hero Lets Kids Send Wish Lists to “Santa”
Barcode Hero is reinventing the holiday wish list for children with a proclivity for mobile shopping and modern conveniences.The startup, which focuses on product discovery through barcode scanning, is...
View Article“Best Social Media Customer Service” Finalists Discuss Their Success...
This post is brought to you by BlackBerry, sponsor of the Mashable Awards’ “Best Social Media Customer Service” Category. RIM creates innovative wireless solutions, including the BlackBerry® wireless...
View ArticleOperation Payback Targets Amazon.com [UPDATED]
A collective of hackers who have set their sights on those companies that have denied service to WikiLeaks and its founder are now trying to take down Amazon.com.They announced via Twitter that they...
View ArticleWin a Holiday MashPack With 12 Tech Prizes & Ben Folds Tickets [GIVEAWAY]
‘Tis the season and Mashable has been getting into the holiday spirit by talking about this year’s most gift-worthy gadgets and inviting readers to get together at Mashable Holiday Meetups.Now we’re...
View Article7 Tips for Building a Better Branded App
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.At this point, many...
View ArticleYouTube Increases Upload Time Limit Even More
Impossibly long videos featuring cats repeatedly slamming into mirrors are about to get even longer, as YouTube has announced that it’s extending its upload time limit.According to the YouTube blog,...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Tool to Get Companies to Back Up Their E-mails With Gmail
Google has just launched Message Continuity, a cloud-based enterprise solution for backing up corporate e-mail whenever Microsoft Exchange goes down.The new product, powered by Google’s 2007...
View ArticleWho’s Using Twitter? [REPORT]
The Pew Center is out with a new report that focuses on Twitter usage in the U.S., and it reveals that 6% of the entire U.S. adult population uses Twitter.Young adults ages 18 to 29, minority groups —...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2010
Josh Warner is president and founder of Feed Company, which promotes and distributes brand videos, including campaigns such as Levi’s “Backflip,” Ray-Ban’s “Catch” and Activision’s “Bike Hero.” In four...
View ArticleHow the World Googled in 2010
Shortly after Yahoo released its list of the year’s top searches, Google has announced the results of its annual zeitgeist report, revealing the most popular search terms of 2010 by region and...
View ArticleJoin Baratunde Thurston & Eclectic Method at the Mashable Awards
To celebrate this year’s Mashable Awards winners, we invite you to join us at the 2011 International CES Convention Week in Las Vegas.Kicking off the opening night of CES on Thursday, January 6, 2011,...
View ArticleHow Operation Payback Executes Its Attacks
Over the last few days, companies like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Amazon.com have found themselves targets of coordinated distributed denial-of-service attacks, designed to force their websites and...
View ArticleFoursquare Unveils New Version of API
Foursquare is taking the training wheels off a much-enhanced version of its API and making it publicly available to developers today.The startup has been fine tuning the new version — “APIv2″ as...
View Article