Mashable Weekend Recap: 12 Stories You May Have Missed
It’s Monday morning, and you know what that means: It’s time to rejoin the rat race. Make sure you have a head start by reviewing these news stories and resources you might have missed this Saturday...
View ArticleHulu IPO Could Come This Fall
Hulu could be joining the ranks of publicly traded Internet companies as soon as this fall.Citing “people briefed on the matter,” The New York Times reports that the company is discussing an IPO with a...
View ArticleNorth Korea Joins Twitter [REPORT]
North Korean media outlet Uriminzokkiri — one of the few local outlets to write in English for a foreign audience — has opened a Twitter account: @uriminzok.Although it is hard to determine who exactly...
View ArticleAdvertisers to Spend $1.7 Billion on Social Networks in 2010
The latest numbers from eMarketer project that advertisers will spend nearly $1.7 billion in the U.S. on social networking sites in 2010. Worldwide, spending will hit $3.3 billion according to the...
View ArticleWhy Location-Based Social Media Needs to Get “Passive” Aggressive
Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace, C-SPAN, Microsoft and NASA.Ten years...
View ArticleBest Buy Launches Shopkick Automatic Checkins and Rewards at 257 Stores
Best Buy is readying 257 of its U.S. stores for a digital loyalty program that rewards customers who walk-in and automatically check-in via the Shopkick iPhone app and future Andriod app.The Best Buy...
View Article100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events
Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at...
View ArticleKid Receives 26,000 Texts After Justin Bieber Tweets Phone Number
On Saturday, Justin Bieber broke a sacred rule: He tweeted “everyone call me [number] or text” to his 4.5 million followers. The number wasn’t his, though, and the boy it did belong to was inundated...
View ArticleThe Future of Public Relations and Social Media
This series is supported by Gist. Gist provides a full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates,...
View ArticleConquer Your Fear of Spiders… in 3D [VIDEO]
To celebrate the upcoming October debut of the UK’s inaugural “at home” channel, Sky TV has come out with a very interesting promotion: what it’s calling the UK’s “first-ever 3D spider phobia...
View ArticleUse Adobe Fonts in Your Own Web Designs
Typekit, a company doing its part to help bring better typography to the web, has just announced an new partnership with Adobe.The partnership means that Typekit users can now integrate famous fonts...
View ArticleHulu Serving 3x as Many Video Ads as YouTube
Hulu generated 783 million video ad impressions in the month of July, more than three times the 219 million impressions generated by Google sites like YouTube. The stats on ad impressions come from a...
View ArticleTarget to Launch Flash Sale on Gilt for Fall Designer Lines
Target is partnering with the members-only Gilt Groupe flash-sale service to create an exclusive experience around its upcoming fall capsule collections.For years, Target has worked with big name...
View ArticleMashable Launches Yahoo App
Today we’re releasing the Mashable on Yahoo application, giving you easy access to social media news as you navigate Yahoo.This new application lets Yahoo users easily view Mashable content through...
View Article5 Trends Affecting How We Connect Through Social Media
Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and...
View ArticleiPhone App Makes Barcode Scanning a Social Experience
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...
View ArticleApple’s Steve Wozniak to Appear on “Big Bang Theory”
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced via social media that he will guest star on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory this season, but he wouldn’t reveal the plot details behind his cameo.The famous...
View ArticleHow People Are Signing In Across the Web [STATS]
OpenID company Janrain has just released its latest usage study detailing what social networks and services people use to sign in and share activities across the web.As in its last report back in...
View ArticleSlideshare Is Going Freemium
Slideshare, the popular service for sharing presentations, has announced that it’s switching to a freemium business model that caters to professionals, small businesses and enterprises.While using the...
View ArticleAdobe AIR Apps on Android Phones by Q4 2010
This morning at Adobe’s San Francisco offices, a few lucky press folks were told that some Android device users could be seeing AIR-built apps on their phones as soon as the end of this year.We’ve seen...
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