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RIM Backtracks After Twitter Users Hijack Hashtag Like McDonald’s before it, RIM has found there’s a reason open-ended Twitter campaigns are called “bashtags.” The troub…
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Martha Stewart Considering Web-Only TV Show Martha Stewart is looking into producing web-only video programming, the TV personality and business magnate suggested on stage at AllThingsD…
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Will the iPhone 5 Have NFC? MasterCard Exec Hints at an Answer [VIDEO] In a recent interview, MasterCard‘s chief emerging payments officer dropped a hint about the yet-to-be announced iPhone 5: the next…
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NBC to Dissect Super Bowl Ads in Post-Game Google+ Hangout When Google first rolled out Hangout video chats for Google+, part of the plan involved allowing hanger-outers to watch YouTube videos together.…
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Google Will Start Country-Specific Censorship for Blogs Google figured out Twitter‘s trick for avoiding universally censoring content weeks ago, but it managed to go unnoticed — for a whil…
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Want to Speak at TED? Now You Can Audition The speaker list at the Technology Entertainment Design conference, TED, has included well-known names such as Bill Gates, Al Gore and Jane Good…
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4 Inspiring Examples of Digital Storytelling In 2011, Sundance Film Festival created The New Frontier Story Lab, an initiative created to foster the development of a new style of media pro…
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‘Mob Mentality’ Destroyed SOPA, Says Viacom CEO “Are you surprised at the speed [SOPA and PIPA] fell apart?” AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka asked Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman at a ga…
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President Obama’s First Google+ Hangout: How’d He Do? President Obama held the first all-digital interview from the White House on Monday night. Like a modern day reincarnation of FDR’s firesi…
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WikiLeaks Plans to Move Servers Offshore — to Sealand? [REPORT] WikiLeaks might be looking for a lawless off shore place to keep its servers, according to a Fox News report — which also speculates that…
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How an Innovative Startup Turned Retail On Its Head [VIDEO] While Harvard Business School grads Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna were looking for a business idea, they noticed that the beauty produc…
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Google to Congress: We’re Still Not Evil Google sent a 13-page letter to Congress Monday explaining changes to its privacy policy that the search giant announced last week. Those chang…
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Viacom CEO: Our Strength Is Not Technology “We know what we do well,” Philippe Dauman, president and CEO of Viacom, said on stage at AllThingsD‘s Dive Into Media confere…
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Facebook Subscribe Is Ruining the News Feed You know who I’m tired of seeing on Facebook? Me. Whenever I post an update, no matter what idiotic thought pops into my head, it jumps r…
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How Social Media Keeps Leaders Honest [VIDEO] Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore sat down with David Jones of Havas to talk about the new responsibilities of today’s leaders…
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Why Hulu’s CEO Wants More Original Content Just how important is original and exclusive content to Hulu? That was the question AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka posed to Hulu CEO Jason Kilar…
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Facebook IPO: The Numbers Behind the World’s Most Valuable Social Network [INFOGRAPHIC] The world is anticipating Facebook to file for an initial public offering this week, and most indicators point to $10 billion in stock and a valuation…
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Blake Griffin’s Dunk of the Year [VIDEO] Blake Griffin’s gargantuan dunk over Kendrick Perkins was so big you need to see it to believe it — at least that’s what th…
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Who Is Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower? This App Will Tell You There’s no reason to determine your virtual worth based solely on the number of people who follow you on Twitter — not when you can…
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Facebook to Celebrate 8th Birthday on Heels of IPO Announcement Eight years ago this week, Facebook was born. Do you even remember life before it? Once known as “TheFacebook” when it launched on Feb. 4,…
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Obama Wants to Give Startups Tax Breaks and Easier IPOs The Obama administration is looking to super-charge the startup space by making it easier for new companies to raise money and easing the path t…
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Apple Brings a Key Feature Back to Final Cut Pro X Apple just released an update to its professional-level video editor, Final Cut Pro X, which brings back a major feature to the program: multica…
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Can Digital Innovation Stop Modern Slavery? MTV Hopes So What’s the best way to stop slavery? If you’re MTV, the answer is with $10,000 and a country of digitally minded students looking to…
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2012 Presidential Campaigns Embrace Mobile Payment Startup Square [VIDEO] Mobile payment services have been a game-changer for small businesses and retailers, and now they’re about to change the political f…
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Seinfeld and Soup Nazi Return in Funny Acura Super Bowl Ad [VIDEO] Jerry Seinfeld wants the new Acura NSX. He loves it so much, the new ad from Acura would have us believe, that he would do anything to be the first…
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Electronic Tattoo-Like Devices Monitor Brain, Heart and Muscles [VIDEO] We might one day be able to monitor our bodies’ internal functions — and prevent things like epileptic seizures before they ha…
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Apple Names New Head of Retail Apple on Tuesday named John Browett, CEO of British consumer electronics chain Dixons, as its senior vice president of retail. Browett will begi…
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Twitter CEO: 2012 Will Be the Twitter Election “I really think 2012 is going to be the Twitter Election,” Dick Costolo said on stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Lagu…
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Want to Print Facebook? Better Get 11.5 Billion Sheets of Paper [INFOGRAPHIC] Printing a year’s worth of Facebook statuses would be equivalent to printing more than 500 million Oxford English Dictionaries, a new survey fou…
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Today’s Top Stories: John Browett Joins Apple, Megaupload Data Safe for Now 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…
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Salesforce.com Launches a Customer Service Product for Small Teams In a step toward extending its enterprise cloud software offerings to small businesses, Salesforce.com launched a customer service product for s…
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Megaupload Data Safe for Another Two Weeks The data on Megaupload will not be erased for at least two more weeks, Cnet reports citing Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken. The data on the file h…
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Self-Guided Bullet Strikes Target a Mile Away [VIDEO] A breakthrough in precision bullet technology for small caliber firearms will make striking a target an easier task. Two researchers at Sa…
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Twitter Is Not a Media Company, CEO Says “Twitter is not a media company,” Twitter CEO Dick Costolo declared on stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Laguna Nigel,…
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Polling App Makes Blog Feedback Painless 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 st…
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New Career Website Lets Job Seekers Upload Video Resumes A new career website that launched on Monday aims to be a one-stop shop for hiring managers and job seekers. GetHired.com was co-founded by Suki Shah…
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20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART] Even though President Obama didn’t much address tech or social media during the State of the Union, the event sure stoked the social media chann…
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Twitter CEO: We Are Not Censoring the Web Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Laguna Nigel, CA, Monday evening to defend the company’s…
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Giants? Patriots? Mobile and Social to Win Super Bowl XLVI The New York Giants and New England Patriots face off for gridiron glory this Sunday in Super Bowl XLVI. But the game’s real winners could…
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6 Ways to Give Your App a Leg Up on the Competition Spend a few minutes browsing through both the Android and Apple app stores and it’s easy to see the fierce competition for user attention…
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Patriots Player Uses Spotify, Facebook to Share Pre-Super Bowl Mix Ever wonder what athletes blast in their headphones to get hyped before big games? Well, wonder no more thanks to a Facebook post by New Englan…
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Clear To Do App Has Some Surprising Design Inspirations It’s increasingly difficult to build buzz around new mobile application studios, especially when the first app on deck is something thousa…
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When Apple’s Siri Met the Flaming Lips [AUDIO] Alt-rock band the Flaming Lips samples everyone’s favorite iPhone-based personal assistant, Siri, in its new song, “Now I Understand.…
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Codecademy is 1 Million Strong and Launching a Teacher Tool Codecademy hasn’t had much trouble attracting people who want to learn how to code — it has been used by more than 1 million people…
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Microsoft Begins Private Preview of Office 15 Microsoft says it’s started a private preview program of the next version of Office to a “select group” of customers. Going fa…
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Obama: Protect The ‘Fundamental Integrity’ of the Internet President Barack Obama called for the protection of intellectual property rights in a Google+ hangout Monday evening, but said such protection must b…
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Android Users Most Likely to Use Phones While in the Bathroom Can’t part with your phone even when you’re in the bathroom? You’re in good company. About 75% of Americans admit they use th…
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Behind the Scenes of Twitter’s No-Cost Viral Recruiting Video Twitter’s viral job recruitment video took the web by storm over the weekend, already gaining nearly half a million views — and it d…
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Syrian Hactivisits Attack Al Jazeera English Syrian pro-government hacktivists attacked Al Jazeera English‘s website Sunday, in response to the news organization’s “Syria…
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How Mobile Games Leapt From Cult to Cultural Phenomenon Although they’re played on small devices, mobile games are becoming a huge deal — and they’re not just confined to smartphones…
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Arrivals for Foursquare Displays Check-ins on Old-Style Airport Board Tired of Foursquare‘s busy roll of check-ins? A new app cuts out all the clutter and shows you exactly where your friends have arrived.…
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Apple Introduces New Reservation System for iPhone Purchases in China [VIDEO] When the iPhone 4S first became available at Apple stores in China earlier this month, pandemonium ensued. Now, Apple has revealed a new…
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Top Twitter Photos from the 2012 Presidential Campaign Republican Presidential candidates have expanded their campaigns into the digital realm and documented their journeys to today’s Florida…
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Groupon is a Star in CBS Pilot — But in the Wrong City [VIDEO] Working at Groupon is now cliche enough to work as the setting of a TV pilot. CBS picked up a pilot for a new sitcom called Friend Me. Th…
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Turn Your Facebook Timeline Into a Movie A browser tool launched Monday transforms content from your Facebook Timeline into a fast-paced movie. In what will surely incite a roller coa…
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Bill Would Make Cellphone Carriers Disclose Tracking Software Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) released a draft of a cellphone privacy bill Monday that would require providers to tell subscribers if tracking so…
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British Tourists Barred From Entering U.S. Over Tweet About ‘Destroying America’ [VIDEO] Leigh Van Bryan claims his tweets about “destroying America” and digging up Marilyn Monroe’s grave were jokes, but the U…
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The Swarm: Short Horror Film Made Entirely on Phones [VIDEO] The Swarm is all about shallow breathing, heavy petting and Xperia smartphones. The short horror film, shot entirely on Sony’s Xperia A…
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Who’s Winning? The Most-Shared Super Bowl Ads So Far We’ve just entered the Year of the Dragon, but Super Bowl 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Dog. No less than five of the ads feat…
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Face-Detection Program Ranks Senators with the Biggest Smiles [VIDEO] Adopting Face.com‘s face-detection algorithm, a new program called Congressmiles analyzes the smiles of a group of people. His guine…
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Facebook’s Road to IPO It feels like it’s happening overnight, but Facebook has been marching toward an initial public offering (IPO) for almost eight years. Mark Zuck…
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Apple Could Sell 40 Million iPhones in China in 2013 [REPORT] Apple could move as many as 40 million iPhones in China in 2013, according to one analyst’s prediction. As first reported by AppleInsider,…
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Animated GIFs Plop Nigel Thornberry’s Face on Disney Princesses Nigel Thornberry is back again. In what seems like an ongoing theme for The Wild Thornberrys character, Nigel keeps re-emerging on TV or online even t…
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Julian Assange Records The Simpsons Guest Spot While Under House Arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is set to play himself in the 500th episode of The Simpsons, according to a report by Entertainment Weekly. As…
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Join Twitter Today! Recruiting Video Is So Bad It’s Good During Twitter‘s official 2012 Hack Week, one project was to make the “best/worst recruiting video of all time.” Consider that chal…
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Jonathan Franzen Is Wrong: Ebooks Are Good for Everyone I love books, especially old ones. Recently I learned a simple dinner table trick from a 110-year-old magic book. It involves picking up a napk…
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ComScore Co-Founder: Brands’ Social Media Followers Often Aren’t the Target Brands are often surprised to find that their fans on Facebook and the like aren’t necessarily their intended target audience, says…
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Skate Park Becomes a Canvas for Magical 3D Lighting Display [VIDEO] A half pipe in a skate park in Brazil turned from concrete to turntable to spikes, using 3D lighting. 3DM, an architectural lighting comp…
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Facebook Wants to Put You on a Times Square Billboard Facebook is offering users a moment of glory on a Times Square billboard — all you have to do is tell them what you care about in the 2012…
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Judge: Ron Paul Can’t Ask YouTube, Twitter to Expose ‘Impostors’ A federal judge turned down Ron Paul’s campaign’s request for information on a social media impostor last week. The campaign has be…
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Columbia and Stanford Creating $30 Million Institute to Bridge Journalism and Tech Big news on the innovation front: Columbia Journalism School and Stanford’s School of Engineering are teaming up to create an Institute fo…
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5 Privacy Tips for Location-Based Services The year 2012 is certain to reflect U.S. consumers’ continued love affair with sophisticated smartphones and tablets. One of the driving forc…
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How to Watch Obama’s Google+ Hangout U.S. President Barack Obama will be answering questions in a Google+ Hangout on Monday evening. The president, who has previously participated…
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Ferris Bueller’s Latest Day Off Comes Courtesy of Honda [VIDEO] You’ve seen the teaser and you’ve probably seen the 1986 movie, but now you can enjoy the full Super Bowl spot featuring the further adv…
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52% of Holiday Shoppers Used Cellphones in Stores [STUDY] More shoppers are using mobile devices in stores to do product research, price comparisons and look up reviews, but according to a new report,…
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Analyst: Amazon Sold 6 Million Kindle Fires Over the Holidays Just how much of a success is the Amazon Kindle Fire? According to one financial analyst, a very big one. Jordan Rohan of investment bank Stifel…
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How to Fill Out Facebook Timeline Without Annoying Your Friends Like it or not, you’re about to get the new Facebook Timeline. Sure, change can be a good thing, but it often causes a big backlash on Facebook…
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Google, Yahoo Form Group to Tackle Phishing Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have joined forces to thwart purveyors of phishing — those emails that attempt to trick users into givin…
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How to See When Someone Unfriends You on Facebook Would you like to know when someone “unfriends” you on Facebook? There’s not a native way to see this information, and unless you ke…
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This New OLED Microdisplay Blows the Retina Display Away A new OLED microdisplay from MicroOLED boasts the world’s highest pixel density, stuffing an incredible 5.4 million gapless pixels into a 0.6…
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Bobbi Brown Launches Facebook Campaign to Revive Discontinued Cosmetics For years, fans of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics have used traditional and social media to lobby for the return of lip colors that are no longer in prod…
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Slate Gets Personal With Customized Newsfeed Online magazine Slate is giving readers more control over the news discovery process with the Monday launch of MySlate, a personalized newsfeed…
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Mashable Weekend Recap: 32 Stories You May Have Missed We hope the break from football games (really, who watches the Pro Bowl?) gave you some time to catch up on interesting stories, funny memes and…
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Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week All the data on Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, the Associated Press reports. The file…
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Samsung Galaxy S Advance Has Two Cores and a 4-Inch Screen A new smartphone from Samsung has been unearthed in the Philippines, the Galaxy S Advance GT-i9070. The device will apparently be Samsung’…
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How Evi Compares to Siri: Evi’s Clever, Too, But Slow [VIDEO] Getting Siri’s voice-recognition capabilities on your phone just became a possibility for Android users and a bit less expensive for iPhon…
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SOPA and Hollywood: Standing in the Way of Technological Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC] In case you’re still unclear about the U.S. Congress’s hapless SOPA legislation that went down in flames earlier this month, the Matador N…
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How the Peace Corps is Building a Community of Volunteers Online When volunteers return home from service with The Peace Corps, they often want to stay in touch with fellow Corps members. Can social media help…
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YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Adele’s ‘Set Fire to the Rain’ More than year after Adele’s mega popular 21 came out, the album’s third U.S. single — “Set Fire to the Rain” …
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Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers [INFOGRAPHIC] Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant a…
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Meme Machine: Top 5 Viral Hits of the Week The weekend is finally here, and if you’ve been too embarrassed to look at photos of cats and Ryan Goslin at the office, we’ve got…
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How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder for Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software company that helps busy startups make great hires. In a…
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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Loses ‘Call of Duty’ Top Spot While in Prison [VIDEO] Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can’t defend his top-spot score in the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from behind bars — he was r…
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10 Hysterical Political Parodies on Twitter There are countless parody accounts on Twitter — musicians, celebrities, cartoon characters and religious figures can all grace your feed with t…
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Remarkable ‘Joy of Books’ Animation Brings Books to Life [VIRAL VIDEO] Relax and enjoy the magic that ensues when you combine a bookstore full of books, skillful stop-motion animation, haunting music, a boatload o…
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Can You Name the 20 Viral Topics in This Illustration? [CONTEST] Instead of sending holiday cards to clients and friends in December, London-based digital agency Syzygy recently whipped up a creative illustr…
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Tech Hiring Trends 2012: What You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC] Job trend reports are pointing to big things for the tech industry, including lots of openings and opportunities for growth. Here’s the lowdown…
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21 Must-Follow Pinterest Users Looking to save some search time and launch into a rich Pinterest experience? We’ve scouted out some of the best Pinners the service has to offe…
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39 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed Been away from Mashable for a few days? Here’s something that’ll get you caught up in a flash: it’s our weekly roundup of Mash…
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Tweet Your Best Shot to Make NBA’s Curry Your Voicemail Assistant How would you like to put an NBA star to work as your own personal phone operator? That’s more or less the idea behind a Twitter-driven co…
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