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Why 2011 Will Be Defined by Social Media Democracy
Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:33 PM
Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel's Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She was recently elected to...



How Much Do Americans Spend on Electronics? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Thursday, December 01, 2011 9:37 PM
Think you've got bad gadget spending habits? If you're a single male between the ages of 50 and 65 living in San Jose, Calif. your tech splurges might be par for the course, according to research by Bundle.com. By aggregating anonymous data from...



Carrier IQ and Your Phone: Everything You Need to Know
Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:51 PM
There's a storm of controversy flaring up over Carrier IQ, cellphone software that logs user activity and relays at least some of that information to wireless carriers. The carriers say they'll use that data to improve their networks. But...



Black Friday Shoppers Ask for Inane Items, Hilarity Ensues [VIDEO]
Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:57 PM
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. You think you had a tough time with your Black Friday shopping this year? Well, imagine if you were trying to track down some non-alcoholic whiskey...



Google in Talks with Retailers to Take on Amazon [REPORT]
Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:14 PM
Google is talking to major retailers about a new plan to undermine Amazon by giving consumers who shop on the web an option to receive their orders within 24 hours for a low fee, according to a report. Google has pitched the idea to Macy's, Gap...



Google and NORAD Track Santa Across Maps, Social Media and Mobile [VIDEO]
Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:13 PM
NORAD's Santa Tracker is back, allowing users to follow Santa's journey on Christmas Eve across Google Maps, Google Earth and various social media channels (including for the first time Google+). This year also sees the introduction of iOS and...



YouTube Gets Its Biggest Makeover Ever, Becomes More Google-Like
Thursday, December 01, 2011 4:30 PM
We already knew about YouTube's redesign, which tech-savvy readers have been enabling for the past 10 days. As of now, however, the new YouTube is available to everyone. Unlike parent company Google, which tends to roll out redesigns over a...



Google+ Hangouts Now Offer Free Voice Calls
Thursday, December 01, 2011 4:20 PM
Google+ is rolling out a feature that allows its users to make free conference calls within Hangouts. Google staffer Jarkko Oikarinen - also the inventor of Internet Relay Chat, the first-ever Internet chat function - used his Google+ page on...



Steve Case Launches $450 Million East Coast Venture Fund
Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:28 PM
AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case announced on Thursday that he and two former AOL colleagues, Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis, have raised a $450 million venture capital fund that will focus on startups outside of Silicon Valley. "While our...



46% of Moms Don't Let Their Children See Their Full Facebook Profile [STUDY]
Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:28 PM
The oft-discussed dilemma of whether to share your Facebook profile with your mom often overlooks an important factor: Does she want to share hers with you? A recent study suggests that about half of the time, the answer is no -- at least not the...



Twitter's Self-Serve Ad Platform Finally Goes Live
Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:46 PM
Twitter's long-awaited self-serve ad platform was quietly introduced in November with a "handful" of advertisers, according to the company. The program, which Twitter announced in April 2010, is available to anyone with a credit card who wants to...



ONE and (RED) Launch Digital Quilt to Fight AIDS
Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:18 PM
ONE and (RED) have jointly launched (2015)QUILT, a digital crowd-sourced tapestry built in HTML5, to bring people together behind the cause of an AIDS-free generation by 2015. The launch coincides with World AIDS Day Dec. 1 and the 30th...



McDonald's Serves Up Big Mac Deal With LivingSocial
Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:59 AM
McDonald's 43-year-old Big Mac is getting more social this month with a LivingSocial deal and a planned Facebook app, among other initiatives. The LivingSocial offer, which went live on Thursday, offers a booklet of five Big Mac vouchers and five...



Chrome Leapfrogs Firefox to Become World's No. 2 Browser
Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:23 AM
Google's Chrome surpassed Mozilla's Firefox as the world's number two browser behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer last month, according StatCounter. The findings, reported in The Wall Street Journal, peg Chrome's worldwide market share at 25.69%...



Zaarly App Aims to Deliver Customers to Small Businesses
Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:09 AM
What started as a local market for odd jobs is also becoming a way for small businesses to find leads -- for free. Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace Zaarly has signed up 1,250 businesses in New York City to fill requests from its users, and it is...



 
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