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Breaking Down Apple's Billions [INFOGRAPHIC]
Friday, January 27, 2012 8:48 PM
It's no secret Apple, one of the most valuable public companies in the world, is making major cash off today's tech gadgets - but how much? This week, the company reported a record net profit of more than $13.6 billion for its quarterly report...



7 Big Privacy Concerns for New Facebook and the Open Graph
Friday, January 27, 2012 8:25 PM
It's not always clear how Facebook apps interact with the data you share on the social network. Are they allowed to broadcast it? Sell it? Compile it in a way that you never intended? "When you turn all Platform applications off, your User ID...



Facebook IPO: Everything You Need to Know [VIDEO]
Friday, January 27, 2012 6:09 PM
By now you've probably heard the news: Facebook could be filing its papers for IPO as early as next week. A Wall Street Journal report, siting some anonymous sources, spilled the news that many of us may have been suspecting following a week of...



Relax: Twitter's New Censorship Policy Is Actually Good for Activists
Friday, January 27, 2012 5:21 PM
A lot of digital ink has been spilled about Twitter's announcement that it can now censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. The move has prompted a growing number of users to organize under the hashtag #TwitterBlackout and pledge to boycott...



Angry Birds on Facebook Launching Your Way on Valentine's Day
Friday, January 27, 2012 4:46 PM
What could be more romantic than playing Angry Birds on Facebook with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly anticipated Facebook version of Angry Birds will officially be landing in a browser near you on Feb....



Can Regular Investors Buy a Piece of Facebook?
Friday, January 27, 2012 4:23 PM
Now that it looks like Facebook is (finally!) going to file for an IPO, plenty of potential investors want to know how they can get in on the action. Mashable is not a financial publication, and we're not in the business of giving stock market...



Why Facebook Is Really Worth $100 Billion
Friday, January 27, 2012 3:53 PM
You know what hurts? Being wrong, that's what hurts. Not just a little wrong, but $85 billion wrong. Five years ago I laughed -- dare I say chortled -- over the idea that Facebook was worth $15 billion. Now it's queuing up for the biggest...



Seinfeld's Kramer Reacts to Hearing Skrillex [VIDEOS]
Friday, January 27, 2012 3:37 PM
A familiar Seinfeld clip of "hipster doofus" Cosmo Kramer has been set to dubstep beats from electronic music producer Skrillex -- continuing the [Person] Reacts to Dubstep meme bumping loud (see other videos below). The altered footage shows...



Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]
Friday, January 27, 2012 1:43 PM
The long-awaited tech IPO of the year -- perhaps of the decade -- is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. If it comes to pass, this will be the...



Google Music Finally Lets You Download Your Own Tunes [VIDEO]
Friday, January 27, 2012 1:22 PM
Google Music, Google's cloud music service, has finally introduced a feature that lets users download their music to a computer with just a click of a button. It's been nearly a year since Google Music made it easy for users to add their music to...



Snaps on Maps: Google Wants to Send Photographers Inside Your Business
Friday, January 27, 2012 12:51 PM
Google wants to get all up in your business -- but in a good way. The search giant just unveiled an expansion to its Business Photos program, which aims to put indoor images of businesses on Google Maps and Google Places profiles. The program now...



Google and Bing Searches Help Us Pirate Music?
Friday, January 27, 2012 12:30 PM
Of course the public is going to pirate music when 80% of our search results for music direct us to illegal sites. That's the claim made by a coalition of entertainment industry groups in a private document sent to the U.K. government. In the...



Solar Storm Smacks the Earth -- And We've Got Video
Friday, January 27, 2012 12:16 PM
A massive wave of charged particles exploded from the sun and hit Earth earlier this week in what NASA calls "the most intense solar energetic particle storm since 2005." The resulting magnificent light show has been making the rounds around the...



Juicebox Wants to Be Your Phone Charger Away From Home
Friday, January 27, 2012 10:37 AM
Glowing purple at The Central Bar in Manhattan is a payphone-sized box, lined with seven small doors, that you wouldn't recognize. Meet Juicebox: the credit-card-operated public charging station that hopes to save you from disconnection next time...



15 Best 'Sh*t People Say' Videos
Friday, January 27, 2012 10:19 AM
In little over a month, the "Sh*t [People] Say" video meme has gone majorly mainstream, and it already feels like every corner of the human experience has been covered in a YouTube montage. No doubt the original video that spawned the trend was...



 
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