Pinterest Raising $120 Million to Fund International Expansion [REPORT]
Pinterest is raising $120 million in a funding round expected to be announced Thursday or Friday morning, according to multiple sources. The inv…
Fab.com Shares What Facebook Friends Are Buying
Ecommerce shop
Fab.com is an industry game changer, deeply integrating social media into its unique way of selling tech gadgets, tailored dresse…
Couple Dead After Bad Cellphone Connection Foils Chance of Rescue [VIDEO]
A couple whose car fell down an embankment in the Catskill Mountains tried to make rescue calls on their cellphone but shoddy reception prevented…
Is Total Gadget Immersion Good or Bad for Kids? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Gadgets such as
smartphones and
tablets are becoming more and more embedded in kids’ lives. From middle schoolers with smartphones to babies who…
NFL Prospect Ignites Controversy With Concussion Tweet
Former Ohio State linebacker Andrew Sweat has a real shot at the NFL, if he wants it. But Sweat won’t risk head trauma by living out the d…
Facebook’s First Ever Article: Zuckerberg Admits ‘Friendster Was a Model’
How many articles have been written about
Facebook in its eight-year history? Impossible to tell — by the time you came up with an estima…
Wireless Rechargeable Retinal Implants Could Help Restore Sight [VIDEO]
Researchers at Stanford University are designing a new device that could help people with degenerative eye diseases restore their vision —…
11 Top Celebs to Follow on Viddy
Viddy, the social video editing and sharing app
du jour, isn’t just racking up
millions of ordinary users, but a whole host of celebrity partici…
Twitter: Here’s How to Hide Your Tweets from Google
Want to keep your tweets among your tweeps and hidden from any old
Google searcher?
Twitter has some tips for you.
The microblogging companyR…
Lawmakers Want High-Tech Foreigners to Stay in the U.S.
Top American universities attract some of the planet’s brightest minds to pursue graduate and doctorate degrees in the U.S. But thousands…
Here’s How Bad Android’s Fragmentation Problem Is [GRAPHIC]
When
Google first launched
Android, the open-source operating system came with the promise that it could power almost any device. That’s…
The Beginner’s Guide to Facebook
Against all odds, you likely know someone who still hasn’t succumbed to the lure of Facebook. Maybe you’re a beginner yourself. Or perha…
6 Educational Android Apps for Adults
There are hundreds of
Android apps to help kids learn shapes, numbers, letters, and colors. But what about adults that want to continue their educatio…
NBA Star Uses Twitter — And a Platypus — to Prank Sports Media
Around the
sports media scene, Denver Nuggets center JaVale McGee has a certain reputation: Quirky, unique, a bit out there, something of a laug…
Register Now to Join Mashable and Partners in Brazil for Rio+Social
Registration is now open for Rio+Social, the historic meeting of social media, technology, global development and sustainability leaders during…
Thirst App Will Change The Way You View Twitter
A new iPad application called Thirst might reinvent how you look at your
Twitter stream. Using its own natural language processor, Thirst filter…
The Facebook IPO Timeline
If the
Facebook IPO were a real person, we certainly wouldn’t blame it for posting braggy status updates. This infographic, created by our frien…
Facebook Fans Get to Pick Bonus Levels in ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD’
Activision is polling fans via Facebook on which levels will be included as additional downloadable content on
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD.…
Facebook IPO Gets a Boost: 84 Million More Shares For Sale
Just days away from launch, Facebook is continuing to make last-minute changes in its IPO plans.
On Wednesday, Facebook announced that an extra…
18 Mashable Family Photos
What does a family portrait look like when it represents a community of millions of people? For our
photo challenge this week,
Mashable readers sent…
Behind the Launch: A Promising, Yet Controversial Job Candidate
In
Mashable‘s new video series,
Behind the Launch, we’re taking cameras behind the scenes at
Vungle, an in-app video advertising st…
Billion-Dollar Tech-Testing ‘Ghost Town’ Being Built in New Mexico [VIDEO]
If a $1 billion ghost town sounds to you like the set of sci-fi movie, think again. A company called Pegasus Global Holdings is constructing a to…
Google Search Just Got 1,000 Times Smarter
The Google Search of the future is here. Now. Today. The long-talked-about semantic web —
Google prefers “Knowledge Graph” — is rollin…
Want High Engagement on Facebook? Offer Coupons [STUDY]
Maybe General Motors should have tried offering coupons on Facebook.
That’s the gist of a new report from Wildfire Interactive. The stu…
Why Sharing Is the New Search [VIDEO]
What has a bigger reach than
Google on the web? Sharing. We caught up with Tim Shigel (pronounced like “wiggle”), co-founder and…
Turner Broadcasting Takes a Bite of Funny or Die
Web comedy powerhouse
Funny Or Die announced a strategic partnership with Turner Broadcasting Tuesday, joining forces with television’s to…
When Social Gaming Meets Social Good
Social Reality gets Facebook users to learn about causes while they're gaming.
Google to Sell Android ‘Nexus’ Devices Directly to Customers [REPORT]
Google will give several device manufacturers early access to future releases of the
Android operating system, a new report says. As part of the…
New HTML5 ‘Prometheus’ Training Center Shows Off Power of the Web
Microsoft is continuing to push the boundaries of
HTML5 with a new interactive website for Ridley Scott’s upcoming film
Prometheus.
For the las…
