At the beginning of this year, Facebook overtook Google Maps as the most-used mobile app in the U.S. The social network giant also recently introduced a controversial new mobile interface, Facebook Home. Earlier this week, Home hit 1 million downloads. Love it or hate it (or both), Facebook is a cornerstone of the mobile...
It has been another busy week as summer approaches, and everyone gets restless for the warm weather. If you've been too preoccupied soaking up some rays to check out the news, don't worry — we've got you covered. We at Mashable have rounded up the most important updates in tech and social media to...
For one week in May, 45,000 Internet professionals come together in NYC to celebrate Internet business and culture at more than 400 events for Internet Week New York 2013, from May 20 to 27Mashable is proud to be a media partner for this year’s event. You can see and hear from the Mashable team...
In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr Details of the talks leaked out earlier Thursday via AllThingsD, a site which prides itself...
Google announced a major upgrade to its Hangouts real-time communication service, rolling out a new stand-alone Hangouts app for the web, Android and iOS that will be available later Wednesday. The app was introduced by Vic Gundotra, senior VP of engineering, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. He emphasized Google's...
An online campaign is attempting to "rebrand" Abercrombie & Fitch by donating the company's clothes to the homeless, after an author alleged that company CEO Mike Jeffries "doesn't want larger people shopping in his store." The comments, made by Robin Lewis, were included in a Business Insider article published earlier this month. The...
On last week's episode of Fox's Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsey visited Amy's Baking Company in Scottsdale, Ariz. But not even the loud-mouthed British chef could convince the stubborn (and, by some reviewer accounts, delusional) owner to change her ways. The episode caught the attention of Redditors, who slammed the restaurant's Facebook page with comments,...
When advertising and entertainment collide, as it so often does, "advertainment" is born. Remember Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking space jump? That's advertainment from Red Bull. And the 18-minute Follow Phoenix documentary about rock band Phoenix? That's advertainment from Spotify for its (relatively new) Follow button.
In this week's Top Comments, we've focused in on the controversial discussion over Adobe's recent subscription pricing announcement. Does the new subscription-based model benefit freelancers, hobbyists, or professionals? When we first posted the story on our Facebook page, the general reaction to the news was extremely negative. Eventually, however, those who have been...
The best part of browsing Reddit comments (besides the awesome pun threads) is discovering a new subreddit — a community so niche or fine-tuned to your interests that you can't imagine life before subscribing to it. SEE ALSO: 5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week In fact, if you spend time in...