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Yahoo has decided to discontinue production of Yahoo Livestand, a newsreading app for the iPad launched just six months ago. The news was announced in a post to Yahoo’s corporate blog on Friday...
Want to know when items you pin on Pinterest go on sale? Now you can — up to a point — thanks to a new feature launched this week at a site called Lyst. Lyst, a London-based startup, is a...
In an experimental move, The New Yorker is planning to release a short sequel to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, through 140-character installments on...
Less than two months after announcing its plans to acquire photo app company Instagram for $1 billion, Facebook has released an iOS app that looks and functions almost identically to Instagram’...
Although magazine publishers have embraced mobile platforms, particularly the iPad, the web is still not all that important, executives at Conde Nast and Meredith Corp. indicated on stage at a paidCo...
ModCloth, an online retailer of affordable women’s clothing and accessories, has launched a private label collection made up mostly of designs submitted and voted upon by its Facebook community...
Target is expanding its partnership with Shopkick, a mobile couponing app that allows shoppers to collect and exchange points for rewards. Beginning Wednesday, shoppers equipped with Shopkick on thei...
Facebook’s initial public offering is off to a less than spectacular start, to put it generously. The stock closed at $31 on its third day Tuesday, down 18% from its initial offer price of $38,...
Facebook is testing a series of cosmetic changes to the top of users’ Timelines, the company has confirmed. Screenshots of the new design were posted on Talking Points Memo Tuesday morning. The...
After releasing a range of affordably priced accessories and fragrance products exclusively through its Facebook shop, Oscar de la Renta is now testing social media users’ appetites for more ex...
China is poised to become the biggest online marketplace in the world within the next few years, according to multiple estimates. Online retail generated $121 billion in sales in China last year, up ...
UPDATE: Rakuten has confirmed that it has led a $100 million round of investment in Pinterest. Of the investment, Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani says, “While some may see e-commerce as a straightforwar...
Google is in discussions to acquire Meebo for as much as $100 million, sources have told the often-reliable AllThingsD. Meebo was founded in 2005 as a messaging app for the browser, a product that st...
“How do we observe the future?” So began the presentation of Duane Bray, partner and head of IDEO’s global digital business, at our Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Fla., las...
The number of online news consumers has grown consistently over the past half-decade, yet not every publication has gotten the same lift as The Atlantic, whose web audience has catapulted from approx...
The media, forever a navel-gazing industry, worked itself into a fever earlier this week after evidence emerged that usage of Facebook’s social reader apps is declining. In an article designed ...
Atlantic Media announced the name of its forthcoming digital-only business news publication, Quartz, Tuesday. Quartz is the first publication in the business category designed to be consumed largely ...
Mobile is becoming an increasingly significant sales channel for many online retailers, particularly for those who sell merchandise through flash sales. Mobile sales recently accounted for more than ...
Following updates to its iPhone and Android apps late last month, Twitter announced Monday that it has upgraded its mobile website to include many of the features introduced in the twitter.com redesi...
Although mentioning your competitors’ products is a no-no in most advertising campaigns, the latest print ad for Barnes & Nobles’s “GlowLight” ereader may be an exception...
Your computer is more likely to contract a virus by visiting a religious website than a porn site, according to the surprising results of a study released this week. According to the company behind t...
UPDATE: Facebook has confirmed the offering. A press statement reads, “Facebook, Inc. is offering 180,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 157,41...
The Daily, a News Corp.-owned daily news publication that launched exclusively on the iPad 15 months ago, is continuing to expand to new platforms with the launch of an iPhone edition Thursday. The a...
“We should have built payments in the browser,” Marc Andreessen said on stage at Wired‘s business conference in New York City Tuesday morning. Andreessen cofounded what was once the...
Twitter isn’t looking to go public anytime soon, if Twitter CEO Dick Costolo’s comments at Wired‘s business conference in New York City Tuesday are to be believed. “You IPO be...
Update: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took to Twitter to clarify his comments at the Wired conference: Here’s a transcript of the exchange that led to this story: Eli Langer, CNBC: Similar to how we...
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