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More Than 40,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews Hold Rally About Risks of Internet

More than 40,000 of New York’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gathered at Queens’ Citi Field and another nearby stadium Sunday evening to discuss the danger the Internet can pose to the moral fabric of their community if it’s used in thoughtless … Continue reading

Fill This Glass With Guinness, Get a QR Code

Can your beer glass do this? Welcome to the next phase in on-premises beer marketing. Either that, or it’s just a cool thing to look at when you’re hoisting a few. Either way, this glass, developed by ad agency BBDO … Continue reading

Behind the Launch: An Urgent Need to Close Deals

Discuss the show on Twitter: #BehindTheLaunch In Mashable‘s new video series, Behind the Launch, we’re taking cameras behind the scenes at Vungle, an in-app video advertising startup. Today, one of Vungle’s publishers has pulled out, leaving the startup with a … Continue reading

30 Days in Jail for Webcam Spy: Is It Enough? [POLL]

Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, whose webcam set up to spy on his gay roommate Tyler Clementi may well have contributed to Clementi’s suicide, was sentenced in a New Jersey courtroom Monday — to 30 days in jail. Ravi, 20, … Continue reading

Watch 11 Sports Teams Rock Out to ‘Call Me Maybe’ [VIDEOS]

1. Harvard University Baseball Click here to view this gallery. Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen and her management are crazy in “love” with the countless videos of sports teams performing her viral hit “Call Me Maybe” in buses, vans, … Continue reading

Nasdaq to Earmark $13 Million for Bad Trades Related to Facebook

Nasdaq‘s damage control for its Friday glitch related to Facebook’s IPO continued on Monday as the exchange offered to reimburse investors as much as $13 million for bad trades, according to a report. The offer, reported by The Wall Street … Continue reading

Watch Web Celebs in Super Slo-Mo [EXCLUSIVE]

Remember the pop-up trivia version of Antoine Dodson’s “Bed Intruder” we premiered a few weeks ago? Well, now you can watch your favorite Internet stars do crazy things in super slow motion. The video above features Jonti Picking, the man … Continue reading

‘Game of Thrones’ Is Getting a Facebook Game

The popular HBO show Game of Thrones will head to Facebook as a social game. Disruptor Beam, a Boston-based game company, will responsable for turning the mythical land of Westeros into a social experience for Facebook players in Game of … Continue reading

3 Mindsets That Can Kill Your Startup

This article is brought to you by TriNet. For more information about BrandSpeak, click here. You have a brilliant business idea and you can’t believe no one has thought of it before. Well, maybe this is because it’s not that … Continue reading

Google Loans 22,000 Feet of Office Space for NYC Tech Campus

Google is going all-in in its efforts to help New York and one university develop local, high-quality tech talent. In a press conference Monday at Google’s New York City headquarters, Google CEO Larry Page and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced … Continue reading