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Thanks to everyone for an unforgettable MashBash at CES in Las Vegas! We celebrated the Mashable Awards winners and the best of digital in true Mashable style with a night of networking and dancing, along with fun surprises like the … Continue reading →

Sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit are going “dark” this Wednesday, Jan. 18, to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which, critics contend, would compromise the ability of any site that includes outside links to carry on current operations. … Continue reading →

Mashable is starting off the new year strong with seven new faces you’ll be seeing regularly on the site. Kate Freeman joins us as a tech reporter in our San Francisco office. Before joining Mashable, Kate was a contributing writer … Continue reading →

The normally staid Google is channeling its inner I Can Has Cheezburger with a new feature that lets you create your own LOL-ish memes on Google+. The feature, announced by Colin McMillen, a senior software engineer, is fairly straightforward: To … Continue reading →

Google introduced Tuesday a multimillion dollar ad campaign focusing on the importance of protecting personal information online in an attempt to ward off charges that the tech giant violates users’ privacy, The campaign, based on an initiative the company launched … Continue reading →

China has more than 513 million internet users, and nearly half of them are using microblogs – mostly Chinese microblogging tools collectively called Weibo (Twitter is banned in the country). The numbers from China Network Information Center’s report sound staggering, … Continue reading →

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Farfetch.com Quick Pitch: Shop the … Continue reading →

Facebook will introduce apps based on its new Open Graph and Gestures platforms at an event Wednesday in San Francisco, according to a report. The apps will let users “frictionlessly” share based on actions other than “like,” “read” or “watch,” … Continue reading →

The 69th Golden Globe Awards were a relatively mild affair — even with Ricky Gervais as host — but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t still a ton of activity surrounding the awards on social media. Twitter was the most dominant … Continue reading →

Icelandic Parliament Member Birgitta Jonsdottir said she will make an announcement this Friday about her fight with the United States Department of Justice that requested her Twitter account information for its investigation into WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. “I have excellent … Continue reading →