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China’s notorious Great Firewall — or as they call it, the Golden Shield — is known for blocking some high profile sites. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are all victims. But that has not kept the world’s most populous country from … Continue reading →

Looks like Australia isn’t the only country to have seen an incident of a combustible iPhone 4 over the past week. A similar incident has been reported in Brazil as well, where a device plugged in for overnight charging allegedly … Continue reading →

Foursquare is adding two new features that aim to integrate publishers’ and brands’ content into users’ mobile activities, a “Follow” and a “Save to Foursquare” button. The additions, announced Wednesday, are also designed to give consumers information when they’re on … Continue reading →

Rachael Gerson spearheads the Analytics division at SEER Interactive. Follow her on Twitter @rachaelgerson. Over the past eight months, Google has steadily released one revolutionary new feature after another. On March 17, the company announced a new version of Google … Continue reading →

Time Inc., the magazine division of Time Warner Inc., has a new CEO after 10 long months of searching. Laura Lang, who served as CEO of digital ad agency Digitas since 2008, will become Time Inc CEO in January. Lang … Continue reading →

At Spotify’s first U.S. press conference in New York City, the streaming music service announced its new app platform. The new version of Spotify will include access to applications built by third parties that take advantage of the Spotify library … Continue reading →

When Facebook released news that it will be going public around April 2012, we decided to investigate how the company will rank among its global public peers. Sources indicate that Facebook plans to raise $10 billion in its IPO, but … Continue reading →

A group of students at Columbia University recently showed how they could hack, with relative ease, an HP LaserJet printer and convince it to overheat. Naturally, the Internet pounced on such a sensational story, first reported by MSNBC. In full … Continue reading →

A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple in Australia: an appeals court unanimously decided Wednesday that Samsung can go ahead with sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, possibly as soon as Friday. … Continue reading →

When potential dates, employers and friends glance at your online social profiles, what do they see? EyeTrackShop, a startup that runs eye-tracking studies for advertisers, helped Mashable find out by applying its technology to the profile pages of popular social … Continue reading →