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Few events can boast headliners like Tim Cook, Norah Jones, Jonathan Ive, Al Gore and Coldplay. But Apple‘s campus-wide celebration of the life of Steve Jobs last Wednesday was hardly an ordinary event. The entire Cupertino-based company was crammed into … Continue reading →

Ten years after it first arrived and a year after Microsoft stopped selling it, Windows XP survives. It is an incredibly resilient piece of programming that has millions of fans around the world. But we can’t hold on forever. Microsoft … Continue reading →

The act of highlighting a noteworthy passage in an ebook is being socialized by Findings, an online destination where readers can collect, share, discuss and discover such highlights from ebooks and web texts. Findings’ creators, the folks at startup incubator … Continue reading →

The fragile economy and slumping jobs market are causing unrest in America and across the world. As a response of sorts, the U.S. government and the Young Entrepreneur Council are putting their faith into young, fresh-faced entrepreneurs with the launch … Continue reading →

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. The Taiwanese are at it again! This time the animators at NMA.TV are taking on the new Steve Jobs biography, lampooning some of the most … Continue reading →

Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate, the makers of the Apply widget for startups. You can start attracting top talent for free by getting an Apply widget for your company at resunate.com/employers. You can also connect with Mona and … Continue reading →

Americans who own tablet devices such as the iPad or Galaxy Tab use them frequently, a new study finds. According to research conducted by the Pew Research Center and The Economist Group, the 77% of tablet owners who use the … Continue reading →

Amazon‘s stock fell 17% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company’s net income missed analysts’ estimates and the Kindle weighed on profits. The company’s net income fell 73% in the quarter to $63 million, while analysts polled by Bloomberg expected … Continue reading →

Zaarly, a startup peer-to-peer marketplace that has been called an alternative to eBay, has announced that eBay’s former CEO, Meg Whitman, will join its board of directors. The startup’s founder and CEO Bo Fishback, who also announced a $14 million … Continue reading →

IBM has named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty as its first female CEO. Rometty will succeed the outgoing Samuel Palmisano (both pictured) in the post on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano will remain chairman of IBM’s board. Rometty, who joined IBM … Continue reading →