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Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age

Nellie Akalp is CEO of CorpNet.com. Since forming more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S, she has built a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business the right way. To … Continue reading

So This Is How Nokia N9 Is Made [VIDEO]

Nokia N9 probably won’t be a best-seller among smartphones. It’s the first and only smartphone based on the MeeGo platform, and Nokia has no plans for ever making it available in the U.S. It’s a device that, unfortunately, serves mostly … Continue reading

Occupy the URL Takes OWS Protests to the Internet

The Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities across the world. Now they’re also spreading to banks’ websites. A program called Occupy the URL, launched Tuesday, will turn any website into a protest, complete with pop-up photos of Occupy … Continue reading

Google Blog Manager Flies to Twitter

The woman who started and managed Google‘s blogs will now be shaping Twitter‘s voice. For the past nine years, Karen Wickre has been senior media liason at Google, where she built the now more-than-150-strong Google blog platform. Here’s how she … Continue reading

Can UNAIDS Crowdsource a Strategy to Combat HIV/AIDS?

UNAIDS, the UN‘s branch dealing with HIV/AIDS, has launched a digital crowdsourcing campaign to combat HIV/AIDS across the globe. The campaign, CrowdOutAIDS, stems from the idea that young people will have the best ideas about how to stop the spread … Continue reading

Apple Newsstand Drives 268% Increase in Digital Subscriptions at Conde Nast

Digital subscription and single-copy sales have spiked following the launch of Apple’s Newsstand app two weeks ago. Magazine publisher Conde Nast has seen a 268% jump in digital subscriptions sales per week on average, Monica Ray, Conde Nast’s EVP of … Continue reading

Steve Jobs The Movie: Sony Wants Aaron Sorkin to Write It [REPORT]

Sony is moving forward on a cinematic adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, and is courting Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay, according to one report. The LA Times cites a source “briefed on the project but not … Continue reading

Timeline: How Netflix Lost Two-Thirds of Its Value in 3 Months

It’s hard to believe that a mere three months ago, Netflix stock had reached its all-time high at $300 per share. After Monday’s announcement that the company lost over 800,000 subscribers due to its price hike, the stock took a … Continue reading

Meet Dot: The iPhone Panoramic Video Camera You Funded

Dot, a hardware attachment for capturing panoramic video on the iPhone, starts shipping Tuesday after a short but storied development — one that began with the help of more than 1,000 backers on crowd-funding site Kickstarter in May. Dot will … Continue reading

13 Free Halloween Fonts

1. Skullphabet by Skull-A-Day Simple and bold, the “Skullphabet” font celebrates with great graphic ghoulishness. Click here to view this gallery. Halloween is nearly upon us. If you’re anything like the Mashable crew, you’ve already designed your perfect pumpkin, stockpiled … Continue reading