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Igor Faletski is the CEO of Mobify, a web platform that optimizes ecommerce and publishing sites for mobile and powers more than 20,000 sites. Remember when it took 23 clicks to find movie showtimes on your mobile phone? While that … Continue reading →

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton teamed up with pro snowboarder William Hughes for a very special snowboarding shoot. The video was filmed in the … Continue reading →

Is it possible to quantify the astonishing, inspiring, almost mystical phenomenon known as Linsanity? Mashable contacted some number-crunching social media experts, and the answer is yes. But first a primer for the somehow still-uninitiated: Jeremy Lin is the New York … Continue reading →

Amazon’s Kindle Fire has certainly proved a strong contender in the tablet market, but the iPad is still winning in that arena. For Apple’s fourth quarter, though, the iPad’s stiffest competition was actually its sibling, the iPhone. In the last … Continue reading →

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s monitoring of social media services could be a threat to civil liberties and online free speech, several lawmakers said during a hearing Thursday. According to a report by a civil liberties group called the … Continue reading →

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Mountain Lion Reactions and Reviews Somewhat … Continue reading →

When shopping for a tablet, consumers often compare specs and the benefits of each device, including screen size and resolution, processor speed, battery life and software. But sometimes a gadget’s biggest draw — or its most exasperating feature — doesn’t … Continue reading →

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, a game spun off from the popular psychological thriller Alan Wake, will be released in less than a week, and here’s an exclusive look at its newest trailer. The game, set to be released on the … Continue reading →

Jon Barocas is the founder and CEO of bieMEDIA, a Denver-based online marketing and media solutions company that specializes in video content production and distribution, mobile visual search, technology platforms, SEO, VSEO and more. Like most technology junkies, I am … Continue reading →

Facebook launched its latest wave of media apps built with Open Graph Thursday, including a Mashable app. The media apps — joining veterans such as The Guardian‘s social news app and Washington Post Social Reader — are a platform for … Continue reading →