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A high school football coach in Maine lost his job after accidentally posting a nude photo of himself to Facebook. Paul Withee said he intended to send the photo privately to a friend but it ended up appearing on his … Continue reading →

A recently opened profile on Pinterest claims to be Mark Zuckerberg’s, sporting the Facebook co-founder and CEO’s name and photograph. The profile itself, located at www.pinterest.com/zuck, isn’t very lively. The owner is following more than 100 other users, but has … Continue reading →

Facebook’s co-founder and CEO has joined the hottest new social network on the block, Pinterest. Mark Zuckerberg’s profile, located at www.pinterest.com/zuck, isn’t very lively. He is following more than 100 other users, but has posted very little content himself. The … Continue reading →

The Internet dating routine is relatively straightforward, if tough to progress from step to step: Make a profile, find some dates, pick a mate, get offline. But the dating site Zoosk wants to change that by incentivizing its members to … Continue reading →

Internet sportswriting behemoth Bleacher Report announced the launch Wednesday of four original YouTube series. The move signals Bleacher Report‘s most serious venture yet into online video, and reflects the medium’s growing importance to companies that create content on the Internet. … Continue reading →

Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device. A new collar being developed for cattle ranchers could send cow health updates to farmers’ cellphones. The device could help ranchers save money in the long run, monitoring the health of … Continue reading →

A startup called Chirpify introduced a platform on Wednesday that lets you buy and sell things as well as donate money on Twitter. The Portland, Ore., company has linked up with PayPal to make Twitter-based transactions, a.k.a. “T-commerce” sort of … Continue reading →

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In honor of Community Manager Appreciation Day on Jan. 23, we asked several leaders in community … Continue reading →

Samsung is excited to bring its Galaxy Note “superphone” to the U.S. It’s so excited that it’s giving Mashable a sneak peek of the phone before it becomes available to AT&T customers Feb. 19. We took a few pictures when … Continue reading →

Hamza Kashgari, the twenty-three-year-old Saudi blogger whose controversial tweets about the Prophet Muhammed last weekend incited controversy among religious conservatives in the Middle East, has been returned to Saudi Arabia at the request of the Saudi government. He was detained … Continue reading →