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A lot of digital ink has been spilled about Twitter’s announcement that it can now censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. The move has prompted a growing number of users to organize under the hashtag #TwitterBlackout and pledge to boycott … Continue reading →

Most member states of the European Union have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at a ceremony in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, Jan. 26. ACTA is a global treaty that tries to normalize copyright protection and IP standards. It’s similar … Continue reading →

What could be more romantic than playing Angry Birds on Facebook with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly anticipated Facebook version of Angry Birds will officially be landing in a browser near you on … Continue reading →

What could be more romantic than playing Angry Birds on Facebook with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly anticipated Facebook version of Angry Birds will officially be landing in a browser near you on … Continue reading →

Now that it looks like Facebook is (finally!) going to file for an IPO, plenty of potential investors want to know how they can get in on the action. Mashable is not a financial publication, and we’re not in the … Continue reading →

Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm and co-developer of the Apple iPod, has left Hewlett-Packard, the company confirmed to Mashable. Rubinstein came to HP after the company acquired Palm in 2012. The departure, which had been planned for some … Continue reading →

Some of the world’s most powerful and influential CEOs have created a campaign focused on eradicating new HIV infections in children by 2015, one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. The news, announced on Friday, created the Business Leadership Council … Continue reading →

You know what hurts? Being wrong, that’s what hurts. Not just a little wrong, but $85 billion wrong. Five years ago I laughed — dare I say chortled — over the idea that Facebook was worth $15 billion. Now it’s … Continue reading →

A familiar Seinfeld clip of “hipster doofus” Cosmo Kramer has been set to dubstep beats from electronic music producer Skrillex — continuing the [Person] Reacts to Dubstep meme bumping loud (see other videos below). The altered footage shows Kramer driving … Continue reading →

The technology community came out in force against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) before those two bills were shelved last week. With them gone, we can expect tech experts and Internet users to step away … Continue reading →