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Apple Records Best-Ever Sales on Black Friday [REPORT]

Apple sales broke all records this Black Friday, 9to5Mac reports citing inside sources. Apple’s forecast for Black Friday sales is four times more than normal; according to 9to5Mac’s source, Apple broke that forecast by 7pm this year. While we don’t … Continue reading

Woman’s First Webcam Experience Turns Into a Giggle Fest [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Webcams, amirite? Here’s a totally refreshing, embarrassingly honest video about one woman’s first brush with a webcam. If you can make it past about a … Continue reading

Google Music’s Cyber Monday Deal: $1.99 Albums

Google Music has just slashed prices for popular albums to the tune of $1.99. Like many companies on Cyber Monday, Google is working to sway consumers into opening their virtual pocketbooks — although this is its recently-launched music service’s first … Continue reading

15 Fantastic Cyber Monday Deals at Best Buy

1. Apple MacBook Pro The 13.3″ MacBook Pro is normally $1,199.99, but today it’s on sale for $1,049.99. Click here to view this gallery. If this were Black Friday, by now you’d be exhausted, attacked over a $2 waffle maker … Continue reading

The Economist’s Profits Increase as Digital-Only Subscriptions Top 100,000

The Economist is having a very good year so far: Not only has the publication reached a significant digital milestone, having sold more than 100,000 digital-only subscriptions to date, but print circulation is also up 3% to nearly 1.5 million … Continue reading

Scam Targets Angry Birds Fans on Android Market [VIDEO]

Scammers posted a number of fake games on the Android Market over the weekend, purporting to be titles from Rovio, the company that makes “Angry Birds.” Google, however, appears to be on top of the situation and has removed the … Continue reading

Bieber Beats Kim Kardashian as Most Searched Person of 2011

It’s no secret that the world caught Bieber fever in 2011. Teen pop star Justin Bieber was the most searched person of the year on Bing.com, knocking out Kim Kardashian for the coveted top spot. Search engine Bing announced on … Continue reading

Motorola Droid 4 Specifications Leak Out

The official specifications and pictures of the upcoming Motorola Droid 4 have been unearthed by Droid Life, revealing a device very similar to the Droid Razr, with the addition of a physical QWERTY keyboard. The device sports a 4-inch qHD … Continue reading

Google+ Launches Guide for Politicians and Candidates

Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network. The guide provides political types with a step-by-step walk through for creating a page. … Continue reading

Do Opt-In Lists Really Perform Better Than Opt-Out?

This is one of those things that most email marketing experts agree on – but we’ve little recent data to prove the point. My theory is that it’s such “conventional wisdom” that people have stopped testing it – the same … Continue reading