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Leonardo DiCaprio has joined the growing list of celebrities who are also startup investors. The first startup to benefit from both his following and pocketbook is visual social media platform Mobli, which announced Tuesday that DiCaprio was part of a … Continue reading →

Rockstar Games has officially announced Grand Theft Auto 5 as the next game in the award-winning video game series. The announcement came in suitably mysterious style. Logging on to the Rockstar’s website leads to the above image … and not … Continue reading →

Tony Fadell, the man who oversaw 18 generations of the iPod, announced the first product of his stealth startup Nest Labs Tuesday: a sexy, world-saving … thermostat. “Nest” is a $249 programmable thermostat that can also program itself. At first, … Continue reading →

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Weiv Quick Pitch: Weiv makes … Continue reading →

Amazon-owned Soap.com has begun selling grocery goods. Unlike Amazon Fresh, which delivers a full range of groceries via an elaborate system of delivery trucks, Soap.com‘s selection is limited to approximately 10,000 non-perishable items such as cereal and coffee. Orders are … Continue reading →

Jesse Comart serves as a communications and public affairs consultant at the Glover Park Group (GPG). Before joining GPG, he worked on policy and communications issues for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Follow Jesse on Twitter at @jcomart. It’s no … Continue reading →

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. What’s even cooler than being a rally biker on a test run in South Africa? If you’re that guy and you also interrupt your test … Continue reading →

Zynga‘s long-awaited IPO will hit a week before Thanksgiving, according to a report. The social gaming company, which originally planned to go public in September but had pushed that date back because of the see-sawing stock market. The November date, … Continue reading →

President Barack Obama, or rather, Obama’s 2012 Campaign, has officially joined Tumblr rounding out his collection of major social networks. Obama gained a reputation as the social media President for the way he used networks such as Facebook and Twitter … Continue reading →

Hewlett-Packard recently expanded its Music Influencer program to include more intimate gatherings in a bid to win over some of the music scene’s most-coveted online heavyweights. HP launched the Music Influencer program last year as a way to spread the … Continue reading →