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Cristiano Ronaldo App Takes Soccer and Social Media Superstar MobileCan’t get enough Cristiano? Social media’s most popular athlete worldwide launched an official mobile app on Tuesday for all things Ronaldo. Mashable got a hands-on sneak peak at the free iPhone and Android app over the weekend, and it’s pretty cool. It handles smoothly, is si... Virtual Wish List ‘All I Really Want’ Brings Back the Joy of GivingThe 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: All I Really Want Quick Pitch: Make virtual wish lists on AllIReallyWant.me and receiv... SeatGeek Now Selling Tickets on 100 Gannett WebsitesSeatGeek is blurring the line between content and commerce by integrating links to its ticket aggregator with sports content on third-party sites. Those sites, the startup announced on Tuesday, now include more than 100 of Gannett’s nation and local news sites. SeatGeek has previously anno... News Booth iPhone App Turns Ordinary Photos Into Newsworthy OnesThis just in! A newly released iPhone app called News Booth lets you edit photos to make them look as if they were taken straight out of a television newscast. Although you can easily use it for pictures of events that are serious and actually newsworthy, News Booth offers more value as a photo ... Barnes & Noble Launches $199 Nook TabletBarnes & Noble has reduced the prices of products in its Nook portfolio to position itself better against its chief competitor, Amazon. The new 8 GB Nook Tablet costs $199 (down from $249), which is exactly the same as Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The price of the Nook Color was also reduced... Facebook Profiles Accurately Predict Job Performance [STUDY]Do you want to know how that applicant you just interviewed will actually perform on the job? Check out her Facebook profile. That’s the advice of a new study from the Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville and Auburn University. The researchers recruited a group of four... 10 Creative Pinterest Board Hacks by Mashable Readers1. Audrey Julienne Pinterest user Julienne captured Philadelphia's famous city hall building. It looks like she applied some Instagram filter magic too!Click here to view this gallery.Earlier this week, we shared how to trick out your Pinterest Boards with a simple... Facial Recognition Billboard Only Lets Women See the Full AdA new kind of outdoor advertisement is being tested on Oxford Street in London’s West End. The interactive advertisement uses a high-definition camera to scan pedestrians and identify their gender before showing a specific ad. The built-in system has a 90% accuracy rate in analyzing a pers... Harvard Makes Robot Bees [VIDEO]Bio-inspired bees made from stacks of carbon fiber are buzzing right off the production line at Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab. Why build robot insects? The new mass-production technique is a huge step forward in constructing high-power switches, optical systems and electromechanical devi... Apple’s New Data Center to Have Largest End User-Owned Solar Array in the U.S.Apple‘s new data center in Maiden, N.C., will be one of the most energy efficient facilities of its kind, the company’s 2012 environmental update reveals. To satisfy the huger power needs of the facility in an environmentally acceptable way, Apple is building the largest end userâ€... |