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Facebook Holds All-Night Hackathon for College Teams [VIDEO]Like auditions for a part in a play or tryouts for a sports team, developers have their own rituals for landing hot gigs: hackathons. Facebook recently held its own competitive coding session with teams from 14 schools. Their assignment was to build an app that solved an everyday annoy... Android Market Surpasses 10 Billion DownloadsGoogle’s celebrating a pretty big app market milestone: 10 billion apps served…er..downloaded. In a blog post, the search giant announced the landmark for the store, which serves its mobile OS-phone-carrying customers, noting that app downloads have been accelerating over the last yea... Greatest Hits of 2011 Get All Mashed Up [VIDEO]Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. One of our favorite things about the end of the year: the awesome music mashups that talented DJs and video editors put together. Every year since 2008, DJ Earworm has created an epic “United ... PayPal Feels Web’s Wrath After ‘Ruining Christmas’ [UPDATED]PayPal is taking an online beating after allegedly shutting down an account for a charitable gift buying program run by the popular “craft fail blog,” Regretsy. Regretsy was organizing a holiday gift exchange in which its readers could buy toys for about 200 underprivileged children, ... What Are You Wearing? This App Wants You To Upload Your Outfit Every DayFirst it was a social shopping app. Then it became a “fashion discovery engine.” Now Pose wants to be the place you upload your outfits to, every day. Pose is a mobile-based fashion startup from Los Angeles. The company released version 2.5 of its iPhone app [iTunes link] Tuesday, w... Verizon Blocks Google Wallet From the Galaxy NexusAmidst security concerns, Verizon Wireless is blocking Google Wallet from the Galaxy Nexus smartphone. According to Bloomberg, Verizon will allow Google Wallet to run on the flagship Android 4.0 device once it is able to find a balance between “the best security and user experience.” ... Steve Jobs Bio Is Amazon’s Best-Selling Book of 2011Walter Isaacson’s bio of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs topped Amazon’s list of the top-selling books of 2011, though the title is still number three for best-selling Kindle titles. While Amazon had predicted the bio, called Steve Jobs might take the number one spot for the year, th... Brands Increase Recall with TV/Digital Mix, Google SaysNew research from Google and Ipsos claims that recall improves when TV spots appear again in YouTube pre-rolls, making a stronger case for its pre-roll and in-stream ads. Tests of 15- and 30-second spots for six ad campaigns using YouTube pre-roll and TV ads found that people who watched both You... ‘Is It Old?’ Decides If Links You Share Are Dead, OK or Mad FreshEver wonder whether that link you want to share with friends is still in its prime? Sure you have. And now a “mad fresh” website — Is It Old? — has swooped in to rescue you from embarrassingly distributing old content. Is It Old? uses open API to analyze how many times a ... Futuristic Concept Car From Mercedes-Benz Wins L.A. Design Challenge [PICS]The 2011 Los Angeles Design Challenge required participants to not only develop the Hollywood car of the future but also invent a story worthy of Hollywood filmmakers. Designers Sylvain Wehnert, Emiel Burki and Phillipp Haban from Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Sindelfingen developed th... |