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Ten years after it first arrived and a year after Microsoft stopped selling it, Windows XP survives. It is an incredibly resilient piece of programming that has millions of fans around the world. But we can’t hold on forever. Microsoft promises to end support for the aging code in 2014. Thoug...

The act of highlighting a noteworthy passage in an ebook is being socialized by Findings, an online destination where readers can collect, share, discuss and discover such highlights from ebooks and web texts. Findings’ creators, the folks at startup incubator Betaworks, refer to their crea...

The fragile economy and slumping jobs market are causing unrest in America and across the world. As a response of sorts, the U.S. government and the Young Entrepreneur Council are putting their faith into young, fresh-faced entrepreneurs with the launch of the Gen Y Fund, a startup accelerator ...

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. The Taiwanese are at it again! This time the animators at NMA.TV are taking on the new Steve Jobs biography, lampooning some of the most talked-about anecdotes in typical NMA-style. Our personal fav...

Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate, the makers of the Apply widget for startups. You can start attracting top talent for free by getting an Apply widget for your company at resunate.com/employers. You can also connect with Mona and Resunate on Facebook and Twitter. How does a new comp...

Americans who own tablet devices such as the iPad or Galaxy Tab use them frequently, a new study finds. According to research conducted by the Pew Research Center and The Economist Group, the 77% of tablet owners who use the device daily are on them an average of 90 minutes a day. What are those ...

Amazon‘s stock fell 17% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company’s net income missed analysts’ estimates and the Kindle weighed on profits. The company’s net income fell 73% in the quarter to $63 million, while analysts polled by Bloomberg expected a net income of ...

Zaarly, a startup peer-to-peer marketplace that has been called an alternative to eBay, has announced that eBay’s former CEO, Meg Whitman, will join its board of directors. The startup’s founder and CEO Bo Fishback, who also announced a $14 million round of funding on Tuesday, says th...

IBM has named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty as its first female CEO. Rometty will succeed the outgoing Samuel Palmisano (both pictured) in the post on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano will remain chairman of IBM’s board. Rometty, who joined IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer, currently ser...

Nellie Akalp is CEO of CorpNet.com. Since forming more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S, she has built a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business the right way. To learn more about Nellie and see how she can help...