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    Why Slacktivism Is Underrated

    Katya Andresen is chief strategy officer of Network for Good, author of Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes and blogs at nonprofitmarketingblog.com. You can find her on Twitter @katyaN4G. So called “slacktivists” take easy, social actions in support of a...

    Apple Refreshes MacBook Pro Lineup

    Apple has refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup with new processors and graphics chips Monday without changing any of the prices. The biggest change is in the CPU department: the 13-inch version of the MacBook Pro now comes with either a 2.4 GHz Core i5 or a 2.8 GHZ Core i7 CPU, both dual-core. Th...

    Grand Theft Apple

    It was easy to see that Steve Jobs wasn’t a fan of Google or Android. But I’ll admit, I was surprised by the pure vitriol he expressed towards the search giant’s mobile OS. It was Apple’s commander-in-chief declaring war. I have been reading Walter Isaacson’s biogra...

    Daring South African Rescue Features Motorcycles and a Cow [VIDEO]

    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 run in order to save a drowning calf. This video shows an a...

    Zynga IPO Set for November [REPORT]

    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, reported by Reuters, was also cited in...

    President Obama Adds Tumblr to His List of Social Profiles

    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 to galvanize his supporters during...

    How HP Charms Music’s Biggest Online Influencers With Real-Life Parties

    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 word about HP products through tradit...

    Netflix Stock Plummets 27% Following Earnings Report

    And the Netflix hits just keep on coming. The company’s stock price, which was flirting with $300 over the summer, was trading at around $85 — down roughly 27% — in after-hours trading. The impetus seemed to be Netflix’s disclosure that it lost 800,000 subscribers in its m...

    Siri Comes to the iPad…Sort Of

    Apple has decided to restrict the usage of Siri to the iPhone 4S but that doesn’t mean that enterprising developers haven’t started the process of porting to devices like the regular iPhone 4 and iPad. Over the weekend, developer @jackoplane was able to show some progress of getting S...

    Netflix Loses 800,000 Customers in Quarter

    Netflix‘s price hike caused 805,000 paid subscribers to jump ship in the most-recent quarter, the company reported Monday. The company finished its third quarter with 23.79 million U.S. subscribers compared with the 24.59 million in had during its second quarter. In Q3, Netflix announced a ...