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Amazon is gearing up to introduce a new, HTML5-based ebook format called Kindle Format 8, the company announced Friday. KF8 is an improvement over the current Mobi 7 standard, with new features that allow publishers to create richer formats and add more advanced design elements. The emphasis on v...

The Statue of Liberty will turn on four live streaming web cams Friday in celebration of her 125th birthday anniversary. Four Torch Cams inside the flame will stream live views of Ellis Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island and the Freedom Tower, via World Webcams and will be available to the...

Bucking a trend beleaguering the rest of the media industry, The Atlantic disclosed Monday that both digital and print advertising revenues were up in the third quarter. Overall ad revenues increased 19% compared to the same period last year. Digital ad revenue was up a full 41% and print increas...

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Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus has left Apple — just 12 days after the virtual assistant launched with the iPhone 4S and became an overnight phenomenon. Kittlaus, sources told All Things D, had been planning a departure from Apple for a while due to a desire to take time off, be close...

Are you on Google+? Follow Mashable’s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the “most-circled” person on Google+. That honor now rests, mor...

There are plenty of videos on the Internet. YouTube users alone upload 8 years of video every day. What the web needs is a service that helps organize them. Shelby.tv hopes to provide that service. The startup is launching a web video player Monday that collects content your friends share on your...

This is going to be a tough day. Early this morning, I downloaded the new Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs biography (simply titled Steve Jobs), which arrives in stores and in digital devices today, and started reading it almost immediately. Now I can’t put my Kindle down. This is a problem. I ha...

Google’s long-rumored music download service could launch within the next two weeks. The music store will be an add-on to Google Music Beta, a free service that lets users upload and manage their existing music library in the cloud, “people familiar with the matter” have told Th...

Maria Ogneva is the Head of Community at Yammer, where she is in charge of social media, community programs, internal education and engagement. You can follow her on Twitter, her blog, and via Yammer’s Twitter account and company blog. Many execs intuitively realize that engaging staff in o...