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Google is mulling purchasing Yahoo and has contacted at least two venture capital firms to help buy the company’s core business, according to a report. Google and prospective partners have held discussions, but haven’t put forth a formal proposal to buy the search giant, according to ...

A few weeks ago, Mashable contacted some ad agencies and asked them to imagine how brand pages on could change in light of that platform’s planned redesign. Just as Facebook was announcing its tweaks, though, Google was on track to add brand pages to Google Plus. Though it looks like that w...

The Googleplex is spreading with Google’s $100 million purchase of a 240,000 square-foot office center in Mountain View, Calif. The acquisition, reported in the Mercury News and confirmed by Google, is Google’s largest property purchase in Silicon Valley this year. The property, calle...

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Rovio has introduced a Halloween treat for Angry Birds fans: A new Angry Bird. The orange bird doesn’t have a name, but does have the ability to blow up several times his size. The bird, which is introduced in the video above, is part of Angry Birds Ham’O'Ween, a new collection of 30 H...

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Warning this video contains mature language. Ray William Johnson, of YouTube fame, visited the Mashable offices this afternoon and guest curated our YouTube Video of the Day selection. Lucky us ̵...

Who knew the iPhone 4S’s Siri could learn how to do so many useful things? Case in point: These guys have trained her to “pour them a beer.” Calling their creation “Beeri,” the guys at Redpepper taught the iPhone 4S’s talkative virtual assistant to cross that di...

Starting next month, Sprint is putting a cap on its unlimited data plans for tablets, laptops, netbooks, PC cards and mobile hotspots. The wireless carrier will still offer smartphone users — including new iPhone 4S customers — unlimited data on phones. For iPhone 4S users who envisio...

General Motors took the launching of the 2012 Chevy Sonic quite literally, sending the car careening off a cliff for web viewers. The premise of the stunt, which started on October 19, and was executed by ad agency Goodby Silverstein and Partners, was that each time a visitor clicked on LetsDoThis...

President Barack Obama announced on Friday that the United States will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of the year. As members of Congress prepared their statements either applauding or condemning the decision, some of them posted their first reactions to Twitter. Many Congress members&#...