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David Sasson is the chief operating officer of Outbrain, a content recommendation platform that is based in New York. You can follow him on Twitter at @davidsasson. Since the rise of search over the past decade, few obsessions have run deeper in the world of onlin...

Google co-founder Larry Page replaces Eric Schmidt as CEO of the company Monday. Schmidt will continue as the executive chairman. While it's not a drastic change -- Page was already the CEO of Google once, and has had a leading role since the company's beginning -...

AT&T has updated its early upgrade and no-commitment pricing for smartphones by as much as $150, according to reports. Off-contract early upgrades for devices like the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, Android and Windows Phone 7 devices have increased $50. Customers who...

Brands and businesses are looking for ways to leverage Facebook's recently unveiled Questions tool in ways that differ from what they're already doing on Q&A sites such as Quora, Yahoo Answers and LocalMind. The feature, which Facebook rolled out to all users Marc...

Google has launched a 4G variant of its Nexus S smartphone on Sprint's network, the company announced in a blog post Monday. The Nexus S features a 4-inch touchscreen display, 1 GHz Hummingbird CPU, 16 GB of storage memory, two cameras and near-field communicatio...

Jeremy Heimans is the CEO and co-founder of Purpose.com, a home for creating 21st century movements. He is a co-founder of some of the world’s largest online political and social movements including Avaaz.org and GetUp.org. Some of the world's smartest people are ...

The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of a simpler time when Internet technology needed to be explained very carefu...

Netflix is in serious talks to exclusively distribute an original TV series by David Fincher and Kevin Spacey, taking it into uncharted territory that would put it in direct competition with HBO and the other premium cable channels. The DVD rental and video stream...

Visa announced Wednesday a personal payments service that will allow U.S. customers to send and receive funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit or prepaid account anywhere in the world. To be able to offer the new service, Visa enhanced its global payments proce...

Yahoo has sold Delicious for the underwhelming sum of $5 million, according to a report. Citing "a solid report from a reliable and proven source," The Next Web says the service has been sold to a close competitor also in the social bookmarking space. Yahoo ina...

The moment has come: iPad 2 is now available in Apple's online store. Everything is just as announced: the 16 GB, Wi-Fi-only iPad 2 starts at $499, and the price climbs to $829 if you want the 64 GB, 3G+Wi-Fi version. The device is available in two colors (black a...

LinkedIn has launched LinkedIn Today, a new social news product for business professionals designed. At a press event Thursday at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and SVP of product Deep Nishar discussed the company's new pro...

Jeff Galinovsky is regional manager for Intel’s classmate PC in North America where he focuses on expanding education products as well as building an education ecosystem. You can follow him on Twitter at @ClassmatePCDude. Most of us didn’t have today’s technology ...

Starbucks is celebrating its 40th anniversary today by randomly awarding $40 gift cards to customers who check in using Foursquare. The promotion, which started this morning at 12:01 AM PST and runs until 11:59:59 PST, will give 500 such cards to those who check i...

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Foursquare, the location-based mobile game startup that pioneered the checkin, will introduce version 3.0 Tuesday evening. The new release turns on the power of every checkin accumulated over the course of its two-year history and transforms that data into recommenda...

Watch out, Flipboard. As of Wednesday, you have some serious competition: a free app called Zite that is constantly learning what you like to read on the iPad and creating a magazine finely tailored to your needs. Many iPad owners who have used the free Flipboard ...

The iPad 2 hits U.S. stores on Friday March 11, 2011. On Friday March 11, 2011, Apple's iPad 2 will become available for purchase online and in retail stores. Early trade-in activity surrounding the original iPad suggests that that the iPad 2 will be in high dema...

The latest auction of Twitter shares on Sharespost valued the company at $7.7 billion, which is almost twice as high than Twitter's valuation after a round of funding in January this year. According to Sharespost, a secondary market that lets investors trade with...

Greetings from rainy San Francisco, where Apple's long-anticipated launch of the iPad 2 is about to get underway at the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts Theater. We'll be bringing you the important details as they come in -- no need to scroll down pages of breathless ...