Former HP CEO Mark Hurd is joining business software and hardware firm Oracle as Co-President, the company announced today, confirming yesterday’s rumors.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison publicly defended Hurd after he resigned under pressure from HP’s board last…
Over the weekend, we noticed Craiglist had replaced a certain notorious section of its site with a black bar reading “censored.”
A longtime and well-known digital resource for prostitutes and the people who engage their services, Craigslist has come…
According to private-company intelligence firm CB Insights, now is a particularly bad time to try to raise money if you’re a company built on top of Twitter.
The ecosystem of third-party Twitter apps has seen a 50% decline…
Nike has just rolled out a new iPhone app for runners, available for download now [iTunes link].
The Nike+ GPS App for iPhone will pull in data from the device’s accelerometer and GPS to give runners an effective,…
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Online infrastructure for your small business doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.…
YouTube has just launched an official gallery showing off some of the 80,000 submissions it received as part of its Life in a Day project.
The official gallery is viewable as a matrix or as…
Apple may get a nasty surprise this holiday season; rumors are swirling that Google’s Andy Rubin is planning on a holiday-season launch for the search behemoth’s new music download service.
According to a Reuters report, Rubin, the Google…
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Here at Mashable we’ve been taking a look at what the iPhone camera is capable of, and it seems (with a decent eye-of-the-beholder and the help of a variety of really cool apps) that it can turn out some…
Nokia is the world’s largest cell phone manufacturer, but when it comes to smartphones, it’s losing ground to iPhone and Android-based devices. Thus, the expectations for its next high-end, Symbian^3-based device, the Nokia N8, are through the roof.…
This weekend, Craigslist removed its notorious “Adult Services” classifieds section in U.S. markets and replaced it with a black bar that read “censored,” implying that pressure from law enforcement or the legal and political systems of the country…
We’ve all run into someone with a new iPhone. And we’ve all learned to expect the inevitable “watch this” moment involved in this encounter.
Whether they identify the background music with Shazam, pull up a fancy screen saver, or…
Former HP CEO Mark Hurd is in talks to join computer technology corporation Oracle “as a top executive,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Hurd resigned from his position at HP after an investigation into a sexual harassment claim made…
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Social media is becoming a great way for recruiters to announce job openings…
Apple makes computers, tablets, phones, portable media players, TV set-top-boxes, displays and a dozen other things, but to date, it hasn’t made a wristwatch. Oh, wait, actually, it has! It’s called “the new iPod nano.”
Sure, battery…
Angry Birds is the epitome of an Apple App Store success story and it has been the #1 paid iPhone game for ages. Now it’s also available on most Android smartphones.
The version currently available…
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Location-based services, such as Foursquare and Gowalla, are proving quite popular with consumers…
Craigslist’s “Adult Services” section — a digital red light district that has been the subject of many controversies — has been removed in all U.S. markets. The front page link to Adult Services has been replaced with a black bar…
If you fired up the ol’ Twitter machine on Sunday night, you probably won’t be surprised to see Jimmy Fallon’s Emmy Awards nab the number one spot on this week’s chart. Not only are award shows a boon…