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Facebook today just made it easier for media companies to help users discover new music, articles, and books by seeing what their friends are reading, watching, and listening too. As a result, some companies are putting versions of their products--called "canvas apps"--directly in Facebook, like music companies that will let people listen to their music right inside the social network. Yahoo, however, is taking a different tack

Following a demonstration of Windows 8 at Microsoft's BUILD conference,

Just a couple of apps dominate the mobile photo-sharing landscape. That's because they either have massive reach (à la Facebook and Flickr), or offer unique, proprietary tools to attract users (à la Instagram, which boasts a dozen or so one-click filters that have helped rocket the startup to 10 million-plus users). But today, Aviary is evening the playing field

The Kindle tablet is coming. (You may have heard a little about this.) Amazon 's just redesigned its main website with changes that make it more tablet-friendly, and one writer is even claiming to have used the device.

[youtube _z1bwFD9bug] A number in the "very high six figures." That's how much it cost TabCo to run its recent eye-grabbing campaign, pitched to reveal a revolutionary innovation in the tablet PC market, according to Jonathan Bloom CEO of McGrath Power, the firm that ran it. That amount is a measure of the bet the tablet is placing on its new product, and also a guide to the complexity of the entire process--but that's just the start of it

CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week.

You used to be able to rent a single episode of some of your favorite TV shows via iTunes, and access them for a short period for your viewing pleasure.

With the augmented reality browser, Junaio, your smartphone can recognize reality via its camera--and then tell you even more about it. Metaio just transformed its Junaio Augmented Reality browser into a highly useful tool. Its new Scan function recognizes a range of real things--from pictures to QR codes to product barcodes--so it can supply extra info to its users about what it's looking at.

In Part 1 of this interview series, MailChimp ’s CEO Ben Chestnut discussed how going freemium led to creating a fund for integrators , resulting in creative new developments with their product.

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Imagine if your prospects for beating the 9.1% unemployment rate depended not on a meticulously crafted cover letter and résumé, but on a complicated algorithm that helped companies determine the best matches for open jobs.

Twitter is experiencing growing pains. Last week, the company said it would integrate Promoted Tweets into user Twitter streams, placing them at the top of one's timeline. Here's expert opinion on how or if the once-breezy service can follow in the footsteps of ubiquitous ad machine Facebook

A new virus targeting Android-powered smartphones has been uncovered by CA security researcher Dinesh Venkatesan.

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A sophisticated personalization algorithm--combined with ever-savvier editors--has helped boost the Today box on Yahoo's home page to the tune of a 270% increase in clicks since 2009.