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Steve Jobs seemingly elected to reply to another question sent to his SJobs [at] apple.com email address yesterday, this time in response to a question about support for Google’s Picasa photo sharing service on the iPad:In short: no, the iPad won’t support Picasa...

Comedian Kassem G conducts “man on the street” interviews each week with Californians — issues tackled include drugs, stereotypes and Tiger Woods.This week, Kassem asks beach goers for their views on social media, from Twitter to MySpace, Facebook and Farmville...

Tiger Woods finally allowed a reporter lob a few questions his way (Tom Rinaldi, ESPN).  A few challenging ones about the car accident and his wife Elin's behavior, which he handled well by ducking (That's "private.").   A good response to a question about the...

Pitching your startup to investors is a deeply personal matter. More often than not, they –– politely or not –– call your baby ugly. And that hurts. Good founders, I think, learn to not take the criticism too personally. Read the rest of this story...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.For local small businesses, Yelp isn’t just an option — it’s a necessity. People in urban...

Guy Kawasaki is co-founder of the Alltop news aggregation site and a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. If B-schools taught how to communicate more concisely, he says, "American business would be much better off."

Some weeks, writing this column is easy. All it takes is for an influential person - a politician, a business person, perhaps even a fellow columnist - to say something dumb and I get to spend a thousand words or so explaining precisely why they're wrong. The "why x is wrong...

Made.com, a web-based furniture company, has raised £2.5million from investors to launch its service which connects buyers directly with manufacturers thus cutting out middle men. The backing comes from Lastminute.com cofounder Brent Hoberman now of mydeco.com, PROfounders...

From 9 to 5 Mac: A UK reader writes in to say that Steve Jobs has replied to his email regarding Picasa Albums on the iPad.   Instead of just telling him that Apple (obviously) wouldn't support Google's Picasa library format, Jobs told him that iPhoto had "much better Faces...

Twitter users are reporting a new attempt to extract their usernames and passwords — a Direct Message attack that asks “You’re on here?” with a link. Others report DMs linking to a site called “mhansenhome” with the message...

Things are heating up between Ryanair and easyJet, which have mocked eachother in ads and traded loaded barbs in recent weeks. Call it the 'Low-FareAirline Wars'

Singer-songwriter Ben Folds visited the random video chat site Chatroulette during a recent live concert in Charlotte, North Carolina, playing improv piano tunes about the people he was connected with.The piece, titled “Ode to Merton”, is inspired by the improv piano...

A search for "Louis Vuitton" on Google's British Web site turns up an advertisement for discounted designer handbags — to the fury of the luxury brand's owners.

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Here's a chart from mobile analytics company Flurry about what sorts of applications are being tested on the iPad. Gaming is by far the most popular category. Flurry's analytics are installed on certain developers software, which is how it tracks what's being tested. The number...

Click here to see all the charts as a slideshow → Or select individually: Look At All The Companies Starting-Up Just To Build iPhone Apps Apple's Mac Sales Set To Beat The Street Again There's A Reason They Call It 'Old Media' Here's How Much A Unique Visitor Is Worth...

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.Despite some initial flaws, Google Buzz continues to show promise as a social marketing platform. It has a significant (though somewhat latent)...

Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, started a phenomenon.Last month, Twitter hit 50 million...

BoomTown traveled to Washington, D.C. this week for festivities surrounding the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first .com domain name, and while in our nation's capital, lugged a giant binder containing a paper printout of the National Broadband Plan to various...

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