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As Yahoo continues to refine and redefine itself, it’s been offloading and shuttering some services in an effort to slim down (RIP Geocities!). One of the divisions that’s been on the auction block since September is Zimbra, an open-source e-mail company Yahoo acquired in September 2007 for $350 million.

According to All Things Digital, Yahoo is [...]

Do different personalities choose different email clients, or is it that different email clients foster different habits? Will a Yahoo Mail user open and read as much email as the average Gmail user? This is the type of data that can be essential for both researchers and marketers.
eMarketer picked up on some recent [...]

Microsoft let everyone know about a forthcoming feature of their new search engine today. Bing and Ping, as they’ve lovingly dubbed it, will let you easily share search results with your friends on Facebook and Twitter as well as by email.
At least at first, the sharing tools will only be available for searches that [...]

You’re probably pretty familiar with the web series Harper’s Globe, Get Cookin‘, or lonelygirl15, but you’ve likely heard very little about EQAL the company behind the social shows and their web presence.
Today, they’re announcing at Twiistup that they’re branching out from hit web content and releasing Umbrella, their consumer platform product for social publishing and [...]

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
Name: PadMapper
Quick Pitch: PadMapper is an apartment rental search engine that combines Google Maps [...]

The practice of sharing documents online via upload and embed is increasingly growing more popular. Case in point, DocStoc, one of the companies competing in this space, has been on tear of late, reporting 40% growth in traffic in the past month with a total of 8 million unique visitors.
To keep the momentum rolling, DocStoc [...]

Wait a minute, this can’t be true. In a StudyBlue survey conducted by SurveyU, students went on the record to say that they are much likelier to spend more than three hours studying online each day than participating in any other online activity, such as using Facebook or other social networking sites.
StudyBlue, an online academic [...]

As much as we’d love to look picture perfect in every photo, most of us, myself included, need a little retouching from time to time. Sure there’s those that just let it all hang out, blemishes and all, but for the rest of us there’s Photoshop or online photo editing tools.
PicTreat, one such brand new [...]

Sometimes the same old email signature day in and day out just won’t cut it. If you’re a Gmail user looking for some ways to mix it up a bit, you’ve come to the right place. Here are five ways to spice up your Gmail signature.
These tips vary from the practical to the creative to [...]