Sharon Feder

Google I/O, Google's eagerly anticipated developer conference in San Francisco kicks off with a closely watched keynote this afternoon. During this event, Google typically sets the tone for the next 12 months of product innovation, where new platforms emerge and...

Facebook announced on Monday that its chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has joined the company's board of directors, making her the company's first-ever female board member. Sandberg -- who oversees Facebook's business operations including sales, marketi...

The hunt for digital talent is on. And while that includes social media talent, it extends far beyond to nearly all aspects of marketing, PR, business and technology. Indeed, as a recent industry forecast report concluded, a key driver of how a company progresses...

Mashable, along with our partners the United Nations Foundation, the 92 Street Y, is hosting Rio+Social Tuesday, a global conversation about how social media and technology can help ensure a sustainable future for our planet -- and we want you to be a part of the...

The star of Microsoft’s mystery Monday unveiling has been revealed: Surface, a Windows tablet. "It was always clear that what our software could do would require us to push hardware, sometimes where our partners hadn't envisioned," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said...

You've got mail. But don't worry, it's probably not that important. New research found that only one in four emails is essential for work. And only 14% of work emails were considered critically important. That means nearly two-thirds of the emails in your inbo...

A dispute of unclear origin sparked a riot at a Chinese Foxconn plant, in which as many as 1,000 workers participated. For two hours, the workers threw bottles at security and destroyed property in the plant's dormitory before ultimately being subdued with the help o...

Buddy Media is not a brand most consumers would recognize, but in the halls of social media and marketing, it's a king. It connects major brands with their customers throughout all the major social media networks. Now, thanks to a $689 million acquisition, it's s...

Salesforce has entered an agreement to acquire social media marketing platform Buddy Media for approximately $689 million, the company has announced. The price is lower than the recently reported $800 million figure, but still a formidable investment from the ent...

Microsoft's Imagine Cup brings students together from across the world each year, in effort to use technology to solve the world's toughest problems. Mashable met with four teams, hailing from Germany, Australia, the U.S. and Qatar, to learn how they are using te...

Mobile devices have become like wallets -- among the must-have items on your person when you leave the house. Teens are no exception to this rule, but for New York City's students, this poses a real problem. The New York Board of Education has banned the use of el...

Facebook stands to make at least $16 billion on its initial public offering (IPO). That's the most any tech company has ever made from an IPO, and it'll give Facebook unprecedented control over its own destiny. It'll also instantly have a ton of capital. There's n...

Registration is now open for Rio+Social, the historic meeting of social media, technology, global development and sustainability leaders during the UN's Rio+20 conference. Policy makers, journalists, technologists and environmentalists are now invited to register...

In a big vote of no confidence before Facebook's IPO, General Motors is pulling its ads from the platform, calling them "ineffective," according to a Wall Street Journal report. The automaker determined that its ads on the platform "had little impact on consumers,...

The Best of Instagram Series is presented by T-Mobile. Its 4G Tweet Race, a week-long campaign launching May 3, pits Twitter users against one another in a daily, frantic race for retweets. There are 7 races, and the winners of each heat win a new HTC One™ S phone wi...

The Best of Instagram Series is presented by T-Mobile. Its 4G Tweet Race, a week-long campaign launching May 3, pits Twitter users against one another in a daily, frantic race for retweets. There are 7 races, and the winners of each heat wins a new HTC One™ S phone w...

David Politis is the founder and CEO of BetterCloud, the leading provider of Google Apps extensions that create security and management. Follow David @DavePolitis. A few weeks ago, a school administrator shared a story about how he tried to block Google’s chat f...