Pete Cashmore

Valuations of social media companies are starting to remind us of 1999. But are they overvalued? Now that Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion, LinkedIn's IPO valued the company at $8.9 billion after its first day of trading, and Facebook's estimated value is ...

How the mighty have fallen. The social sharing site Digg has sold for just $500,000 to New York startup incubator Betaworks. The small selling price just goes to show how quickly fortunes can turn for even the hottest web startups. According to The Wall Street Jou...

Payphones in New York City have largely been made obsolete by the fact that almost everybody's got a cellphone for staying in touch on-the-go. Luckily for the long-forgotten phones that still dot the city's streets, they're about to get a twenty-first-century upgrade...

Microblogging platform Twitter overhauled its search this week, making finding users, hashtags and mentions easier. Twitter's "simpler search" lets users discover more news in real time. The search updates also let users connect more efficiently. Just think about...

Sesame Street's ravenous Cookie Monster is back in the limelight today after taking on Carly Rae Jepsen's catchy "Call Me Maybe" in fun spoof about his incessant cookie cravings. The "Share It Maybe" parody features new lyrics set to the beat of Jepsen's hit singl...

DC Shoes and Ken Block are back with another gripping stunt reel: Gymkhana FIVE: Ultimate Urban Playground; San Francisco. Last year, Gymkhana FOUR was one of the most-shared ads in 2011. Can this one top it?

Google wants to further gay rights across the world, launching a new campaign called "Legalize Love" on Saturday. The tech giant hopes to advance marriage rights for gay, lesbian and bisexual people in countries where it has offices, beginning in Poland and Singa...

Can't wait two more weeks until the final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy hits theaters? You're in luck. Warner Bros. has released a 13-minute extended sneak-peek for The Dark Knight Rises, featuring interviews with the cast, a behind the scenes...

The BBC reported a Jordanian politician threatened an opponent with a gun on live TV. No shots were fired and no one was hurt. The other opponent, however, threw a shoe at the candidate brandishing the gun.

Can crowdsourcing work at a tennis match? If one piece of shouted advice at Wimbledon is any clue, the answer is yes. The advice may have been a little sarcastic -- according to some fans, "go to his backhand" is the equivalent of yelling a request for "Freebird" ...

What would it be like if you could go back in time and talk to a younger version of yourself? Filmmaker and actor Jeremiah McDonald got to experience that process -- in a way -- thanks to a video tape he made for his future self back in 1992. Twenty years later, M...

One of the world's leading physicists, prof. Stephen Hawking, hoped for different results from CERN yesterday, which announced the discovery of the Higgs boson with a high degree of certainty. In fact, the announcement cost him $100 dollars, as he made a bet that...

Call it a case of premature detonation. San Diego's Fourth of July fireworks show was supposed to last 15 minutes. Instead, all the projectiles went off in 30 seconds about five minutes before the show was supposed to start. Confused attendees waiting for the sho...

The best part about the Fourth of July is the fireworks. Whether you're five or 50, they have the ability to mesmerize, entertain and amaze. Cellphone cameras make it possible for everyone to take photos of fireworks - but as is often the case with nighttime and m...

It wouldn't be the Fourth of July without hot dogs -- or more specifically, hot dog eating contests. Every year at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, competitive eaters race to see who can down the most hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. Tens of thousands of fans gat...

CERN's scientists have found a new boson within five standard deviations of accuracy. The new particle is the heaviest boson ever found and it's "consistent" with the Higgs boson. At a press conference in Melbourne Wednesday morning, CERN's experts said the eviden...

When it comes to the sexes on social media, there are a few places where the battle lines seem settled. It probably won't surprise you to learn, for example, that men are from Google+ and women are from Pinterest. But when it comes to the two dominant social netwo...

Apple is preparing to release a smaller version of the iPad in time for the 2012 holiday season, according to a report just weeks after competitors Google and Microsoft announced their own tablet offerings. The newest iPad would feature a screen measuring between...

NFL athlete and social butterfly Chad Ochocinco won our hearts on Tuesday by inviting a recently widowed fan to his July 4th wedding on Twitter. Ochocinco will be marrying his reality star fiancee Evelyn Lozada. When Cheryl Minton from Franklin, Ohio, tweeted @Oc...

Andy Griffith, the beloved actor from popular TV series The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, died Tuesday morning in North Carolina at age 86. A statement from his family reveals Griffith passed away peacefully at his Roanoke Island home with wife Cindi near him, a...