Communications Major

Uber wants your vote of support. And it has hired a campaign manager to win you over.

Uber, a fast-growing start-up that promotes private car sharing, announced on Tuesday that it had hired the political strategist David Plouffe to be its senior vice president of policy and strategy. The move further signaled the grand aspirations of companies like Uber, which are challenging entrenched industries and running into resistance from some local governments.

Some features of physical books may be getting a second life online, but efforts to completely reimagine the core experience of the book have yet to catch on.

All hail the quick, reliable taxi SINCE last month the citizens of Johannesburg have been able to hail and pay for taxis through SnappCab, a local start-up. A tap on...

While the real-time Web presents events as they happen, the “replay Web” supplies discussions and dissections in the aftermath....The replay Web, in many ways, exists because information is coursing through sites like Facebook and Twitter with knock-you-down force. But no single event can emerge from that stream of information unless it is amplified by the replay of voices.

Google is launching huge balloons to bring the Internet to remote and difficult terrain -- think mountain ranges, archipelagos and jungles...and New Zealand, where the first 30 "Internet-enabling" balloons have been launched.

How would you like to have your pizza delivered by a drone?

In one-upping Pizza Hut, who earlier this year made it possible to order a pizza from an Xbox, Domino's is trialling drone delivery in the UK.

This might not...um...takeoff....

People now spend 37% of online time on mobile devices - smartphones and tablets.

Imagine waking up in a fully automated house. Mashable rounded up five objects to help smarten up your home. And - they're afforadable!

Think you have a pretty good idea of what's coming next in tech? Then you probably haven't talked to a teen recently. - What's what with Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, IMs and SnapChat.

Report suggests growing labor costs, customer acceptance will spur usage of tablets and smartphones at restaurants, replacing some wait staff.

What do Lyft, Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, Wanelo and Anki have in common? It seem they share a similar purpose that could help describe the current era of consumer technology: Bringing the online world to the offline world.

For better or worse, getting one of Apple's new lower cost 5C iPhones isn’t just about ownership — it’s about "shownership", inspiring desire and jealousy in those around you that you’ve got the latest device.

Those crazy low-res GIFs are older than most of the kids who love 'em on Tumblr. Yep, believe it or not, the GIF is no longer covered on Mom & Dad's health insurance and its time to get out of the house. Well, maybe. Stay young, GIF, and of course, stay foolish.

As Google and other companies begin to build wearable technology devices, an industry not known for its fashion sense faces a new challenge.

Before Facebook introduced a search tool this month, it assembled a varied team to study what users were searching for and to teach computers how to communicate better with people.

Millennials are stuck navigating a new romantic landscape in the age of technology and the hookup.

Traditional courtship — picking up the telephone and asking someone on a date — required courage, strategic planning and a considerable investment of ego (by telephone, rejection stings). Not so with texting, e-mail, Twitter or other forms of “asynchronous communication,” as techies call it. In the context of dating, it removes much of the need for charm; it’s more like dropping a line in the water and hoping for a nibble.

Let's proclaim 2013 the year of the "Ph" - since we all know no one ever looks back at these statements at the end of the year to see if anyone was right. But if we were the type of blogger to make big predictions (we are), here are three for 2013, and they all start with what should become the 27th letter in the English alphabet - the "Ph": Phablets, Photos (Vaporizing) and Photos (Printed for (Posterity).

Can a Snapchat-like app be built to deal with email overload?

If you're over 25 (or under 13), you are forgiven. Those carefree, youthful years between 13 and 25 are the sweet spot demographic for our connected culture's latest cause célèbre. Snapchat is an app that lets you send a photo to one - or hundreds - that has a shelf-life of about 10 seconds. You set the limits, but once your friend(s) see the image it will vanish from the online ether before you can even think to share it.

To get adults' attention, the typical stories making the rounds are that Snapchat can really up your sexting game. If Anthony Weiner had Snapchat instead of Twitter, he'd be President by now (or at least still have his seat in Congress).