Facebook has made its grand entrance into the geolocation space with Facebook Places. Will users embrace it and ditch Foursquare? That’s the question we posed in this week’s Web Faceoff, our ongoing series comparing technology apps… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

If you’ve got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you’ll probably want to check out YouTube’s new mobile site, which is rolling out today at m.youtube.com. It’s a major upgrade from the old mobile web app, with a more polished UI and better load times. It also uses plenty of HTML5 features, including the [...]

It’s official: Britney Spears has just become the top Twitter account, surpassing longtime Twitter king Ashton Kutcher by a margin of a handful followers at press… Mashable!

Finally, a movie-streaming service for the iPhone. One that lets you rent and stream movies directly to your mobile device, anywhere with 3G or Wi-Fi. You would expect this to have come from Netflix, right? Or at least Blockbuster? To the contrary, the company that’s gracing us with this killer feature is mSpot, a Silicon [...]

eBay squeezed past the Street’s expectations, reporting first quarter profits of 42 cents a share (or $554.2 million) on revenues of $2.2 billion, analysts were looking for profits of 41 cents a share. Revenues gained 9% from the year ago, thanks to a jump in sales in the Payments and the Marketplace businesses. Gross margins [...]

This afternoon Google released its earnings for Q1 2010. The company beat analyst expectations, though the stock has fallen nearly 5% in after-hours trading as some investors were hoping for more. Revenue was up 23% for $6.77 billion, with net revenue at $5.06 billion (estimate was $4.93 billion). Net income rose 37% to $1.96 billion, [...]

It looks like Hot or Not just got nexted. The new shiny of the moment Chatroulette soundly trounced the older site in this week’s edition of the long-running Web Faceoff series. At 742 votes, Chatroulette commanded 66% of the vote, more than twice the 281 votes Hot or Not netted to stake out its 25% [...]

PC Magazine – In Mozilla’s world, the Firefox Web browser is but a mere battle in a larger war, one that’s aimed at punching holes through closed, proprietary Web platforms of all kinds. What’s on the horizon? “Drumbeat”. View full post on Yahoo! News: Technology News

We had a very hotly contested matchup this week in our long-running Faceoff series, with Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE going up against Sony’s PlayStation Network for favorite online console gaming service. After an astounding 35,055 votes we’re ready to declare the winner… … and Xbox LIVE takes the win! They’ll obviously get an achievement rather than [...]

It’s been yet another exciting matchup here in our Web Faceoff series, with the newcomer Google Buzz going head to head with Facebook and Twitter for the heady title of Mashable readers’ favorite social network. Last week we saw free beat out premium in our online dating services head-to-head, and this week we wanted to [...]