People are always trying to spruce up their email signatures with funny witticisms, quotes, professional information and more. WiseStamp is trying to innovate on the traditional email signature by allowing you to customize your message with recent Tweets, links to your social network profiles and more. WiseStamp, which was incubated within Dogpatch Labs, is launching [...]

Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST) today formally announced the acquisition of Russian social network Odnoklassniki.ru, which we reported on last week. DST has bought out out the minority shareholders in Forticom Group Limited – which it now fully owns – and Odnoklassniki, and interestingly transferred its interest in the Polish social network Nasza-Klasa.pl [...]

WikiLeaks has announced via Twitter that it will be releasing a leaked CIA paper sometime later today. The website rose to prominence after releasing over 70,000 U.S. Afghanistan war reports. Since then it has become the center of… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Verizon Communications has announced its plans to bring its FiOS TV service to tablet devices like Apple’s iPad. The company says it expects to launch the app next year, allowing FiOS TV subscribers to tune into live TV… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Starbucks stores nationwide now have free Wi-Fi, but details around the second piece to the coffee retailer’s digital strategy — the Starbucks Digital Network — have been slim. Here’s how Starbucks plans to cater to digital consumers and premium… Mashable!

Amazon is hiring a ton of hardware people, and sources close to the company say that it plans to expand beyond the Kindle e-reader to make new kinds of gadgets to help customers access the content it sells. Most likely,… Mashable!

Nissan’s Leaf is almost ready to be picked. The company announced its all-electric car will be available to buy as early as December, but only for those in California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Tennessee. Other parts of the country will have to hold their horsepower a little bit longer. Nissan chose to release to those [...]

Honda isn’t exactly the first Japanese car company that comes to mind when thinking about hybrids. Toyota, thanks to its Prius and hybrid Lexus line-up, won the general populus a few years back, but Honda is set to make another run with the third generation of Honda Civic Hybrids along with a new line of [...]

A lot of venture money is chasing social commerce startups right now because group buying sites are chasing a lot of money (in the form of consumer spending). Groupon kicked things off with its 5 million mega-round last April. LivingSocial has raised million so far. And now BuyWithMe just closed a million B round led [...]

As widely expected following the approval by Palm shareholders, the acquisition of the company by Hewlett-Packard for roughly .2 billion has today been announced closed. The price, as previously announced, is .70 per share of Palm common stock, paid in cash. Once again, HP repeats that it intends to double down on the innovative webOS [...]