Silicon Alley Insider (Monday)

Bing now powers 30% of all searches in the U.S., according to March statistics released today by Experian Hitwise.

Direct use of Bing was up 6% from February, and Yahoo Search -- powered by Bing -- was up 5%.

Google searches were do...

Silicon Alley Insider (Monday)

Amazon has found a new way to make its Kindle e-book reader even cheaper: It will start shipping a new edition next month that is supported by advertising.

The new Kindle with Special Offers will sell for $114, or $25 cheaper than the $139 Kindle...

Techdirt (Monday)
Could it finally be over? The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, along with Divya Narendra, famously sued Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he "stole" the idea of Facebook from them. They eventually sued him and then settled, getting (at the time) $65 million ...

TechCrunch (Monday)
There are now, by some estimates, 35,000 social games. Can you name the top five? I thought not. In other words, the sheer number of social games across the web, mobile and social platforms like Facebook mean they are now presenting the same problem as iPh...

Techmeme (Monday)

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Winklevosses To Challenge Today's Facebook Ruling  —  Earlier today a panel of Federal Appeals judges ruled that the Winklevoss twins had to accept a ruling that had them make due with a meager $65 mill...

Venturebeat (Monday)

Near-field communications, or NFC for short, is on the cusp of making e-commerce look like chump change, and much more quickly than most people think. The naysayers have arrived, and that’s a good thing: it means this disruptive technology is about to...