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- The Google Nexus One phone has sold about 135,000 units in the past 74 days. - The Verizon Droid sold about 1.05 million units in the first 74 days.   - The Apple iPhone sold about 1 million ... Full story

Chatroulette is a website where random people meet in chatrooms for webcam-based conversations. Any user can leave the chat-room by initiating another random connection. The website received traffic very quickly since it launched. Merton is probably the funniest user on Chatroulette. Merton plays the piano as he is ... Full story

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) SVP of U.S. Revenue and Market Development Joanne Bradford is leaving to join Demand Media.  She will take the position of Chief Revenue Officer at Demand Media. Bradford previously work as chief media officer of MSN Media Network.  She also worked at ... Full story

Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell have started an early-stage fund called Lightbank. They plan to invest as much as about $10 million annually in technology companies. This includes startups that need financing that range from $100,000 to $1 million. The ... Full story

Classmates.com is paying $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleges that the social network is duping people to buy paid memberships. Each of the 3.16 million users with “gold” premium accounts are expected to receive $3 for receiving messages that appear to be ... Full story

Symbolics.com was the first domain name ever to be registered. The registration took place on this day about 25 years ago (March 15, 1985). Symbolics was a computer manufacturing company and now the domain name is being used as the personal ... Full story

KIT Digital is a Prague, Czech Republic based video tool player company that has acquired a rival called Multicast. The deal is rumored to be worth about $18 million. This is about one week after KIT Digital announced a $15 ... Full story

Offerpal released data that contains survey information about how much social gaming consumers are willing to engage in alternative payments for exchange of virtual currency.  Below are the stats: -53.3%  percent of consumers are willing engage ... Full story

Nikon and Yfrog are teaming up to create a gallery of pictures and videos of the South by Southwest conference.  “In addition to viewing content and posting comments, site visitors and attendees can use yfrog to upload images and videos to ... Full story

At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event in Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest conference Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the company is launching a new user interface some time in the near future. It is rumored that there will be personalized feeds and ... Full story