


President Obama’s Ask Me Anything on Reddit needed 60 dedicated servers (!)

Instapaper might have found iPad Mini proof in app stats

California passes bills to create open-source digital library for college textbooks

Touchdown for cord-cutters: DirecTV offers ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ on PlayStation 3 again

Clone Wars 2: Apple’s gunning for copycat apps

Slaughter a few thousand rats in a free Fruit Ninja-inspired Dishonored spinoff

Amazon to debut two 7-inch Kindle Fire models next week (and one is ad-supported)

Facebook’s double-whammy financial downgrade leads to another stock-price nosedive

Penny Arcade Expo goes international with Australia show

Grooveshark once again kicked out of Google Play store

Plants vs. Zombies shambling to Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2 next week

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‘Copycat’ startups in Latin America are killing it

Dual-spacecraft mission GRAIL begins new measurements of our moon

Walmart testing ‘Scan & Go’ iPhone feature for self-checkout

Curiosity’s weekly video report: now with more freaking lasers

SV Angel files for a $40 million fund, ‘SV Angel IV’

Google gives up on TV ads

Steam lets you play in the streets of Gotham City Impostors for free

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SEC uses JOBS Act to set up new roadblocks to crowdfunding

Amazon’s app store sees massive growth (but it’s no Google Play)

Facebook’s letting developers reach users through notifications (updated)

‘Convertible equity’: a plan to keep early-stage startups out of debt

80% of people stop watching HD video stream when it buffers

Open webOS launches first beta for developers with 450K lines of code

How Storm8 can score millions of mobile game downloads with zero marketing cost (interview)

Why your Facebook Page has fewer likes

GamesBeat weekly roundup: More Zynga executives leave, CEO Perlman leaves OnLive, and Bethesda announces new Skyrim DLC

Zynga recruits a real-money gambling chief

Reuters: Amazon teaming up with Nokia for Kindle Fire maps

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Why Apple needs to lose the Samsung appeal

CrowdCall growing 100% every month, announcing new features & pricing next week (exclusive)

Apple’s iOS 6 App Store search takes a bite out of Chomp

The DeanBeat: Being a tortoise isn’t so bad, but the water is choppy, EA’s top game studio boss says

German researchers find possible ‘internet addiction gene’

Samsung finally records a court win over Apple

Microsoft unveils first wave of Xbox Live games on Windows 8

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How Microsoft’s Terms of Service changes impact your rights

Game streaming lives on as Big Fish launches 100 cloud games on Android devices
