It appears that the Daily Deal space is getting a bit more crowded as crowdsourced directory service Yelp recently confirmed that they have been testing Groupon-style deals in Sacramento. http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/26/yelp-gears-up-to-take-on-groupon-starts-testing-local-deals/ Switched.com later reported that the above mentioned TechCrunch Groupon story was blown out of proportion. http://www.switched.com/2010/07/27/yelp-is-not-competing-with-groupon/ Time will tell.

Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001.  After serving as Electronic Arts’ executive vice president of digital, he left three months ago to focus on startups. Today, he leads seed-stage investments with Initial Capital and serves on the board of Supercell, the #1 iOS grossing game company in the world. Before that, he co-founded, ran and then sold social gaming pioneer Playfish to  Electronic Arts for $400M in 2009

At first glance, the similarities between PicMix and Instagram are obvious. Both apps are photo sharing platforms with simple, square Polaroid-esque aesthetics, and display photos from friends in streaming feed.

Google sure isn’t giving up on its Chromebook initiative , even though it’s not clear that the company’s Chrome OS-based laptops are selling all that well. Today, Google announced that it’s expanding its brick-and-mortar retail efforts for Chromebooks through partnerships with Walmart and Staples. Over 1,500 Staples will feature them starting this weekend and about 2,800 Walmart stores will carry Chromebooks later this summer

You know who you are. You check into  CrunchBase  every day, maybe a few times, just to make sure your competition has not closed that new round