Contrary to several reports, Wikipedia’s Founder Jimmy Wales is not relinquishing his editorial control of Wikipedia and its related projects.

Daily deal service Groupon , hot off a new funding that valued the company at $1.35 billion , may not love all those clones of its service out there . But they’re certainly being realistic about things – tomorrow they’ll announce the acquisition of German startup Citydeal, CEO Andrew Mason just called to tell me. Citydeal first launched in January, raised €4 million in funding, and now has offers in 80 European cities

This guest post was written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO of AppVee and AndroidApps , which was recently acquired by mobile app directory Appolicious.

Yesterday, I moderated a panel at TiEcon featuring the heads of product for Google, Twitter, and Facebook — an interesting group, obviously. It was a good, long discussion (hopefully I’ll have the full video to post soon). But definitely one of the most interesting points of the discussion was when I asked Bradley Horowitz , a Vice President of product management at Google, why Google Buzz doesn’t import tweets in real time