A new report by CNET’s Greg Sandoval yesterday gave an update on Apple and Google’s race to deploy music to the cloud . Basically, according to his sources, Apple isn’t close to doing anything massive in the space. Google, meanwhile, is likely closer but may have a hard time getting traction early on due to iTunes’ dominance

According to SEC documents , Entech Solar raised $6.95 million, primarily from Quercus Trust, which owns 54% of the company.

It’s hard to stand out in the increasingly crowded field of mobile payments. There’s Paypal, Obopay, Zong, Boku, Intuit, Bling Nation, Visa, Jack Dorsey’s Square and several others all chomping at the bit to get a larger slice of this fragmented market. And then there’s Aaron Greenspan’s FaceCash .

To help users create their own advertisements on its performance ad system, Facebook has added a new “Suggest an Ad” feature to its Ads Manager tool. Instead of manually entering a title, body text, and photo, users can now enter a destination URL, and Facebook will scrape the site to fill in these fields.

Yesterday, Verizon made it clear that while the original Droid would be getting Android 2.2, it would not be getting one of Android 2.2′s most coveted features: WiFi HotSpot. In other words, you wouldn’t be able to flip a switch and turn your Droid into a little 3G-powered router for all of your friends to leach off on the commute home. The reason for this feature’s absence, said Verizon, was that “the Droid.

Updating your location in the background on mobile apps is gaining momentum as a use-case, most recently with an app allowing you to Check-In On Foursquare Without Taking Your Phone Out Of Your Pocket .

A retweet has become the sincerest form of flattery; Let’s be honest, we all want more of them.

Any time there’s a new movie hitting theaters, there’s a good chance that some of your friends (and thousands of other people) are tweeting about it. Unfortunately, there’s also a good chance that you’re going to miss or forget about those tweets.  fflick , a new site that was just launched by four ex-Digg employees, is looking to help fix that problem: it’s built a sentiment engine to try to harness Twitter and turn it into a massive movie critic. From a looks perspective, fflick is well done, with a colorful design that isn’t overwhelming or cluttered.

We’ve just released the August 2010 edition of the Facebook Global Monitor . The Facebook Global Monitor is our data report tracking Facebook’s audience growth around the world, and is a part of the Inside Facebook Gold data membership service. The Global Monitor tracks Facebook’s international metrics, and provides both historical data and forward-looking projections to enable developers, marketers, and analysts to spot trends and opportunities.

With screens on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets becoming larger and higher-resolution, watching video on your iPad or Android phone is only limited by your bandwidth, not by the screen. And as long as you are on WiFi, these tablets and touchscreen phones are perfectly serviceable video viewing devices.