It’s been about four months since Amazon announced its plans to acquire of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com and Soap.com , for $540 million . The deal has not yet closed, primarily due to an extended review by the FTC

Today, at the DEMO Conference in Palm Springs, Salesforce VP of Platform and Marketing George Hu remained markedly confident over Salesforce’s future, smiling broadly in the face of rising costs and dipping profits. Hu has good reason to be smiling. Salesforce is the talk of the town these days, and one of the preeminent cloud companies in the market

Last month, we first wrote about Founders Den , a new “private clubhouse” for entrepreneurs in the heart of San Francisco’s SoMa district.

Twitter has changed the way we watch television. Say what you will about the 83rd Annual Oscars (and thus far the consensus is “meh”), you’ve probably already said it on Twitter.  Mass Relevance and TweetReach , a Twitter analytics service with commercial access to the Twitter API, have teamed up to make a data map of yesterday’s mass conversation.

Intel has officially completed its acquisition of security giant McAfee, according to a release issued today. Intel announced the $7.68 billion , all-cash deal last August

Facebook has responded to Congressman Ed Markey’s questions about its plan to allow users to grant applications access to their phone number and home addresses. The response explains that Facebook is considering answering widespread criticism of the plan by highlighting contact information requests in the permissions screen and barring apps from asking minors for this info.

I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don’t think that’s going to happen. In an open letter to users, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave several reasons why he didn’t want Flash on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch

Surely by now you’ve heard of the problems people have been having with their Gmail accounts. E-mails have been deleted, accounts have been disabled, and while Google has been hard at work trying to make everything right, it’s just another example of why moving your entire life to the cloud may not always be the best idea. Read more…

“I was born curious,” Peter Guber confessed to me when he came into the TechCrunch studio earlier this month. We should all be so curious. The legendary Guber – whose list of accomplishments as a superstar Hollywood producer (Rain Man, Batman, Midnight Express, Flashdance etc.), broadcaster, university professor, best-selling writer, new media mogul (board member of Demand Media) and sports franchise owner (co-owner of the Golden State Warriors) are probably unrivalled by anyone, either dead or alive – has just written a book explaining both his success and failure as a story teller.

Regardless of what you think about the Android platform, there’s no denying that the Market experience for finding apps is pretty poor . And that’s putting it nicely. Google has evolved the experience over the years, but even with Gingerbread, it’s far from great.