You’re about to see whole lot more Tweets from the President. President Obama’s Twitter account, @BarackObama, has been around for sometime, accumulated 8.6 million followers but he was rarely sending any Tweets himself -his staff did

Square is still working on raising its $50 million-or-so next round of venture capital , and we’ve heard from several sources why it’s taking so long. It seems Square is no longer content to be in the $1 billion valuation club, which is admittedly getting a little crowded . I mean, once they’ve let Spotify in, they’ll let any hot app in, right

One aspect of the Egyptian uprising (among the others, most ongoing) that was overpowered by the wild acclamation of social media is something that has been quietly but powerfully changing societal norms over the last decade. It is simply the inclusion, on almost every mobile phone sold, of a digital camera. When 90% of the active population can, at any time, record an event they are witness to, and transmit it to the rest of the world instantly, many rules begin to change

Two of many challenges developing countries face are unsafe water and a lack of affordable energy. With the help of a new $1.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , Ghana may be able to combine these lacks into an asset in the form of biodiesel.

Last week Twilio , the startup that makes it easy for developers to integrate SMS and telephony features into their own applications, made a significant pricing change: they dropped the price of each outbound SMS message to one cent (it used to be two cents per message). That may not sound like much, but given that some companies being built on the technology handle a huge volume of texts — including some of the group texting apps — it adds up.

Facebook has developed a free official iPad app which may launch in the next few weeks, according to anonymous sources quoted by the New York Times. To date, Facebook has left iPad owners to use the Facebook for iPhone app or m.facebook.com, neither of which are optimized for the tablet device.

I’m a dad and have no problem stating that Father’s Day is farce.

There’s currently something going on in the outskirts of the tech world that’s a bit sensitive, so no one really likes to talk about: we (journalists, bloggers, etc) are at war with the PR industry. That sentence alone with throw the PR flacks into a tizzy.

Anyone who was in the Valley during the late 1990s knows exactly the guy I’m about to describe. He wore blue shirts and khakis. He was a regular at the Bubble Lounge.

It’s not probably a coincidence that you guys arose or grew right alongside of Facebook basically, right? Right. In addition to riding the PayPal wave, you rode sort of the Facebook wave.