Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund.

Hacker collective of the moment LulzSec  has just released a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement, in what it calls “Operation Chinga La Migra” (or  literally translated  ”Fuck the border patrol”). I’m still downloading the 446MB torrent that they claim contains hundreds of classified documents including personal emails, names and phone numbers

Yesterday Shazam , the company that lets users identify recorded music simply by holding their phones up toward a speaker, announced that it had raised a whopping $32 million .

“This is the next Macintosh-level of disruption.” Over the past several years, I’ve followed pretty much every new thing in the technology space, and written about many of them. But it’s hard not to get cynical when so much of what’s out there is not only not

TechCrunch Disrupt winner Soluto has raised $10.2 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures led the round, with Saul Klein taking a board seat. Previous investors including Bessemer, Giza Venture Capital, and Proxima Ventures also participated

Apple introduced Final Cut Pro X earlier this week, with the tag line “Everything just changed in post.” I guess it depends on what you mean by the word ‘changed’. Apple said they showed the pre-release version to professional editors and their jaws dropped. One Academy Award-winning editor said he was “blown away” by the modern and fast software that let’s you focus on telling your story without worrying about the technical details

Facebook’s incredible worldwide growth has reached another major milestone: the service now has 750 million monthly active users, according to a source close to the company.

In the quest for a unified database of places , geo-location startup Factual is making big strides. Today it is announcing a major partnership with SimpleGeo to maintain and power its places database, which up until now has offered a competing database of places in the eyes of developers. The merged database will have 30 million places, and be maintained and updated by Factual

Facebook is testing a new home page design that allows the news feed to be scrolled independently of the rest of the page.

Keep an eye on yet-to-be launched Picadee , a new Seattle startup getting some buzz.