Nintendo has just wrapped a press conference going over some developments for the 3DS . The platform has seen strong but lower than expected sales, though the pricing do-over in August has spurred adoption

Rupert Murdoch withstood intense grilling at News Corp’s annual shareholder meeting today, which focused largely on the phone-hacking scandal that is causing such an upset in the company’s financials and leadership. But among other things, Murdoch owned up to the debacle that has been Myspace. “I made a huge mistake,” he said.

Yikes, what a disheartening story. Proving that they don’t know a damned thing about fan communities, Sony Ericsson has filed a formal complaint against the fan-operated blog/forum Xperiablog.net , claiming that the owners were using it in “bad faith”. Fearing the costs of a legal battle, the site says they will be shutting down operations immediately.

Whenever a new iPhone comes out, people rush to have the first music video or short film shot entirely on its camera.

Red-hot startup Dropbox — you know, the file syncing service that just raised $250 million at a $4 billion valuation — has announced something this week that’s getting slightly less attention than its massive funding round, but is exciting all the same: the company has released an improved version of its mobile APIs, making the service better both in native apps and mobile web apps alike. Dropbox first launched its mobile API in May 2010, and it’s been implemented in loads of mobile app since then.

Facebook has quietly released a new feature in Facebook for iPhone 4.0 update that could create new opportunities for marketers. If users click or enter a URL that uses the fb://page URL scheme and have the official Facebook for iPhone/iPad app installed, the corresponding Facebook Page will be opened in that app. Before the 4.0 and later software updates, fb://page URL scheme links would load a blank screen in the apps

It’s been a rough quiet period for Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, but as his IPO nears in the next couple weeks the company is making a final push to sell their shares to the public with an IPO roadshow (which you can watch online ). Mason & Co.

Groupon has taken a lot of heat over the last six months, some of it deserved, some of it perhaps a bit excessive. There are definitely legitimate concerns about Groupon’s value for small businesses and merchants , but lofty valuations aside, we have to remember that Groupon is still a young company, and the future remains unwritten.

Recording of Gillmor Gang Live has concluded. Crunchbase KEVIN MARKS JOHN BORTHWICK JOHN TASCHEK ROBERT SCOBLE STEVE GILLMOR Person: Kevin Marks Website: Companies: Google , Technorati , BT , Salesforce Kevin Marks is a software engineer. Kevin served as an evangelist for OpenSocial and as a software engineer at Google

Slowly but surely, Google is finding more and more ways to integrate Google+ into all of their other products. The latest tweak: a one-click button, smack dab in the middle of your search results, for adding the author of the relative content to a Google+ circle. Google has been fiddling with the integration of Google+ into search results for weeks.