Yahoo’s famous, long-standing billboard on the San Francisco skyline is coming down. In two weeks, the space will be available for some other company, according to a report in the San Francisco Egotist

Android is growing up. The platform that began its life as something built for the anti-iPhone crowd is quickly evolving into something built for everybody . Today, Google has overhauled Android’s website to match.

Sometimes, it’s the soft spoken guys who throw the biggest bombs. At this week’s Techonomy conference, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook was pretty radical in his economic and political analysis

Facebook hired a few engineers this week, according to it  LinkedIn  feed, but the company also appears to have brought on counsel, engineers, recruiters and more all over the world, according to listings removed from its  Careers  Page. Please see a complete list below. New hires per  LinkedIn  and Other Sources: Relja Petrovic, Software Engineer – previously did similar work at Wowd

Facebook has made two UI changes to the photo uploading process and the Events feature in the past couple of days. The new photo uploading process, announced yesterday , allows users to see photo uploads in real-time.

The Short Version In the mad rush to push out more and more Android slate products, Amazon and Barnes & Noble are like a calm port in the storm. Their devices are touted as ereaders but, after a bit of digging, you find that they are now considerably more interesting – and compelling – as tablet products for an entry level market.

I consider myself a pretty understated guy when it comes to attire, so when Ogio offered to send me the Squadron RSS in Celebrity White, I surprised myself my taking a chance on it. A white bag? This was strange new territory for me, but hey — what better time to be adventurous than during Bag Week

Facebook appears to be looking for employees to help the company deal with patents, mobile, sales and recruiting. We gather this information from the company’s  Careers  Page, and this week there were no postings on its  LinkedIn  feed to report.

Turkey has been named the most social and most flirtatious country in the world by a new  study by social network Tagged .

While SOPA supporters have tried to present the copyright bill as a bipartisan effort to stop the “theft” of copyrighted material, the bipartisan opposition has been building fast this week. Today, House minority speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has come out against it, too, saying on Twitter that “[we] need to find a better solution.”