Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android.

One of the most buzzed-about startups over the last few months has been Codecademy — a site that looks to make programming accessible to just about anyone, with a variety of interactive, web-based courses that have users writing their first lines of code within a few seconds.

Update: Apparently all the online grieving was over a false alarm.

How did Facebook become worth so much money that it could  file for the biggest IPO in tech history ?

The perks of getting into a top startup accelerator just got a little better. Microsoft is now offering startups in its new BizSpark Plus program $60,000 worth of costs for using its Azure cloud computing program.

As everyone waits for Facebook to file for its IPO this week, one of the big questions is what will its valuation be.

Internet marketing agency  BlueGlass Interactive  has just acquired Voltier Digital, a digital agency specializing in content marketing, infographic creation and data visualization. Voltier, whose clients include eBay, CEO.com, Fanhattan, WellHome, COLOURlovers.com, Greatist, and others, will be relocating its entire six person team to BlueGlass’s Tampa offices immediately.

The latest technology to be adopted by the Obama campaign— Square . The mobile payments device is now being used by the Obama for fundraising, says the company. Staff, fundraisers and others are being equipped with the card reading devices, says Square, enabling the campaign to take donations on the go via Android devices, iPhones or iPads.

Solera Networks just announced that it has raised $20 million in Series D funding from Intel Capital (the chip-maker’s investment arm) and others.

Twitter has posted a seriously awful/hilarious recruiting video to YouTube, which the company says was the product of last week’s “ Hack Week .” During this time, employees were able to take time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate on new ideas.