A reader of Geekwire has sent in what he claims is a shot of Google Drive, which apparently has activated early for him. It’s entirely possible that the shot is fake — Google’s stark interface isn’t exactly difficult to recreate. There are no obvious red flags we can see, though, and it jives with the presumably legit screen seen briefly at a Google-sponsored event back in 2011.

Some Facebook users now see a “suggested guests” module on events they plan to attend.

New York City seed investors are growing up, and raising bigger funds.

There’s a referral traffic goldmine on Facebook, and today 13 more news outlets are staking their claim. The Daily Show, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post are launching Facebook Open Graph reader and video watching apps today or soon, Facebook just announced

At the Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference in San Francisco Thursday, Groupon Founder and CEO Andrew Mason took to the stage to talk about the daily deal behemoth’s newly-minted position as a public company, its roller coaster ride both leading up to and since its IPO, as well as plans for the future. There was a lot of pressure bearing down on Groupon in the months leading up to its emergence on NASDAQ, with many grumbling about its overvaluation and undercooked business model, among other things

Facebook will allow a small number of public figures to verify their accounts beginning today, a spokesperson from the company confirms.

Chinese search engine Baidu posted Q4 earnings today.

Having built a socially-driven market research business on Facebook and across the web, Peanut Labs is launching a new iteration of its crowd-sampling tool today called CrowdVi.be . The goal is to let a brand or anyone else quickly ask questions and get meaningful answers back from random internet users. Sure, you can use other social media tools, like Twitter and Facebook, to instantly get feedback online.

I believe the children are the future. (What, too soon?) But in the case of the new FTC report on mobile applications for kids, which references the current data handling practices employed by mobile developers, the children  are  the future.

Israeli company BIScience has a launched a new product called AdClarity , which it says will give advertisers more data than they’ve ever had about their competitors’ advertising plans. CEO Orey Gilliam notes that the online advertising landscape has evolved to the point where there’s rarely a direct link between advertiser and publisher but rather “a complex deployment chain of ads.”Take your normal banner ad. Just by looking at it, you can tell who the advertiser is, and the publisher, but the intermediaries — the ad networks, agencies, and affiliate networks — aren’t apparent, leaving you in the dark if you really want to understand how a campaign was executed.