Online ticketing platform Eventbrite is making a big push towards reaching $1 billion in gross ticket sales in 2012; after doubling both the number of events on platform in 2011 (458,207 events in 2011) and tickets sold last year (20,798,509 tickets sold in 2011). In 2011, the company sold $400 million worth of tickets, which is double the $207 million it did in 2010.

Oh you guuuuys. Rather than just call it what it is (a press conference) Sprint and HTC have just sent out invitations to what they’re calling a “collaboration event” taking place in New York City on April 4.

Initial teardowns of the new iPad whetted many a chip nerd’s appetite when they revealed that the A5x chip inside was truly gigantic. At nearly 13x13mm, it is significantly larger than the A5 , which was itself already kind of a hefty bugger

There was a interesting mix of Facebook pages that made our list of the top 20 growing by the number of Likes this week, principally because it appeared as though several consolidations took place. Nonetheless, sports and music were popular, as were some film–related pages and a few pages from Thailand. Pages on our list this week grew from between 326,300 to 932,800 Likes

In a post today at Fast Company , well-known PR blogger and social media analyst Brian Solis shares his views on what have been referred to as the “Six Pillars of Social Commerce.” These pillars relate to six heuristics (rules of thumb) that Dr. Paul Marsden, editor of Social Commerce Today, first outlined over two years ago in his seminal post How Social Commerce Works: The Psychology of Social Shopping .

EggDrop , essentially a mobile app alternative to Craigslist, is starting to pick up steam. The company now boasts half a million downloads of its app on iOS and Android, with $8 million in listings from across the 50 U.S

Exclusive: GoldSpot Media has just unveiled its new “bandwidth-based ads”, a licensable technology that lets advertisers deliver a single mobile ad unit that appears as a simple rotating banner to viewers on 3G or mobile data, but as an auto-playing partial screen overlay video to viewers on wi-fi.

Skimlinks , a content monetization platform for web publishers, has released a comprehensive API suite . Part of this allows publishers to learn more about their users shopping habits

Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom’s new FreedomPop project was initially shrouded in secrecy, but they’ve recently become a bit more talkative about how the company plans to offer “free wireless broadband” to their customers. FreedomPop CMO Tony Miller spilled the beans about the company’s WiMax-based freemium wireless data service to Forbes , but left yet another question unanswered — what’s the “innovative” new wireless device they’ve got in the works

A few weeks ago Twitter announced that it would be bringing additional “Promoted Products” to the iOS and Android mobile platform, specifically Promoted Accounts and Promoted Tweets. At the time, Promoted Tweets were only being served to a small number of users from brands they fellow