By all accounts, Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day held last month for its Winter 2012 class was a biggie. With 66 companies presenting their apps, it was pretty impossible to name a startup that was the clear star of the group. But judging from the industry and investor buzz over the past few weeks since then, Socialcam , a mobile app for shooting, editing, and sharing smartphone videos, has emerged as one of the standout companies from this latest YC batch

Google launched a massive redesign of Google+ earlier today. The reaction to this new interface for the company’s fledgling social network have been generally positive, but most users are somewhat confused about why there is suddenly so much whitespace on the site

Samsung teased the masses this past February when they revealed that one of their first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets would be the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, a decidedly mid-range device that seemed lacking in the style department. At the time, Samsung made it known that the Tab would arrive in the U.K. Before trickling down to the rest of the world, a plan that didn’t really pan out

Publisher Condé Nast has acquired ZipList , an online service that allows users to save recipes and turn them into ingredient shopping lists. AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka is reporting that the acquisition price was $14 million, including earnouts for some employees.

Here we go: it’s the last night of our whirlwind Virginia tour and this time we’re in Richmond, home of the Fan District, Altria (everyone’s favorite tobacco company), and our friends at Snagajob . It looks like this town is just started to unwind a little and consider entrepreneurship as a viable alternative to the corporate life so we’re pretty excited to be here. We’ll be doing full posts on most of the folks we met on our journey and until then, enjoy these views of Snagajob’s handsome slide and orange/orange color scheme

AisleBuyer , makers of a virtual shopping assistant app that lets in-store customers bypass checkout lines by paying directly on their mobile phone, has been acquired by Intuit. The Boston-based startup will be joining Intuit’s payments team, where their technology will be used to transition Intuit’s existing point-of-sale solutions as well as Intuit’s Square competitor  GoPayment to the cloud

Facebook posted a position for IP Counsel this week, as well as several positions for engineers and data center employees, according to the company’s  Careers  page. On  LinkedIn  Facebook posted positions for various account management staff.

America’s favorite funnyboy [citation needed], Jim Gaffigan, has just released his new special, Mr.

Ryan O’Rourke of Groupon joined the Facebook design team this week, and according to Facebook’s  Careers  page, the company seems to have hired a few engineers, marketers and other staff. The company’s  LinkedIn  feed shows that an engineer, fraud specialist, analyst and a few others were hired since our last post

As e-book publishers and Apple face an  antitrust lawsuit  over pricing, magazine publishers are now looking into an alternative solution to the digital pricing dilemma: being able to extricate themselves from Apple’s grip entirely. A startup called  Netizine , makers of a new, tablet-ready social magazine platform for publishers is currently in talks with seven of the ten top global publishers, we’re told, including three of the top five in the U.S. And what is Netizine offering