Editor’s note:  This post is written by guest author Darius “Bubs” Monsef , who is founder & CEO of the new design marketplace CreativeMarket . He is also the founder of the popular creative community COLOURlovers  and is a mentor with 500Startups & PIEPDX. Bubs blogs at HelloBubs

There goes another one — RIM announced today that Chief Legal Officer Karima Bawa will soon be leaving the company. This is RIM’s second major departure in as many weeks, with RIM sales head Patrick Spence leaving the ailing smartphone maker last Wednesday.

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We’re currently used to more drama-oriented stories coming out of Yahoo!, but that doesn’t mean business hasn’t entirely halted there. Yamli is a service which offers a smart Arabic keyboard that allows users who type in Latin characters to find -in real-time – the most accurate equivalent Arabic term. It debuted in 2007 but has become an important part of a market which serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide

Face.com’s CEO has shrugged off  rumors  that it is being acquired by Facebook for up to $100 million when we asked.

Every gadget that graces our shelves goes through plenty of tweaks and changes during its design phase, but it isn’t too often that we get an actual glimpse of those scrapped iterations. It can be tremendously cool to see what our stuff could have looked like in some alternate timeline, and a new eBay listing reveals a peculiar iPad that may have been. The listing is for an early first-generation iPad prototype, and unlike the final model it sports two dock connectors, allowing the iPad to be docked in either portrait or landscape mode.

It may not be the end, but the prognosis doesn’t look good. Social micro-payments platform  Flattr  is taking an unkind hit in terms of its future growth opportunities on mobile, the company details on its blog this morning

Google just announced that its Google Apps for Business service has earned ISO 27001 certification. This certifies that Google is following the standard ISO information security management protocols and best practices “for the systems, technology, processes and data centers serving Google Apps for Business .” If you’re a startup or individual user, chances are you don’t care too much about whether a company you are working with is following any of the ISO’s over 19,000 standards .

So now we’re in for an apparently unlimited amount of blaming Facebook for just about anything that needs a scapegoat. Take the story that crossed whatever we call the wires these days about how social readers are being destroyed by some tweaking of the Facebook engine.

Editor’s Note:  TechCrunch  columnist  Semil Shah  is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter  @semil Cornell University made big news earlier in the year when it was announced the Ivy League school, located in upstate New York, would open a technology campus in New York City.