Google just launched Chrome for iOS and it’s now available in the App Store . Don’t get too excited, though

Collaborative consumption  – generally, marketplaces for buying and selling access to products and services — may bring to mind startups like  TaskRabbit and Zaarly  for tasks, or short-term rental service Airbnb .

I feel like we’re watching Google TV roll by and off into a nearby ditch.

Google won the Internet by pulling off a truly impressive Google Glass skydiving stunt, twice, during their I/O event. Skydivers in wingsuits 4,000 feet above San Francisco delivered the high tech glasses to the Moscone stage in just four minutes, with help of 25 cameras, a zeppelin and a helicopter, stunt bikers and someone repelling down the side of the convention center. The whole thing was shown on live video in a Google Hangout from the skydivers’ and bikers’ glasses to the surprise of developers in the audience and those watching on YouTube

Bob Mansfield , Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will retire this summer after 13 years with the company.

“Oh you know Johnny? Then let’s get naughty.” Whether it’s for one night or forever, we’re more likely to choose mates who have Facebook friends in common with us. This comes according to a new study by Coffee Meets Bagel , a startup that shows you  a suggestion of someone to date each day and connects you if you both fancy each other.

It’s been a bleak call, thus far. We just heard on RIM’s Q1 2013 earnings call that the Waterloo-based company only shipped 7.8 million smartphones this quarter, which is down 30 percent from 11.1 million units shipped last quarter .

It’s no secret that Americans could lose a few pounds. I’m not calling them fat per se, but let’s just say that Hans and Franz are pretty busy these days. In January, GymPact launched a website and iPhone app with the goal of complementing all those newfangled health data trackers, devices, and virtual training apps to incentivize couch potatoes to get up and go to the gym — or yoga, the pool, or spin class

Today on RIM’s Q1 2013 conference call, CEO Thorsten Heins admitted that “this was a challenging quarter for the company,” but announced 78 million subscribers with “churn remaining high.” He admitted particular success with the BlackBerry Bold product.

RIM has just released their Q1 2013 financials , and they’re about as bleak as the company expected. The Canadian company reported a net GAAP loss of $518 million (which breaks down to $0.99/share diluted) on revenues of $2.8 billion