- Payment service Stripe makes its first acquisition, Kickoff Stripe, the online payments system for developers and founded by two Irish brothers, John and Patrick Collison, has made its first acquisition; Kickoff.
- Twitter's removing third-party image services from its official apps With all of Twitter's rules, display guidelines and API changes over the last few months, it's quite clear that Twitter now wants to be in complete control of its service. So much so that it is removing third-party image services like TwitPic and yFrog from its official apps.
- StumbleUpon reaches 25 million users, plans to localise in Europe Content discovery engine StumbleUpon reached 25 million registered users this week, growing from 5.5 million just three years ago, according to CEO Garrett Camp who spoke to TechCrunch's Anthony Ha.
- Manage Google+ Pages using third-party clients like HootSuite Managing Google+ Pages for businesses and organisations just got a lot easier as Google today announced a limited pilot programme granting six companies early access to the Google+ API. These six initial test partners are Buddy Media, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, HootSuite, Involver and Vitrue.
- Google+ to support Google Apps accounts in "coming days", relaxing real name policy Google+ Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra and Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed on stage yesterday at The Web 2.0 Summit in California that Google's new social network will begin to support Google Apps accounts in the "coming days".