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If anyone is going to buy Twitter, it certainly won’t be Google. Ever since the company rolled out Google+ in June last year, it’s been focused on delivering and iterating its own social network. Up until that point, it was looking to acquire Twitter as a way to enter the social network space. Even though many regard Google+ as a ghost town, Google has already set out to integrate all of its web properties with Google+ and it sees G+ as the future of Google’s services.

Lo and behold, Microsoft’s new so.cl (social) is actually integrated with Bing and for some reason, it looks to be “inspired” by Google+.

Up until the year 2000, Apple’s laptops had been sporting an Apple logo that wold appear upside down when the lid is opened. Of course, up until that moment it had not been such a big issue. The logo would appear the right way up to the person who was about to use the computer but upside down to onlookers and it wouldn’t matter one bit. And then Hollywood happened. Apple’s notebooks were showing up in popular TV shows and movies and somebody at Apple noticed. You could say that this was a marketing decision ahead of usability, but in my opinion, this was the right decision. In an era in which brand recognition is important, you can’t dismiss a simple “branding oversight” such as this. Steve Jobs himself actually highlighted and ridiculed this point when he introduced the PowerBook G4 in January 2001 at Macworld Expo.

If you’re a web developer, on a Mac, and you’re not using Coda, what’s wrong with you? Anyway, Today Panic announced Coda 2, the long anticipated update to its highly popular web development app. With several new features and long awaited support for MySQL, Coda aims to maintain its place as the preferred app for web developers.

Speaking of which, Panic also announced Diet Coda, an iPad app that works together with Coda 2, which lets you take web development on the go. As John Gruber said, it’s the best named iPad app ever.

Unlike other mobile phone manufacturers, Apple has always stuck to a single new model every year since the iPhone was originally released in 2007. Other companies may release five or fifteen models a year, Apple sticks to just one. However, it has elected to maintain older models up to two generations behind every year and sell them at reduced prices. As a result, it can hit lower price points that it could not in previous years and provide competition to newer and cheaper phones. After all, many new phones being sold at lower price points essentially use older technologies anyway.

The 3GS currently is sold in the US for either free or $1 up front  with a two year subsidized contract, but in developing markets, the phone sells for roughly $375-$430 without subsidies. Consumers in developing markets also tend to purchase phones outright in the first place either by choice or by design. Mobile telcos in these markets don’t necessarily offer subsidized contracts.

By offering the 3GS at a lower outright price even as Apple releases a new iPhone later this year, it could significantly increase the adoption of iOS and provide Apple with an even more expanded lineup without compromising on size and quality. Additionally, if Apple does offer the 3GS alongside the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and the upcoming new iPhone, there might be a chance that Apple maintains compatibility with the upcoming iOS 6 even if it may be in a limited fashion.

Trading of ZNGA had to be suspended twice to ensure it didn’t collapse even further. As it turned out, it wasn’t due to or despite the symbiotic relationship that Facebook and Zynga have, the market that day was just bad overall. At close of business on Friday, NASDAQ and most of Wall Street dropped like a rock. FB itself barely managed to maintain its IPO price, closing just 0.6% up. Even then, it was due to some heavy lifting by Morgan Stanley which pushed to ensure that Facebook’s first day performance did not go below $38. Morgan Stanley is of course an underwriter for Facebook.

Were there any doubt that Google would close off Android and charge license fee for partners? It seems unbelievable but apparently to gain approval from Chinese authorities over Google’s acquisition of Motorola, the company had to make such an assurance. Amazon and a number of Chinese companies had been forking Android builds to create their own mobile operating systems and in the process, cuts Google off. Surely this annoys the company and perhaps provided the reason for the concern but it seems that it would be against Google’s best interest to close off Android. Regardless, the Motorola deal ensures that Android will remain free and open for another five years which means companies like Amazon and Baidu would be free to create their own Android-based operating systems.

Kevin Hartz is the CEO of Eventbrite and until last year, he was an angel investor. His investment portfolio included Airbnb, Pinterest, Yammer, Flixster, and more. This year though, he’s no longer interested in investing. The reason? Investing is getting expensive and competition is high among investors.

We can’t know how much longer this abundance of capital will last, but I don’t want to be a part of it. When I see a massive number of new investors and carpetbaggers coming in, it’s time to get out.

The natural resources of the startup world are getting scarcer and scarcer, and the cost is getting higher and higher. It’s all an outgrowth of an abundance of capital.

Does he plan to return to investing? Apparently so.

When things are most dire, and people are most scared,” Hartz says. “When people openly mock the consumer internet space and the excesses of it, that’s when I will start investing again.

Recognizing the lack of app recognition in its library for Windows Phone, Microsoft has been working on a way to convert data from Android apps into the same apps on Windows Phone. This method will catalog the apps you have on your Android phone and seek the same apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace and install them during set up. If no corresponding or compatible app is found, it will notify you of when it is available. At the moment Windows Phone has close to 100 thousand apps in the Marketplace while Google Play has more than half a million. This means while some of the more popular ones exist on both platforms, such as Foursquare, Evernote, Endomondo, Skype, and Twitter, many others are still not available on Windows Phone.