AOL has announced its third acquisition of the day -- it has acquired Thing Labs, maker of the web-based social reader, Brizzly. The deal is reported to be around $10 million.

Once the golden child of the blogging world, Six Apart is being acquired by VideoEgg to form a new entity focused on brining in more advertising dollars.

Thousands of Amazon Kindle e-reader owners are using a free new website that helps them do something people have been doing offline for hundreds of years: lend and borrow books.

The popular open source CMS, Joomla, has announced its latest version.

Email purists are rejoicing over Google's decision to allow Gmail users to turn off Conversation View.

Watch out Internet Explorer. Looks like your competition is eating away at you.

There's trouble brewing for companies and entrepreneurs who may have registered .ly domains from Libya.

Aperion Audio has released the Aperion Verus Grand line of home theater speakers complete with a patent-pending tweeter, for sound reproduction.

While much of the news coverage surrounding TV features concentrates on 3D, the quiet revolution of connected TV is reaching new heights with over 40 million units expected to ship in 2010.

Toshiba has manufactured the first ever TV that displays in 3D -- no glasses required.

3D TV is still an emerging market, but manufacturers are disappointed to see that the technology didn't take off as hoped in 2010.

Epson has two new printers designed for small businesses, the Epson WorkForce 840 all-in-one and the Epson WorkForce 60 printer.

Undead Labs, an up and coming creative studio designing games exclusively for consoles, has announced that it's developing an original zombie-survival franchise in collaboration with Microsoft.

YESpay International has announced that it's planning to enable smartphone based mobile payments at many of its selected merchants that participate in its web and mobile YESpay-Wallet card payment program, allowing customers to pay for web, mobile and in-store purchases with select smartphones.

ViewsfromtheCube.com is a newly launched work-related social networking site meant to give constructive advice about the best working environments in a particular area. Views from the Cube allows users to rank and review all aspects of their careers, from their individual strengths to managers to entire companies.

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.

In what has to be one of the more bizarre ways to find love online, LoveFinderGames has announced the launch of its speed dating aquarium called, TheKissingFishGame.

The popular eReading service, Kobo, has announced that its social eReading experience, Kobo Reading Life, is now available for the iPhone.

Aperion Audio has launched its new the Aperion Verus Forte line. The new Verus Forte delivers an immersive audio experience combined with sleek looks.

Spider Holster, a company that makes holster-style carriers for photographers, has released the Spider Holster Black Widow camera holster, which offers photographers a comfortable and secure carrying solution that ensures quick-draw access for entry-level DSLRs.

LiveMind.com is changing the landscape of adult continuing education and casual learning by putting teachers and students together in live, online interactive classrooms.

Simply Measured has launched Export.ly to help marketers export, analyze and slice and dice social media data in Excel.

Verizon and Terremark have announced a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Terremark, a global provider of managed IT infrastructure and cloud services, for a total equity value of $1.4 billion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers.

Backupify has made available One-Click Restore for Google Apps. For businesses using Google Apps, Backupify is the only service available that provides continuous backup and One-Click Restore for critical data stored in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Contacts accounts.

Razer has released Razer Ferox an new ultraportable stereo speaker set that proves that's small in size while still packing a major audio punch.

Military.com has revamed and relaunched an improved version of its popular military spouse website, SpouseBUZZ.com.

Kabam a leading developer off massively multiplayer social games (MMSGs) for social networks, has launched an exciting new ‘Dragon Attack’ feature in Dragons of Atlantis, a strategy and combat game on Facebook. The addition of Dragon Attack now allows players to unleash their Great Dragons to lay waste to enemy armies and lands.

Parse.ly has raised $800,000 from Blumberg Capital, ff Asset Management, Scott Becker (formely co-founder and CTO of Invite Media), Don Hutchison (formerly principal at Netcom, Work.com), Jeffrey Greenblatt (senior principal at Ankyra Capital) and Jon Axelrod (formerly founder/CEO at MusicGremlin).

Warner Bros. Interactive is expanding into social games with the launch of Gossip Girl: Social Climbing, a new game playable on Facebook.

IBM has announced the Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, a new workforce mobility offering that provides anytime, anywhere access to personal desktops from mobile devices -- including tablets, netbooks and laptops.

Encoding.com, the world's largest video encoding service provider, today has launched the private beta of Vid.ly, the first universal video URL service. Vid.ly simplifies the preparation and delivery of video to all mobile devices and browsers, solving one of the larger challenges facing online video publishers.

Magic: The Gathering – Tactics is a brand new free-to-play online tactical strategy game from Sony Online Entertainment, in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast.

YOUBIQ, a developer of smartphone accessories, apps and services, has introduced three new products, that when combined, form a unique solution for capturing, managing and sharing media with the iPhone 4.