WMPoweruser.com:
Ballmer re poor execution in Windows Mobile: “We’ve pumped in some new talent” “This will not happen again”  —  Microsoft is hosting a Venture Capital Summit today at Mountain View, being attended by around 200 Venture Capitalists.  Like everything else these days, the event is live on Twitter …

Lior Ron / The Official Google Blog:
Place Pages for Google Maps: There are places we remember!  —  Google Maps is a great tool for exploring places — you can pan around the map, zoom in and see nearby places, look around in Street View and search for whatever you want.  But what I always […]

Lisa Barone / Outspoken Media:
Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking  —  Seth Godin has ginormous balls.  There, I said it.  —  This morning, Seth used his much respected blog to reveal the news about Brands In Public.  If you missed it (and if you did, you should really adjust the volume on your Internet) … […]

Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Exclusive: Palm Pre’s Arrival at Verizon Shelved  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif. (TheStreet) — Palm’s (PALM Quote) Pre phone isn’t making the cut at Verizon (VZ Quote).  —  The Pre, Palm’s premier touch-screen smartphone, which has been an exclusive offering this year at Sprint (S Quote), had been scheduled to arrive at Verizon […]

Brad Stone / Bits:
Twitter to Become Tech’s Newest $1 Billion Company  —  Twitter, the fashionable microblogging service, is set to close a round of financing of around $100 million that values the three-and-a-half-year-old start-up at $1 billion, according to a person briefed on the company’s plans.

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
AT&T announces time for iPhone MMS availability Friday  —  American iPhone users should see multimedia messaging features unlocked late in the morning Friday on the west coast by way of a carrier update file that will be delivered through iTunes, AT&T announced Wednesday.

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ready and waiting with redesigned iMac line  —  Apple as early as this month will begin to fill out its 2009 Mac product line with a new family of iMacs sporting classier enclosures and a few added bells and whistles, AppleInsider has learned.  —  The new all-in-one …

Craig Wilkinson / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile gets My Location and more  —  It’s easier and faster than ever to search Google using your Windows Mobile phone.  Just visit m.google.com to download the latest version of Google Mobile App, which includes these new features:  — My Location.

Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Confirmed — Nvidia Working on Chrome OS Tegra Devices  —  Earlier this month, rumors out of China indicated that we’d see Google Chrome OS devices running on Nvidia’s Tegra platform.  I had a product briefing with Mike Rayfield, Nvidia’s GM of Mobile Business, and heard it directly from the source.

Deal Journal:
Breaking News: Twitter to Raise $100 Million From Insight, T. Rowe Price, Other Investors  —  The WSJ’s Michael Corkery and Jessica E. Vascellaro report:  —  Twitter, the messaging web site that has become an Internet sensation, is nearing a deal to close as much as $100 million of new funding …