Matthew Inman of “The Oatmeal” successfully managed to raise $500,000 in two days to go towards a museum honoring Nikola Tesla. [Guardian]
In 6 days, with help from Inman the project raised it target amount of $875,000. With NY state matching the raised amount that puts the project at over $1.7 million. [The Next Web]
“Google’s Motorola division claims Apple is infringing on seven of its patents and wants to block iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers from being imported to the U.S.” [Digital Trends]
Here is a list of the 20 Most watched TED talks so far. If you don’t know what a TED talk is you should acquaint yourself with them by watching a couple of the videos on the list that sound interesting to you. [TED Blog]
Instead of buying Instagram for $1 billion cash, the deal was $300 million in cash and about 23 million shares of Facebook stock. The Instagram founders are out almost $300 million. [NY Times]
In a move that I’m surprised took this long to happen “eBay bans ‘intangible’ items including spells, curses & advice” [Wired]
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