Zuckerberg's Hoodie a ‘Mark of Immaturity,’ Analyst Says  —  Mark Zuckerberg is known for having arrived late for a meeting with prospective investor Sequoia Capital and giving a less-than-serious pitch while wearing pajamas.  —  Now, as Facebook preps its initial public offering …

BREAKING NEWS: Twitter Stands Up For One Of Its Users  —  Twitter has filed a motion in state court in New York seeking to quash a court order requiring it to turn over information about one of its users and his communications on Twitter.  This particular case involves a Twitter user …

Sources Say AOL Seeking Buyers for Engadget and TechCrunch.  Arrington “Not In The Least Bit Interested”  —  We weren't sure about this one at first, but now we have two independent sources confirming that AOL is exploring the sale of its cornerstone technology sites Engadget and TechCrunch.

HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes  —  What's that?  You're hungry for more HP laptops?  Good!  Because we're not nearly done yet!  The company just expanded its line of Ultrabooks from two to five, and that's not even counting this guy.

Exclusive: Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From Board  —  CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is still unsolved.  —  Patti Hart — the Yahoo director in charge of the search that resulted in the hiring of Scott Thompson as its CEO …

Two weeks of smartphone charging in your pocket  —  Juice in a box.  Lilliputian's portable fuel cell can deliver between 10 to 14 full charges for an iPhone with one replaceable cartridge.  —  (Credit: Lilliputian Systems)  —  Retailer Brookstone this year will start selling …

A better Google+ notification experience in email  —  Notification emails are a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Google+ stream: whether someone mentions you, comments on your post, or shares with you directly.  It's not always enough to just read these updates, however …

Smoked by Windows Phone by the numbers (and new ads!)  —  When I kicked off Smoked by Windows Phone at CES in January, I did it with one thing in mind - show the world that Windows Phone is simply faster at the everyday stuff that people do on their smartphones.

Nano-SIM update: Apple design modified to fix concerns, standard will be decided this month  —  We just spoke with SIM card maker (and pioneer) Giesecke & Devrient here at CTIA about progress on the creation of the 4FF standard — the so-called nano-SIM — over which Apple and Nokia have been warring in recent months.

Samsung Galaxy S III confirmed as official Olympic phone, delivering NFC payWave payments to athletes  —  We may have known this was the case for a number of months already but today Visa has announced that Samsung's new Galaxy S III will indeed be the official London 2012 Olympic Games smartphone …

Foursquare CEO Reveals Plans for Personalized Coupons  —  Foursquare doesn't want to be another popular—but unprofitable—social network.  Its new plan to make money?  Personalized coupons.  —  The company, which lets users alert their friends to their location by “checking in” …

New iPad Coming to 30 Additional Countries Including Brazil on May 11 and 12  —  As revealed by Apple's iPad selection page for Latin America, the new iPad will be launching in 13 new countries in that region this Friday, May 11.  The most significant new addition is Brazil …

Shell Apps and Silver Bullets  —  Every company comes up with the idea of writing a “shell app.”  By replacing native code with a web view you could:  — Release new functionality outside a full app update  — Implement a feature once and share it across platforms

Thousands of Twitter passwords exposed  —  Twitter is investigating the release of what appear to be thousands of user account passwords and e-mail addresses.  —  “We are currently looking into the situation.  In the meantime, we have pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected …

What Is and Is Not A Technology Company  —  When I was a kid, I had a morning routine with my family.  Over breakfast, we'd divvy up the newspaper.  I'd go straight for the Business section, and from there to the back pages with yesterday's stock prices.  Scanning down the lines of tiny text, I'd look for SUN, ORCL, MSFT, AAPL, SGI.

Virgin Media site goes titsup in Pirate Bay payback attack  —  Anonymous claims takedown victory  —  Virgin Media's main website dropped off the interwebs on Tuesday with hackivist collective Anonymous claiming responsibility for the DDoS attacks in response to the company's recent cut-off of The Pirate Bay.

Andreessen Horowitz Confirms Its Scout Program, Calls Out Lazy Angels Who Hate Competition  —  It's all coming out now.  —  Andreessen Horowitz Partners has just confirmed that it too has been operating a stealthy scout program.  —  In case you missed it, last week we uncovered …

StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp Steps Down, 10 Years Later  —  Garrett Camp, the co-founder and long-time CEO of Web discovery service StumbleUpon, is moving on.  Or up, you could say — Camp will now be chairman of the board, while the company undertakes a public search for a new CEO.

As venture capitalists turn their backs on China, funding dries up  —  Venture capital investment is hitting the skids in China, the world's largest Internet market.  —  VC investment fell to its lowest level in six years this quarter, as reported by Dow Jones VentureSource.

Sina Weibo to introduce ‘user contract’ on May 28 as China's microblog crackdown continues  —  Fresh from admitting that it hasn't fully implemented China's new rules for microblogs, Web giant Sina is set to introduce a ‘user contract’ for its popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo service at the end of May …

How Steve Jobs came to play FDR in a 1984 Apple short film  —  In 1984, Steve Jobs played FDR in an Apple short film intended to follow its famous Super Bowl commercial that debuted the same year.  The short film was called 1944 and was designed to inspire the Apple workforce to beat IBM.