How BlackBerry Fell  —  Shares in the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones peaked in August of 2007, at two hundred and thirty-six dollars.  In retrospect, the company was facing an inflection point and was completely unaware.  Seven months earlier, in January, Apple had introduced the iPhone at San Francisco's Moscone Center.

On The Future of iOS and Android  —  We've entered the age of iOS and Android penetrating beyond mobile, and there's a lot happening with respect to how the entire ecosystem is developing.  Mobile advancements / investments are now driving the progression of all converged hardware / software.

Carl Icahn Makes a Large Investment in Apple  —  Shares of Apple are rising by more than four percent on word that Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor trying to take over Dell, has made a large investment in the company behind the iPhone and the Mac.

Facebook Testing VIP App With Some Celebs  —  The VIP app, which sources say Facebook is currently testing with a small group of famous people, essentially lets celebs (or their handlers) easily monitor Facebook fan chatter about themselves from a mobile device.

FitBit raises $43 million in new funding  —  Activity tracker bulks up ahead of possible competition from Apple.  —  FORTUNE — FitBit, maker of a wearable device that measures physical activity, has raised $43 million in new venture capital funding.  Fortune has learned that Softbank Capital led …

Amazon's AWS Now Offers A Push Notification Service For iOS, Android And Kindle Apps, Widening Its Toolkit For Mobile Developers  —  Amazon continues to “push” further into the space of becoming a one-stop shop for mobile developers looking to make, host and distribute apps …

Some 2013 Nexus 7 users report buggy multitouch, Google is investigating  —  A muddled sense of direction isn't the only problem affecting the new generation of Nexus 7 slates, it seems, as some users are also reporting issues with multitouch on the 1,920 x 1,200 display.

Norway blocks Apple map flights  —  Oslo (left) is visible in 2D on Apple's map but Danish capital Copenhagen (right) is in 3D  —  Norway's government is refusing to let Apple take aerial photography of the capital city Oslo to create 3D images for its Maps app, reports local media.

To Square Up To Foursquare, Yelp Now Lets Users Post Reviews Directly From Its Mobile App  —  It's been a long time coming, but user-generated local reviews site Yelp is finally getting with the program: today it is rolling out the ability for users to write reviews directly in its mobile app …

Microsoft unveils wrist-friendly Sculpt Ergonomic and Sculpt Comfort Desktops  —  Microsoft has pursued ever more exotic shapes in the name of comfort.  Its new Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop might just take the cake, however.  The all-wireless bundle's centerpiece, the Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard …

Telefonica pens deal with Evernote, gives global customers one year's free premium access  —  You've got to hand it to Evernote, it's taking the initiative when it comes to getting its popular productivity tools into as many hands as possible.  We've already seen Deutsche Telekom customers getting access …

Twitter Buys Open Source Training Company Marakana To Power New “Twitter University” For Engineers  —  Twitter today announced its latest acquisition, along with a move into offering richer resources to attract better engineering talent to the company.  It has bought Marakana …

Mobile subscriber growth in the U.S. slows to a standstill  —  U.S. mobile carriers added only 139,000 new connections to their networks in the second quarter, making it the most lackluster period of growth in the modern age of mobile, according to a new report from Chetan Sharma Consulting.

Larry Ellison: Some government surveillance is ‘essential’ to fight terror  —  Ellison also weighed in on his friendship with Steve Jobs and Oracle's litigation against Google in a televised interview  —  Some level of government surveillance is “essential” if the nation is to minimize …

Box for Android now supports account toggling, real-time updates for offline files  —  Summary: Even though enterprise is the core target audience, Box product managers know that most users want to be able to toggle between multiple accounts for work and play.

Business Intelligence Startup Looker Raises $16M From Redpoint, First Round  —  Looker, a business intelligence startup founded by an early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps, has raised $16 Million in series A funding, led by Redpoint Ventures with First Round Capital …