Todd Simmons

Things are particularly grim at Zynga. Execs being investigated for insider trading for selling stocks before big drop: http://t.co/Gaov0gmJ

Facebook and other tech stocks are plummeting. Is this the tech bubble starting to burst or just a temporary blip? http://t.co/rBvnxUSW

Can games be funny? The creators of “The Act” worked for 20 years to release their game and prove that they can: http://t.co/yQ44NabS

Surprise! Ultrabooks aren’t selling very well because they’re too expensive: http://t.co/q0cu5Dth Maybe emulating Apple isn’t the solution.

And now Google has acquired the Mac/iPhone email app Sparrow. Another piece in the eventual Google native office suite? http://t.co/zz0yG4Zg

Hopefully Google will use its recent QuickOffice acquisition to build feature-rich, touch-friendly, native GDocs apps: http://t.co/8QbE1cTh

Ars Technica says the “touch optimizations” in Office 2013 are only skin deep. Still very hard to use on a tablet: http://t.co/ZN5Rb6UD

Marissa Mayer has her work cut out for her as Yahoo’s new CEO. First priority? Decide what the company wants to be: http://t.co/YxG86ekf

Penny Arcade says ads are crowding out games on the new Xbox Live dashboard. They break down the economics of why: http://t.co/FljLoLpt

An open, Android-powered, $95 game console called Ouya has raised $4.7 million on Kickstarter. Can they deliver? http://t.co/WdmjSFqM