Twitter Chairman and Square founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose last night to talk about Dorsey’s unique position of being responsible for two technology startups based on the idea of simplicity: Twitter and Square. Watching this interview you realize that Dorsey’s accomplishments have little to do with luck, and more with his focus on creating the purest products by throwing away any unnecessary flourishes.

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Jack Dorsey On Charlie Rose: “It’s Really Complex To Make Something Simple.”

In the world of online video, there is a battle brewing over the next dominant standard for online video, especially on HTML5 Web pages. Today, Google took the gloves off and declared that it will soon stop supporting the H.264 video codec in its Chrome browser

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The Gloves Are Off: Google Chrome Browser Will Drop Support For H.264 Video Codec

Exclusive – SmallRivers , the Switzerland-based company behind Paper.li , a service that taps social streams from users and turns them into personalized online newspapers, has just raised $2.1 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners , SoftBank Capital and Endeavour Vision . The fresh capital and relations will service to grow SmallRivers’ team, establish partnerships with global service and content providers and set up shop in the United States and Asia. For starters, SmallRivers is planning to move part of its team from Switzerland to California.

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Paper.li Raises $2.1 Million For Social News Curation, Hits 2 Million Users

Groupon is determined to launch daily deal sites in markets all over the world, as we’ve seen in the past. This morning, the social commerce company announced that it has acquired SoSasta (India), Grouper (Israel) and Twangoo ( South Africa ). Terms of the deals were not disclosed

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Groupon Acquires Its Way Into Israel, South Africa And India

TagMan , a company that allows marketers and advertisers to track online ad campaigns, has raised $2.25 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft Partners with iNovia Capital and undisclosed angel investors participating in the round. This round of funding brings the startup’s total funding to nearly $5 million.

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TagMan Grabs $2.3 Million To Track Online Ad Campaigns

Ericsson , which provides tech and services to telecom operators around the globe, estimates that the number of mobile broadband subscriptions has grown to a whopping 500 million during the course of 2010, and that this number will double before the end of this year. Ericsson forecasts that the majority of subscriptions, roughly 400 million in total, is expected to be concentrated in the Asia Pacific region, followed by North America and Western Europe with more than 200 million subscriptions each

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Report: Number Of Mobile Broadband Subscriptions To Surpass 1 Billion In 2011

If you haven’t yet checked out Prezi , one of the most innovative presentation tools I’ve ever seen, you’re totally missing out. Today, the young company behind the amazing product is ( finally ) launching the highly-anticipated Prezi for iPad, enabling users to show stunning live presentations straight from the tablet computer. Right off the bat: we all know the iPad doesn’t support Flash, so not all existing presentations can be viewed in full if they contain Flash material such as videos

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Prezi Launches A Precious Presentation App For The iPad