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Here's a few options:iPad Apps:Zite, Pulse: Both have options that allow for you to customize news from your industry (Recommended categories: Technology, Startups, UX/UI, Design, Business, Investing)Traditional RSSVC and Research Firm NewslettersSorry I can't find the sign-up links, but a number of research firms and VCs have weekly newsletters that summarize all the happenings in the industry. A good one I recommend is ThinkEquity: Internet NewsletterHere's an excerpt of their most recent email to give you a sense:ThinkEquity LLCInternet NewsletterVolume 5, Issue 7 – Week of March 26, 2012Recent NewsSocialYahoo sued Facebook over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, opening the first major legal battle among big technology companies in social media. The lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, California federal court, marks a major escalation of patent litigation that has already swept up the smartphone and tablet sectors and high-tech stalwarts such as Apple, Microsoft and Motorola Mobility Holdings. (Link). Facebook acquired 750 patents from IBM, adding IP that may help it counter allegations of patent infringement. (Link)Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday last week. The Company has posted a number of stats about its growth in usage. Twitter now has 140 million active users is seeing 340 million Tweets a day (more than double what it was last March). A year ago, Twitter was seeing 140 million Tweets per day. (Link)Pinterest introduced brand-new profile pages, its first major design change since its major rise in popularity in the last six months. Pinterest launched in 2010, but recently it has seen astronomical growth and counts as one of the top 10 social networks on the web. According to recent comScore data, Pinterest users spend an average of 89 minutes per month on the site, which easily bests Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Only Facebook users spend more time than Pinterest users, with an average of 405 minutes spend there per month. (Link)Socialbakers shared some interesting data that gives insight into which brands are successfully engaging users on Facebook, and which are finding more luck on Twitter. Over all, it’s not surprising to find that Facebook is a far more suitable tool to use when trying to engage fans. Facebook engages people in a conversation and a dialogue providing its fans with a feeling of exclusivity. Twitter on the other hand is limited by 140 characters but at the same time its content reaches more people. (Link)Brands are wasting no time switching over to Facebook’s new Timeline Page design. Just one week after the social network rolled out the radical facelift, more than 8 million Pages made the transition. Facebook rolled out its new take on the personal profile to all users in December. More than one million Facebook Pages are making the switch to the new Timeline design each day, a Facebook spokesperson told VentureBeat. (Link)E-CommercecomScore released its monthly analysis of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for February 2012 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. Valentine’s Day had Americans searching the web for flowers, jewelry and just the right e-card for their loved ones. The highly anticipated Super Bowl XLVI drove traffic to a few key advertisers’ websites, with especially strong growth seen on Auto Manufacturer sites. (Link)Online ticketing platform Eventbrite is making a big push towards reaching $1 billion in gross ticket sales in 2012; after doubling both the number of events on platform in 2011 (458,207 events in 2011) and tickets sold last year (20,798,509 tickets sold in 2011). In 2011, the Company sold $400 million worth of tickets, which is double the $207 million it did in 2010. The Company just announced a complimentary credit card reader to allow event organizers to collect ticket payments on the go. (Link)Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo that will see it becoming the online and mobile movie ticketer for Yahoo! Movies, a service with over 30 million U.S. users according tocomScore. The new collaboration offers Yahoo users access to Fandango’s 20,000 screens across the U.S. and will support purchases online, on mobile and on tablets. (Link)There’s been lots of debate about whether mobile apps or the web have the upper hand when it comes to making content for smartphones, and when it comes to using it. Some interesting insights from Nielsen on how in the case of mobile shopping, for now the main audience in the U.S. seems to be much more interested in using the mobile web over store-specific apps. (Link)eBay launched a new feature of its iPad app called Watch With eBay, which allowed users to shop a selection of items on the marketplace related to what they are currently watching on TV. eBay is now separating out the feature into a standalone, free iPad app. The Watch With eBay app surfaces merchandise related to what consumers are watching on television, from the latest fashion trends at red carpet awards shows to sports memorabilia, to DVDs, signed autographs and other items related to favorite shows and actors. (Link)GamingJust days after the launch of Angry Birds Space, Rovio announced via Twitter that the application has already seen 10 million downloads. The game is topping Apple's paid and top-grossing charts for the App Store in countries around the world. (Link)Tablet games are expected to grow to $3.1 billion worldwide, according to a new report from analyst firm Juniper Research. The spending on tablet games is expected to account for a third of all mobile game revenues by 2016, when total mobile game revenues are expected to top $18.3 billion. (Link)Casual and mobile games company Miniclip has teamed up with app monetization platform and ad server MoPub, releasing a joint study on the behavior of mobile gamers, breaking the group down by age, gender, and content preference. The biggest surprise from the study came in this little nugget of user behavior wisdom: Despite its name and connotation, 44 percent of gamers play “mobile games” on the couch versus playing in any out-of-living room location, “including time spent traveling or waiting,” the study says. (Link)Gree has become a billion-dollar company in Japan with its mobile social games network. The Company launched Zombie Jombie, the first title made by Gree’s U.S. developers for an American audience. The title is an important one for Gree, which is competing with a larger rival Japanese firm DeNA, which has launched its worldwide mobile social network Mobage in an attempt to expand far beyond its audience of 35 million Japanese users. (Link). A week later, Gree launched its second U.S. game, Alien Family. (Link)MobileTaking just the use of paid content on tablets in Q4 2011, Nielsen found that in the U.S., a majority of tablet owners have already paid for downloaded music, books and movies, with 62 percent, 58 percent and 51 percent respectively saying they have already made such purchases. The one area that really fell down in the U.S. was news, where only 19 percent said they had ever paid to read news on their tablets. (Link)Amazon announced its mobile app marketplace, the Amazon Appstore for Android, is celebrating its first birthday with a week-long sale on some of its most popular apps. The Company also took the time to share some figures about the Appstore’s growth over the past year, including the size of its selection, which grew from 4,000 apps at launch to 31,000+ apps. (Link)The makers of seven iOS-only, for-charge applications, including the sophisticated photo capture and edit application Camera+, have sold more than 10 million applications by way of the App Store. Tap Tap Tap, a hobby-project turned accidental big-business, crossed the 10 million paid application sales milestone for all of its apps. (Link)With a metric that’s bound to make mobile app developers jealous, Apple has confirmed that its newly launched iOS-compatible version of iPhoto hit the 1 million user mark, only 10 days after its release. That’s not app downloads, mind you, but unique users. Given the app’s universal nature, it’s likely that many are installing it at least twice – once on the iPhone, or possibly the iPod Touch, and then again on the iPad. But Apple is counting such an installation only once in this metric. The number of actual downloads may be much higher. (Link)IDC is upping its forecasts for how many “media” tablets will be shipped this year. The analysts predict that the number will top 106.1 million units, up from their previous forecast of 87.7 million units, due in part to strong demand for that new iPad, but also a number of other devices at a range of price points. Indeed, while Apple will continue to be the single biggest tablet maker on the market, Android, collectively, will continue to hold its own against it, with some notable devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire doing particularly well. (Link)In Appcelerator and IDC's quarterly report on the trends of the mobile industry, 39% of developers answered that Google's total assets were more important to them than Facebook's social graph. Considering the huge lead that Facebook has in the social space, this is a bit of a coup for Google. What else are developers interested in at the start of 2012? HTML5 is on the rise, cloud services are hot and developer interest in Android is dwindling. (Link)Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation. Rose’s mobile app incubator Milk yesterday announced it was shutting down its only product, Oink. Google is not outright buying or “acqhiring” Milk, the sources explicitly said, but Rose and some others from the company have been hired. It’s not clear what will happen to Milk after Rose joins Google. (Link)PaymentsPayPal unveiled a new device that helps small businesses accept credit and debit cards through mobile devices. "PayPal Here" -- as the service is called -- will provide a free, triangle-shaped card reader and mobile application to small merchants. PayPal charges a fee of 2.7 percent of the purchase price for all types of credit and debit cards -- including those issued by American Express; transaction fees for processing AmEx cards are often higher on other services. That compares with the 2.75 percent charged by Square. (Link)Nokia, the world's largest handset maker by unit shipments, said it is planning to shut down its Mobile Financial Services business, including a Nokia Money service launched recently in India, as part of its strategy to move out of non-core business areas. Nokia didn't say when the unit will close. Nokia established the business in 2009 aimed at bringing secure electronic payments to people without a bank account, with a focus on emerging markets. (Link)Video/MusicLess than two weeks after a relaunch featuring deeper ties to Facebook, music video service Vevo is seeing a record number of video views per person and is now netting 3.5 billion total views a month. Vevo, the independent music video company created in partnership with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and the Abu Dhabi Media Company, has seen video views per person jump 70 percent and Facebook sharing climb 100 percent since its March 9 relaunch. (Link)OtherThe Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) is headed to President Barack Obama’s desk. The House signed off on the final version of the package, aimed at helping small businesses and startups more easily raise capital by loosening various Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. (Link). In summary, the act: 1) increases opportunities for equity investment through crowdfunding; 2) it eases rules on public disclosure; 3) it makes it easier to go public. (Link)The Internet accounts for 4.7% of the U.S. economy and is projected to grow 6.5% a year through 2016, according to a new report. The Boston Consulting Group took a look at the top 20 global economies — also known as the “G-20″ — and found lots of reason for optimism. On average, the Internet economy is expected to grow 10.8% for the G-20. However, the expansion in developed countries like the U.S. will be on the low end, around 8%, while developing countries like Argentina and India will expand at rates of 24% and 23%, respectively. (Link)Recent M&APRIMEDIA, a premier renter resource for apartment and rental home information and listings, announced that it has entered into an agreement with eBay to acquire its Rent.comsubsidiary. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PRIMEDIA’s websites and mobile applications will be complemented by Rent.com’s successful pay-for-performance business model. The combination will provide advertiser clients a more comprehensive suite of products that deliver cost-effective and high quality leads and leases. Rent.com adds another strong brand to PRIMEDIA’s extensive apartment and rental home resources, which include the web properties ApartmentGuide.com, Rentals.com and RentalHouses.com.Zynga announced it has acquired New York-based social game developer OMGPOP, makers of the popular cultural hit mobile game, Draw Something, and over 35 additional social games. As a part of the Zynga family, OMGPOP will focus on building new mobile IP and strengthening its existing portfolio of fun and creative social games. While Zynga is technically buying OMGPOP, the reality is that it's buying "Draw Something," a six-week old game that already has 35 million users, and generates $250,000 in revenue on a daily basis. That game caught Zynga's eye, and it won a small bidding war with Electronic Arts and Disney to close the deal, according to a few sources familiar with the deal.Amazon announced that it will acquire order fulfillment company Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash. Kiva Systems’ interconnected hardware and software package is designed to streamline the process of picking, packing and shipping e-Commerce products for delivery. The Company uses hundreds of autonomous mobile robots and a sophisticated control software, to provide a fulfillment system for retailers.Social gaming firm PlayPhone has added a marketing model in buying SocialHour, a social mobile marketing company, for $51.5 million. PlayPhone has already constructed a large social network for games across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and HTML5. Gamers can meet and play against one another on the same games but across different operating systems, including the Web. The company claims to have had accumulated 3 million members just in the months leading to the December launch of the social gaming platform.Twitter announced that it had acquired the blogging platform Posterous. Similar to its main rival, Tumblr, the site allows users to easily add posts to their blogs via the web, the Posterous mobile app or by email. Twitter announced the acquisition on its blog: “Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter,” the post said. “Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better.” The precise terms of the deal were not revealed by either party.Youku, owner of China’s most- popular online video site, acquired smaller competitor Tudou Holdings in a $1 billion stock deal that will help lower costs for licensing and transmitting content. Holders of Tudou’s American depositary receipts will receive 1.595 ADRs of Youku for each Tudou ADR they own, the two companies said in a joint statement yesterday. The proposed deal will strengthen the new company’s ability to compete with Baidu Inc. (BIDU) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700) in adding online video users in a nation where Google Inc. (GOOG)’s YouTube is restricted. Youku and Tudou together accounted for more than a third of China’s Web video advertising revenue last quarter, according to research company Analysys International.Recent Private PlacementsPersonalized ads company, myThings, has raised $15 million from Iris Capital, Accel Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Deutsche Telecom.Online work platform, oDesk, raised $15 million from T. Rowe Price, Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, and Sigma Partners.Integrate, startup that helps advertisers integrate ad channels, raised $11 million in Series B funding from Comcast Ventures, Liberty Group, and Foundry Group.Spigit, social innovation company, raised $15.2 million from Warburg Pincus.Mobile payments startup, Boku, raised $35 million from New Enterprise Associates, Telefonica, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.Online media publisher, Vox Media, owner of tech news site The Verge, sports blog network SB Nation, and game news site Vox Games, raised $17 million from undisclosed investors.Apperian, startup to help businesses build apps, raised $12.4 million from North Bridge Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and CommonAngels.Video game tournament company, Major League Gaming, raised $13 million from undisclosed investors.Social investment network, eToro, picked up $15 million from Spark Capital, BRM, Guy Gamzu, and Jonathan Kolber.Online textbook seller, Chegg, raised $25 million in funding from undisclosed investors.ThinkEquity Research RecapRobert Coolbrith, Internet AnalystKIT digital, Inc. (KITD): Sell-Off Unwarranted, In Our View; Reiterate Buy (Link to Report)KITD reported 4Q11 earnings in line with the company's preanouncement. However, shares traded off yesterday (down 8% versus the NASDAQ up 0.5%), we believe in reaction to management's FCF guidance (indicating significant working capital consumption in FY12), a brief delay in the filing of the company's 10-K, and management discussion of potential incremental M&A. While the story remains "noisy," we continue to believe that the company's opportunity remains attractive/intact and, with shares now valued at 4.5x/3.3x FY12E/FY13E EBITDA, we believe downside is limited and risk-reward very attractive. We reiterate our Buy rating and $22 price targetVelti plc (VELT): Strong Q4, Solid Guide; Reiterate Buy (Link to Report)VELT reported a strong Q4 performance: the company significantly exceeded consensus forecasts for revenue/EBITDA/EPS, issued solid guidance essentially in-line with consensus forecasts (and implying continued rapid growth), and provided updated business metrics that represent a significant improvement in transparency, in our view. Despite a significant uptick in shares yesterday (up 27% versus the NASDAQ flat), we continue to see opportunity in the disconnect between the company's valuation (6.5x FY13E EBITDA) and the attractiveness of the company's business model/opportunity (35%+ 3-5 year revenue growth, continued margin expansion, SaaS-like predictability). We reiterate our Buy rating and $22 price target.Henry Guo, Internet AssociateSINA Corporation (SINA): We Believe Article Misinterprets Sina’s Commentary About Weibo Users (Link to Report)We believe a Reuters article misinterpreted Sina's commentary on the 60% number about its Weibo users, and believe investors should lower their expectations as the March 16 deadline nears. That said, we continue to feel incrementally positive on Weibo as the company clears real-name verification for users who have connected their mobile phone with their Weibo accounts. We estimate by now at least 11 million of daily active users (about 40% of total daily active users) have passed real-name verification. Longer term, while we continue to see the significant potential upside for SINA shares due to Weibo, we would rather closely monitor the user engagement on the platform after March 16, before we become aggressive on Weibo valuation.SINA Corporation (SINA): Incrementally Positive on Weibo as March 16 Deadline Nears; Raising PT (Link to Report)Sina has cleared real-name requirement for some Weibo users who had previously connected Weibo accounts with mobile phones. Now we estimate more than 11 million daily active users have their real-name accounts verified, exceeding our expectation. We modestly raise our Weibo valuation from $1.5B to $2.0B and PT from $78 to $88 on likely more than we expected real-name users by 2012. Longer term, while we continue to see the significant potential upside for SINA shares due to Weibo, we would rather closely monitor the user engagement on the platform after March 16, before we become aggressive on Weibo valuation.