Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.
iPhone Prototype With 64 GB of Memory Unearthed
Photos and a video of an iPhone prototype sporting 64 GB of memory have appeared on the web. The current iPhone 4 model has a maximum of 32 GB of space.
Foursquare 3.0 Has Arrived
Foursquare, the location-based mobile game startup that pioneered the checkin, released version 3.0 of its Android and iPhone apps Tuesday evening, complete with a Recommendations engine and new kinds of merchant specials.
HootSuite Launches Social Analytics Platform
HootSuite has launched a social analytics dashboard for monitoring mentions on Facebook, Twitter, Google and other major sites.
Google Chrome Gets an Update
Google has made a few changes to the stable version of its Chrome browser, which is now faster -- with a 66% improvement in JavaScript performance -- and easier-to-navigate interfaces, among other things.
Further News
Formspring, the popular social Q&A app, has taken the wraps off a suite of SMS features.
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has launched a new initiative called craigconnects that aims to bring people together online to work toward the common good.
Inbound marketing software company HubSpot has announced that it has received a $32 million round of Series D funding from Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Salesforce.com.
Popular Q&A network Stack Overflow has secured $12 million in Series B funding and officially changed the company name to Stack Exchange, the company has announced.
Photo-sharing platform DailyBooth has raised $6 million from Ignition Partners and Sequoia Capital.