Here’s the latest action:
Google misses LA deadline -- Last year, the search giant won a contract to provide email and collaboration tools to the City of Los Angeles, but now it has failed to deploy them on time.
India pitchs iPad rivalThe BBC has more.
iPhone 4 Case Program launches -- Apple officially kicked off its program to provide new bumper cases to customers who buy the newest version of the phone throuh Sept. 30 -- part of its plan to compensate for the widely-reported antenna problems.
Twitter steals Android star -- The micro-blogging service has landed a key hire: Sun Hu Kim, who was the lead for Android developer marketing at Google.
Baidu buddies up to Android -- China’s largest search engine, Baidu, is eyeing the posibility of launching a phone running Google’s Android operating system. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is already talking to handset manufacturers.
Firefox revamps tabs -- Mozilla is adding a new feature called Tab Candy to its browser, allowing people with many tabs open at a time to get a bird’s-eye view of what they do have open, and to organize them into categories for easier browsing.
An Introduction to Firefox's Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
KIOR takes $110M -- The biofuel startup has now raised $110 million from a flock of investors, including Khosla Ventures, a prestigious Silicon Valley VC firm that has taken a notable interest in biofuels as part of its cleantech practice.