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Here’s the latest action:

Obama Bay Area event sets fund-raising record — Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama visited the Bay Area and racked up $7.8 million in fund-raising, a record for a single event, according to Draper Fisher Jurvestson’s Steve Jurvetson, who, with his wife Karla Jurvetson, donated in $9,200.

Xbox 360 sells out in Japan — The Microsoft gaming console has never been able to gain a strong foothold in the country which prefers its own Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation 3. Perhaps the tides are turning — or perhaps this shortage was staged, as many commenters are speculating in the comments on Kotaku. Either way, there will be more in the country next month.

Hulu closer to going international?
— The popular NBC and Fox-based video streaming site is apparently trying to hire people to expand to other countries, according to GigaOm. That will remove perhaps the biggest knock people have against it — if you’re outside the U.S., you can’t watch it!

Tsavo gets funding
— The new southern California start-up that is buying up content and advertising start-ups, akin to Demand Media, raised $20 million from American Capital. The start-up is the latest project of Michael Jones, who has just left AOL, where he worked for two years after AOL bought his previous text-voice-video chat software company, Userplane, for about $40M. TechCrunch has more.

American Airlines takes Wi-Fi to the skies — The airline has started rolling out its in-flight Internet service powered by Gogo, according to CNET. For now it’s only on non-stop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles and New York and Miami.

iPhone update 2.0.2
is meant to address 3G issues — Suspicions that the new software update was meant to address iPhone 3G connection issues have been confirmed by an Apple representative talking to USA Today’s Ed Baig.

Salesforce.com posts solid numbers
It’s the first software as a service company to exceed a $1 billion annual revenue run rate, according to the release. It saw record revenue of $263 million, up 49% year-over-year.

VC in the middle of online escort scandal
— William Ferretti, the co-founder of Medstar Television and a self-described venture capitalist, faces felony charges. Vallywag has more.

Don’t tweet for money when raising funding — Jason Goldberg, the founder of SocialMedian, sent a tweet (Twitter message) out this morning letting people know he was raising more funding and to contact him if you were interested in participating. One problem, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, who is also a lawyer called him out on that being illegal because it was technically an unregistered public offering. The tweet was deleted.

BioImagene gets a new round — The digital pathology company has landed a $26 million fourth round. Burrill & Co. led the round with Ascension Health Ventures, National Healthcare Services, Artiman Ventures and ICCP Ventures also participating.

Personalized talk radio company Stitcher launches an iPhone app — Watch the video below for more.

The iPhone/iPod Touch App Store is absolutely brilliant. Now it’s time for the next step: the iPhone 3G.

I’ll be leaving soon to go get in line at the San Francisco Apple store on Stockton St. If all goes as planned, I won’t be leaving until sometime tomorrow morning with a brand new iPhone. I hope you’ll join us in the VentureBeat iPhone 3G Live Launch FriendFeed room where I’ll be piping in updates throughout the night and having discussions about the device and the App Store.

There will be pictures, Qik video updates and writing. Hopefully someone brings some sort of power generator.

For those braving the lines with me, we’ll also have some refreshments around 6 AM thanks to our official sponsors Qik and Stitcher, who will be nourishing us with hot coffee and warm fried dough. Oh yes, and there will be some t-shirts.

Join the VentureBeat iPhone 3G Live Launch Room


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After sitting at your desk all day, maybe the last thing you want to do is come home and sit at a computer to read your news. Or maybe you would just rather listen to it on your commute home via your iPhone. If that’s the case, Stitcher may be for you.

The personalized Internet radio service, which is currently in closed testing, allows you to listen to the latest news. Reading both the headlines and a brief summary of the main stories on a wide variety of sites, the service offers an alternative to those of us who may not like to individually read the thousands of stories that appear everyday.

Stitcher offers many topics including world news, sports, business, election coverage and of course tech news. VentureBeat Headlines is one of the options under the “Silicon Valley Professional” topic.

Stitcher excels is in both tone and inflection during playback. Whereas rivals such as PimpMyNews have computer voices read back the news and quite often misread words, Stitcher uses actual human readers and you can really tell the difference. It just so happens that the headline chosen to demo VentureBeat right now is one that I wrote, and I can vouch for it coming across exactly as I meant it to.

Stitcher also has a very nice and easy to use iPhone interface. Simply go to the main stitcher.com on the device and you’re directed to a site that allows you to listen to headlines in just a few clicks.

The San Fransisco-based Stitcher was started by Noah Shanok (orginally of StubHub), Mike Ghaffary (former VC at Summit Partners), and Peter DeVroede (ran digital media and development groups at Disney, Adobe, EA and Macromedia).

The company has given us 200 invites to give out to VentureBeat readers who want to try out the service. Simply click here to sign up.

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