Pottermore has partnered with Kobo to make the Harry Potter e-books available on Kobo devices.

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Pottermore adds Kobo as a Harry Potter e-book partner

Sao Paulo, Brazil — Compared to Mexico , the web and mobile startup ecosystem in Brazil is hot — probably too hot. There seem to be almost as many foreign entrepreneurs and investors — Americans, Germans, Spanish — looking for opportunities to make money in Brazil as there are Brazilians building companies and investing.

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10 things to know about tech startups in Brazil

While the British government considers forcing internet providers to censor the web , it turns out that many European mobile operators are happily acting as censors themselves already — and mistakenly blocking lots of legitimate sites along the way. According to a report this week from Open Rights Group and the London School of Economics , many local mobile operators are using aggressive — but haphazard — child protection filters by default, leaving adult customers unable to see perfectly ordinary websites instead of preventing kids from accessing adult material

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How mobile networks are policing the web — badly

Now two things are more clear about the fast-growing social pinboard curation service – a business model and a valuation. Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has confirmed it is leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest , together with existing backers Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital plus angels

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Confirmed: Pinterest taking $100m for e-commerce play

We all know Facebook needs to become a force in mobile advertising, but just how much of a force? If Facebook were to replicate the success of its desktop ad business on mobile it would account for a healthy chunk of the entire world’s current mobile ad spend. And if it sticks with its planned approach to mobile ads it would need to create a whole new mobile advertising sector from scratch

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Will Facebook adapt to mobile or will mobile adapt to Facebook?

The mythical Cornucopia project. Everyone may not get excited about open APIs or 3-D printing (what is wrong with y’all?) but everyone loves food.

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Hacked recipes and printing food: When bytes meet bites

When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual gaming into real gambling

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Social gaming to gambling: states inch forward

Social networks like Twitter and web communities like Reddit often get criticized for being the source of nefarious rumors and false news reports, including the deaths of innumerable celebrities who are very much alive . But just as fakes and hoaxes can spread more widely and efficiently through the web than they can in print or other forms of media, they can be debunked more quickly as well.

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Twitter and Reddit as crowdsourced fact-checking engines

Netflix just rolled out a completely revamped video player for browser-based viewing, and I gotta say, it’s pretty slick: Not only does it come with lightbox-like text overlays while a video is paused, users can also preview entire seasons of a TV show while they’re watching one episode of the show in full-screen mode. I was told by Netflix that this is currently rolling out across the web. The only downside of the new player seems to be that there can be some issues with Chrome on Mac OS – a warning screen told me to switch to Safari or Firefox for the best viewing experience. However, a quick test showed that basic playback was working just fine via OS X Chrome

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Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player

With 11 teens killed while texting and driving per day, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that parents are turning towards apps to limit their kids’ phone use behind the wheel. The sad statistic comes from Chris Holbert, CEO of  SecuraFone , which offers an app for iPhone and Android handsets that diables some phone features when moving 5 mph or more

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The newest phone app teens will hate but parents will love