Miley Cyrus deleted her Twitter account last year for no specific reasons.  However she claims the Internet wastes your life and she felt like her privacy was being violated.  It turns out that there was more of a reason.  Politics.

“There has been so much controversy sometimes about what I’ve said or done because I believe there are no mistakes, because God is the only one who can judge us,” stated Cyrus in an interview with Parade. “That’s the reason I deleted my Twitter account because I said on there that I believed in gay marriage because everyone should have the right to love each other, and I got such hate mail about my being a bad person.” [Parade]

Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) chief technologist Sam Pullara is leaving to become Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital.  Pullara was one of the execs behind the Yahoo! Open Application Platform, the Yahoo! Query Language, and Yahoo! Pipes.  Pullara also served as the representative for Yahoo! on the OpenSocial Foundation. [TechCrunch]

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) exec Ash Patel is leaving the company this week.  He started at the company in April 1996, right before the company went public.  He was most recently the EVP for product architecture and strategy.  He was also the chief product officer and “technical Yahoo.” Patel plans to spend more time with family and advise start-up. [TechCrunch]

Viacom, the parent company of brands such as MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Spike TV, etc. filed a lawsuit against Google shortly after they acquired YouTube.  Within the last 24 hours, legal documents in the copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube by Viacom were made public.  Below is a statement that Viacom released [Viacom.com]:

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has acquired sports startup company Citizen Sports.  Citizen Sports will complement Yahoo! Sports especially during March Madness.  Citizen Sports owns several iPhone applications and Facebook applications.  The deal is rumored to be about $40-$50 million according to [AllThingsD]

Its a very sad day in the tech and auto community.  Apple Board member and Chrysler CFO Jerry York has passed away according to a brief statement by Apple.  He was hospitalized after suffering from a burst brain aneurysm yesterday morning.  He died shortly after.

York was the chairman, President, and CEO of Harwinton Capital.  He was also the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler.  And he joined the Apple Board of Directors in 1997.

York was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1938 and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy.  He also received an M.S. from MIT and an MBA from the University of Michigan. “It’s been a privilege to know and work with Jerry, and I’m going to miss him a lot,” stated Apple CEO Steve Jobs. [PRNewsWire]

Zillow, the digital real estate service, has launched on Google Android.  This is about the same time that their iPhone application hit about 1 million downloads.

Zillow provides house pricing data for any U.S. address that you enter.  You can also find house pricing data using geolocation.  Zillow has about 88 million houses in the database.  There is also information about floorplans in the database.

Backed with $87 million in funding, Zillow is based in Seattle.  The company has investment from Benchmark Capital, PAR Capital Management, and Technology Crossover Ventures. [VentureBeat]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) user experience manager Paul Ray said that the blue color of the Bing logo “was worth at least $80 million” at the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas.  The hexadecimal color of the logo is #0044CC.

It appears that people that see this bluish color, people tend to click on more links and ads.  “We wanted to try red links or brown links and no color,” stated Ray. “It was really hard to argue with the success of this color.” [The Seattle Times]