Toshiba Corporation shares climbed over the last day after a report that the company could be teaming up with Bill Gates to develop advanced nuclear reactors. The source that tipped off the Nikkei business daily in Japan about the deal was unnamed. The Traveling Wave Reactor would have the ability to operate for about 100 years without having to refuel.

Toshiba would work with TerraPower, a company that was funded by Gates. Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Ohmori said that the Toshiba and TerraPower talks were currently in early-stage. [MarketWatch]

Pete Cashmore, founder of social media blog Mashable.com has announced that they have exceeded 70,000 downloads of the Mashable iPhone app that was released a month ago. Now there is a new version of the application [iTunes link], version 1.2. The new app includes Push Notifications, horizontal tilt, more Twitter clients for sharing articles, and international improvements. You can filter Mashable stories by authors, tags, and categories. The Mashable app was developed by Nclud. The app is available for free. [Mashable]

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is losing a board member. John Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel is standing for re-election to the Yahoo! Board of Directors. Chapple was appointed to the board as per the request by Carl Icahn during the proxy war against Yahoo! Icahn is no longer trying to negotiate an acquisition deal with Microsoft, but the search engine company did make a deal with Bing.com. It is likely that Chapple will focus more on his private equity firm Hawkeye Investments. [BusinessInsider]

Zach Braff has announced on his Facebook Page that Scrubs appears to be canceling. Below is the exact statement sent from Braff’s Facebook Page:

Many of you have asked, so here it is: it appears that “New Scrubs”, “Scrubs 2.0″, “Scrubs with new kids”, “Scrubbier”, “Scrubs without JD” is no more. It was worth a try, but alas… it didn’t work. zb

The Twitter account ScrubsWriters is expected to shut down until there is any news about the show’s continuation as well. Known as the character Turk on Scrubs, Donald Faison stars in a new pilot called The Odds, as a Las Vegas homicide cop. Braff himself left Scrubs in order to pursue other careers, but made several cameos in the newest season. [E Online]

Schmuck.com has been sold for about 49,000 EUR ($66,000 U.S.) on Sedo.  Schmuck appears to be a German brand name that has something to do with jewelry.  Whoever bought this website may be a complete genius or a complete schmuck.  [Domain Name Wire]

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has released two iPhone applications recently.  One of them is a native search application and the other is called Sketch-A-Search [iTunes link].  The Sketch-A-Search app shows you a map of the area near you.  When you click the sketch button, you can draw out a line of the area that you want to search local results within.  The application currently supports local restaurants in the U.S.  Other types of businesses and regions will be added sometime in the future. [VentureBeat]

Daimler AG will be paying a $185 million file to resolve civil and criminal charges involving bribery to 22 governments across the globe over 10 years according to a source with the Detroit News. A criminal complaint was filed at a U.S. District Court in Washington.  The Justice Department charged Daimler with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  Daimler earned $50 million in profits around the time the violation took place. As a result, Daimler will be paying $93.6 million in penalties to the Justice Department and $91.4 million to the SEC. [Detroit News]

The infographic below shows all kinds of stats about online dating.  Some of the facts that stood out to me was how many people use online dating services in China with proportion to the U.S. and India.  Its also interesting to see what men lie about the most vs. women.  And lastly, I also like the character at the bottom of the infographic.

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