Quora is a real-time question and answer service started by early employees at Facebook.  Former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo was one of the founders of Quora.  Before Quora launched, they raised $11 million dollars and was given an $86 million valuation.  Facebook is developing a Q&A system themselves and may even have an intellectual property conflict with Quora according to Silicon Valley rumors.  Quora had a loose invitation system before launching.  If you have used the service, let us know what you think about it in the comments. [ReadWriteWeb]

BarMax is an iPhone application that costs $1,000, but is worth the money according to buyers.  This application helps law students pass the bar exam in California.  Now BarMax plans to use the same model for law students in New York.  Each state has separate bar exams.

The British Recorded Music Industry sent Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) a cease and desist letter to request them to remove copyright-infringement links from their index.  The letter specifically focused on nine one-click hosting websites that hosts files with thousands of illegal songs.  These websites include MegaUpload, UserShare, and SendSpace.  Whether Google will follow the steps in the C&D or not is a big question mark. [paidContent UK]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced that they have sold 3 million iPads in 80 days. Today there are 11,000 iPad applications that are available for download through iTunes. Below is the full press release.

Enterprise CRM company Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) has announced the availability of their new social network for companies service called Chatter. Salesforce announced Chatter this past November and gave a small number of testers access to it.

Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils-Aime said that they are still receiving feedback about the 3DS console from E3 conference attendees. This includes getting reactions to the buttons, sliding pad, and depth slider. As a result, the 3DS console may be tweaked. One thing that is for sure is that “we will launch in all of our major markets by March 31, 2011.”
[IndustryGamers]

As LinkedIn is on the cusp of hitting 70 million users, the professional social network is adding new features. This past April, LinkedIn added link-sharing features. Less than a month after that LinkedIn added the ability to “follow” specific companies. Now there is a “Like” button for content that is being shared or for group conversations. Content that is liked in the news feed is highlighted.

Amazon.com has reduced the price of the Kindle to $189 (down from $259) out of pressure from an increasingly competitive market. The price of the Barnes & Noble Nook was recenty reduced and Apple is launching the iBooks store across their iPhone OS power devices. A WiFi only Nook is about $150 and a 3G version is $199. [BusinessInsider]