Octavia Nasr used to be the Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs for CNN. She is leaving the company after controversy stuck when she sent out the following tweet: “Sad to hear the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” Nasr admitted that she should not have left such a simple comment without any context whatsoever on the CNN blog. Nasr worked at CNN for 20 years. [mediaite.com]

PR distribution company Marketwire has bought out Sysomos. Sysomos is a PR company that focuses on social media analytics. The terms of the deal was undisclosed. Sysomos is a Toronto, Ontario based company that received funding from GrowthWorks and the Ontario Centres of Excellence. [paidContent]

A couple of fans of Wayne’s World was caught on Google Maps. You will see two people dressed like Wayne and Garth at 6 Headland Park, Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World, Party Time! EXCELLENT! [Google Maps link].

In the 1970s, there was a board game that was endorsed by BP where players manage an offshore drilling operation. The object of the game was to avoid hazard cards that causes gamers to deal with clean-up costs and rig explosions. The discontinued game was created by Scottish gaming company Printabox. Given the oil spill tragedy that happened in the Gulf, this board game has officially become eerily ironic. I stopped going to BP gas stations to buy anything from them as my own personal protest. [Gizmodo]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million into Zynga according to a Google source with TechCrunch. Zynga has raised almost half a billion dollars in venture capital last year, including $150 million SoftBank Capital and $180 million from Digital Sky Technologies, Tiger Global, IVP, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Out of all the other mobile application stores out there, Google seems to attract the most developers after Apple. This is proven after it is being predicted that Google will hit 100,000 applications this month. The Android Market currently has over 90,000 apps in the store according to AndroLib.com. [AndroidGuys]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was served legal papers when having lunch in Sun Valley, Idaho yesterday. The server pretended to ask Zuckerberg for his autograph, then told him “You’ve been served.” Zuckerberg was attending the annual business and media summit hosted by Allen & Co. Although no one in the media knows what the lawsuit is regarding, but we can easily speculate that it relates to privacy issues on the social network. [Gawker]

Reddit is asking for donations from their users because the news aggregation service is constantly dealing with website downtime. Reddit has only 4 employees despite being acquired by Condé Nast.