Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO was on the program Parker Spitzer on CNN last week and he had used an interesting choice of words when it came to what people though about Google Street View. “Street View, we drive exactly once,” stated Schmidt in referral to the Google Street View cars driving around and take photos. “So, you can just move, right?” Schmidt added “This is not a monitoring situation.” Seems like a pretty smug response to a legitimate question. People have privacy concerns when pictures of their houses appear on the Internet.

Mail.ru has filed to go public on the London Stock Exchange. Mail.ru, also known as Digital Sky Technologies, has preparing for the IPO since May 2009. Mail.ru said that they are “well positioned to benefit from the expected growth of the Russian internet advertising market and the increase in internet value-added services.” Some of the proceeds earned from the IPO would be used to increase their stake in Russian social network vKontakte to 32.49% from 24.99%. Mail.ru hopes to raise $876 million from the IPO, giving them a $5.7 billion valuation. Mail.ru has equity in Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga through Digital Sky Technologies. [paidContent]

Groupon and eBay have made a strategic partnership. On the website groupon.ebay.com, you can earn 5% back in eBay Bucks if you buy a Groupon deal. Groupon and Ning entered a similar partnership last week. Groupon currently has deals available in 100 U.S. markets and showcases about 200 deals per day. [TechCrunch]

More details about the Samsung Galaxy Tab has been revealed. The device will be available in the U.S. next month and it will have have a 7-inch screen. The operating system it will be running on is Android 2.2. There will be a WiFi and a WiFi+3G model. Verizon will sell the device in black and Sprint will sell the device in silver. The starting price is $400 with no-MIRs. The 3G service will be available through Verizon or Sprint.

Skype asked Nimbuzz to remove support for all Skype services starting October 31st. Nimbuzz created a mobile application that can access multiple VoIP services such as MSN, Google Talk, Skype, and ICQ. Nimbuzz has about 30 million users and clocked about 3.5 billion mobile VoIP minutes. Skype plans to disconnect all third party VoIP services in anticipation of their IPO.

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers around right now.  The add-ons built for Firefox is another reason why Firefox grew in popularity.  For those of you geeks out there who love download videos and images in bulk off the Internet, I have compiled a list of some of the best add-ons.  Check out the results below:

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) wrote on a Dutch blog post that Windows 8 is about two years away from arriving on the market. The comments were first found by Winrumors.com. Some of the other rumors about Microsoft Windows 8 that is floating around include an app store and faster loading times. Windows 7 was first released in October 2009. [CNET]

Lady Gaga has announced on Twitter that she has hit 1 billion total views on YouTube. She is the first musician to hit 1 billion views on YouTube and Justin Bieber is not far behind. Bieber has over 900 million views. Justin Bieber’s hit song “Baby” has the most video views on YouTube of all time with over 365 million views. [Mashable]