The Kickstarter project to get a statue of Robocop built in Detroit, Michigan has been successful. The $50,000 needed to erect a statue of Robocop in Detroit was raised plus surpassed. Peter Hottelet of Omni Consumer Products Corporation put in $25,000. The idea for building the statue was inspired by Twitter user @MT. He sent Detroit Mayor Dave Bing a tweet with an idea to build a Robocop statue in Detroit since there is a Rocky statue in Philadelphia. Bing replied that there were no plans to build the statue, but Imagination Station Detroit made the idea a reality by starting the Kickstarter project.

Borders Group Inc. (NYSE:BPG) has filed for Chapter 11 protection today. The Ann Arbor, Michigan based company is shutting down 30% of their stores nationwide. Borders is seeking protection from creditors as they filed for bankruptcy at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.

At the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) campus in Round Rock, Texas, two employees were arrested for a bad marketing stunt. The Round Rock SWAT team responded to 911 calls of a suspect inside one of the Round Rock campus buildings on Monday morning. A person dressed as a biker and another person in a skull mask told people to “go to the lobby.” But it turns out that the biker was just promoting one of the Harley-Davidson features supported by the Dell Streak tablet product. It was an in house marketing plan that nobody really knew about. [KXAN]

Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) has showcased two new games at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. “From the moment the tower is switched on, the tower comes to life. The game is fun, fast-paced, easy to play and incredibly engaging,” stated Hasbro CMO John Frascotti. “LIVE games offer the great face-to-face social play that everyone loves about board games while delivering a totally new, surprising and unique game experience.”

According to a law professor, Apple’s digital subscription model could lead to an antitrust investigation. Apple will be allowing publishers, magazine companies, newspaper companies, etc. to sell subscriptions to digital content at various lengths on the iOS operating system. The catch is that the subscriptions must be sold through the Apple App Store so that Apple can take a 30% cut. Google is offering the same service called One Pass but they are offering 90% to publishers.

Nir Rosen is a journalist that is focused on politics and war. He had spent more than two years in Iraq to monitor the relationship between the Americans and Iraqis. Rosen has resigned from a fellowship position at the New York University Center On Law and Security after writing a few crude comments about CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan.

1000Memories has raised $2.5 million in a round of funding led by Greylock Partners. Angel investors Caterina Fake, Ron Conway, Keith Rabois, Paul Buchheit, Mike Maples, and Chris Sacca also participated in this round. David Thacker of Greylock will be joining the board of directors at 1000Memories. 1000Memories is a website where loved ones can express words about people in their lives that have passed away. The appeal of 1000Memories is that it does not have ads and the website design is stylish. [TechCrunch]

The Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is demanding information from Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) about how the company determines advertising rates. Abbott is also wants documents that shows the manual overriding or altering of search result rankings.