Kabbage, an online merchant lending startup, has raised $17 million in new funding. The investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, David Bonderman, Warren Stephens, the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Jim McKelvey and others. Kabbage lends money to online merchants using PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API. [TechCrunch]

Woorkup.com has created this awesome infographic summarizing Google’s biggest acquisitions based on price, country, and years. Check it out below:

The bad boys of Detroit, the Police Department (not Isiah Thomas, Vinnie Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Joe Dumars, etc.), was putting in a lot of man power and money behind answering false burglar alarms. They have decided not to put as many resources behind burglar alarm responses any more.

Skype just introduced a game-changer to the world of Wi-Fi: an iOS app that finds hotspots and lets users pay for them per-minute with Skype Credit. Instead of buying a block of time that might be more than you need, the app helps you pay for the time you use. TechCrunch reports that Skype WiFi supports more than a million hotspots around the world.

Amazon is going to publish its first actual book: Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Chef. Gizmodo reports that Ferriss is the first writer to use Amazon rather than Amazon’s self-publishing platform, and will be putting out paper, e-book and audio versions of 4-Hour Chef with the sales giant. Book publishers are worried, and Amazon is poised to take over the market one Kindle marketing tactic at a time. Amazon’s press release quotes Ferriss as saying that choosing Amazon Publishing “was a question of what future of publishing I want to embrace.”

Publisher GOOD has acquired Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes’s social causes startup Jumo. Hughes told TechCrunch that the two will be combining to form an online platform for social causes. Jumo matches users with causes to help them “take meaningful action,” while GOOD is a media outlet for people who care about causes.

Ford Motor Company wants you to know that the new F-150 EcoBoost gets 22mpg, so they’re using Facebook to host the EcoBoost Challenge. Mashable reports that eight drivers will take the trucks through the competition, best mileage wins a year’s supply of Shell Nitrogen Enriched Gasoline. The winner’s city also gets free gas for two hours and 22 minutes at two Shell gas stations.

This graphic from Thomson Reuters shows just who is suing whom in our current patent wars.