This past April YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen acquired link-sharing service Delicious.com from Yahoo! The two are prepared to launch a new version of Delicious.com later this year. Delicious is one of the most popular bookmarking services today. Delicious allows people to save and bookmark links from the Internet for future reference and organizing them using tags. Personally I am not a fan of Delicious as I like Google Bookmarks better.

AOL, Inc. has decided to let Michael Arrington loose. Michael Arrington was hired to AOL after the media company acquired technology blog TechCrunch.com. Erick Schonfeld will be replacing Arrington as the editor of TechCrunch. Below is the statement from AOL:

It has been exactly 10 years since al-Qaeda forces hijacked two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center buildings. A new World Trade Center in New York is being constructed. The cost of the new building is $3.1 billion and at their fastest construction workers can build one full office floor per week. It will have two reflecting pools that features a 30-foot man-made waterfall. The pools will be open all year round and will be heated during the winter to prevent freezing. Below is an infographic put together in collaboration between History.com and Column Five. [click the image to enlarge]

Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) is expected to start offering the iPhone next month with an unlimited data service plan. Sprint plans to start selling the iPhone in mid-October through a deal with Apple. Sprint would become the only carrier that would offer the iPhone with unlimited data services going forward.

Carol Bartz was recently fired from the CEO position at Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). Carol Bartz was quoted as saying “These people f**ked me over.” Yahoo! Chairman Roy Bostock called Carol Bartz on her cellphone to fire her. Bartz was in New York speaking at the Citigroup technology conference the next day when she was supposed to call Bostock at 6PM. She called Bostock at 6:06PM and he started reading a lawyer’s prepared statement to fire her.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired Zagat, a recommendation and reviews website. The brand Zagat has started over 32 years ago by Tim and Nina Zagat.

Carol Bartz has been fired from Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) by Chairman Roy Bostock over the phone. Yahoo! EVP and CFO Tim Morse has been appointed the interim CEO as Bartz departs. Shortly after the firing took place, Yahoo! co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang sent out the memo below:

Although Deutsche Telekom (DT) does not know the release date or price of the new upcoming iPhone, they have started taking pre-orders as of today any way.