Facebook has hired MailRank in order to hire the two co-founders of the company. Through the acquisition, Facebook will be bringing in Bethanye McKinney Blount and Bryan O’Sullivan. The two are veterans at Linden Lab. Likely Facebook’s Director of Engineering and former Linden Lab CTO Cory Ondrejka played a role in this deal.

TomTom has released a viral video featuring Sesame Street pals Bert and Ernie. The two are in a sound studio recording their GPS voice-overs. This is definitely one of the better TomTom commercials I have ever seen.

The Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has gotten a tear-down by iFixit.com. It turns out that the device is packed with Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) chips. This is good news for the company since they are facing intense rivalry from Qualcomm and Nvidia.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has fixed up their search engine to be more interactive for the holidays. The search features has Yahoo! content integrated with search results for shopping and recipes on top of the search results.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) executive chairman Eric Schmidt has been vocal about proposed legislation regarding online copyright regulation today and said that the PROTECT IP Act in the U.S. Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives would censor the Internet. This bill is intended to combat pirated movies and music and allow copyright holders and law enforcement officials the ability to cut off websites.

 
[Left: Art Levinson, Right: Bob Iger]
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced today that they have named Art Levinson as the non-executive chairman of the board. He succeeds Steve Jobs, who had passed away last month after battling cancer for several years. Art joined the Apple board in 2000 and has been the longest serving co-lead director. Apple also added Disney CEO Bob Iger to the board of directors at the company. Iger is best known for overseeing the merger of Pixar and Disney.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is getting close to making an agreement with securing songs from Universal Music Group for their new music service according to sources with Bloomberg. The deal may be signed as early as tomorrow. Google is actually hosting a music event in Los Angeles tomorrow. EMI Group is already working with Google according to Bloomberg sources.

In the past week Google+ launched a feature called Google+ Pages, which allowed businesses and brands build a profile. People have been critical of Google+’s Pages because they have banned promotions and competitions on brand pages directly, but they are allowed to do it from their own external websites. To allow social media management companies manage their presence on multiple social networks, Google+ is allowing Buddy Media, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, Hootsuite, Involver, and Vitrue test out their management tools on their service. These companies will be allowed to manage circle, publish to Google+, and monitor usage. [Google Inside Adwords]