On a Quora Q&A post, former Apple employee Chad Little answered the question:

How did Apple.com become the de facto spot for movie trailers? The major record companies giving up control to iTunes is a blunder I can fathom. Not sure why the Hollywood studios still debut their films on Apple.com, though.

Q&A website Quora has hired Sandra Liu Huang, a product executive at Facebook. She will be the lead of product development at Quora. Huang previously worked on the Instant Personalization program where TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Pandora integrated Facebook into their services.

Sean Parker, the founding president and co-founder of Napster, suggested Facebook’s mascot should be a hedgehog at one point Early Facebook employee Ezra Callahan told the mascot story on Quora.

Co-founding partner Marc Bodnick is quitting from Elevation Partners to join Quora, a Q&A website, according to multiple sources. This is the second co-founder to step down from Elevation since John Riccitiello became the CEO of Electronic Arts. Bodnick is associated with Elevation’s investments in Facebook and Yelp. Elevation invested $100 million in Yelp and Bodnick is on their board of directors. Elevation put in about $210 million in Facebook stock. Interestingly Bodnick is the sister-in-law of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Former AOL CEO Steve Case answered a question on Q&A website Quora about how much those promotional CDs that the company sent out costed. Case said that each AOL CD costed “about $35 per user.” Below is the Q&A between the Quora user and Steve Case:

Quora is a real-time question and answer service started by early employees at Facebook.  Former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo was one of the founders of Quora.  Before Quora launched, they raised $11 million dollars and was given an $86 million valuation.  Facebook is developing a Q&A system themselves and may even have an intellectual property conflict with Quora according to Silicon Valley rumors.  Quora had a loose invitation system before launching.  If you have used the service, let us know what you think about it in the comments. [ReadWriteWeb]

Quora is a startup founded by former Facebook employees.  Quora has raised a new round of funding, led by Benchmark Capital.  Former Facebook exec Matt Cohler has joined the board of directors at Quora too.  Benchmark’s investment gives Quora an $86 million valuation.  Quora went in private beta on January 4, 2010.  Quora was founded by Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever. [TechCrunch]