Back in November I wrote about how Guardian Media Group was attempting to sell off paidContent. paidContent is a tech blog that is run by a company called contentNext. Guardian Media Group acquired contentNext in July 2008 for approximately $30 million including earn-outs. It was rumored that contentNext did not meet the earn-out requirements for the full price and Guardian did not know how to efficiently manage the brand. Today GigaOM has announced that they have acquired paidContent and the other contentNext properties for an undisclosed sum.

Above is a leaked photo of what is believed to be the case back for an iPad 3. On the left is the case back for an iPad 2 and on the right is the leaked photo for case back of an iPad 3. Comparing them side-by-side allows us to make some guesses about what the iPad 3 will be like.

Today Groupon has released their Q4 2011 report and they revealed 194% increase in revenues from $172.2 million in 2010 to $506.5 million this year. However Groupon reported a net loss of $37 million. This is the company’s first quarterly results since they became a public company this past November.

Yesterday I wrote about how Path was caught stealing personal information through their mobile app and uploading it to their servers. Today Path acknowledged that they designed the “Add Friends” feature wrong and apologized. Path 2.0.6 was released to the Apple App Store today and it now allows people to opt in or out of sharing phone contacts with their servers.

Google has now created the Google Chrome browser for Android. The app that Android has been using up until now was simply called “Browser,” an open-source based browser that was decent. For a certain number of people, the Google Chrome browser is now available on Android devices.

Pinterest is the hot new start-up that allows you to pin things to a board that users find interesting. The links are connected to an e-commerce website that has an affiliate program. However it appears that Pinterest is modifying the link to add their own affiliate tracking code.

Yahoo! has announced that four of their long-time board members are stepping down, whom are Roy Bostock, Vyomesh Joshi, Gary Wilson, and Arthur Kern. Two new directors at Yahoo! are former Rovi CEO Fred Amoroso and LiveOps Chairman Maynard Webb, who was once COO of eBay.

Arun Thampi is a developer that was looking for ways to port photo software Path to Mac OS X. However he noticed that some data was being sent from the Path iPhone app to the company’s servers. After diving in a bit more, he realized that the Path app was collecting his whole address book including full names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. All of this information was being uploaded to Path’s central servers. The app was not notifying people that information was being collected though.