VentureBeat Week in Review - Gmail creator leaves Facebook - November 15, 2010

View this email as a webpage | Forward to a friend November 15, 2010 FORWARD THIS EMAIL JOIN US ON TWITTER / FACEBOOK Gmail creator leaves Facebook to nurture startups Barely more than a year after he joined Facebook, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit announced that he's leaving the social networking company for incubator Y Combinator, as reported in our top story of the week. Other popular posts looked at how iPhone development mirrors a 10-year-old trend and at the growth of free-to-play games. - Anthony Ha TOP STORIES Gmail creator Paul Buchheit leaves Facebook for Y Combinator November 12, 2010 | Anthony Ha The iPhone app is the Flash homepage of 2010 November 8, 2010 | Peter Yared Free-to-play games creep closer to killing monthly subscriptions November 12, 2010 | Matthew Lynley Amazon.com's secret retail empire November 8, 2010 | Owen Thomas Facebook to launch “Gmail killer” webmail on Monday November 12, 2010 | Devindra Hardawar UPCOMING EVENTS VentureBeat Webinar - November 17 Virtual Goods World - November 15-17, London Web 2.0 Summit - November 15-17, San Francisco TWTRCON SF - November 18, San Francisco Social Gaming Summit East - December 1, NYC IGNITION - December 2-3, NYC Mobile World Congress - February 14-17, Barcelona VENTUREBEAT JOB BOARD Lead/Sr. Software Engineer for Web Los Gatos, CA Atari Website Information Architect Berkeley, CA Conscious Creative Principal Data Analytics Engineer Redwood City, CA YuMe COMPANIES IN THE NEWS Activision, Adobe, Amazon.com, Apple, Blizzard, Facebook, Google, Microsoft , MySpace, NBC, Quidsi, Turbine, Y Combinator, Zappos PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Jeff Bezos, Vinnie Bharara, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, Tony Hsieh, Marc Lore, Bob Muglia, Carol Steinberg, Harj Taggar Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Join us on LinkedIn Provided by , the leading news source on technology innovation. 50 California Street, Suite 3270, San Francisco, CA 94111