“General Motors has announced that it would be pulling its paid advertising from Facebook, saying that it had too little impact. The announcement could not come at a worse time for the social media giant, which is expected to file its initial public offering on Friday.”

General Motors pulls annual $10 million worth of ads from Facebook | Ars Technica.

“Google has released an update for its Chrome web browser that adds tab syncing to Chrome’s list of tricks. Using the latest version of Chrome you can now access the tabs open on your desktop at home while you’re out and about with your Android phone. The syncing should work with any device that can run the latest version of Google Chrome.”

Chrome Offers Tabs to Go With New Tab-Syncing Features | Webmonkey | Wired.com.

“Goobuntu is Google’s version of Ubuntu and it is based on LTS releases. They make no changes to default UI of Ubuntu like Mint but they do use their own security authentication system and a internal repository system like Launchpad. They like that Ubuntu does a great job of a desktop that works out of the box.”

How Google Developers Use Ubuntu ~ Ubuntu Vibes | Daily Ubuntu Linux Updates.

“Good news for GIMP fans: after 3 long years in development a new stable version of GIMP has been released.

Announcing the release on the official GIMP website, the developers also state that the update sees ‘other important changes to the user interface’ that brings the team closer to matching their ‘product vision‘.”

GIMP 2.8 Released.

“The people who make and sell Android phones don’t make it easy to do apples-to-Apples comparisons. Luckily, enough of us have been buying the things to provide some money-saving hindsight.”

How To Pick One Good Android Phone | Fast Company.