Intuit-the makers of Quickbooks, GoPayment and Mint.com invited The Next Web on afilming dateto an “Innovation Gallery Walk” and check out their Connected Services strategy in Mountain View last week. Besides plying me with beautiful flowers, a box of chocolates and some wine (full dating points Intuit) they gave me access to the technology they are building around mobile and tablet computing. Intuit’s focus on mobile is particularly impressive with development ofGoPayment-payments swiped through a card reader on your phone....

Neither Palm devices, nor the HP TouchPad were ever going to be able to showcase webOS properly. That’s why yesterday’s news that HP wasshutting down its webOS hardware developmentshould have been welcomed by the company’s Personal Systems Group, a source familiar with the matter has told The Next Web.Update below. Instead, the announcement was handled poorly, producing confusion about the future of webOS that may hurt its chances to survive....

We first met with Jason L. Baptiste and Andres Barreto, the founders ofOnswipeon a snowy day in late January in New York City for an interview titled,Forget apps, Onswipe is the future of publishing. The two entrepreneurs were poised for the age of the tablet, both passionate writers who wanted to make their content look beautiful on the iPad. Armed with skills in coding and software development, and support fromTechStars‘ mentors, Baptiste and Barreto, along with their third co-founder Mark Bao, have been tirelessly working to make the publishing experience more enjoyable for the reader from both the editorial experience and the advertising side....

A few weeks ago I received a pitch saying thatLexalytics, a B2B provider of sentiment and text analytics technology, powering brand and reputation management tools such as Radian6 andScout Labs, had recently upgraded their Salience product by digesting all of Wikipedia to come up with their patent-pending technology, Concept Matrices. This product, they said, enables us to understand the complex relationships between words and their meaning, which provides valuable analysis to brands....

Remember in the 80s when kids just used to start bands? These days all the kids are launching startups- and it’s one partrise of the nerdsstyle and one part let’s change the world because the Internet is awesome, and it’s ours. But just like any rock group needs a band manager and producer to help them along, so too do the young minds of startup entrepreneurs. One of my favorite mentor-driven startup “camps” isTechStars, a seed accelerator in Boston (MA), Boulder (CO), New York City (NY) and Seattle (WA) that has helped numerous companies attract over $25 million in venture capital and angel investment....