Despite the success of iPhone's application marketplace, some developers are discontented with the company's poor partnership and commutation skills ... and are using some choice words to express themselves. The obvious threat is that these developers won't look back if and when they're presented with the opportunity to invest their time and energy elsewhere, thus leaving iPhone's application marketplace a cold and barren wasteland.

If history is written by Wikipedia contributors then it will likely skew toward a male perspective seeing as how just 13% of the "living" encyclopedia's contributors are female. Why does anyone devote their time to the service? Altruism, according to a study by the Wikimedia Foundation of some 54,000 respondents. Why so few women? The creators of the study don't seem to have an answer.

The New York Observer calls BS on Virginia Heffernan's contention in The Times that Facebook has jumped the shark, and will soon experience an exodus of biblical proportions. Heffernan bases her hypothesis on a handful of anecdotes, which, while potentially representative of bigger problems for the social network, are not borne out in current adoption and usage data. What Heffernan is documenting, reasons the Observer, is not a mass flight but a natural "churn" of users, which can only be expected given Facebook's colossal size and low barriers to entry.

Activist investor Carl Icahn just sold 12.7 million shares of Yahoo, leaving him with 62.9 million shares, or a 4.48% stake in the company -- below the 5% 13-D reporting threshold, which requires investors to report activity with the SEC. Icahn said the move will "provide a more desired balance" in his portfolios, and are "in no way" a reflection of his long-term view of Yahoo. Indeed, Icahn is "optimistic" about the company's long-term prospects, and continues to believe in "the wisdom" of the company's recent transaction with Microsoft. Good thing, seeing as he still owns over $800 million worth …

News that eBay has indeed found a group of investors to take Skype off its hands raised more questions than answers on Tuesday. Why, for instance, did Google lose interest in a potential bid for the peer-to-peer Internet telephony service? What impact will the seemingly imminent acquisition have on Skype's long running legal issues. And what was eBay thinking? "The deal didn't make sense at the time, and eBay has never managed to integrate the technology into its core auction business," writes The Register (UK). eBay CEO "Meg Whitman's claim that the combination of the …