Google just upgraded its Google Docs editors, which, according to eWeek, rewrites the apps’ code with HTML5 and accelerates the apps to improve the user experience. Of key importance, the word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps have also been optimized for Google Android, Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry smartphones. “For the most part, the Docs viewing experience should [be] as good on smartphones as it is on the desktop, thanks largely to the Docs rewrite,â€� Anil Sabharwal, enterprise product manager for Google Docs tells eWeek. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently encouraged enterprises to consider mobile devices first when building …

Greycroft Partners just closed its second fund. Dubbed Greycroft II, it has $130.7 million to burn, and is led by Greycroft founder Alan Patricof, Dana Settle and Drew Lipsher, along with Ian Sigalow, who has promoted to partner. “It’s a case of second verse, same as the first with plans to continue investing in early-stage digital media companies that deliver products and services online or through a wireless device,â€� reports paidContent. Settle will reportedly continue to run the LA office, while the others will still be based in New York. The key different between the two funds, notes paidContent, …

Blogger Robert Scoble talks with Loic Le Meur, CEO of Twitter client Seesmic, about the pressures of operating in such a volatile ecosystem. Making Seesmic’s prospects more uncertain, “Twitter [recently] announced it will compete with the client partners [including Seesmic] it so famously enabled,â€� Scoble notes. As The New York Times reported earlier this week: “Developers fear that if Twitter’s engineers build the same features that they have, Twitter could transform overnight from generous benefactor to arch competitor to their start-ups.â€� Taking the side of the developers and startups, Scoble suggests that Twitter should have given the upstarts more …

Limited Brands, the Columbus, Ohio-based parent of Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, is expanding internationally. In Canada, it will create a new company, Limited Brands Canada, based in Montreal, to oversee strategic expansion there, including La Senza, Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret Pink and Victoria's Secret, which will launch later this year. Joanne Nemeroff, currently president of La Senza, its Canadian lingerie chain, will also be president of the new company. Additionally, the company announced a franchise partnership with M.H. Alshaya, Co. to operate Bath & Body Works stores in the Middle East.--Sarah …

Upon visiting Facebook’s brand-new Palo Alto offices, Om Malik had a few revelations regarding the relationship between the social network and Twitter. For better or worse, he says, “The future of these two companies are intertwined! They are the Kane & Abel of our new pulsating two-way, near-real-time Internet … Together, they dominate the zeitgeist.â€� Rather than coexisting peacefully, however, Malik believes that Facebook and Twitter are “competing for essentially what is the next evolution of the Internet: The People Web.â€� What’s more, Twitter’s presence conflicts directly with Facebook’s vision of the Web, i.e., a Web where every action …

Never one to shy away from big projects, Google is making every Tweet ever Tweeted on Twitter searchable. The feature is expected to be available worldwide in the next few days, and while it presently only goes back two months, it is eventually expected to include every tweet dating back to the first one on March 21, 2006. “This is the next step in the product evolution of making this type of content available,â€� Dylan Casey, Google’s product manager for real-time search, tells The Los Angeles Times. “We’re really excited to give users the ability to replay a conversation.â€� …

ESPN again has turned to U2 as the soundtrack for its World Cup promotional campaign. Spots have been running with the Dublin band's music for some time, but now ESPN says four new spots with four hits will back the event that kicks off in June. Ireland failed to qualify. ESPN's description of the ads: --ROBBEN ISLAND communicates the historic nature and importance of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, through the prism of soccer. This spot was filmed on location at Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. It is the site where …

The Del Taco restaurant chain has introduced a new, Santa Fe version of one of its most popular items, the Chicken Soft Taco. The Santa Fe version features the chain’s signature marinated grilled chicken, lettuce and cheddar cheese, plus a new roasted corn and black bean salsa sauce with a “kick.� The item, priced at $1.49, will be on Del Taco’s menu for a limited time. Del Taco has more than 515 restaurants in 16 states.--Karlene Lukovitz

Google announced Wednesday the launch of a Twitter timeline tool that lets you view historical tweets. The tool lets you "zoom" in on any time in history to "replay" what people said publicly about a topic on Twitter. Go to the Twitter timeline and click on "Show options" on the search results page, then select "Updates." The first page shows you the familiar latest updates from a set of sources. Look for the chart at the top. That's where you will can select the year, month or day, or click any point to view the tweets from that …

With ESPN receiving affiliate fees for its ESPN3.com, it's willing to stream live NBA playoff games on the site in full. TNT has rights for online streaming, too. But perhaps looking not to pique cable/satellite/telco TV distributors, it's not going as far -- per its usual practice. Some games during each round will include what it calls "mosaic" coverage, where four angles from a game are available on NBA.com, but each sphere is limited and there is no sound. Turner (TNT owner) operates NBA.com and bills it as "companion coverage," hoping people watch the games on TV with their …