2:26 PM PDT Wed, Aug 17, 2011 
UPDATE: SkyDrive was back up at about 3:30pm PT as confirmed in this tweet.
Microsoft's cloud service is down for some users, Microsoft confirmed on the SkyDrive Twitter feed at about 2pm PT today.
"We are aware of issues currently affecting some SkyDrive users and are working to remedy the situation. Thanks for your patience!" reads the @SkyDrive tweet.
Russell Colburn was the first...
0:18 PM PDT Wed, Aug 17, 2011 
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick revealed on "This Week in Startups" that a man associated with Hollywood powerhouse Michael Ovitz -- an investor in Travis's pre-Napster P2P company Scour -- threatened his life [ see our story on Uber's roadmap ].
In the summer of 2000, the movie industry had just filed a lawsuit against Scour for $250B. Naturally, the suit made Ovitz look very bad in the entertainment world.
After the suit was filed, Travis was about to speak at a Los Angeles event when the heavy, named Peter, approached him.
"Peter leans over my shoulder and basically tells me about how certain people in the industry have worked very hard to get where they are at, and that...
11:48 PM PDT Tue, Aug 16, 2011 
Uber, the on-demand private car service, has the framework in place to eventually start providing food delivery and offering helicopter and motorcycle rides, said CEO Travis Kalanick on "This Week In Startups" [ full episode here and our story on Travis's death theat here ].
"So let's say you're in Midtown in New York, and you're like 'Oh my god, I need to get to JFK ASAP.' A town car picks you up, takes you to the nearest helipad, and boom, you pop on over to JFK," said Travis about the potential Uber expansion [ clip here ].
San Francisco-based Uber launched its service in Seattle last week and is also available in New York and San Francisco. Travis said Uber will expand to..
8:32 PM PDT Tue, Aug 16, 2011 
Get a play-by-play of the Aug. 16 event here. Companies are listed in the order they presented.
7:50 PM PDT Tue, Aug 16, 2011 
BookTour, an Amazon-funded startup founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, is shutting down its services Sept. 1 due to a lack of authors and changes in book marketing budgets, according to an email sent Tuesday to BookTour authors.
Authors can download existing tour data as an XML file from their page or from here.
"And while we would like to continue providing the valuable service that is BookTour, everyone here has families to feed and bills to pay," the email read. "As such, the founders are working on new and exciting ventures in publishing and software development."
BookTour currently offers a free directory of author events, allowing users to find when particular authors are coming to a local area. Its interface...