Quick Notes: Wattpad funding; Google apology; Apple tablet

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By Paul Biba

Wattpad closes funding round: From their press release today “Riding on the success of 1,216% year-over-year growth in 2009, Wattpad today announced that the company has completed its first round of funding. A consortium of private investors including Harvey Beck and Alan Levine, former co-CEOs of ICOM and Bert Amato, co-founder of Delrina participated in this round.”

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Google has issued an apology to Chinese authors on Chinese state-run televsion and apologized for scanning copyrighted books. It promised to stop scanning books without authorization, but announced no new offers of compensation.

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Apple’s tablet does indeed exist confirmed Orange’s second in command on a Europe 1 radio program and he said that Orange users would get it Engadget is reporting.

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