Hewlett Packard is spending $40 million on a new campaign called “Let’s Do Amazing.” For the campaign HP has hired Rhys Darby of Flight of the Conchords and music producer and artist Dr. Dre.

Google Street View has been added to Hong Kong, China.  Google started taking pictures from their cars in November.  Chien Lee Fung, Google’s Engineering Director of the research & development center of Google Taiwan and Hong Kong said that the names of buildings will be in English and Chinese.  Users can also upload images and videos in Hong Kong. [Xinhuanet.com]

Evri Inc. has acquired Radar Networks (Twine.com).  Evri runs a “search and discovery engine” that filters topics and results based on what is important to users.  Radar Networks started in 2003 by Nova Spivack.  Spivack will remain on Evri’s board to serve as an advisor.  Vulcan Inc., the company started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is an investor in both firms. [San Francisco Business Times]

LivingSocial is a company known for making Facebook applications where users can rate and review their favorite books, movies, etc.  Now LivingSocial is trying something new: group coupons.

LivingSocial raised $25 million in a round led by U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC.  Local businesses offer deals to only a group of people.  LivingSocial plans to take this concept and spread it on Facebook.  If a local deal is made, LivingSocial gets a cut from the local businesses.

Currently LivingSocial is offering group coupon deals to residents in Chicago, Denver, Raleigh-Durham, and San Diego.  LivingSocial’s biggest competitor for this new model is Groupon.com, another well-funded group coupon company.  The advantage that LivingSocial has is that they already have a solid footprint in Facebook applications. [VentureBeat]

Conan O’Brien was forced to leave NBC after him and Jay Leno failed to reach a late night show deal.  As a result of the force out, Conan has gained a massive amount of support both online and offline.

On Conan O’Brien’s Twitter account, he announced the launch of TeamCoCo.com.  Fans can buy tickets from TeamCoCo.com for his shows.  He is touring across 30 cities.

The cities are listed below:
-    Eugene, OR Hult Center For the Performing Arts ?April 12?
-    Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre ?April 13?
-    Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre ?April 14?
-    Spokane, WA INB Performing Arts Center ?April 16?
-    Enoch, AB River Cree Resort & Casino ?April 17?
-    Seattle, WA Marion Oliver McCaw Hall ?April 18?
-    Seattle, WA Marion Oliver McCaw Hall ?April 19?
-    San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Masonic Center ?April 22?
-    San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Masonic Center ?April 23?
-    Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheater ?April 24?
-    Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheater ?April 25?
-    San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre ?April 29?
-    Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre ?April 30?
-    Las Vegas, NV The Pearl Concert Theatre – Palms Casino ?May 01?
-    Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort & Casino – Grand Theatre ?May 04?
-    San Jose, CA San Jose State University Events Center ?May 05?
-    Sacramento, CA Sacramento Memorial Auditorium ?May 06?
-    Boulder, CO Mackey Auditorium ?May 09?
-    Dallas, TX McFarlin Memorial Auditorium-SMU Campus ?May 13?
-    Austin, TX Austin Music Hall ?May 14?
-    Tulsa, OK Brady Theater ?May 15?
-    Kansas City, MO Midland Theatre ?May 16?
-    Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre ?May 18?
-    Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre ?May 19?
-    Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre ?May 20?
-    Toronto, ON Massey Hall ?May 22?
-    Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Spa & Resort – Event Center ?May 30?
-    New York, NY Radio City Music Hall ?June 01?
-    New York, NY Radio City Music Hall ?June 02?
-    Boston, MA Wang Theater ?June 04?
-    Boston, MA Wang Theater ?June 05?
-    Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena ?June 06?
-    Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre ?June 07?
-    Washington, DC Constitution Hall ?June 08?
-    Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music Festival ?June 11?
-    Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre ?June 14

[Mashable]

Chomp.com is an iPhone application recommendation service that has about 300,000 users that left about 1.5 million reviews.  Now Chomp has raised about $2 million in funding.

Chomp also has an iPhone application that allows users to click Like or Dislike for applications.  Based on your reviews Chomp puts together a list of other apps you might like.

The $2 million in funding is from Bluerun Ventures, David Lee, and Brian Pokomy.  Chomp previously raised $556,000 from Ron Conway, Auren Hoffman, Aydin Senkut. [VentureBeat]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is rumored to be working on multi-tasking support for the iPhone.  The iPhone OS 4.0 is expected to be available this summer.  Companies such as Palm and Google have been using multi-tasking as a marketing advantage for their mobile devices so this will change things. [AppleInsider]

GM Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre said that they will pay back about $8 billion in loans by the government to the U.S. and Canada before June. This is faster than the time-line that was expected before. “I believe we’re going to beat that date,” stated Whitacre. ”We have restructured and the progress that we’ve made, I believe, is sustainable. We’re not being crushed under a mountain of debt. We have a cost structure that works.” [egmCarTech]

P2P sharing network LimeWire has been notorious for serving viruses and Trojan horses within search results.  To alleviate this issue, LimeWire has signed a deal with AVG earlier this week to encourage people to sign up for a Pro account. Downloads made by LimeWire Pro users will be scanned by AVG going forward.  Currently LimeWire has about 50 million users worldwide. [CNET]

Google threatened to pull all of their operations out of China.  Now Motorola will be making Bing the default search engine for their handsets heading to China, including those powered by the Android operating system.  Bing Maps will also be the default GPS and mapping application too.  This may not bode well for Motorola and Google’s future relationship. [Engadget]