http://www.thevarguy.com – Building an e-commerce platform that integrates cloud computing, social media, mobile devices and hosted applications into a single package is a tall order. But that’s what Cloudcraze, a relatively new application that has just reached version 3.0, promises to do. (IT news)

http://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Bernard Moon is co-founder and CEO of Vidquik, a new web conferencing and sales solutions platform, and co-founder of SparkLabs, a recently launched startup accelerator in Seoul, Korea. Follow him on Twitter.  I met Qik co-founder Ramu Sunkara through the University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni network while seeking advice for Vidquik. (IT news)

http://www.thevarguy.com – Geoff Fancher, a 17-year Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) veteran, is taking over U.S. sales for Westcon Group’s Comstor business unit, a specialist in the networking vendor’s products and solutions. Fancher, formerly Cisco’s vice president, U.S. Field Partner organization, is tasked as new Comstor senior vice president with P&L responsibility for the distributor’s U.S. (IT news)

http://techcrunch.com – According to Reuters, Google has settled a lawsuit brought by software maker Rosetta Stone over the search company allowing people to purchase keywords within its ad product using its trademarked name. The lawsuit was filed in 2009 and has dragged on in Virginia since then. The language-teaching company says that competitors were getting a leg up by confusing people searching for them on Google. (IT news)

http://techcrunch.com – Apple released the 10-K it filed with the SEC today, reflecting its financial status and records for the entirety of 2012. Most of the content is what we’ve seen already from quarterly results, but a couple of statistics stood out as particularly interesting and worthy of note. (IT news)