As we saw at CES 2010, IPTV is going to become real in a very big way this year. Boxee has been one of the big players in this space for quite some time and today the company is announcing a move that will offer users and content partners more options and flexibility: Boxee Payments . Boxee plans on releasing a Payment Platform this summer so that users can make purchases with one click of the remote

Last week, we wrote about how the Mac and iPhone communities came together to raise money for Haiti . The project, called Indie+Relief is pretty awesome: A bunch of independent Mac and iPhone developers pledged to donate the sales from their apps on January 20 to Haitian aid organizations. Today is the 20th, so if you purchase any of the apps listed at IndieRelief.com, the proceeds go to charity.

Google is in a buying mood again: the company announced this morning that it is set to acquire On2 Technologies , a company that develops video compression technology. The stock-for-stock transaction is valued at $106.5 million.

Yahoo, the often-forgotten web behemoth, has been hammered by bad news, bad decisions, and shrinking market share. Last year Microsoft tried to acquire Yahoo for a hefty premium, but co-founder and then-CEO Jerry Yang did everything he could to kill the deal

Callan Green works in public relations and social media at Bailey Gardiner in San Diego. You can read her posts on the company’s marketing blog or follow her on Twitter . When Facebook re-launched its fan pages earlier this year, companies were thrilled