Rounds is a favorite Facebook video chat app. After about an estimated $5.5 million in funding from Verizon Investments, Rhodium, DFJ’s Tim Draper, and other investors, web users will soon be able to use Rounds without having to log into their Facebook accounts!

If you’re unfamiliar with Rounds, it has become popular for its interactive video chat functionality, which for example, allows you and a friend to watch YouTube together or play each other’s favorite games.

Windows 8, Facebook IPO troubles, mobile advertising challenges, and what a hot lawsuit against a Silicon Valley VC means for women in technology.

Read on to see the stories making headline news on the tech scene this week!

We technology bloggers are a non-political, fun-loving and warm bunch of folk.  That’s why I have so much love in my heart for you!  We like sticking together and helping each other along on our respective journeys through the blogosphere. 

1. Social media of the womb: “What Facebook Expects When You’re Expecting” [TheLuxurySpot]
2. SheBytes not filling your Google + craze? Check Out: [DiscoverDigitalGroup]
3. Honestly, at first I thought Cowboys & Aliens was a spoof…Top Twitter Trends: [Mashable]
4. Shark Week and this playlist, were born for eachother! [LiveFastMag]
5. Hacking to clear the path, towards a tech filled tomorrow! [Forbes]

SheBytes on Bytes.  We break it down!  The world around us is filled to the brim with techie jargon. It’s hard to have a conversation today where someone isn’t talking technology.

We did a review of Google + and here are our findings.  With all the current buzz (and yes, that was a shameless insult/pun), surrounding Google’s spanking new service, Google Plus (or Google +), I thought a post on my first impressions would be helpful.