Last Bytes: Twitter, Obama's BlackBerry, iPhone, Green Cars

Twitter adds two new investors and raises another $35 million. [All Things Digital]

Just in time for Valentine's Day, DailyCandy.com, the maven of shopping, fashion and overwrought puns, anoints the "hottest tech guy in all the land" with their Get With the Programmer contest. [DailyCandy]

The flap over Obama keeping his BlackBerry while in office initially focused on protecting the device from spies and hackers. Now that he won the right to keep his favorite PDA, what about protecting the President, himself, from those seeking to track his real-time physical location through the device? (Cnet News)

In an attempt to harness the power of viral marketing, design house Halston eschews New York's fashion week -- which kicked off today -- in favor a digital music video fashion collection. [WWD]

A $99 iPhone? Reportedly coming this summer to an Apple store near you. [Cnet News]

Improved green car technology announcements from Toyota, Volkswagen. [Engadget] [Engadget]

Slate conducted a survey to get to the bottom of the origins of the sometimes-charming, more-often-annoying, "25 Things About Me" phenomenon on Facebook. [Slate]

Cell phones for senior citizens! Now Grandpa doesn't have to turn up his hearing aid to hear your call. If they could only figure out something to teach my grandmother how to check her voicemail. [All Things Digital]

by Alexandra Fenwick