Roundup: VCs more confident, Apple patents future iPhone ideas

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Confidence is coming back among venture capitalists — So says the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Index, which measures the mood among dozens of well-known VCs.
Facebook sued for click fraud — RootZoo says its own analytics show discrepancies over how many Facebook users clicked on RootZoo’s ads.

Gawker says ad revenue up 35 percent [...]

Future iPhones May Recognize Objects, Faces, Alter Your Voice [Apple]

If this load of recently filed Apple patents become a reality, your iPhone may become a perfect tool for spies soon, with real world object identification, faces recognition, voice alteration, and text filtering, among other things: • Real world object identification: This function will let you point at any object and obtain information about it [...]