iFive: Weather Crucial for BP, Google Mobile Payment System, Venrock Raises $350M, Anna Chapman on Film, Bieber to N. Korea?

While you were setting off fireworks, throwing a coyote on the barbecue, and squeezing on your Stars and Stripes Speedo, innovation was releasing mobile payment systems, scraping together $350 million, and wearing 3-D specs. But not all at the same time.

1. Here's the A Whale oil skimmer ship being put through its paces in the Gulf. Only trouble is, 10-foot waves are hampering its progress--and Neptune alone knows what the stormy weather will do to the relief well drill. They have one chance...