This morning find out about Apollo investors and founders selling shares; Google maps’ facelift; how to get airtime with a VC and the top jobs in the digital media space.

LendingClub, operator of a peer-to-peer site for personal loans, has sold a minority stake to Google in a transaction that values the fast-growing startup around $1.5 billion.

Find out the latest private equity and venture capital updates with this morning’s First Read which unveils a Japanese Google Glass rival, where all the innovation is coming from and what Twitter desperately needs.

(Reuters) – Google has acquired news-summary app maker Wavii for about $30 million in cash, just weeks after Yahoo paid a similar amount to buy Wavii competitor Summly.

Steve Elefant has joined GoPago, to lead the growth in new channels and further develop GoPago LIVE, an all-in-one cloud POS with an integrated mobile payments platform. Elefant was formerly a senior strategic consultant at Google in the payments group and was also managing director of Soaring Ventures, a private equity investment and strategic consulting firm.

This morning read all about the Google glass app fund phenomenon, whether the PC market really is a horror show and do we think private equity is becoming less and less private? Some do.

Some experts think the time is right to test consumers’ appetite for same-day service. Others warn of a hidden danger lurking behind these ventures that could test the fabric of society itself.

This morning First Read brings you Accel’s latest fundraising; an update on PE exits in Q1; zombie start-ups looking for revival and a recipe for a spectacular public crash and burn.

ICG Group has completed the sale of Channel Intelligence to Google for $125 million in cash. ArchPoint Partners acted as sole financial advisor to ICG.

Check out the latest headlines this morning bringing you news on the latest Latin American PE and VC trends; Life Tech’s potential suitors; the Google of mobile and the top ten rules of designing data centers.