If people aren't willing to purchase content directly on the web, why would publishers think that they would want to pay for the same content in an app?
Following Goldman Sachs' $500 million investment in Facebook that values the company at $50 billion, the investment firm is inviting its wealthiest clients to chip in (Although a private company, Facebook does trade on secondary markets where former employees look to unload their shares.).
One of television's influential shows has a lot to teach us about America's broken institutions, the drug war, corruption, and the trials of inner city life. But it also has a lot to say about social media.
Google works with engineers from Twitter and their new acquisition, SayNow, to allow Egyptians, who don't currently have Internet access, to tweet by speaking into their mobile phone.
SwipeGood rounds up all of your credit card purchases to the nearest dollar (and then charges the total at the end of the month) allowing you to donate the difference to the charity of your choice.
Three bottles of Mackinlay's scotch whisky, abandoned in the Antarctic ice by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, have returned home to Scotland. Despite the bottles being frozen solid at minus 30 degrees Celsius, the whisky inside was still liquid. Wonder how it tastes?