"In his new book Tell to Win, legendary Hollywood producer and entrepreneur Peter Guber shares the secret to success: Great storytelling."

"Google launched a service to make it easy for publishers to sell digital versions of newspapers and magazines Wednesday, a day after Apple announced a controversial subscription plan for media sold through its application store. "

"It appears that Warner Brothers has decided to take matters into its own hands, allowing you to purchase videos as an application, completely bypassing the iTunes location feature."

"Twitter users then seem to be acting more as filter and amplifier of traditional media in most cases," though "a significant percentage of trending topics do stem from non-mainstream sources."

"Bar Karma TV show ", a concept by the creator of ''The Sims'' video game uses viewer input through apps to drive its plotlines, music and more.

With rumors that Apple is planning to rush the casual online gaming market just as Facebook is planning social-net-centric smartphones, the two giants may end up as unlikely rivals. Can either steal the other's markets?

"Google and Facebook, plus others, have held low level takeover talks with Twitter that give the Internet sensation a value as high as $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported."

"Material that is published on Twitter should be considered public and can be published, the British Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has ruled. "

"Morgan Spurlock's new documentary, "Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold", examines the world of branded entertainment, including the author's own attempts to convince marketers to pay for exposure in the feature.

"The app makers SkyGrid, formerly focused on personalized news, now turn to social networking. "

Facebook expanded its shopping discount service to five European countries and Canada - part of its push to help brands communicate with its users.

"Where Are Social Media Marketers Seeing the Most Success? It may surprise you, but the answer isn't Facebook"

""Hyper-connectivity will change every business model and supply chain; it's at an inflection point this year... and the uptake of connectivity is accelerating ever more"

Following the start of construction of its Shanghai Disney theme park, a project that took ten years of negotiation, Disney announces plans to open direct-sale Disney stores in China.

ASOS becomes the world's first fully integrated Facebook Store in Europe. The retail site based in the UK worked with Usablenet's platform to extend the same e-commerce experience on ASOS's website to their Facebook Page.

Disney's Fantasyland project is regarded as the largest expansion in the Magic Kingdom's history. The Florida attraction will open in phases beginning in 2012.

"Social network advertising to account for 10.8% of online market"

Baidu, China's equivalent of Google, offers a window to the country's netizens in its blog "Baidu Beat". Take a look at a 2010 countdown list of the biggest internet phenomena in the region, including online variations of typical social behaviours: group buying (团购, tuángòu), time-sensitive discounts (秒杀, miǎoshā), and public voyeurism (围观, weiguan").