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Some stats behind Facebook commerce. I dont know if social has access to social times pro articles?

Reasons: The views still drive up ad revenues People tend to buy subscriptions once they are in the habit of reading it. How will the habit start if they can't access for free? 20 articles isn't much. Students and unemployed people will eventually be in a position to pay.

app that lets users access broadcast tv signals from anywhere. need to give each customer a small individual antenna to go around legal problems that other companies faced.

Came across this randomly on Grooveshark. Free 1 year subscription to Grooveshark to each person who submits a video entry. So that's a minimum cost per acquisition of $6, plus whatever media buy they had to make within grooveshark (if at all).

t-mobile giving people free data for a year if they sign up on fathers day

To save the Internet as a platform for innovation, we need to see concerted intervention to protect the rights of users to create. Most importantly, we must fight for the Internet craftsman-the individual who is free to develop networks, services, and applications and who shapes networking technologies better to meet her own needs and those of her community.

first Visa positioned itself as a PayPal competitor with P2P payments, and now AmEx is following suit with its "Serve" service. accounts are accessible via apps for iphone and android & through facebook

Google teaming up with Citigroup and Mastercard to roll out NFC payment capabilities- involves syncing up the credit card companies apps. will give google access to consumers digital shopping cart information (something that PayPal doesnt get. Google will play a similar role to what PayPal does now- it will be a third party entity)

Nike is looking for a new Fellow to open up the company's data and make it more accessible to developers, designers, and activists to create more sustainable solutions. Called the "Code for a Better World Fellowship at Nike" and "will help Nike determine the steps needed to open our sustainability data to communities of data-obsessed programmers, visual designers, and researchers."

When you add the functionality of the HT-Connect iOS app (free), you can access a total of 16 relaxation-inducing programs, and the app easily remembers your preferred settings from last time.

Access as a service

Fortune making a web app instead of a native app. Still includes a premium version, but just lets you access more meaningful applications of the content they provide on different companies.

It's like Netflix for mobile games. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired, giving them affordable and immediate access to printed words.

This animated graph is very cool.