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The Big Issue In The North, a U.K. magazine sold by homeless street vendors to give them a steady income, is launching a digital edition, alongside its print edition. If a customer wants the digital version street vendors will sell them an access card with a QR code plus one-off access code on it which will enable them to download the edition to their smartphones or tablet.

"Zeebox does not sell any advertising itself; instead, its network partners work with agencies and advertisers to sell second-screen ads and Zeebox takes a cut. For now, the Zeebox app works only with live TV -- not DVR content. The app identifies live TV programming using a combination of video fingerprinting, audio content recognition and closed-captioning information."

Besides the typical $1 to $2 broker fee, one of the factors limiting the growth of the online movie-ticket selling business has been its complexity: The two dominant online players in the domestic market, MovieTickets.com and Fandango, don't have deals with every theater chain, meaning consumers often have to visit multiple selling platforms to find a convenient location and showtime for the movie they want to see.

A year after the collapse of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books Settlement in a New York court, the government of France has passed a law to digitize and sell half a million "indispensable" works from the 20th century.

cvs will start selling netbooks and ereaders this fall

University of Texas and Texas A&M are selling sustainable electricity and natural gas now bc of a deregulation in the texas energy market.  each fan that opens an account contributes to the school's sustainability initiative daily 8.3

daily 8.25 kindle 3 released, fastest-selling

vendor that is selling kiosks that brands can skin with their own branding

This article outlines 6 ways you can sell an item via Facebook... great for the Trends presents!

twitter will start selling placements in lists of "who to follow" based on the user's interests expressed on Twitter daily 9.27

Heinz selling limited edition ketchup via Facebook. Pop-up f-store.

LightSquared, a company that's building a new nationwide wireless broadband network, says Best Buy will resell access to that network, . The electronics chain will sell the service under its own Best Buy Connect brand.

selling back power; maybe for telco we can all do grid computing and our unused mobile cycles can be paid for with research yeaaayyyyyyy

upload and sell your videos

"Steve Yankovich, eBay's VP of mobile, said the average transaction on eBay's mobile apps runs between $30 and $45, in contrast to companies that sell 99-cent mobile games or virtual goods. On the high end, he notes that more than 9,000 cars are sold every week through the app, some of which are priced above $100,000."

"So, how does a Facebook mobile ad network solve this problem? Easy: Evernote allows its users to sign-up using their Facebook account.  Facebook takes this user ID, and checks the cookies the same user's browser had last time he or she logged into Facebook or visited one of the pages tracked by Facebook's data partners. Facebook then takes the anonymized data about this user (really, many similar users) and sells Evernote ad inventory to advertisers trying to reach that kind of user. If the Facebook mobile ad network works out, it is a big, positive development for several constituencies: Advertisers, who will be able to reach customers on mobile, a platform that is going to be bigger than desktop by the end of the decade. App developers, who will be able to monetize through targeted advertising. Users, who will have more and better apps to use because there will be a better financial for developers to make them."

content sharing site where handpicked fashion ambassadors upload images of their outfit -- like pinterest or pose.  If ambassador wants to sell a piece, users will have a chance to purchase the product

"Several companies have successfully built cooperative marketing structures online. Companies such as OwnerIQ, for example, enable online retailers like Crutchfield to retarget people who visit the web sites of electronics manufacturers, offering the flatscreen TVs they were just studying - at a discount. When it comes to driving brick-and-mortar sales from online, though, Facebook appears to offer the best solution yet. CPG brands gladly pay for retail circulars to help sell their products, and there's reason to believe they could buy Facebook advertising to drive consumers into retail locations. One company with which we work, ShopLocal, puts a retailer's circular content into a database, including images and all the sale prices and details. In so doing it makes local data portable and extendable, so retailers can build online-only pages of the circular, or utilize QR codes to generate more content than exists in the print world."

"If your products are blamed by health professionals for causing obesity and diabetes, you can probably do one of three things (aside from not selling them): 1) ignore the critics, 2) deny the evidence, or 3) work with the grain of modern opinion."