Hasta La Gadget!

His bio
reads, "I aim to connect and promote great people who will make a
difference by collaborating than individually. . . and my goals are
eradication of poverty and a sustainable economy by 2015." One of his
fervent passions and ongoing initiatives is to help save the Taiji
dolphins from captivity and slaughter. Doesn’t sound like a candidate
for Japan’s harsh immigration-and-detention system, does it? Yet Michael
Q. Todd found himself taken into custody in the Shingu Jail on
September 16h for a lapsed visa. 

Social media has continued to evolve over the course of the last decade.
From social networking to social gaming to social commerce, the common
belief is that social will continue to bleed into other categories.
Social Finance is SM’s latest iteration and there are a number of
exciting start-ups trying to attack the trillion-dollar student debt
problem in the U.S.

With one’s share value tanking to half its original IPO value, Mark
Zuckerberg’s been in an ongoing crisis management mode for months now.
Acccepting every speaking engagement offered, ironically he spoke at
TechCrunch’s Disrupt Conference on the same date Apple’s stock escalated to an all-time high of $660.97.

In a potential landmark case, Twitter was ordered by Manhattan Criminal
Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino 73 days ago to turn over three month’s
of tweets from Malcolm Harris. Accounts under contention are related to
two of Harris’s profiles on the microblogging site are @destructuremal and @getsworse.

It was inevitable the game-like features of Foursquare’s ‘mayorships,’ ‘badges’ and ‘check-ins’ would ultimately pave a path to paid advertising. Yes, that unassuming little geolocation-based
app that launched three short years ago at South by Southwest and has
amassed over 20 million registered users has decided to monetize.
Finally slipping into their big boy pants, Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai’s company have launched "Promoted Updates," with clients Madison Avenue ad agencies have been known to court over the years.