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Bob Parsons, CEO of Internet hosting companyGo Daddy, recently posted a video of his holiday to Zimbabwe. Disturbingly part of the video shows him shooting and killing an elephant, then posing proudly over its corpse for photos. The video is sickening but is there truth to Parsons statement defending himself? Parsons says: I stand by my decision to help African villagers. I believe elephant management is beneficial. I have the support of the people who really matter in this situation, the families of Zimbabwe — people who need help to survive....

While Twitter’s recently released traffic figures revealed insight into how many people are using the site and just how they’re using it, it received mixed reaction. Some saw the traffic figures as high, but it also revealed how much Twitter really relies on the power users of the site to continually provide content for those that would be considered ‘lurkers’. This puts the site in a dangerous position anyway, as all it takes is a few groups of people to leave the site for its use to really be questionable....

Just as Google pays content creators a percentage of the advertising revenue on YouTube, the recent changes on Facebook encourage us to share more data and the introduction of the ‘Subscribe’ button means we can share our content and make it public like a blog. What the Subscribe button means is that we are all essentially our own news outlets and we are also content creators with strangers being able to subscribe and follow our updates....

So many rumors… but I’m one hopeful iPhone 3GS owner with an upgrade due in June. Numerous sites including the Korean siteETNews, are reporting that Apple is planning to release the iPhone 5 during the last week in June. ETNews’s late June iPhone 5 release speculation comes from the confirmation that Korean providersSK TelecomandKTwill be amongst the first carriers to offer the new ‘iPhone 5,’ and that Apple has confirmed that iPhone 5 will be released as planned despite postponement rumors of a fall timeframe....

If that iPhone, PlayStation 5, or new you car you ordered was delayed in the last two years, blamethe global chip shortage. The issue started last year, the COVID-19 pandemic, shut down of the factories, high demand of work from home gadgets, and a bunch of other factors like the US-China trade war, caused gadget makers and car companies to fumble to get chips needed to produce their marquee offerings....