Anonymous | Telegraph | 20 October 2011 Every bit as good as you might expect. At an African Union summit, "his entourage consisted of a personal jet, a container ship loaded with buses, goat carcases and prayer mats, $6m in petty cash and 400 security guards" Comments Farhad Manjoo | Fast Company | 17 October 2011 The four American companies that have come to define 21st century information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will fight it out across many markets. The rest are dust Comments Mark Cuban | Blog Maverick | 14 October 2011 Billionaire offers an agenda to Wall Street protesters. Reach out to small shareholders everywhere. Call for a tax on financial transactions. Cap student loans at $2,000 a year. Turn all investment banks into partnerships Comments Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 18 October 2011 We all know stories get embellished. Now we know a bit more about how and why it happens. New research shows that the opinion of other people can alter our personal memories, even over a relatively short period of time Comments Victoria Barret | Forbes | 18 October 2011 It has 50m customers. 96% of them pay nothing. But it's grossing $240m this year, and growing exponentially. Apple tried to buy it. Now Apple is trying to kill it. "You're a feature, not a product." How Dropbox solved freemium Comments Edward Docx | Prospect | 19 October 2011 Charming, light-touch account of meeting of European writers at Tolstoy family estate. Talk concerns the great man, the position of writers in the West and Russia, and the state of literary prizes. Much laughter, and vodka, ensue Comments John Jeremiah Sullivan | GQ | 17 October 2011 Writer and family move from one-bed apartment to big neo-colonial house in Wilmington, North Carolina. But, oops, how to pay the mortgage? The house had been used in TV shows and films before. So why not again? Fun stuff Comments Chris Ballard & Owen Good | Sports Illustrated | 11 October 2011 A baseball tale from 1950s America when players were neither wealthy nor coddled. And a minor league pitcher by the name of Kelly Jack Swift, who farmed tobacco and threw only fastballs, accomplished something we'll never see again Comments | 
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