Apple is quite low-key with its announcements and tech sites aren't usually that interested in what the company has to say, so you may have missed yesterday's revelations regarding the upgraded iPhone operating system. Everyone's going on about cut and paste (my copy of Word has been doing that for ages!),

From bloggers to major news outlets, content creators the world over are struggling to bring in enough cash to keep their businesses going. Micropayments have failed, online subscriptions are viable for only a minority of specialist publications, and advertising can be a hit or miss affair for smaller publishers.

Contrary to what Facebook friend counts may lead you to believe, most people really don’t have hundreds upon hundreds of friends. Sure, they may know some absurd number of people - but according to a study by HTC, about 55% of people really only care about communicating with five or fewer people.

Though comparable numbers are not yet available for other venture capital sectors like software and biotechnology, both The Cleantech Group and GTM Research calculated drops in green tech funding to $1 billion and $836 million, respectively. The Cleantech Group says that's a 48 percent drop over last year.