Send a Facebook message to Zuckerburg for $100

S . fransisco: Facebook confirmed on Friday it had been dabbling with charging members around $100 to have messages for the inboxes of strangers for instance social media co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg.
 "We are testing some extreme prices to determine what functions filter spam," Facebook said in reaction with an AFP inquiry with regards to the costly delivery fees.

 In December, Facebook began testing the feasibility of charging to assure that messages from strangers pass into inboxes of intended recipients.

 At its launch, the Facebook Messages test, limited by the United States, let a sender pay some money to make sure a digital missive is routed to someone's "inbox" even though the individual is just not in their circle of friends.

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Apple won't blindly pursue share of the market: Phil Schiller, marketing chief

San Francisco bay area: In a revised version of your interview published in a very Chinese newspaper, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller said the organization would give attention to making "the very best products" for customers and "never blindly pursue market share."

 The Shanghai Evening News cited Schiller as nevertheless Apple would not produce a cheaper smartphone in the interest of expanding its share of the market.

 That did actually undermine other recent media reports indicating that Apple was working on a decreased-end smartphone, which would represent a tremendous transfer of strategy for an organization that has always dedicated to premium products.

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