"Members of Facebook, the social network, have more conversations about brands than the typical US consumer, be it on the web or offline, a new study has found."

"These comparative country figures are based on Purchasing Power Parities, a system that uses the US dollar as a base point, and eliminates the different price levels between countries that typically result from currency conversion."

"Forecasts from ABI Research predict the value of this market will rise from $6 million (€4.0m; £3.6m) in 2008 to $350m in 2014, with around half of this figure being generated by mobile ads."

"Being a new newspaper, part of a new brand, gives I the freedom to experiment and it seems that this freedom has been passed on to all the staff. Mrozowski and Bello were extremely enthusiastic about their working environment and what it allows them to do. "There's this motivating feeling," Bello said. Mrozowski said that the two senior editors, Figueiredo and André Macedo, "have imparted this feeling of accomplishing the impossible at every step… There is no cap to how big these guys will dream and it presses you to do things that you wouldn't do at another newspaper."