Gilt is closing in on Groupon’s turf.

With the advent of the iPad, the digital age of comics may finally be blossoming. The iPad as a reading device works best with visual media such as graphic novels and standard comic books. One of the best early apps on the iPad, for instance, is the Marvel Comics reader , which was developed by ComiXology , which also offers a general comics reader app for both the iPad and the iPhone with 1,700 titles across different publishers.

While some of the gaming elements of Foursquare have dried up (point leaderboards), mayorships continue to be a hot item.

Over a year after joining Google, Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious and a Yahoo exec until June 2008, is leaving the search giant, according to a Tweet he just sent out. Schachter sent out another Tweet shortly after the first message stating that he has “no clue what he’s doing next.” Schachter confirmed to us that he is in fact leaving Google

[Editor's Note: The following stats are excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Visit Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering .] As the Facebook platform ecosystem continues to grow and diversify, it has become increasingly important — and interesting — to note which users are engaging most with today’s popular apps. We looked at demographic data for 19 different leading apps by multiple developers

Death. Taxes. Talented people leaving Yahoo

Here’s a recent short student paper submitted to Social Commerce Today by Daniel Walther at the  University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland , entitled New Trends in Social Commerce: Just Hype or a Source of Sustainable Advantage?

In case you thought Facebook wasn’t interested in the social gaming ecosystem on its platform, the company is actually hoping to make a large amount of money from it. At the  TechCrunch Disrupt conference last week, former Facebook president Sean Parker said that he thinks that Credits, Facebook’s new virtual currency, will account for a third of the social network’s revenue over the next 12 months. Some developers have been cynical about Facebook’s goals for gaming, given changes it has made to the platform that have led to major recent traffic declines

The U.S. comScore video metrix stats are out today, with the number of video viewers dipping slightly during the month of April

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any better, we spring this on you. HP and Dolby would like to give you one of three HP Pavilion dv6t Select Edition laptops complete with Blu-Ray player and Dolby Advance Audio. Here are the details: To celebrate HP’s recent launch of its new Pavilion laptops all of which include Dolby Advanced Audio for providing stunning audio, Dolby is giving away three Ultimate Dolby PC Entertainment Packages for enjoying surround sound entertainment.