Online

Groupon’s Helping Turn The Internet Into One Big Pawn Shop

The place you’d go to flog your ex-fiancée’s engagement ring is now online, thanks to the Groupon founders. Apparently they want to pull the shame out of pawning your belongings for a quick cash-loan, with their new investment, Pawngo.


April 14, 2009
Mobile

Telstra Loan Phones May Come With Free Porn

Gizmodo AU

You can feel for the mother of the 10 year old Gold Coast girl in this story – you give your child the loan phone you get from Telstra so she can play some games during a car trip, and the next thing you know she’s watching hardcore porn that the previous user had recorded and Telstra hadn’t erased. Oops!