The Fast Company magazine presents its new rating of the 50 most innovative companies in the world. In mid-February, they published the 2011 list, giving short descriptions to their picks. Apple scoops first place, pushing the digital giants Twitter, Facebook and Google to the 2nd, 3rd and 6th place correspondingly—with Intel, Microsoft, Linkedin,eBay, IBM and Cisco resting below them. The sport and fashion apparel industry is presented by Burberry (No.13, “for breathing new life into a luxury stronghold”), Nike (No.23, “for its mix of sports, style, and yes, plastic bottles”), Opening Ceremony (No. 28) the food and drinks business has two representatives—PepsiCo (No.33)—“for its ambitious nutrition R&D” and chocolate company Madécasse (No.50).

In the end of each year, it’s time to recollect ups and downs of the period of time for every website and company as well as for everybody. Twitter is paying tribute to 2010 with its new project that went online at the subdomain of the world’s most popular microblogging social media website at www.yearinreview.twitter.com.  The purpose of the online destination is perfectly clear from its title: to recollect the most significant achievements of the social media website, the most popular tweets, and the celebrity users who joined the network in 2010.

Sometimes to deliver the message it’s more effective say something once and then become silent than keep on chatting and tweeting about it all the time. The celebrities including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams and many more decided to sign off their social media accounts on December 1, World AIDS Day, to support a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Alicia Keys’s charity, Keep a Child Alive. They will get back online when the organization raises $1 million.

Twitter, the pioneer of microblogging, started inviting the groups of users for testing its brand new service that offers analytics pertaining to the activity of users and popularity of tweets, reports Mashable.com. Ealier this year Twitter’s CEO announced the product would be launched at the end of 2010. So far the tool is available to the limited number of users.

Volkswagen Brazil is giving out tickets to the upcoming 2010 Planeta Terra festival to people, who like to use Twitter and do it massively. The auto brand has launched so called “corrida” on the popular micro-blogging platform to be rolling out for four days, November 16-19. People are invited to ‘hunt down’ the tickets for the festival to be arranged in São Paulo this Saturday by tweeting.