Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry. The increasing use of the mobile Internet and for-pay “apps” that run on smart phones and other gadgets might give news providers what they’ve been searching for: a way to charge for digital content, Wales told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. As founder of one of the world’s most popular websites, the 44-year-old American is a key Internet entrepreneur. “The apps model – the iPad app, the Kindle – does provide new and interesting opportunities for newspapers,” he said, speaking on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum, an annual gathering of business and political leaders on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como. “If I just click on my iPad, and it’s billed on my normal bill, that micropayment model makes it possible for people to have an impulse purchase,” he said. – from AP