Station TV tape copyrighted to delete embarrassing disclosure

Station In San Francisco Bay Area television has become world famous for humiliating mistake during a news broadcast on a fatal crash apparently trying to delete the event by copyright.

Six days after the Asiana flight 214 crashed into the San Francisco International Airport on July 6, KTVU morning anchor Tori Campbell said the station has confirmed the names of the drivers and began to read aloud and shown simultaneously on the screens of viewers. The names read by Campbell - "Captain Sum Ting Wong", "The Wi You", "Ho Lee Fu" and "Bang, Ding Ow" - have been confirmed by an internship at the Federal Aviation Administration, but apparently not read aloud to the broadcast station.

Although Campbell and the station quickly issued an apology, did not stop spreading clips video sharing sites and social networks flood. But the Fox television affiliate has reached a new solution to the embarrassing situation: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which requires websites to remove copyrighted material at the request of the copyright holder.

Some of the videos submitted by viewers have disappeared from the Internet, with messages that say: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by KTVU."

As the season certainly has the right to protect their copyrighted material, is not the main objective of the clip-mining campaign, according to Tom Ramponi, station general manager and vice-president.

"The accidental mistake we did was insensitive and offensive," said Raponi MediaBistro Mondays. "Today, most people have seen. At this point, keep showing the video is insensitive and offensive, especially to many in our community have offended Asian. According to our apologies, we carry through our responsibility to minimize the unthinking repetition of images for others ".

Three people died and over 180 were injured when Asiana Boeing 777 crashed on the runway while trying to land at San Francisco International Airport.


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Facebook confirms that men do not care about royal baby

Facebook confirmed Monday what many have thought casually actual baby's arrival is exciting for women than for men.

The unnamed child of Prince William and Duchess Kate has raised more than 1 million mentions on Facebook World during the time of your birth, the company said. The demographics show they were women of 18-44 years. Only 18-24 appears in the famous son, and demographic men happened to post on the new baby more women of 45-54 years.

Facebook also has drawn the first countries to discuss the new Royal. United Kingdom, as expected, took first place. The United States, Canada, Italy and France have followed suit. Here is the map, which shows that countries had users who have the most posts and comments on the actual child. (The darker the color, the posts and comments.)

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Netflix profit rocket higher, but gains users have slow turn

 Earnings for the second quarter rose Netflix as streaming video site's largest Internet has continued to gain subscribers with the original last week reeled in content strategy Emmy nominations.

But shares fell 6.3 percent to $ 245.35 after hours, their increased almost six times more income had more to do with curbing costs soar subscriber growth expectations.

The stock has been a favorite of the market this year, rising more than any other in the S & P 500, which makes it ripe for a pull back.

"The world is moving linear TV Internet TV and Netflix is ​​a leader in this evolution," CEO Reed Hastings said in a letter to shareholders, which was also signed by the chief financial officer David Wells.

The letter stated that "Arrested Development" has been a "small but significant bump in the composition." Netflix also said it is expanding beyond its first documentary series very attractive and strategy of stand-up comedy.

Netflix added 630,000 new customers transmission in the United States in the second quarter, for a total of 29.81 million. In April, predicted from 29400000-30050000. While within expectations, observers were excited for a while after the hype around recent original series. In the three previous periods, subscriber additions in the United States has never fallen below one million, and two districts, which exceeded 2 million.

 Netflix launched its first "House of Cards" high profile of the original series in the first quarter. He has received critical acclaim and widespread popular and the company attributes the series to jump in subscriptions earlier this year. Subsequently, two other original Netflix has launched in the second quarter: "Arrested Development" and "Hemlock Grove". Although there was a clear home run in the line of "House of Cards", Netflix has ordered a second season of "Hemlock Grove" and said he was very pleased with the response of "Arrested Development".

On Monday, the company has continued to say he would be happy to order a fifth season of "Arrested Development", which was very difficult to do for the fourth season resumes on the platform.

Last week, the original Netflix gained further credibility "House of Cards" collecting three Emmy nominations in the major categories, including drama series, and the rebirth of the house streaming site "Arrested Development" to receive. It was the first time programming, the first in a tent purely digital platform won Emmy nominations. Including low profile categories, the online streaming site had 14 nominations spread over three of his originals.

The Emmy nominations guarantee the quality of the original Netflix and strengthen its position in the reserves renowned talent to participate in future initiatives. But economic momentum is Emmys shade, maybe, especially for a platform and distribution model - all the episodes at once - as unusual as Netflix.

While Netflix is ​​the top of the stack of the flows, the battery is larger competitors. The company has been in an arms race content license with Amazon lately, and Amazon is debuting their own originals.

In his letter, Hastings said that if the Netflix content, technological capacity and user experience are all better, "competing for the attention of consumers while also improving and the U.S. venture market saturation grow what we do. "

For the future, it is expected a higher subscriber growth in the current period. Should 30500000 to 31300000 in the third quarter.

Hastings said Netflix is ​​scheduled to arrive 60-90000000 U.S. customers, breaking the likes of HBO several times. The company has passed the basic domestic subscribers HBO for the first time earlier this year, according to SNL Kagan estimates.

Overall, Netflix posted a profit of $ 29.5 million, or 49 cents per share, compared to $ 6.2 million, or 11 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 20 percent to $ 1.07 billion.

The result of 49 cents per share was better than Wall Street analysts expected everywhere, while the figure was in line with expectations.

There were a total of 7.75 million subscribers in its international business, to 610,000 in the previous quarter. Prediction of April, which was 7.3 to 7900000.

The DVD mail business continued to atrophy as original content and - more broadly - flows take the front seat of the Netflix strategy.

Online Streaming has become a focus to Netflix, a video sequence post-benefit supplant traditional conference call with analysts. Netflix once held a live chat hosted by the analyst Rich Greenfield of BTIG Research and hostess Julia Boorstin of CNBC, launching Hastings questions collected from Twitter and email communications. Begin streaming website Netflix investor relations to 15:00 PT.


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LG OLED TV curve $ 15K available for pre-order now U.S

LG was the first manufacturer to send large screen OLED TV in Korea and Europe, and now, the company says, "first" to the American model.

The LG 55EA9800 a 55-inch OLED TV with a curved screen, will be available for pre-order today at a price of $ 14,999. According to James Fischler, senior vice president of marketing, which hit the market in the homes of people that have ordered "within weeks".

In this country, OLED TV LG sold exclusively at select Best Buy Magnolia inside. LG has announced its flagship store in Richfield, Minnesota, and the TV will be available from today at stores in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and San Antonio. The game will launch additional Magnolias summer.

The affirmation of the "first" obviously means higher LG bragging rights, but the news of his imminent arrival of Samsung in the U.S. market arrived today. The KN55S9 this company will be available for sale for at least one U.S. retailer this week for the same price of $ 14,999. It is also a 55-inch OLED display with a curved screen.

When asked about the Samsung, LG Fischler, said: "We are very confident that we will be the first in the U.S. to release [OLED TV]" He referred to the new Samsung as a "rumor .. "LG did not say how many 55EA9800 do in the United States, citing" competitive reasons. "

Fischler said the company has done with the curved version for release in the U.S. because of "great interest" in the exotic design. Flat TV 55 inch OLED from LG, meanwhile, sold in Korea and Europe with teammate concave. Fischler did not specify the timing on a flat version in the U.S. market, saying only that the announcement would not come "in the next 30 days."

At 4.3 mm thin and 38 pounds, the 55EA9800 is extremely thin and light compared to plasma and LCD TVs LED, and promises a higher quality than that of the best examples of one or the other image. It uses patented technology LG LG WRGB claims conventional subpixel structure improves durability without compromising the image. It is also the first OLED TV THX Display certification.

The release of LG claims that the curved screen offers a "IMAX like home viewing experience." It is said that the light curve to fill the viewer's field of vision better than flat, even if we are skeptical for many reasons.

Naturally, the standard provides up LG 55EA9800 avalanche of additional features, including Smart TV, remote control magic single move the company's voice and gesture recognition and 3D passive.


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eBay is expanding the coverage area for delivery in 1 hour

 eBay delivery service expands to 1 hour, eBay now to new locations in San Francisco, New York area, Chicago and Dallas, the company announced Monday.

In addition to expanding its service area, eBay is adding features that may seem a little backwards - a pick-up in the option of storing and accessing services office.

But the vice president of mobile and local eBay, Dane Glasgow, said the company is to add functionality to customer demand. Now for the eBay user command of a local business partners eBay, office hours, and have the goods delivered within 60 minutes. It costs $ 5 for each order with a minimum of $ 25 per store.

"We certainly see that consumers eventually choose. It is a time when consumers want something quick and there are times when people will have to go to the store to look at things," said Glasgow.

The need to choose and apply to devices. eBay has found that many of their customers who spend more money on the site to use multiple devices. Twenty percent of visitors using mobile devices and desktop PCs account for 44 percent of eBay selling, according to Glasgow. The most popular purchases using this service are electronics and home and garden, but a customer who was with bicycle tires blew during a turn, ordered the parties that are distributed, Glasgow said.

 The company added in-store pickup feature later this year, but you can order delivery in 1 hour through the office Monday. The extensions will also be deployed on Mondays.

In addition to launching the service in Dallas and Chicago, eBay will now be extended to other cities in the San Francisco Bay (including Los Gatos, Saratoga, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Menlo Park , Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, Redwood Shores, Foster City, Burlingame and San Mateo), and in the New York area (including Queens and Brooklyn, and more specifically Ridgewood and Prospect Park).

The e-commerce giant has made the service last year in San Francisco before spreading quickly in New York.

Other companies delivery options trading online test on the same day, as Wal-Mart and Amazon.


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Phone features push nets $ 100 million Facebook users per month

 Facebook is more mobile than ever, the company announced Sunday.

The social network Facebook for all applications on the phone, currently has over 100 million users a month, the company confirmed. The application, which was launched in 2011, allows those with feature phones to access your news sources, Messenger and photos from their phones. New users can register and find friends from their feature phones.

A feature phone is a middle ground between a smartphone and a feature phone. More specifically, they differ from most smartphones that feature phones do not allow synchronization with other business devices allow users to download third party applications. However, technology is changing rapidly.

When Facebook launched last year, shareholders are increasingly concerned about the mobile company initiatives, saying they were not as strong as expected. In recent months, however, Facebook has turned its attention to mobile consumers - especially smartphones - and now is on the rise. This milestone of 100 million users of mobile long is even more good news for shareholders.


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Yahoo purchase AdMovate to boost mobile advertising

Less than a day after Yahoo released a catch in its earnings report for the second quarter, the company announced a new technology acquisition. This time the target is AdMovate, a private company that has developed a touted to bring behavioral targeting for mobile advertising solution.

The team confirmed AdMovate own statement, explaining the purpose of the company was to "help traders make their consumers at the right time and place with personalized messages."

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has repeatedly stressed its interest in mobile refocus Yahoo around, saying during a live broadcast yesterday's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, that "the future of Yahoo's mobile, and we are Place our first mobile products."

Scott Burke, senior vice president of display advertising and advertising technology unit of Yahoo, said in a message Tumblr Wednesday that Yahoo is "deeply invested in the purchase of programming and mobile advertising. "

This acquisition is part of our efforts to invest more in our advertising platforms high tech - Apt, genomics and Right Media - and shopping easier for advertisers and agencies. Admovate personalization technology accelerates our ability in mobile advertising, and earned a technical team with exceptional talent.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the engineering team AdMovate integrate with Yahoo display advertising team in Silicon Valley.

Yahoo has certainly invested a lot of talent and solutions but dozens of cutting products as well. Apart from the acquisition of $ 1.1 billion of Tumblr, Yahoo has made eight acquisitions in the second quarter.

While AdMovate resources seem to fit in line with what Mayer and company speak publicly, many analysts and fans continue to analyze how these pieces of the puzzle are all in shape.


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AT & T joins SiriusXM to offer mobile services for Nissan

 If the car of the future is a smartphone with wheels, Nissan sign with AT & T.
AT & T is committed to provide wireless connectivity to SiriusXM Radio for a set of support services for cars of Nissan vehicles in North America. The telematics - telecommunications and information systems in road vehicles - SiriusXM provide items such as emergency assistance after an accident, stolen vehicle tracking, roadside assistance, additional services on the road.

It is part of a plan to use the combination of SiriusXM satellite and cellular networks to extend the functionality for customers. Glenn Lurie, president of emerging companies and AT & T Organization associations, said the "car of the future will be a smartphone with four wheels" mobile Internet and adding your company with SiriusXM improve connectivity in cars. Car Connectivity - design long and slow and structured manufacturing cars completed - have recently grown. AT & T already has a partnership to provide 4G LTE connection to many General Motors vehicles with applications planned to arrive in the second half of the year. GM is committed to connect the majority of its fleet with 4G LTE in 2014.

Last year, rival Verizon has paid $ 612 million to acquire Hughes Telematics in an effort to expand its automotive telematics. As AT & T, Verizon discussed the prospects connected car market. Since powers Verizon services, such as obtaining new and Stock Quotes with its mbrace system in some models of Mercedes Benz.


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Samsung is trying everything, why not a flip phone?

Coming soon: Android mobile operating system that looks like the phone I had before there was Google.
Samsung is back with a new Galaxy family phone. According to a Korean language translation choppy digital daily basis, the new Samsung phone - the folder "Galaxy" - will be released in August in Korea as a low-end model. It will run the Google Android operating system with support LTE. It says it has a small screen and a physical keyboard.

    Leaked photos show the cover design that evokes memories to take four and a half minutes to drill a line of text.

Why take a step back in time? Perhaps the design, with a smaller screen, cheaper and could do a good phone market entry in emerging markets outside of Korea as well. Perhaps the main terminal Jitterbug proves to be a success secret that Samsung simply can not ignore. We know that if we start to see ads for Samsung, plus Lipitor files in Smithsonian magazine.

Samsung has forged a different path in terms of design and its main rival, Apple. Samsung has created several games that appeal to niche markets, while his phone Cupertino competition designs using broadband consumers as possible.


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Inks publisher Inkling new jobs, $ 16 million in funding

Interactive e-book publishing platform Inkling announced Wednesday new multi-year contracts with two major textbooks and medical publishers, offers that will expand the number of shares offered.

The San Francisco-based company, which makes tools for publishers to create and distribute books for tablets, smartphones and Web works with Pearson and Elsevier publishers, both intend to use the technology to produce Inkling digital versions of their books.

In the case of Elsevier, which plans to take more than half a million pages of content, about 600 pounds, said Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis.

"This is to make these books living documents, and one of the biggest advantages is that you can make changes at any time and push it out," MacInnis said in an interview.

As a result, the composition of the Inkling own content library - which sells through its own store - is changing. Currently, only one fifth of consumers and especially academic content of the health of the company, which is expected to rise to 50 percent of the Elsevier collection, MacInnis says.

The case comes with a series C funding year $ 16 million led by Growth Fund Sequoia Capital. MacInnis says it will invest in the capacity of Inkling to help publishers to produce this content, against the publishers to do on your own. "We need engineers and consultants and account managers. Persons who work with publishers to make this transition," he said.

In addition, there are a trio of former employees vice president. This includes former boss Gus Flipboard Gostyla biz dev, you will do the same in Inkling. There is also the former head of marketing and ModCloth Yola, Hema Padhu, what's new vice president of marketing Inkling Googlers and former CFO and GoodData Stephane Panier, who joined in January Inkling be his vice- president of finance and operations.

MacInnis said that the vision of the company is to become "a destination for the world's most reliable content." Compete with Apple, Amazon and others with the tool housing that allows publishers and individuals self- publishing on multiple platforms.


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Foursquare for more control over the ads on the Comic-Con International

After a discrete output Toys R Us and Captain Morgan, the new ad Foursquare, the position of advertising sales, will make a much stronger key at Comic-Con International: San Diego.

As of Wednesday, the social network based on the location to display a limited number of people who check-in on Foursquare at the Convention Center in San Diego an ad for a free movie ticket for "The Do List" a comedy opens July 26.

Check-in since the announcement, which functions as an offer comes from the production company of the film, CBS Films and theater-owner of Regal Entertainment Group.

Through the promotion, members of Foursquare service of the notice must provide your e-mail address to redeem a "buy one, get one free" ticket to see the film on opening weekend.

Thrust Comic-Con is the latest attempt four years, Foursquare, which has 35 million users and a new raised $ 41 million in debt financing, the benefit in giving buyers access to targeted advertising members after they sign up in some places. The position of Foursquare check-in ads made ​​their debut in June with a campaign of Toys R Us coupons they offer to people who were in the points for the family.

Comic-Con kicks off on Wednesday and is expected to attract more than 125,000 people. The promotion will be available to all participants and Sunday, despite only show an undisclosed percentage of Foursquare after user registration.

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Tumblr releases security patches "very important" for iOS

Tumblr launched an iOS app updated on Tuesday that includes a "security update important" to face an internal fault.

In a company blog, the micro-blogging site owned by Yahoo urged users of its iOS application "please download this update now" and change their passwords on the site as well as other places in which to use the same password.

The issue of security, the nature of which has not been described in the post, apparently does not apply to the version of Android that has been issued updates to this application.

Yahoo did not immediately respond to CNET's request for more information, but he said that TheNextWeb only became aware of the vulnerability Tuesday:

Today, Tumblr has been informed of a security implemented in our iOS application. Immediately issued an update that fixes the problem and inform the users. Obviously, we take these incidents very seriously and deeply regret this error.

The micro-blogging site, which boasts more than 300 million unique visitors per month, was acquired by Yahoo last month for $ 1.1 billion.


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Google Maps 2.0 for iOS launches with support for iPad

Just a week after the renewal of Google Maps for Android has released an update for iOS devices has affected the Apple App Store.

Google Maps 2.0, which began rolling users worldwide Tuesday, support for larger touch screen of the iPad. As with updating the Android version of last week, the new version of iOS seems to have a clean design, with softer colors.

As the enhanced version of Android, iOS update sports navigation features live traffic updates and incident reports and internal. It also includes the same Foursquare Explore feature designed to help users navigate and find restaurants, bars, shops and hotels.

The update has been seen in stores in Asia and soon came to the U.S. store.


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New design of the web interface of Google Maps is now available for all

 Only two months after giving us a look at their new web interface of Google Maps, Google opened the service to all. Previously available on an invitation only basis, the new desktop interface is accessible to all users on Tuesday. Google gave us a glimpse of the completely revised conference I / O developers in May 2013 services.

The update, which is available on the information page of Google Maps, sporting a new full screen interface and now inspired by "cards", a visual update based on Google aesthetics. The update uses vector graphics data instead of tiles, allowing Maps to load faster, even using a new "zoom out" feature that allows users to zoom into space.

Users can also take pictures of places and trips to see the full public transport solutions with comparative tables showing the differences in overall journey time. The update, which is available on the information page of Google Maps, sporting a new full screen interface and now inspired by "cards", a visual update based on Google aesthetics.

The update uses vector graphics data instead of tiles, allowing Maps to load faster, even using a new "zoom out" feature that allows users to zoom into space. Users can also take pictures of places and trips to see the full public transport solutions with comparative tables showing the differences in overall journey time.


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In Yahoo, style over substance and style was good - unusual

Marissa Mayer Yahoo CEO gets a B for trying something different: a live video Yahoo earnings in the second quarter. She always gets C for a woman for what was another boring report earnings. After a year at the helm, Mayer still has much work to do before we can declare mission accomplished.

Meanwhile, the show was interesting with some style, though this style was sometimes quite bizarre. Think Hans and Franz, but the Yuks.

There is nothing in the rule book that says traditions can not be ignored, but there is a reason why most fail to television quarterly financial conference. With few exceptions, are dry as dust bore festivals, almost guaranteed to send normal people violent crisis narcolepsy. They are also full of selfish nonsense management by company X, Y or Z will inevitably promote the mystical qualities, magical and otherwise supercalifragilisticexpialidocious his henchmen.

  So it is with Mayer, speaking of the teleprompter as she listed one after another superlative. Compliant but not surprising. (IE:. "Future of Yahoo's mobile") It was a little more attractive once the open Q & A Not for long, though it has much worse when CFO Ken Goldman took his turn in front of the camera...

Goldman, who flanked Mayer on the board, has a gold plating recovery and is a man of figures made. But the type is not public speaking. Goldman wood supply is bad enough. It also eats for polysyllabic words as he rushes through his lines. OK, Goldman was not hired to forget Cicero. I understand. But if Yahoo will leverage its CFO on the performance of your spreadsheet for this type of dog and the horse, then count style points. Especially when the substance is modest.

However, there was a complete wash. On the positive side both on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show" are now good fodder to use for future games.




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The trial judge rejected the terms of service Instagram

 A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Instagram the most controversial changes in the terms of service announced last year that many feared property awarded photos of users sharing service popular photos.

In a ruling issued Friday, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Lucy Rodriguez Instagram could not continue for a number of procedural reasons, including the level of injury of the applicant and the State. Alsup also rejected the applicant's request for leave to file a second amended complaint.

A Facebook representative declined to comment on the decision.

The lawsuit, which was filed last December, accused of breach of contract of service and try to "seize the property rights of customers," after announcing a review of its terms of service that many feared given the perpetual rights Service Sales of user photos without payment or notification. After a reaction from users, Instagram has quickly reversed and announced changes in terms may revert to the version in force since the service was launched in 2010.

Instagram said that the new conditions of service shall come into force on January 19, and users can not withdraw, but could eliminate your bills before the due date. The application was opposed to this last point, saying that customers could cancel but in doing so, they lose the right to your photos.

In a motion to dismiss in February, Instagram argued that Lucy Funes - the original applicant in the case - she did not have the right to request, because it would have deleted your account before applying the new terms and continue using your Facebook account January 19 when there have been changes in terms of service. Lucy Rodriguez was replaced by the plaintiff in an amended statement in March.


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Yahoo Q2 sales fall 9%, but the income of the target

Yahoo has accumulated a credit card would, so to speak, in recent months with the acquisition of several new social and mobile companies. But what analysts and investors really want to know is how much the company in Sunnyvale, Calif.-based resulting in its report of second quarter results, released after the close on Tuesday.

 The "technology company" describes itself, has reported net income of $ 331 million, or 30 cents per share (statement). Non-GAAP earnings were 35 cents per share, on revenues of 1.135 billion, including traffic acquisition costs (TAC). Excluding TAC, Yahoo reported revenue of $ 1.071 billion. Wall Street was looking for earnings of 30 cents per share on revenue of $ 1.08 billion.

CEO Marissa Mayer made an initial reflection on the quarter in prepared remarks.

    I am encouraged by the performance of Yahoo! 's second quarter. Our company has been maintaining stability and launched more than ever, the introduction of a major new product almost every week. The new Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports new application, the Yahoo! search redesigned, the new Flickr, the new Yahoo! Mail for Tablet, the Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo! Summly with our new implementation - this quarter significant improvements to our product range and our users have responded to the increased use and commitment.

Mayer just called an acquisition in its statement, but the full list consists of Astrid Milewise Loki Studios, Go Poll Go, PlayerScale, Rondee, Ghostbird software and, in particular, Tumblr.

Yahoo paid $ 1.1 billion for Tumblr last May, which has caused some controversy within the user base of the base when the news was revealed. This important agreement has sparked speculation that Yahoo may go after next Hulu, which at the time was the center of a rumor of war filled auction.

But last week, the current coalition Hulu 21st Century Fox, NBC Universal and Walt Disney Co. property still holds. For perspective, Wall Street expects Yahoo to offer third-quarter revenue of $ 1.12 billion, with revenues of at least 34 cents per share. Yahoo provides guidance in the third quarter of $ 1.06 billion to $ 1.1 billion in revenue. For the year, Yahoo projected revenue to be between $ 4.45 billion and $ 4.55 billion $.

Numbers to know from the second quarter of Yahoo:

•     Yahoo bought 25 million shares of $ 653 million and used $ 1 billion in cash for acquisitions (including $ 970 million to acquire Tumblr).
•     Yahoo has already made a promise to return 3,650 million revenues Alibaba Group shareholders.
•     Number of ads sold (excluding Korea) was reduced by about 2 percent on an annual basis.
•     Price-per-announcement (excluding Korea) dropped by 12 percent.
•     In research, the paid clicks (except Korea) increased by 21 percent per year. Click price (excluding Korea) dropped by nearly 8 percent.

The action was strongly in after-hours trading.


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The redesign of Google Play Store reveals glass support

Google Play

Google Glass, finding significant step giant laptops, has found a home in applications. The company launched Tuesday pending Google Play online market overhaul. Early this morning, a user of Android, Nicolas Gramlich, posted a screenshot of his Google+ page showing that one of the titles available on the market includes support for Google Glass.

The display came a few hours after the site Android and Me posted a screen showing Google that glass is included as a compatible device for applications in Google Play capture. When choosing glass down Google menu, however, users find that the reality can not be chosen because "they recently opened Google Play App Store on the device."

Until this feature is included, Android users can browse the search company recently redesigned the video game market. At its I / O conference earlier this year, Google announced that it would review Play. The new design includes a mosaic approach to sift through programs and allows users to view the classes, tables listing key applications, and new releases.


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Here the Foursquare Showing ads after check-in

Foursquare actively seeking to benefit from the actions of their 35 million users by displaying targeted ads after check-in at specific locations. The Social Network 4 years, depending on the situation encourages people to "check-in" in places far from home, and use the monitoring data to recommend nearby places to check out members. Now the company hopes to capitalize on check-ins, members serve ads after the fact.

 Captain Morgan, a brand of rum Diageo is one of the first advertisers to test the position of Foursquare check-in ads, saying reported. The brand is to use the new unit to suggest Captain Morgan cocktails for adults immediately after checking in bars or clubs. Toys R Us has been experimenting with ads post billing, showing coupons for some people who are registered in the kid-friendly areas such as parks and swimming pools.

 A spokesman confirmed that Foursquare Captain Morgan after check-in ads began appearing in the July 1, while the units of Toys R Us has made its debut in June The company will now run ads on a regular basis, the spokesman said.

 New Foursquare check-in device, which is revealed through a series of leaked slides first, is designed to provide people with information or offers that may be used later and is priced based on the cost per click, which means that advertisers pay only when someone clicks on the ad or save it for later.

 The initiative for the creation of income comes a year after Foursquare began allowing merchants to promote their updates through membership fees, and a few months after receiving $ 41 million in debt financing. It is not successful launch based in New York was in the generation of income, although CEO Dennis Crowley insisted that reports suggesting that his company can not make money is bad.

 However, the final game of Foursquare for advertising seems to disagree with the way the company is touting its application to new users. After failing to convince the masses of the usefulness of sharing your location, Foursquare has downplayed the counter aspects of the application and changed their approach rather than research, making it a rival of Yelp. New field of Foursquare is that it can provide people with custom where to find the best cup of coffee or happy hour suggestions.


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Google joined the push technology for the transmission of television offerings

The field is filled with competing to offer television on the masses via Internet technology companies.
Google has made proposals to media companies about licensing their content for "over-the-top" service that provides the kind of video on networks of cable providers and satellite services The Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. It revives a first attempt by the Mountain View, Calif., company a few years ago, the report said, adding that the launch of Google has evolved to include a product demonstration.

 But before such a service can even become a reality, and is part of a competitive landscape. Not only will over-the-top services compete with cable television providers like Comcast and pay-TV providers like DirecTV satellite that consumers were carrying thousands of content choices for decades, handle technology heavyweights are vying to produce an alternative flow based.

 Intel was looking for a similar service, to be launched this year in an effort to be part of the next big technology market, after the company missed the boat on smartphones.

 In addition, Apple has always said he is working on an Internet TV service to complement its current Apple TV device, which currently VOD services but few options live alone reproduces the experience Flip a switch through multiple channels of live TV.

 Beat Google and Apple by hand in another form of streaming media. It launched a streaming music service in May to Google competes with the likes of Pandora and Spotify and - later - Apple with its iTunes Radio. Google has launched a software platform TV, the Chrome browser morphing to superimpose on a smart TV in 2010, but was greeted with a very warm response. With so many players run an over-the-top, Google and the rest have clearly expect a warm hug for this purpose.



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