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- Yahoo joins growing list of bidders for Hulu: sources (Fri, 24 May 2013 13:19:18 -0700)
By Ronald Grover and Greg Roumeliotis LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid told Reuters on Friday. Yahoo just this week announced a $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr. It now joins rival bidders for Hulu, including Time Warner Cable Inc, DirecTV, former News Corp president Peter Chernin and Guggenheim Digital Media, sources have said. It is unclear how much the Internet company bid. ... - Google to bankroll, build wireless networks across Africa: WSJ (Fri, 24 May 2013 14:51:16 -0700)
(Reuters) - Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of technologies and holding discussions with regulators from South Africa to Kenya, the WSJ cited people familiar with the strategy as saying. ... - Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattic's WordPress.com (Fri, 24 May 2013 15:07:58 -0700)
By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund and private-equity investor Tiger Global on Friday. The investment comes on the heels of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging company Tumblr, showing the high prices fast-growing services that targeting Internet users can command. The valuation for Automattic was similar, Fortune reported. A spokeswoman for WordPress declined to comment. WordPress powers the blogs at companies such as CNN. ... - New Xbox: What?s Better, What?s Missing (Tue, 21 May 2013 15:21:38 -0700)
Eight years after the debut of the Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced the Xbox One. - Etisalat makes top bid for Vivendi's Maroc Tel: sources (Fri, 24 May 2013 07:45:37 -0700)
By Leila Abboud and Sophie Sassard PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Gulf telecom operator Etisalat has offered a higher price for Vivendi's Maroc Telecom stake than rival Qatari bidder Ooredoo, according to two people familiar with the matter. Etisalat's bid needs further work, however, and has more legal conditions than Ooredoo's offer, so Vivendi has not yet made a final choice, the people said. "If Etisalat cleans up its offer, then it wins," said one of the sources, who is close to the process. "If not, it will go to Qatar, who also made an offer that Vivendi can accept. ... - Unhappy with how your fave series is faring? Amazon gives you a say (Fri, 24 May 2013 11:41:35 -0700)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon is once again shaking up traditional publishing models. This time, it's giving fans a chance to add their own personal touches to their favorite fiction - and get paid in the process. This week, Amazon.com Inc announced "Kindle Worlds," which offers aspiring writers an opportunity to pen their own takes on franchises in books, TV, movies, even games and comics. The world's largest Internet retailer plans to license content, then accept submissions online that may then be sold through its Kindle ebook store. ... - Dish and nTelos to jointly develop broadband service (Fri, 24 May 2013 05:46:42 -0700)
(Reuters) - Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp and wireless network provider nTelos Holdings Corp said they would jointly develop a broadband service within nTelos's coverage territory serving parts of Virginia, Maryland and a few other states. Dish has been trying to diversify beyond its core pay-TV business that has matured and faces tough competition from cable, telecom and Internet video providers. The new service will give nTelos and Dish customers, especially those in underserved rural communities, access to high-speed Internet, the companies said in a statement. ... - New Android apps worth downloading: Glide, SideCar Ride update, Men?s Room Mayhem (Fri, 24 May 2013 05:30:00 -0700)
Make video chatting a little easier with Glide, an app that lets you to make video calls to other users. If they're not available, you can send video messages rather than texts. Following that is SlideCar Ride, an app that helps you find a nearby car and driver when you need a ride and save on taxi services. Finally, Men's Room Mayhem is a Flight Control-like management game in which you need to direct patrons around a men's room. - LA stoplights synchronized but road war endures (Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:31 -0700)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? It seems that the impossible has occurred: The nation's most congested city has become a model for traffic control. - Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town (Sat, 25 May 2013 06:59:05 -0700)
SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) ? One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ploy. - Microsoft reportedly plans to take a cut of used game sales (Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:10 -0700)
Xbox One games are installed to the console?s hard drive and registered to users? Xbox Live accounys. It remains unclear how the system will handle used games and Microsoft has failed to address the issue. According to a report from gaming news website MCV, retailers will be allowed to charge whatever they want for pre-owned Xbox One games, however both Microsoft and publishers will receive a percentage of every sale. Microsoft is looking to take control of the pre-owned market and will reportedly only allow specific retailers that have agreed to its terms to resell games. After a customer sells a game to an approved retailer, it will be registered in Microsoft?s cloud-based system as having been traded-in then it - Samsung reportedly supplying OLED displays for Google Glass (Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:55 -0700)
One of the more intriguing stories to follow in recent months has been the relationship between Samsung and several of the big-name tech companies that have relied upon it for components. Apple has made definitive moves away from Samsung and Google has shown some wariness about the company?s overwhelming clout in the Android ecosystem. But any anxieties Google might have about Samsung haven?t been enough to keep the South Korea-based manufacturer out of the loop on Google?s most experimental projects. The Korea Times reports that Google is using Samsung?s OLED displays for the consumer version of Google Glass, a decision that one of the publication?s supply chain sources describes as ?a really big thing because it means that Google shares - Yahoo reportedly places bid to buy Hulu stake (Fri, 24 May 2013 18:00:28 -0700)
Yahoo is apparently determined to show that it can do more than pay $1.1 billion for a bunch of teenage girls? blogs. Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Yahoo has submitted an offer to buy video streaming website Hulu, a sign that the company is still considering ways to counter the enormous video streaming clout that Google now holds with YouTube. Yahoo was interested in buying a majority stake in French video streaming website Dailymotion earlier this year but that deal fell apart after the French government reportedly threatened to block it. In making an official bid for Hulu, Yahoo will be competing with Time Warner Cable, which is considering buying a 33% equity stake in the company. It?s unknown at - Another patent suit bites the dust: Motorola can?t ban Xbox (Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:21 -0700)
The good news with patent suits is that even when they?re successful they very rarely result in outright sales bans of popular products. And now Ars Technica reports that yet another attempt to enforce a sales ban has fallen flat on its face, this time Motorola?s attempt to stop sales of Microsoft?s Xbox. According to Ars, Motorola filed suit against Microsoft back in 2010 because its Xbox allegedly infringed upon Motorola patents that detailed technologies for ?video transmission and compression as well as Wi-Fi.? Motorola?s quest against the Xbox ended this week, however, when a six-person panel at the International Trade Commission decided to toss out the company?s complaint. A Microsoft spokesperson described the ITC?s decision as ?a win for - News Corp. OKs poison pill, buyback before split (Fri, 24 May 2013 16:53:34 -0700)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile trading period after the split is complete. - Report: Yahoo, pay-TV operators among Hulu bidders (Fri, 24 May 2013 16:35:03 -0700)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Online video site Hulu is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. - Netflix looks to hook subscribers with 'Arrested' (Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:17 -0700)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series "Arrested Development" will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service. - Despite upcoming Xbox One launch, Microsoft aims to sell 25 million more Xbox 360s (Fri, 24 May 2013 15:10:45 -0700)
Microsoft?s newly unveiled Xbox One has gamers excited despite some huge question marks, but Microsoft thinks its current-generation Xbox 360 still has legs. Speaking with Official Xbox Magazine, Microsoft?s - Kiss and make up: Microsoft and Google partner for Windows Phone YouTube app (Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:36 -0700)
Both Google and Microsoft think it?d be a shame to deny Windows Phone users the glory of Keyboard Cat videos, which is why the two companies have agreed to team up and jointly create a native YouTube app for Microsoft?s mobile platform. The Next Web reports that the companies released a joint statement today saying that they ?are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube?s API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks.? Once they finish the new app, Microsoft will remove the YouTube app it created from the Windows Phone store. The two companies? decision to collaborate on a new app comes just a week after Google - Microsoft and Google partner to bring YouTube app back to Windows Phone (Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:36 -0700)
Both Google and Microsoft think it?d be a shame to deny Windows Phone users the glory of Keyboard Cat videos, which is why the two companies have agreed to team up and jointly create a native YouTube app for Microsoft?s mobile platform. The Next Web reports that the companies released a joint statement today saying that they ?are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube?s API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks.? Once they finish the new app, Microsoft will remove the YouTube app it created from the Windows Phone store. The two companies? decision to collaborate on a new app comes just a week after Google
