Sunday, March 25, 2012

Yahoo appoints 3 to board in response to investor

Yahoo appoints 3 to board in response to investor


Yahoo appoints 3 to board in response to investor

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Internet company Yahoo has appointed three members to its board of directors, gearing up for a proxy fight with one of its largest shareholders.

15 High Res Wallpapers Perfect for Your New iPad's Retina Display

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1. Aquarium Fish by @RetinaiPadWallpapers

Calif. Hmong community launches online translator

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In this March 22, 2012, Phong Yang, a teacher at California State University Fresno, poses for a photo in Fresno, Calif. Yang has worked with Hmong community members and Microsoft researchers to create the first online Hmong translator. The technology will help Fresno's Hmong, the second-largest Hmong population in the country, to preserve their language and pass it on to their U.S.-born children. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)When Phong Yang, a Hmong refugee from Laos, landed in California's Central Valley — via stops in Thailand and France — he was 14 years old. He learned to speak Hmong from his parents, but today he has a hard time teaching the language to his children, who are distracted by cell phones and computers.


Apple now rejecting apps that access UDIDs

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In another indication that Apple is taking privacy concerns - and government scrutiny - seriously, the company is beginning to reject apps that access UDIDs.

Tough times in the U.S.-China iPad smuggling game

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Apple's newest iPad is seen at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New YorkSAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Early on the morning of March 16, Wong Tat joined a line of about 100 people waiting for the launch of the new iPad in a chilly rain outside an Apple store on the outskirts of San Francisco. When the doors opened, he was among the first to buy his quota of two iPads -- the maximum Apple Inc allows per person. Then, sporting a bright red cap for easy identification, Wong began to direct a stream of people toting their new tablets to a silver Mercedes SUV in the parking lot. ...


Special Report: The Sony Schism

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Sony Corp's incoming CEO Hirai speaks during a roundtable discussion with journalists in TokyoTOKYO (Reuters) - The Bellagio casino-hotel in Las Vegas hosted a shotgun wedding in January. The bride and groom had met just a couple hours earlier; she wore a skimpy dress, he was in powder blue coattails. The ceremony was actually a PR stunt. But the man who brokered it, incoming Sony Corp boss Kazuo Hirai, was dead serious. The guests were mainly journalists assembled in Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The couple were a pair of actors hired from a local talent agency. ...


BATS leaders disagree on new IPO for exchange

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Dave Cummings, CEO of BATS Trading, speaks at the Reuters Exchanges and Trading Summit in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Disagreement emerged on Sunday over the re-listing of an electronic stock exchange that suffered a high-profile crash last week, a breakdown that forced it to unwind its initial public offering of shares. Dave Cummings, the outspoken founder and a board member of BATS Global Markets Inc, called in an open letter for the company to "develop a credible IPO plan" and "go public in the second quarter, if possible. "This might seem tough, but I believe it is the only way to move past the issue," Cummings wrote. ...


Yahoo appoints 3 to board in response to investor

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Internet company Yahoo has appointed three members to its board of directors, gearing up for a proxy fight with one of its largest shareholders.

Fidelity, other big firms can work around BATS glitch

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments declined on Sunday to say whether it will continue using an alternative, computer-driven stock exchange that suffered an embarrassing series of glitches Friday. But the mutual fund giant said it would have no problem finding other venues to handle trading after a software bug disrupted BATS Global Markets Inc market debut. Fidelity and other major U.S. ...

Be “first in line” for Instagram’s Android app

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Instagram, the iconic photo sharing app that has been downloaded to more than 27 million iOS devices, is opening up registration to its Android version.

Yahoo appoints 3 new members to its board

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Internet company Yahoo is appointing three members to its board of directors, gearing up for a proxy fight with one of its largest shareholders.

Special Report: The Sony Schism

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Sony Corp's incoming CEO Hirai speaks during a roundtable discussion with journalists in TokyoTOKYO (Reuters) - The Bellagio casino-hotel in Las Vegas hosted a shotgun wedding in January. The bride and groom had met just a couple hours earlier; she wore a skimpy dress, he was in powder blue coattails. The ceremony was actually a PR stunt. But the man who brokered it, incoming Sony Corp boss Kazuo Hirai, was dead serious. The guests were mainly journalists assembled in Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The couple were a pair of actors hired from a local talent agency. ...


10 Best Inanimate Objects on Twitter

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1. @MarsCuriosity

BATS IPO needed to be pulled, no future IPO plans: CEO

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. exchange operator BATS Global Markets withdrew its initial public offering mid-Friday after it became clear investor confidence had eroded, its chief executive said on Sunday, adding there are no plans for an IPO in the foreseeable future. BATS' own stock was to be its first listing, but the IPO ended up a disaster after a software bug briefly sent the price of the shares down from $16 to less than a penny before trading was halted. Later in the day, BATS took the extremely rare step of withdrawing the IPO altogether. ...

15 High Res Wallpapers Perfect for Your New iPad's Retina Display

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1. Aquarium Fish by @RetinaiPadWallpapers

10 Ways to Re-Live the '90s Online

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"Exciting. Confrontational. Visually interesting. Action-oriented. And capable of producing emotional moments." These are the lines from a script for an American Gladiators commercial from the early '90s. It's also a great way to describe the '90s themselves.

BATS founder pushes for IPO despite "freak" glitch

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Dave Cummings, CEO of BATS Trading, speaks at the Reuters Exchanges and Trading Summit in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - BATS Global Markets, the U.S. exchange operator that withdrew its public offering Friday after a computer glitch sent its newly-issued stock into a tailspin, should develop a "credible IPO plan" and go through with it in the second quarter, its founder and current director said. BATS' own stock was to be its first listing. But the initial public offering ended up a disaster after a software bug briefly sent the price of the shares down from $16 to less than a penny, before trading was halted. ...


Tough times in the U.S.-China iPad smuggling game

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Apple's newest iPad is seen at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New YorkSAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Early on the morning of March 16, Wong Tat joined a line of about 100 people waiting for the launch of the new iPad in a chilly rain outside an Apple store on the outskirts of San Francisco. When the doors opened, he was among the first to buy his quota of two iPads -- the maximum Apple Inc allows per person. Then, sporting a bright red cap for easy identification, Wong began to direct a stream of people toting their new tablets to a silver Mercedes SUV in the parking lot. ...


Get in line for Instagram on Android: Beta sign-up opens for popular photo-sharing app

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Get in line for Instagram on Android: Beta sign-up opens for popular photo-sharing appWith the Android-based Instagram app nearing completion, the developers of the photo-capturing app have opened a sign-up page for beta users to get in line for early access to its official release.


Goodbye, anonymity: Latest surveillance tech can search up to 36 million faces per second

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Goodbye, anonymity: Latest surveillance tech can search up to 36 million faces per secondWelcome to the next generation in surveillance technology. A Japanese company, Hitachi Kokusai Electric, has unveiled a novel surveillance camera that is able to capture a face and search up to 36 million faces in one second for a similar match in its database.


App Maker Brings 'Benjamin Bunny' to Life on the iPad

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Loud Crow Interactive, Vancouver-based publisher of children's books for tablet devices, released this week PopOut! The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, the second book in its 'Peter Rabbit' series for the iPad.

Calif. Hmong community launches online translator

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In this March 22, 2012, Phong Yang, a teacher at California State University Fresno, poses for a photo in Fresno, Calif. Yang has worked with Hmong community members and Microsoft researchers to create the first online Hmong translator. The technology will help Fresno's Hmong, the second-largest Hmong population in the country, to preserve their language and pass it on to their U.S.-born children. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)When Phong Yang, a Hmong refugee from Laos, landed in California's Central Valley — via stops in Thailand and France — he was 14 years old. He learned to speak Hmong from his parents, but today he has a hard time teaching the language to his children, who are distracted by cell phones and computers.


Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

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Troubled by reports of the practice of employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, left, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they are calling on the Department of Justice and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to launch investigations. The senators are sending letters to the heads of the agencies their offices announced Sunday March 25, 2012. (AP Photo)Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday.


Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]

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1. Electro-Superbike

Will Teaching Kids How to Write Software Help Fix Young America?

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New York City is a hotbed of technological innovation, but many of its public school students aren't graduating with the skills needed to be a part of "Silicon Alley," as it's known. Scott Schwaitzberg, vice president of Activate, is planning to fix that problem by helping to build a public high school designed to teach the city's youth everything they need to know about writing software and the tech industry.

Clever App Finally Cracks the Code for Facebook Dating

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Huffington Post alumni Rob Fishman and Jeff Revesz launched a matchmaking app for Facebook this week designed to help you meet your friends' single friends. The app's feature set is rather limited, but compared to the other Facebook dating apps I've seen, Yoke shows the most promise.

7 Ways to Rescue Your Crucial Social Media Data from Oblivion

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The pace of social media has become so rapid that a tweet could get lost in mere seconds. While real-time data has become increasingly important for businesses to keep up with trends and provide accurate reports, your company's history is still relevant -- the tweets you sent six months to a year ago could provide important insights. You want to save that data, don't you?

25 Outstanding Kitty-Themed Tumblrs [LOTS OF CATS]

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1. Cats. Where They Do Not Belong

Westworld Robot Self-Destructs [COMIC]

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[More from Mashable: Who's Responsible When Robots Kill? 'We Robot' Conference Hunts Answers]

20 Unique 'The Hunger Games' Items on Etsy

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Do you want to own a unique piece of The Hunger Games?  The popularity of The Hunger Games film has created a boom around Mockingjay-related merchandise.  Instead of going to your local retail store and purchasing a mass-produced product, check out these The Hunger Games inspired items created by the online community at Etsy.

Here's What Apple is Doing with Its $100 Billion

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$100 billion is a lot. It's also a little more than Apple has on hand. According to Mashable's Todd Wassermann, it's more like $97.7 billion.

7 Best Interactive YouTube Videos

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Interactive YouTube videos have been around for a while. Dating back to at least five years ago, users and viewers have been using annotations to choose their own paths on adventures, learn something new or even take part in a short film.

Instagram Sign-Up Page Now Beckons Android Users

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The day when Android users will first lay hands on the red hot photo-sharing app Instagram just got even closer. Late Saturday, a sign-up page appeared on Instagram's website, inviting all those of the Android persuasion to sign up to be notified when the app is first available for that OS.

5 Stealthy Ways to Find a New Job with Social Media

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Gerrit Hall is the CEO and co-founder of RezScore, a free web application that reads, analyzes and grades resumes instantly. Gerrit has successfully combined his passion for computer science and the careers space by helping job seekers write the best resume possible. You can connect with Gerrit and RezScore on Facebook and Twitter.

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