Chances are if you’re meek, a dweeb or scored low on your most recent IQ Test, you are oblivious to YouTube Geek Week.
However, with over 9 million subscribers, obviously being geek isn’t for the
weak of heart any more (for those who remember when Charles Atlas use to get sand
kicked in his face).
Late last month, a failure to negotiate fees between Time Warner Cable and CBS resulted in the first company dropping the latter one from its service in many markets, causing about 3 million people to lose access to the network. Although a truce was offered earlier this month, the spat continues, and in its wake […]
Unfortunately, decrees such as the one just approved in Vietnam are seemingly becoming more common, not less. Similar outcries were voiced after both Iran and Belarus laid down draconian laws about how their citizens were to interact with the internet, and now Vietnam is being shelled by residents and outsiders alike for a new decree that essentially bars the sharing of outside news. The specific verbiage states that “personal electronic sites” (such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) “are only allowed to put [sic] news owned by that person.” In other words, sharing of information from “press organizations or government websites” is now outlawed, as is the act of providing “general information” on profiles and blogs. Exact punishments are apparently still being drafted, but whatever arises, you can bet that the Vietnamese government is going to take a huge amount of flack for crossing this line.
Filed under: Internet
Via: TechDirt
Source: Bangkok Post
The six-strike copyright system was leaked and talked about at length for many months, delayed once, and eventually launched back in February of this year. With it comes a series of warnings and eventual punishment on the behalf of many big-name ISPs for those caught pirating. Now sources have come forward to the folks over […]
Shortly after it was revealed that Redbox Instant will be coming to Chromecast, Roku has announced that the service is now available on most of its devices including the Streaming Stick. For those unfamiliar, Redbox Instant is the Netflix-esque video streaming service that accompanies the red DVD-dispensing boxes found in many stores. The service has […]
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has bought The Washington Post, with the online retailer CEO spending $250m in cash to pick up the paper. The deal, the newspaper itself reports, will see Bezos not Amazon take the reins as sole owner, with the retailer having no role in the business. According to the Post, slumping financials […]
Some big (and surprising) news in the media industry today: The Washington Post has just confirmed that it and its affiliated publications have been acquired by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash. The paper notes that Amazon itself “will have no role in the purchase,” and that Bezos “will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days.” It also goes on to explain that the existing Washington Post Company, which owns a number of other businesses (including Slate), “will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter.”
In an interview with the paper, the Post Co.’s chief executive, Donald Graham, says that “The Post could have survived under the company’s ownership and been profitable for the foreseeable future. But we wanted to do more than survive,” adding, “I’m not saying this guarantees success but it gives us a much greater chance of success.” In a letter to Post employees, Bezos, who was apparently one of several suitors considered by the company, says that he “won’t be leading The Washington Post day-to-day,” but that “there will of course be change at The Post over the coming years,” and that “we will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.”
Filed under: Internet
Via: @Romenesko (Twitter)
Source: The Washington Post (1), (2)
Between optimizations for specific benchmarking programs in the Galaxy S4, and a PR firm trying to influence StackOverflow members, Samsung is in a PR nightmare this week.
Chromecast launched with Netflix support, and now Hulu is working on bringing Chromecast support to its iOS and Android apps.
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