YouTube, Stars, Channels, Talent Development (videos)

How to Turn YouTube Stars into Media Empires: Video - Bloomberg:
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Omnivision Entertainment CEO Rob Barnett discusses YouTube stars and talent development in the digital world. He speaks with Betty Liu on “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg)

How to Build an Audience for a Successful YouTube Channel: Video - Bloomberg:
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RocketJump Founder Freddie Wong and Bloomberg’s Felix Gillette discuss YouTube, short-form digital videos and building an online audience. They speak on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg Aug28)

Instagram Hyperlapse app lets you create amazing time-lapse videos
Tech Times
Instagram has just launched Hyperlapse, an app that allows users to create professional-looking time lapse videos. The app uses image stabilizing algorithms to make images clearer. (Photo : Instagram). Instagram has just launched Hyperlapse, a standalone ...


Tech Times
Amazon won't change a thing about Twitch: Acquisition accepted by Twitch ...
Tech Times
Amazon has announced that it won't bring changes to Twitch, so everything should stay the same. Furthermore, it appears the Twitch community is quite pleased with the buyout. (Photo : Roja Directa). After it had been announced that Amazon has acquired ...


CNNMoney
Samsung unveils smartwatch that can make calls
Reuters
SEOUL Aug 28 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday unveiled what it said was the first smartwatch capable of making and receiving calls without a mobile phone nearby, in the South Korean firm's latest effort to find a new growth driver.


Telegraph.co.uk
Apple to unveil iWatch alongside iPhone 6
Telegraph.co.uk
Apple will unveil a smartwatch alongside the iPhone 6 on September 9, according to reports. The technology giant is expected to launch the iWatch at a "big" media event next month, Re/code has claimed. The wearable device could utilise the HomeKit ...

Cotap, A WhatsApp For The Workplace, Adds Box, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive And Desktop App | TechCrunch: ".... for a client like a cafe or a hotel, users include not just those in the back office, but those working at the front line of the retail experience. “Think of Cotap on a smartphone as replacing and improving on how a large business might have used a walkie-talkie,” Patterson explains. The Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive integrations that are being announced today are a part of that bigger concept, Patterson tells me, with the idea here being that you can send flyers to staff with information, pictures of lost property, or other communications — as well as the latest marketing strategy...."

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Are We in a Tech Bubble? (video)

We Don’t Believe We’re in Bubble: Stanford: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sherpaventures Managing Directors and Co-Founders Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford discuss the company’s first fund on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg, July 22)

Microsoft's Profit Takes Hit on Nokia - WSJ: "An initial report card came in for Microsoft Corp.'s purchase of Nokia Corp.'s mobile phone business. As feared, the marks were poor. Nokia's former handset operation, which Microsoft bought for more than $7 billion in April, drained nearly $700 million from operating profit in the quarter, the company said on Tuesday. Cost-cutting to offset Nokia losses also represented the lion's share of 18,000 job cuts ordered last week by new Chief Executive Satya Nadella, the biggest workforce reduction in its history. The Nokia purchase could look smart in the long run if Microsoft is able to sell more of its smartphones and use them to lure customers to its software, Internet services and mobile apps. Initially, at least, that appears more hope than reality..."

For Apple, iPhone Roars and iPad Whimpers - WSJ: "Ahead of a refresh of the iPhone, Apple Inc. reported 12% profit growth and strong sales of its current handset, especially in markets far afield from its traditional customer base in the U.S. The iPhone results stood in contrast to iPad sales, which slid for the second consecutive quarter, raising questions about the future of Apple's tablet as the company gears up to launch bigger-screen iPhone models...."

U.K. Cabinet Office Adopts ODF as Exclusive Standard for Sharable Documents - ConsortiumInfo.org: "In making a decision that had been strongly opposed by Microsoft, the Cabinet Office’s decision reflects: …the government’s policy to create a level playing field for suppliers of all sizes, with its digital by default agenda on track to make cumulative savings of £1.2 billion in this Parliament for citizens, businesses and taxpayers."
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/odf

FCC running on dial-up | TheHill: "...“Their website’s been a disaster for as long as I can remember,” said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman of the House Commerce subcommittee that oversees the FCC and a former radio station owner who dealt often with the commission. “The search engine is horrible, the website stinks... When I was in the business you’d try to plug in your call letters or whatever; never could find anything,” he added. “It’s horrible.” The flaws burst into the open during the commission’s recent efforts to write new regulations for net neutrality, the idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally regardless of which websites people are visiting...."

Apple Documents Undisclosed iOS Services
InformationWeek
"Each of these diagnostic capabilities requires the user to have unlocked their device and agreed to trust another computer," Apple's documentation ...


USA TODAY
Facebook revenue jumps 61% on mobile ad strength
USA TODAY
Facebook is still a distant second to Google, but Google's share is expected to slip to 40% this year from 50% in 2012. Analysts also see promise in a ...


SFGate
Amazon Fire phone merely lukewarm
Boston Globe
Only two companies, Apple Inc. and Samsung Corp., make much money selling smartphones. Every other player -- HTC, LG, Microsoft, BlackBerry -- is either in the red or ... So the smartphone business is ideal for Amazon.com. ... We're all locked in to Apple iOS devices, and those running Google Inc.'s ...


Wall Street Journal
Microsoft Strives For One OS To Rule Them All
Forbes
Speaking to analysts about the Q4 FY2014 earnings numbers, Microsoft ... Apple has already been working toward that goal by meshing features of ...


Inquirer
Microsoft again writes off Surface inventory, renews profitability doubts
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft again took a hit on its Surface business, the company acknowledged Tuesday, although the extent of the damage was ...


Economic Times
Google tried to buy music giant Spotify
Computerworld
Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page also reportedly stymied the ... Apple, a major player in the music industry with the iPod and the ubiquitous ...


Forbes
Amazon Flexes Muscle Against Blogger Who Thought It 'Was Nicer Than Average Mega Corporation'
Forbes
Amazon has spent the last few months doing battle with a major U.S. ... and readying itself for mobile phone fisticuffs with Apple Apple and Samsung. ... delete his Facebookpage, which also had the same FireTVNews moniker. ... Amazon Lures Google Glass Creator Following Phone Launch · Ryan Mac ...


Wall Street Journal
Apple faces class-action lawsuit over work breaks
San Jose Mercury News
A San Diego judge's ruling raises the stakes in a lawsuit against Apple that accuses the tech giant of failing to provide its hourly workers with timely ...


Reuters
Apple posts biggest earnings gain in two years
Boston Globe
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple's growth prospects are brightening as ... Earnings rose at the highest rate in nearly two years as Apple Inc. sold 35.2 million iPhones during the period. ... screens on a variety of smartphones running on Google Inc.'s Android operating system. ... Facebook · Twitter · Google+ ...

Google is rolling out a new Material Design-inspired version of Google Play for Android
Jon Russell
Google's 'Little Box Challenge' to shrink a power inverter is now open for submissions ... Material Design homescreens have already landed for Google's Docs, ... Apple releases information about iOS in response to claims of a 'backdoor' for data ... Microsoft launches $114 Lumia 530 with 4-inch display.

Apple Working With Swatch For iWatch With Multiple Designs, Price Points?
Juli Clover
Apple may be working with manufacturing partners like Swatch to create ... Paparazzi, a 2004 smart watch created in collaboration with Microsoft .... Facebook Debuts New Read-It-Later 'Save' Feature for iOS and Desktop (14).

Amazon's Fire Phone Serves A Prime Strategic Purpose
Michael Comeau
And, arriving seven years after the debut of the first modern smartphone, Amazon's new entry lacks some key functions both Apple and Samsung ...

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YouTube Video Quality Report Shames ISPs

YouTube publicly shames internet providers - Google's video site is following in Netflix's footsteps and showing alerts on slow-loading videos, shaming service providers for poor play quality, Quartz reports - The alert reads: 'Experiencing interruptions?' and includes a link to a new website from Google that shows playback quality for ISPs - much like Netflix's monthly Speed Index. The website is: https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport The alerts are one of the first public moves from Google as the FCC takes on new net neutrality rules. Google's relative silence on the issue contrasts the prominent role it played pushing for an open Internet in 2010 - a surprising change, given the company's increasing work on fiber deployment.

Google Fights Back Against Facebook By Shutting Down Orkut - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: ".... Successfully converting Orkut users to Google Plus and winning the Brazil and India market shares are significant milestones in Google Plus' evolution. Orkut still has substantial market share in Brazil and India, which could be used by Google to increase its market share worldwide. If Google is successful in turning Orkut users to Google Plus, it will come very close to Facebook's market share and will be able to drive companies and advertisers in these markets to increase their use of Google Plus and increase revenues."

How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will
Wired
Rene Bertagna blames Google for the death of his restaurant, Serbian ... It turned out thatGoogle Places, the search giant's vast business directory, ...

Google's Larry Page On The 40 Hour Work Week; JM Keynes Got There First
Forbes
Google's Larry Page has been talking about the 40 hour work week and how it might be about time that we abandoned it as the standard that we live ...

Google's $600 million real estate shopping spree in Mountain View
San Jose Mercury News
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google has quietly spent $600 million over the past several years in a real estate shopping spree centered on this quiet suburban ...

Google Glass wearers can steal your password
CNNMoney
They tested the algorithm on passwords entered on an Apple (AAPL, Tech30) iPad,Google's (GOOGL, Tech30) Nexus 7 tablet, and an iPhone 5.

While Amazon Dreams Of Drones And Phones, Google Attacks With Trucks And Bucks
Forbes
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has been called “the ultimate disrupter” by Fortune ... GoogleShopping Express orders being loaded onto a truck at Costco in ... be going after isApple's, but that strategy only works if you gain market share. ... You can find me onFacebook, Twitter and Google+ You can e-mail me at ...

Amazon becomes latest target in Europe's 'sweetheart' tax probe
ZDNet
In June, it began a probe into whether Apple's low rate of tax in Ireland ... Europe has also questioned Luxembourg about its treatment of Microsoft and ...

Apple poaches Tag Heuer's sales chief ahead of iWatch launch
ZDNet
While Google has jumped ahead of Apple with the recent launch Android Wear, Applehas spent the past few months bulking up on talent to bring ...

Apple ordered to revise App Store refund policy, may make changes global
Apple Insider
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission on Sunday ordered Apple and Google to make changes to their respective iOS and Android app stores policies ...

Facebook's 'research' turns users into guinea pigs
Boston Globe
Social networks like Facebook know a lot about their users and deploy the data to target advertising. The vast majority of people on Facebook accept ...

Google Services Among 472 Sites Blocked For World Cup 'Piracy'
TorrentFreak
A TV network operated by Sony has obtained a sweeping High Court injunction compelling Indian ISPs to block hundreds of 'pirate' sites. However, in ...

Amazon.co.uk launches wearable technology store (Wired UK) - Wired.co.uk
By Katie Collins
Online retail giant Amazon.co.uk has seen fit to open its own wearable ... Subscribe to; RSS · Wired Podcast · Magazine · Newsletter · Twitter · Google+ · Facebook · Tumblr ...Google Glass rendered irrelevant by Android Wear ... a wearable made by Apple, you're out of luck for the moment we're afraid.
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Google Maps' enduring security holes put businesses at risk - Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow
The problem isn't limited to Google, of course -- reputation-trashing fake Yelp reviews and ... “The bottom line was the jeweler put five-star reviews on his Google reviews, and he ...
Boing Boing

Earth's violent volcanic past preserved in Antarctic ice sheet
New Zealand Herald
Some of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the last 2,000 years have left their indelible mark deep within the pristine ice sheet of the Antarctic, a study has found. Scientists have been able to trace the most complete history of volcanic eruptions since the birth of ...

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Biggest Threats to the Internet

So long to net neutrality and internet freedom?

Paul Saffo, managing director at Discern Analytics, said: "The pressures to balkanize the global Internet will continue and create new uncertainties. Government will become more skilled at blocking access to unwelcome sites." (source infra)
Researchers asked 1,400 experts to describe the biggest threats to the Web. Here’s what they said. - The Washington Post: "..."It is very possible we will see the principle of net neutrality undermined," said P.J. Rey, a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Maryland. "In a political paradigm where money equals political speech so much hinges on how much ISPs and content providers are willing and able to spend on defending their competing interests. Unfortunately, the interests of everyday users count for very little.""

Microsoft slates critical IE, Windows patches for Tuesday
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft today said it will ship six security updates to customers next week, patching all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) and nearly ...

Facebook experiment becomes a debate over power and consent
Los Angeles Times
When Facebook performed an experiment to see if it could secretly affect users' emotions, were you really surprised? Academics were galled ...

Google reverses decision to delete British newspaper links
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - Google Inc on Thursday reversed its decision to remove several links to stories in ... It was unclear who asked Google to remove the stories.

Facebook may not have obtained 'informed consent,' scientific journal says
San Jose Mercury News
Facebook confronted more criticism Thursday as the editor of a scientific journal issued a statement suggesting the company failed to obtain "informed ...

Apple poaches another luxury executive as iWatch nears
Chicago Tribune
It is in a race against Samsung Electronics and Google to turn computers into wearable fashion and must-have items as smartphones, increasingly ...

Microsoft Taxes Said to Face Scrutiny as EU Quizzes Luxembourg
Businessweek
Amazon.com Inc.'s tax affairs there are also being looked at, the Financial ... The EU's investigations of Apple, Starbucks and Fiat Finance focus on ...

Microsoft fitness band rumour: Another way to sell services to Android users?
ZDNet
According to a report by Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrott, this autumn the company will ... It's not surprising that Microsoft is looking at the wearables market — Google has certainly been ... And, of course, Apple is still yet to release anything you can wear on your wrist (well, not since .... Facebook Activity ...

Facebook To Improve Video Ads Through LiveRail Acquisition
Forbes
Facebook has announced that it has acquired San Francisco, California-based online video advertising company LiveRail. LiveRail offers premium ...

Google's embattled Webspam Chief Matt Cutts is taking a 'few months' off
ZDNet
After 15 years as head of the webspam team at Google, Matt Cutts says he is taking a long break, to spend more time with his wife and family.

Apple is looking for an 'iCup Technician' to keep its workforce caffeinated
San Jose Mercury News
One of the benefits of working at Apple, it appears, is easy access to a strong cup of joe from its in-house brew team. But what sort of perks do those ...

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Is the Amazon Fire smartphone a threat to Apple, Samsung? (video)

Is Amazon's Fire Phone a Threat to Apple, Samsung?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Amazon.com jumped into the smartphone market with a handset called Fire Phone that is closely tied to the Web retailer’s other services, ramping up competition with Apple and Samsung Electronics. Brad Stone takes a look at the new phone on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg June 18)

Why iPhone 6 Won't Reverse Apple's Market Share Decline - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | Seeking Alpha: "When iPhone 6 arrives this Fall, it will only briefly arrest Apple's smart phone market share decline. This decline speaks to the increasing competition that Apple's iPhone faces rather than the inherent worth of iPhone 6...."

Amazon Fire: Pros and cons of new ground breaking smartphone
Detroit Free Press
Apple is very stingy and offers little cost-free space (just 5 GBs for free iCloud) ... There's no reason why Apple and Samsung, and to a smaller extent, Microsoft, should ... Why could Google sell a new Nexus phone last year for just over $300, yet Amazon .... Twitter · Facebook · Mobile · RSS · E-mail Alerts.

Facebook Ads and Tracking: What You Need To Know
CIO Today
If you use Facebook, the specific ads you see have been based mostly on what ...Google, Facebook and Yahoo -- among the largest hubs for online ...

Apple's smartwatch reportedly launching this fall
USA TODAY
Apple appears poised to jump into the smartwatch market this fall. According to ... Later this year, Google enters the space with its line of Android Wear ...

Facebook, Twitter, Google score during World Cup
Bryan-College Station Eagle
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter and Facebook lit up in a World Cup frenzy this ... Google, meanwhile, tracked more than 641 million World Cup-related ...

Apple blurs line between Mac, iOS platforms and that's OK
The Seattle Times
Apple is bringing the OSX and iOS platforms a bit closer to each other in their ... (and not reflexively open a Web browser to perform Google searches).

Cutting the Cord: Aereo decision could be turning point
USA TODAY
Either way the decision goes, the Supreme Court's ruling on the legality of the Aereo streaming service could drive more people to cut the cord. The court is expected to rule before the end of the month — and as early as Monday — on whether Aereo is ...

SpaceX launch delayed again, this time because of weather
Reuters
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, on Saturday delayed the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying six communications satellites after cloudy skies socked in its Florida launch site. The privately owned ...

Apple to partner with Kobe Bryant and others to test IWatch
Atlanta Journal Constitution
9to5Mac reports sources familiar with the matter say Apple is teaming up with professional athletes to test the iWatch "in intenest training environments." The outlet names pro athletes such as Lakers player Kobe Bryant and Kings player Dustin Brown. They, of ...

Power of Microsoft's Bing an open question in search industry
DAWN.com
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp's new chief executive, Satya Nadella, likes to boast that Bing is growing and powers 30 per cent of the Internet search market, making it a worthy competitor to Google Inc. But within the advertising and research industries that ...

Video game athletes battling it out in California
San Jose Mercury News
ANAHEIM (AP) -- The nation's video game athletes have gathered in Southern California to battle aliens and bad guys. The Orange County Register said more than 1,000 eSports players are taking part in the Major League Gaming Championships in ...

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Amazon Smartphone To Disappoint? (video); Cable Companies Fake Support

Can an Amazon Smartphone Compete With the iPhone?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Amazon.com is planning to introduce a smartphone later this month, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, plunging the world’s largest online retailer deeper into the competitive mobile-device market. Zeb Eckert reports on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg-June5th)

Amazon's Smartphone Likely To Disappoint Consumers And Shareholders - Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) | Seeking Alpha: "... an Amazon (AMZN) smartphone appears to be ready for release into a very crowded market. While a low-cost, high-end smartphone could certainly increase Amazon's revenue, it seems likely to do little for the company's profitability. Poor value for customers Amazon's heavily customized variant of Android does not adhere to Google's requirements, and as such, is denied access to Google apps and services. This has resulted in Amazon's Android tablets not being able to access the Google Play Store, nor are they allowed to access many essential Google services such as Google Maps. Even worse, key Google APIs, the interfaces programmers use to make apps compatible with Google's services, are not accessible on Amazon Android devices, meaning developers cannot easily port their devices to Amazon's version of Android if they utilize Google's services...."

Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality | VICE United States: "....To the surprise of probably no one, ISPs are enraged at the prospect of being classified as a utility and are fighting back. But the attacks are not fully transparent. Many of the organizations protesting a move toward classifying ISPs as a utility, which is the only likely option for enacting net neutrality, are funded by the ISP lobby.... A disclosure obtained by VICE from the National Cable and Telecom Association (NCTA), a trade group for ISPs, shows that the bulk of Broadband for America's recent $3.5 million budget is funded through a $2 million donation from NCTA. Last month, Broadband for America wrote a letter to the FCC bluntly demanding that the agency “categorically reject” any effort toward designating broadband as a public utility. It wasn't signed by any internet consumer advocates, as the Sununu-Ford letter suggests. The signatures on the letter reads like a who's who of ISP industry presidents and CEOs, including AT&T's Randall Stephenson, Cox Communications' Patrick Esser, NCTA president (and former FCC commissioner) Michael Powell, Verizon's Lowell McAdam, and Comcast's Brian Roberts...." (read more at link above)

Amazon expands middleman role in latest online payments push
Reuters
The new service broadens Amazon's profitable role as a middleman for ... Some analysts have said Amazon has been held back in payments because ...

As Apple, Google and Amazon Roll In, Who Will Be The Last Music Streaming Service Standing?
Forbes
Reports last week that Google Google is in talks to acquire Songza, a six year old music curation and streaming service, show that an industry-wide ...

Yahoo says mobile isn't an internal 'hobby' anymore (Q&A)
CNET
Adam Cahan, Yahoo's SVP of mobile and emerging products, thinks Yahoo's mobile efforts are on the right track. ...

Apple Chicken Fat Ad Suggests That iWatch Will Be Companion Screen to Fitness Devices
Forbes
So here's the question: would Apple really be putting a spotlight on a bunch of devices that it intends to put out of business with its forthcoming iWatch?...

Google's interns have it way better than you do
New York Post
Also on the list: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, eBay, Google and Apple, all of which pay more than $5,000 a month, or $60,000 annually if these were ...

Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are the new matchmakers. And they're free.
Washington Post
Teresa Dowell-Vest, 42, left, and Michelle Alexander, 40, met on Facebook and will have a marriage ceremony June 14. (Sarah L. Voisin/The ...

Google could flag adjusted search results, report says
CNET
Under new European rules Google has to remove links to offending material online, but you will at least know when your search results have been ...

Operator Says Thai Government Ordered Facebook Shutdown - The Next Web
By Mia Vals
Telenor says Thailand's recent Facebook outage was ordered by the ... plans to meet with representatives from Google, Facebook and chat app Line.
The Next Web

Search Apps Stealing Mobile Search Ad Revenues from Google [Report] - SEW
By Jennifer Slegg
Google's dominance in paid search is taking a hit and is forecast to fall to ... FacebookPhoto Sizes Cheat Sheet for Marketers: Apps, Ads, Albums & More ... Model BattlesGoogle, Yahoo in Court Over Images Linking Her to Porn ...
Search Engine Watch

Amazon Losing PR Battle With Hachette | Media | Minyanville's Wall Street
By Carol Kopp
Is Walmart's formula the right strategy for Amazon? ...
Minyanville - Technology

Cybercrime Remains Growth Industry With $445 Billion Lost
Businessweek
That's the main message from former U.S. intelligence officials, who in a report today outlined scenarios for how $445 billion a year in trade theft due to computer hackers will worsen. They warned that financial companies, retailers and energy companies are ...

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