China's Crackdown on Google Hurts Chinese Businesses (video)

Google Crackdown Hurts Chinese Businesses: Rein: Video
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Shaun Rein, managing director at China Market Research, discusses China cracking down on Google ahead of the Tiananmen Square anniversary. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg, June 3rd)

Cybercrime Remains Growth Industry With $445 Billion Lost - Businessweek: "...The outlook “is increased losses and slower growth,” with no “credible scenario in which cybercrime losses diminish,” according to the report published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Some of the damage will be hard to trace, such as economic downturns caused by foreign competitors selling products based on stolen designs and financial markets undermined by hackers...."

Search Apps Stealing Mobile Search Ad Revenues from Google [Report] - SEW: "Google's dominance in paid search is taking a hit from the number of mobile apps that users are using on a daily basis, apps that often use alternative sources of revenue generation outside of Google ads. according to a new eMarketer report...."

Facebook mistakenly releases second Snapchat clone, quickly removes it
Los Angeles Times
In recent years, Facebook has seen its younger users turn to other apps to get their social networking fix, and Snapchat has proven particularly ...

Apple Beefs Up iOS 8 Security In Preparation For Launch Of Secure Smartphone Competition
Forbes
The iPhone 6 could be Apple Apple's most secure smartphone to date ... asking users to share its app on Facebook to receive in-game bonuses.

Facebook, Twitter brace for World Cup fever
Salt Lake Tribune
New York • This year's World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses in stadiums ...

Google Open Sources Its Secret Weapon in Cloud Computing
Wired
When Google engineers John Sirois, Travis Crawford, and Bill Farner left the internet ... With Borg, Google engineers could instantly grab enormous amounts of ... It also lets you oversee machines running on competing cloud services–from Amazon, say, ...

Microsoft withholds monster IE update from Windows 8.1 dawdlers
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft refused to give Windows 8.1 customers a ... Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and ...

Microsoft firmware improves Surface 2 family's Cover performance
PCWorld
If you own a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 or Surface 2, good news: A number of Microsoftupdates should improve how your tablet interacts with its Surface ...

Microsoft's 3D-Sensing Smartphone: Evidence Mounts
InformationWeek
Microsoft may be prepping a 3D-sensing smartphone that lets users interact with it ...Microsoft places a distant third in the smartphone race but has still managed to ... ReadApple WWDC 2014 Highlights: A New Era?] ... Later this month, Amazon is expected to debut a smartphone with a 3D, perhaps ...

Three Questions with Beats Designer Robert Brunner | MIT Technology Review: "....Do people really want to wear another device, though? It means one more gadget to keep track of and charge. An iPad is a more limited interface, but for a certain number of things it’s perfectly adequate. So for a lot of people who bought computers for e-mail and Web browsing and games, “Oh, I’ll just get this because it’s more mobile, it’s easier,” and so forth. Well, you could see the same kind of thing happening between a phone and a watch. Let’s say with my watch I could easily make phone calls, I could easily get my messages, there’s a certain subset of things that are easier, simpler, and much more mobile, you could make that transition as well. There may be a subset of functionality on the smartphone that a bunch of people buy it for, all of a sudden it moves to the watch, and, great, I don’t have to drag this thing out of my pocket; it’s always on my wrist."

Sun Unleashes Two X-Class Flares, Back to Back
NBCNews.com
The sun unleashed two major solar flares early Tuesday in amazing back-to-back storms. The first outburst, an X2.2-class solar flare, hit its maximum at about 7:42 a.m. ET. An X1.5-class flare followed at 8:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). Both flares were capable of ...

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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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