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The real cost of coal is quickly adding up
"Cheap coal" is a myth. And like all myths, we accept its wisdom without thinking.
PhysicsOrg | 21-May-2012 12:23

Jack Ma: English teacher turned Internet billionaire
After being knocked back by American venture capitalists in 1999, Jack Ma -- a cash-strapped entrepreneur -- convinced friends to give him $60,000 to start Chinese online retailer Alibaba.com.
PhysicsOrg | 21-May-2012 12:23

VIDEO: How to broadcast a torch relay
Covering a continuously moving object is no easy task and involves some new broadcasting ideas, as technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has been finding out.
news.bbc.co.uk | 21-May-2012 11:52

The Media Equation: The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform
The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity.


International Herald Tribune | 21-May-2012 11:40

Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B

Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.

Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 11:22

New app identifies faces in photos
TORONTO (Reuters) - Imagine taking a snapshot of a group of friends and having your smartphone instantly reveal the identity of everyone in the photo. A new iPhone app called KLiK performs real-time facial recognition to automatically identify and tag friends in photos. "It's our most recent evolution of both the platform and the consumer product that we're offering," said Gil Hirsch, the CEO of the facial recognition technology platform Face.com, which launched the app. "We noticed that at parties or events there were many photos being taken but only a few were actually getting tagged. ...
Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 11:01

Digital media brings erotic books out of the closet
It seems like yesterday that women's erotica was something to be read in private under the sheets. But no more.
PhysicsOrg | 21-May-2012 10:51

Reports: Nasdaq 'embarrassed' at Facebook delay
(AP) -- The CEO of the Nasdaq stock exchange says it is "humbly embarrassed" by its bungling of Facebook's hugely anticipated debut as a public company on Friday.
PhysicsOrg | 21-May-2012 10:47

Is air leaking from the Facebook bubble?
How Mark Zuckerberg's wedding symbolises investor nerves
news.bbc.co.uk | 21-May-2012 09:57

Pakistan briefly bans Twitter access for "blasphemy"
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan banned access to Twitter on Sunday because of "blasphemous" material, a Pakistani official said, but normal service was resumed after 12 hours. The government did not specify which users or messages had prompted the ban on the microblogging site or why it was allowed to operate again so quickly. Any representation of the Prophet Mohammad is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by many Muslims, who make up the overwhelming majority in Pakistan. ...
Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 09:52

Apple,Samsung CEOs in U.S. court talks over patent row

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd come face to face on Monday in court-directed mediation in the United States over a dispute in which the iPhone maker claims the Korean firm has "slavishly" copied some of its products. Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung have been instructed by a federal judge to appear for mediation in San Francisco to help resolve the bitter patent litigation between the two firms. The U.S. ...

Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 09:13

Alibaba buys back 20 percent stake held by Yahoo for $7.1 billion

SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo Inc for $7.1 billion, in a deal that moves the Chinese e-commerce leader closer to a public listing. Under the agreement, Yahoo will sell half its stake in Alibaba for at least $6.3 billion in cash and up to $800 million in new Alibaba preferred stock. ...

Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 08:53

Waterstones to sell Amazon Kindle
UK bookseller Waterstones plans to sell Amazon's Kindle e-book reader and other Kindle digital services.
news.bbc.co.uk | 21-May-2012 08:31

Alibaba in talks to raise $2.3 billion equity for Yahoo deal: sources

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese Internet firm Alibaba Group is in talks with existing shareholders, including Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, to raise about $2.3 billion in equity to partly finance its deal with Yahoo Inc., two sources said. Entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo for $7.1 billion, in a deal that moves the Chinese e-commerce leader closer to a public listing. Alibaba is looking to raise about a third of the $7.1 billion through issuance of equity to shareholders, one of the sources told Reuters. ...

Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 08:17

China Clears Google Purchase of Motorola
Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices remain available at no cost for the next five years.
International Herald Tribune | 21-May-2012 07:53

Yahoo agrees $7.1bn Alibaba deal
US internet company Yahoo says it has reached a deal to sell part of its stake in China's biggest internet company Alibaba Group.
news.bbc.co.uk | 21-May-2012 07:48

Link by Link: U.C.L.A. Professor Makes a Case for Google as Publisher
A law professor, Eugene Volokh, argues in a paper that Google is a publisher, with First Amendment protection. But sometimes it benefits Google to be seen as a mere connector.


International Herald Tribune | 21-May-2012 07:25

From a Facebook Founder, a Social Network for the Office
Asana, created by a Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, is a shared to-do list for a company looking to make managing tasks at work a little easier.


International Herald Tribune | 21-May-2012 06:50

Alibaba Buys Back 20 Percent Stake From Yahoo for $7.1 Billion
Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba has bought half of Yahoo's stake in the company -- 20 percent of Alibaba's shares -- back from Yahoo for $7.1 billion.
Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 06:09

Ultra-Orthodox hold large NYC meeting on Net risks

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally Sunday at the New York Mets' stadium on the dangers of the Internet and how to use modern technology in a religiously responsible way.

Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 06:01

IBM Faces the Perils of "Bring Your Own Device"

After letting its employees use their own phones and tablets for work, the company confronted a flood of insecure apps from the open Web.

When IBM loosened its restrictions on the smart phones and tablets its employees could use for work, the company got a lesson in IT management of the kind it usually sells to clients.

technologyreview.com | 21-May-2012 06:00

How Much Is a User Worth?

That question reveals which Internet companies are inspiring the most optimism among investors.

When Facebook went public last week, the company was valued at $104 billion, an astonishing figure for an Internet company. Is the figure preposterously high? That depends on how you look at it. The value in Facebook lies in its enormous audience—901 million people every month who are potential viewers of advertisements and buyers of virtual goods. So you could think of Facebook this way: it is worth about $116 for every user it has. On that basis, the company isn't being valued as highly as Google ($200 per user) or even the question-and-answer service Quora ($145). This metric also reveals that investors are much less optimistic that Twitter (worth less than $60 per user) or Tumblr (about $8) will profit handsomely from their very large audiences.

technologyreview.com | 21-May-2012 06:00

DealBook: Yahoo Approves Plan to Sell Part of Alibaba Stake
Under the deal, the Alibaba Group will buy back half of Yahoo’s stake, and Yahoo will sell an additional 10 percent when Alibaba goes public.
International Herald Tribune | 21-May-2012 05:35

Nasdaq to revamp system after tech problems on Facebook IPO: WSJ

(Reuters) - The Nasdaq is planning to revamp its systems for handling stock offerings after acknowledging that technology problems had affected trading in millions of newly issued Facebook shares on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Individual investors were left in the dark for hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for Facebook shares had actually been executed, in the latest of a series high-profile exchange glitches. ...

Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 04:46

China clears Google Motorola bid
Chinese regulators approve Google's $12.5bn purchase of US phone maker Motorola Mobility, the final hurdle for the deal to go through.
news.bbc.co.uk | 21-May-2012 03:07

Reports: Nasdaq 'embarrassed' at Facebook delay
The CEO of the Nasdaq stock exchange says it is "humbly embarrassed" by its bungling of Facebook's hugely anticipated debut as a public company on Friday.
Yahoo! News | 21-May-2012 01:46

Apple, Samsung CEOs set for court talks

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monday. Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung, whose companies are embroiled in bitter patent litigation, have been instructed by a federal judge to appear for court-supervised mediation. A joint court filing in April said that "as directed by the Court, Apple and Samsung are both willing to participate" in the discussions. ...

Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 23:53

Pakistan restores Twitter after block over Prophet cartoons

Pakistan restored access to Twitter Sunday after briefly blocking the microblog over posts that Islamabad said promoted a Facebook contest involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 23:49

Reports: Yahoo nears deal to sell stake in Alibaba
Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell half of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba.
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 23:35

Facebook stock limps into Monday
Facebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut.
PhysicsOrg | 20-May-2012 23:30

Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Cartoon Contest
The government blocked access to the social networking service on Sunday, after holding Twitter responsible for promoting a blasphemous cartoon contest, officials said.


International Herald Tribune | 20-May-2012 23:29

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
(AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.
PhysicsOrg | 20-May-2012 23:29

Reports: Yahoo nears deal to sell stake in Alibaba
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell a part of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba.
PhysicsOrg | 20-May-2012 23:28

WatchESPN lets you...watch ESPN on your iPhone
WatchESPN is quite possibly the final frontier in ESPN being everywhere you need it to be. Already on your TV, Internet, radio, fantasy sports leagues and quite possibly your breakfast cereal, there wasn’t much ground left for the network to cover. But with WatchESPN, now you can get the full ESPN broadcast experience directly on your iPhone, provided you have a subscription to a cable TV package that carries ESPN.
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 23:00

Save old photos to your Android in a snap with the the ShoeBox app
My in-laws were just over at my house this weekend for Mother’s Day and we happened to get on the subject of old high school photos. I whipped out my box full of photos that was in no way organized, and my mother-in-law made a comment (I’ll let you imagine what the comment was). Had I known about the free ShoeBox app for Android sooner, I wouldn’t have had to bear the scolding I received via one glance about my disorganization (okay, well I guess I gave it away).
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 22:30

Pakistan restores Twitter access
Pakistani authorities restore access to the social media website Twitter after a brief ban for what officials called "offensive" content".
bbc.co.uk | 20-May-2012 21:27

What You Can Learn From Zynga's Cool Company Culture [PICS]
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 20:30

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 20:22

Pakistan Blocks Twitter, Citing 'Blasphemy' [VIDEO]
Authorities in Pakistan blocked access to Twitter on Sunday, over mention of a contest held in 2010 asking people to draw images of the Prophet Muhammad, and a corresponding Facebook page attempting to make May 20 "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day."
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 20:05

When Should Schools Start in the morning?
When Should Schools Start in the morning?
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 19:47

10 Delightful Nyan Cat Accessories
1. Nyan Cat Stickers
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 19:35

Terefic Takes the Guesswork Out of Job References
There are so many digital tools for your job search, but what about services that give you the edge when you're ready to close the deal? Even after you've found the perfect position and impressed your potential employer, there is still a major step you must take before you celebrate your new job -- providing references.
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 19:13

Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week
1. Happy Mother's Day
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 18:33

Apple Goes After Samsung Galaxy Tab in Court [VIDEO]
Apple filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Friday. The district court will determine if the Galaxy Tablet violates Apple's iPad patent. If a recent ruling favoring Apple can tell us anything, it's that the court may rule in favor of the iPad-designing company. The ruling allowed Apple to continue to block U.S. sales of Samsung's tablet.
Yahoo! News | 20-May-2012 17:51

Disruptions: Disruptions: DIY, a Site for Children, Is Instructive for Start-Ups
It is refreshing to find a standout start-up called DIY, which is developing a do-it-yourself community for children that is like Never Never Land. Children learn to make things, fun things.


International Herald Tribune | 20-May-2012 17:07

Facebook: Living 'the hacker way'
Will Facebook keep innovating post-IPO?
news.bbc.co.uk | 20-May-2012 16:45