by Alpha | Aug 25, 2017 | Pre-Market
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3. KR:Looks like Kroger $KR is going to go sub-$20 soon … and possibly much lower. Ugly.
8. GME:Nintendo Switch not enough to save GameStop. $GME down 8% #premarket as earnings missed the mark.
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Kedrion Biopharma and Kamada Ltd. , two leading human-derived protein therapeutics companies, today announced that KEDRAB™ has received U.S.
3. Samsung Heir Is Found Guilty of Corruption in Blockbuster Trial
A court in South Korea sentenced Lee Jae-yong to five years for bribery and embezzlement in a case that highlighted the power of the country’s corporate empires.
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In March Google introduced new software and staffers to monitor videos after a slew of marketers pledged to pull YouTube spending over concern their ads were running alongside extremist content.
With its latest policy YouTube is targeting trickier borderline content such as videos that espouse Holocaust denial theories and clips from white supremacist David Duke.
In the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville Virginia earlier this month several tech companies including Google Facebook and Airbnb have taken steps to cut associated people and groups off their platforms.
The updated box to be revealed alongside new iPhone and Apple Watch models at an event in September will run a faster processor capable of streaming the content said the people who asked not to be identified because the plans yet public.
Apple TV trails devices from Roku and Alphabet Google in the box market share with only percent as of the end of March according to a survey this month from Parks Associates.
In June the company hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg former Sony Pictures Television presidents to head up its video programming efforts.
Lee in a navy blue suit and white shirt occasionally applied lip balm and kept a cool facial expression which change as the verdict was announced according to South Yonhap News Agency.
Public perception in South Korea toward the biggest business empires has changed in recent years as scandals have mounted and as the economy has matured making them less appealing in an era of entrepreneurship and.
hope this will be the first step in cutting the stubborn ties of corruption between politics and business which has been a roadblock to progress in our society said Yoon senior secretary at the Blue House the South Korean executive office and residence.
The crackdown here follows the recent removal of apps in China that allowed residents to evade censors and gain access to the global internet and were deemed illegal by the Chinese government.
The Obama administration eased restrictions on American tech companies that offered internet services in Iran as a way of encouraging a free flow of information especially among younger Iranians.
Azari Jahromi wrote in Persian that percent of the cellphone market in Iran belongs to He added customer rights is a principle today that Apple abided by.
As a down payment on that vision Whole Foods Market will offer lower prices starting Monday on a selection of grocery staples across its stores with more to come.
The two companies will invent in additional areas over time including in merchandising and logistics to enable lower prices for Whole Foods Market customers.
This is just the beginning Amazon and Whole Foods Market plan to offer more benefits and lower prices for customers over time as the two companies integrate logistics and and merchandising systems.
ET said it would begin slashing prices on grocery items from bananas to baby kale at its new Whole Foods Market unit right away serving notice that the giant plans to move quickly to shake up the supermarket industry with its billion acquisition.
The announcement Thursday which sent stocks of traditional grocers into a fresh tailspin said price changes for both staples and more foods would go into effect as soon as Amazon closes the Whole Foods deal on Monday.
Miguel McKelvey and Adam Neumann discuss WeWork at IGNITION Insider.
WeWork leases out large blocks of space in commercial buildings and then subleases them to smaller companies frequently tech startups.
The real estate firm was valued at billion in July making it the fifth startup in the world.
Chief among the changes for the new iPhones refreshed versions including a premium model priced at around according to people briefed on the product who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
iPhone is still arguably the best phone for regular people who just want their device to work without having to worry about lots of technical settings or malware said Jan Dawson an independent analyst for Jackdaw Research.
To further prove his point Apple engaged in a major legal battle last year with the resisting the request to weaken iPhone encryption for a criminal investigation.
agreed to a billion investment from SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund part of an aggressive global expansion plan for the startup.
New WeWork which rents office space to workers and SoftBank have been formalizing an alliance this summer that includes a million project in China and a joint venture in Japan.
For WeWork SoftBank is investing an additional billion in three subsidiaries in China Japan and the Pacific region which includes Southeast Asia and South Korea.
by Alpha | Aug 21, 2017 | Pre-Market
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It also presents the inevitable consequence of the organization of white men and their pride being stuffed into This alone is a drastic departure from traditional freedom of speech principles and endorsement of a very violent eventuality.
refer you to a quote I read in an excellent piece written by our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation people must stand against the hateful violence and aggression that seems to be growing across our country.
In the end we all have a part and a responsibility to insure that everyone has a voice and platform to share their thoughts and beliefs as long as it allows for basic human and animal rights even if it makes us feel uncomfortable.
Once we were airborne the CEO brought along a few bottles of wine started bragging about meeting Jenna Jameson talking about her career as the greatest porn star and how he had taken a photo with her at the Playboy Mansion.
No one ever exercised a veto while I was there but fear of it motivated us to practice the California art of superficial collegiality where everything seems tan and shiny on the outside but behind closed doors people would trash your investment block it or send you on unending unproductive tasks to stall you until you gave up.
I could have received millions from Kleiner if I would just have signed a contract I turned it down so I could finally share my story which I have been doing by speaking at events across the country and through Project Include a nonprofit I to give everyone a fair shot to succeed in tech.
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ET tech industry has long taken Silicon lead from products to business models to office design.
But it has paid scant attention to the scandals that have rocked Silicon Valley this year based on allegations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment.
In the large companies have been caught up in the furor from allegations of culture at Uber Technologies to a debate about roles in.
tony I must have missed the article on politico referencing that very interesting opinion poll at the end of last week whereby even remainers were now in favour of a hard brexit and tougher border controls etc.
As long as you continue to see Britain in the world as a leading one which certainly reflect reality you be able to understand nor learn some basic truth and the entire discussion will contantly your somehow infantile standpoint that your country is than others or than the EU.
According to the AP press ageny second largest airline Air Berlin is filing for bankruptcy protection after its main shareholder Abu Etihad said it would make no more financing available following years of unsuccessful turnaround attempts.
Others still undecided including Benchmark which has weakened its status because of the lawsuit and ensuing publicity have become convinced that Uber needs to hire someone who can quickly deal with a number of pressing and problematic issues and consider Immelt fully capable of handling that well.
Another source added that Immelt is also a known quantity to investors and Wall Street as well as among techies which would help greatly when Uber prepares to go public in the coming few years.
He announced in June that he was stepping down as chairman and CEO of GE after years the last few under pressure from investors who were critical of him and the pace of change at the sprawling conglomerate.
The social platform released the new feature globally on iOS and Android Tuesday a Twitter spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
The company will roll out controls that allow people to tell it they do like a topic which will inform Twitter decisions on what to show them.
Alex Kantrowitz is a senior technology reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco.
Let me preface this piece with three important points a the qualitative quantitative observations talking about here are with direct regard to US based teens not international b full disclosure that our main product Fam is currently premised on the iMessage platform.
Reason for including both is because IMO this is the least substantiated statistic of all those which cited given the nature of how this finding is typically determined and because I felt it was important to show the possible shift growth of each social media teenage popularity from to.
Special thanks to my two Franco Iudiciani and Kevin Flynn for helping me along the way as I put together this piece David McIntosh of Tenor for providing their first hand data points surrounding their iMessage findings and to the millions of Fam users who have used our platform and who have given us their feedback over the past several months.
People with cracked touch screens or similar smartphone maladies have a new headache to consider the possibility the replacement parts installed by repair shops contain secret hardware that completely hijacks the security of the device.
The concern arises from research that shows how replacement put into a Huawei Nexus and the other into an LG G Pad be used to surreptitiously log keyboard input and patterns install malicious apps and take pictures and them to the attacker.
To pull off the attacks the researchers started with a normal touchscreen and embedded a chip in it that manipulates the communication bus which transfers data from device hardware to the software drivers included with the OS.
by Alpha | Aug 17, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. BABA:$BABA reports Q1 adjusted EPS $1.17, consensus 93c Reports Q1 revenue $7.4B, consensus $7.13B
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3. Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Announces Submission and Validation of IV Eravacycline Marketing Authorization Application by European Medicines Agency
WATERTOWN, Mass., Aug. 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTPH ), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibiotics to treat life-threatening multidrug- resistant (MDR) infections, today announced that the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for IV eravacycline for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI) has been submitted and was validated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Eravacycline is a novel, fully-synthetic fluorocycline antibiotic being developed for the treatment of serious infections, including those caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens. The MAA filing is based on data from the phase 3 IGNITE1 clinical trial in which eravacycline was well tolerated and demonstrated statistical non-inferiority to ertapenem using the primary endpoint of clinical response at the test-of-cure (TOC) visit.
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5. Wal-Mart earnings: $1.08 a share, vs $1.07 EPS expected
As of Wednesday’s market close, shares of Wal-Mart have climbed about 11 percent over the past 12 months.
6. Alibaba’s Sales Beat Estimates on Surging Consumer Demand
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s quarterly revenue beat analysts’ estimates, powered by Chinese consumers’ thirst for cheaper and higher quality goods online.
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Business leaders disbanded two CEO councils created by the White House a move they said was protesting Donald failure to sufficiently condemn racism marking a dramatic break between companies and a president who has sought close ties with.
In the hours that followed combative news conference which he appeared to apportion blame equally between white supremacist groups and.
Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to employees Wednesday night announcing donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the League saying that he disagreed with the president drawing a moral equivalence between Nazis and white nationalists and those who opposed them.
It is with this backdrop that PayPal strives to navigate the balance between freedom of expression and open dialogue and the limiting and closing of sites that accept payments or raise funds to promote hate violence and.
Color of Change a nonprofit advocating for racial justice has started a campaign called Blood Money listing known hate groups that use major credit cards employ payment processing services or sell items on.
The sole published comparison of actual competency in coding I am aware of found that women were more likely than men to have their GitHub contributions if they were project outsiders this was true only if their gender was concealed.
The intention was to make it easier to send notifications such as shared a photo with Presumably it occur to anyone involved in of them many women choose to conceal their sex online to cut down on harassment.
At Heterodox Academy Sean Stevens and Jonathan Haidt have compiled a pretty comprehensive list of psychological differences between the sexes are plenty not all point the same way and there are many caveats.
In terms of design the Nokia is slim at on average across its curved frame and it places the antennas at the top and bottom with a full aluminum back like seen from Meizu Apple and even OnePlus Oppo.
The bothie mode yes really is similar to what seen Samsung and LG do in the past and it will activate both the front and rear cameras to capture photos or video.
HMD setting the bar high here with an uninspiring design a lack of waterproofing or wireless charging and a price point that make this a cheap Android phone with good specs.
In the face of corporate defections and the member disclosure Trump announced plans to dissolve the group and the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative council.
The strategic forum led by Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and made up of top business leaders is separate from Trump manufacturing council which had seen seven defections this week.
Correction The headline of this story has been updated to reflect that the Strategic and Policy Forum is separate from the manufacturing council that several business leaders left this week.
On Wednesday morning a dozen of the most influential joined a conference call and after some debate a consensus emerged The policy forum would be disbanded delivering a blow to a president who came into office boasting of his close ties with business leaders.
American history never had business leaders decline national service when requested by the president said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management.
Having stood with the president in recent months even as he advanced positions they vehemently opposed including tough immigration policies and withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord many executives felt his apparent tolerance for white nationalist violence was a bridge too far.
ET Apple has set a budget of roughly billion to procure and produce original content over the next year according to people familiar with the sign of how serious the maker of iPhones is about making a splash in Hollywood.
Combined with the marketing clout and global reach the step immediately makes Apple a considerable competitor in a crowded market where both new and traditional media players are vying for original shows.
budget is about half of what Time Warner HBO spent on.
The size and scale of the attacks that can now easily be launched online make it such that if you do have a network like Cloudflare in front of your content and you upset anyone you will be knocked offline.
In fact in the case of the Daily Stormer the initial requests we received to terminate their service came from hackers who literally said Get out of the way so we can DDoS this site off the Internet.
In a future if we not there already it may be that if you going to put content on the Internet you need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare Google Microsoft Facebook Amazon or Alibaba.
by Alpha | Aug 16, 2017 | Pre-Market
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Apple has set a budget of roughly $1 billion to procure and produce original content over the next year—a sign of how serious the iPhone maker is about making a splash in Hollywood.
2. Tencent Beats Estimates as WeChat, Mobile Games Drive Growth
Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted a quarterly profit that surpassed all estimates as its marquee title Honour of Kings drove a 54 percent surge in mobile gaming revenue.
3. Target shares jump as shoppers return to stores, boosting sales
Until this past Monday, Target had so far been on the sidelines as far as deals go in retail.
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In the wake of a killing and widespread violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville Virginia web services company GoDaddy announced it was dropping the Daily Stormer as a client leaving the site without a registrar.
SOPA and other copyright protection proposals have specifically targeted web infrastructure hoping to ban registrars and other providers from directing users to websites that host pirated content.
ban seems to have been specifically triggered by a Daily Stormer post celebrating the killing of Heather Heyer a Charlottesville resident struck by a car while protesting the rally.
Although GoDaddy had previously defended its choice to provide domain services to the site citing its rights under the First Amendment the company took a different stance this time around.
Other tech companies have also made moves against the far right Airbnb banned users it suspected were traveling to attend the rally while Discord a chat service for online gamers shut down a server and some accounts used for spreading extremist views.
When users sent complaints to Cloudflare about content they saw on The Daily Stormer and similar sites it would automatically send the website owners the names and email addresses of the complainants who often then suffered prolonged harassment.
Two people familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Tuesday that the talks had ended without Blackstone and NSO reaching an agreement.
Israel Calcalist business newspaper last month reported Blackstone was in advanced talks to buy percent of the privately held Israeli firm for million.
Access Now last month launched a petition that urged Blackstone to drop plans to invest in NSO and its surveillance technology.
NEW YORK Reuters Online sites are turning their backs on activists looking to offer financial support for James Fields the man accused of driving his car into at a rally in Charlottesville Virginia on Saturday.
Most mainstream crowdfunding sites which let people fund projects or ventures by raising money online have policies that prohibit campaigns that promote hate speech or violence.
He started a campaign called the Unite the Right Legal Defense Fund on Sunday night and aims to raise to sue the city of Charlottesville for failing to protect the speakers and protesters at the rally.
Happiness is not a goal it is a.
Uber has been enduring horrendous press for almost a year the latest bad news being tied to a lawsuit from investors against former CEO Travis Kalanick.
Meanwhile smaller rival Lyft has been quietly reaping the gains of Uber journey from company to veritable Silicon Valley pariah.
The source who requested anonymity due to an NDA said that Lyft has been scaling back its partnerships with external promoters as well as reducing the financial incentives for new users to sign up.
Taking inspiration from line drawings Reddit and Messenger Facebook is overhauling the design of the News Feed to make it more legible clickable and commentable.
Over the years repeatedly asked top executives like CPO Chris Cox and VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri about whether the company is doing research into how to prevent or minimize internet addiction that can stem from business model and never gotten a direct answer that indicates they think a priority.
Yet at some point when people are sitting in the dark alone refreshing the feed over and over it could be worth surfacing Internet addiction and mental health tips or encouraging them to connect directly with a friend via messaging.
We will continue to support Cycle Computing clients using AWS Google Cloud a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email.
JP Morgan Chase Lockheed Martin Pfizer and Western Digital are among the companies that have worked with Cycle Computing which was founded in.
WATCH Consumer Reports says percent of Microsoft Surface computers will break within two years.
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4. Merck CEO resigns from Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, citing ‘responsibility to take a stand against intolerance’
Merck CEO resigns from Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, citing ‘responsibility to take a stand against intolerance.’
5. Merck CEO quits Trump panel in ‘stand against violence and extremism’
Kenneth Frazier said he would step down from one of Trump’s advisory panels, citing “a responsibility to take a stand against violence and extremism.”
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8. Ophthotech’s Final Try at Combo Eye Drug Comes up Short | Xconomy
It wasn’t too long ago that Ophthotech was running a group of clinical trials being perhaps as closely watched as any in the ophthalmology field, studies t
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Today we played Dendi on mainstage at The International winning a match.
Agents must learn to plan attack trick and deceive their opponents.
Success in Dota requires players to develop intuitions about their opponents and plan accordingly.
why earlier this year after leaving Microsoft the previous fall legendary engineer Qi Lu headed to Beijing to become Baidu chief operating officer.
With our code base that we released on July we will make it possible for one person to assemble a vehicle in three days that can do autonomous driving in limited forms and start on R Ds.
And since I have lived in China for over six months now honestly I read more papers I talk to more AI developers and you can feel the strength of the talent base.
ET investigators uncovered a global financial network run by a senior Islamic State official that funneled money to an alleged ISIS operative in the through fake eBay transactions according to a recently unsealed FBI affidavit.
The alleged recipient of the funds was an American citizen in his early who had been arrested more than a year ago in Maryland after a lengthy Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance operation.
Yet even as Uber undergoes leadership troubles the company which is largely funded by venture capital and private equity firms remains an attractive investment because it is the biggest service and is growing fast.
More recently an investor coalition led by Dragoneer which includes the private equity firm General Atlantic and others has emerged with a deal that would protect valuation.
I publicly asked you to resign from the Uber board in light of the overall circumstances I do have tremendous appreciation for your role in helping the development in the past Pishevar said in a new letter to Benchmark on Saturday which was obtained by The New York Times.
why earlier this year after leaving Microsoft the previous fall legendary engineer Qi Lu headed to Beijing to become Baidu chief operating officer.
With our code base that we released on July we will make it possible for one person to assemble a vehicle in three days that can do autonomous driving in limited forms and start on R Ds.
And since I have lived in China for over six months now honestly I read more papers I talk to more AI developers and you can feel the strength of the talent base.
Long time VC watcher writer and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out each other are now over.
The VC industry is highly competitive for the best opportunities and we certainly do try to ingratiate ourselves and our firms to the entrepreneurs who will decide who gets to invest in their companies and who does not.
They are the bodies made up of reasonable people who can and should debate these issues and find resolution and make the hard decisions.
ET Months before company Snap publicly disclosed slowing user growth rival Facebook already knew.
Late last year Facebook employees used an internal database of a sampling of mobile activity to observe that usage of flagship app Snapchat growing as quickly as before people familiar with the matter said.
They saw that the shift occurred after Instagram app launched Stories a.
Long time VC watcher writer and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out each other are now over.
The VC industry is highly competitive for the best opportunities and we certainly do try to ingratiate ourselves and our firms to the entrepreneurs who will decide who gets to invest in their companies and who does not.
They are the bodies made up of reasonable people who can and should debate these issues and find resolution and make the hard decisions.
That was Mark take last Tuesday but the own central figures beat him to the punch by warning about overly inflated prices from the stage at the Consensus blockchain conference in May.
And when he saw disgruntled attendees turned away from the overbooked Token Summit conference Fortune Robert Hackett saw bubble written all over the bitcoin market.
Most observers including Cuban have by now accepted that blockchain technology a promising innovation in data security based on shared ledgers has huge potential for tracking assets and information in fields from supply chain management to health records.
by Alpha | Jul 25, 2017 | Pre-Market
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2. The Chipotle Corporate Sabotage Theory Returns
Some people see a simple case of foodborne illness. Others see corporate sabotage.
3. Michael Kors to Buy Jimmy Choo in $1.2 Billion Deal
The agreement comes as upscale American brands grapple with plummeting sales and tepid profits, particularly in the so-called middle market.
4. Biogen Reports Record Quarterly Revenues of $3.1 Billion, Raises Full Year Revenue Guidance
Biogen Inc. today reported second quarter 2017 financial results, including:
5. McDonald’s earnings: $1.70 per share, vs expected EPS of $1.62
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MS Paint fans rejoice The original art app going anywhere except to the Windows Store for free.
Amidst commentary around MS Paint we wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight clear up some confusion and share some good news.
MS Paint is here to stay it will just have a new home soon in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.
Photograph Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian basic graphics editing program used throughout childhoods since the has been marked for death.
Starting life as a monochrome licensed version of PC Paintbrush it until Windows that Paint could save in JPEG.
The most recent version of Paint for Windows and later was much improved but still considered feature poor compared to other free alternatives such as the.
Now the makers plan to sell that data to smart home device manufacturers turning the friendly robot into a creeping creepy little spy.
Angle told Reuters that iRobot which made Roomba compatible with Alexa voice assistant in March could reach a deal to sell its maps to one or more of the Big Three in the next couple of years.
And while Amazon seems like an obvious kind that would pay huge money to shut out its forget that Apple has its Siri speaker coming and it has a lot of catching up to do.
MOUNTAIN VIEW April Alphabet NASDAQ GOOG GOOGL today announced financial results for the quarter ended March.
The following summarizes our consolidated financial results for the quarters ended March and in millions except for per share information effective tax rate and headcount unaudited.
We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these financial measures in assessing our performance and when planning forecasting and analyzing future periods.
GeekWire met with Lewis and his Grant Goodale this week at the bustling downtown Seattle office that houses employees its workforce has doubled in eight months and could reach by the end of this year.
He was fascinated with how Amazon invested in warehouses to help optimize their supply chain and ultimately change consumer shopping behavior by offering fast shipping at a low cost.
am still putting a good chunk of money in my pocket too you know said Sanderson who hails from Tampa Florida and was driving a load of military supplies to the Seattle area with his wife Sandra by his side.
Reuters reported on Sunday that KKR was nearing a deal to buy the online health information provider.
Founded in WebMD has grown into one of the most popular health websites for consumers and medical professionals attracting more than million monthly unique visitors in according to analytics company comScore Inc.
WebMD also owns medical news and education brand Medscape which accounted for around percent of its advertising revenue in.
ET Foxconn Technology Group which assembles Apple iPhones is nearing a decision to invest in Wisconsin and could hold an event in Washington as soon as this week to discuss investment plans people familiar with the matter said.
In Wisconsin Foxconn is looking at producing display panels that can be used in.
Microsoft Paint has been in the news since yesterday when Redmond announced that the software is being deprecated with the upcoming Windows Fall Creators Update.
In addition to the new capabilities many of the MS Paint features people know and love like photo editing and creation are in Paint the new app for creativity available for free with the Windows Creators update.
Microsoft provide us with a date for the release of Microsoft Paint on the Windows Store but imagine not too far away and will likely make an appearance shortly after the release of the Windows Fall Creators Update later this.
Total worldwide spending on television and radio commercials newspaper ads and other measured advertising grew by about billion from to according to figures from Magna Global.
And other Google digital hangouts particularly YouTube are too popular to ignore for companies that are eager to sell movie tickets running shoes or auto insurance.
Facebook has warned its revenue growth will slow considerably beginning later in because it ca maintain the increase in the number ads it crams into its news feed.
Google announced on Friday that it has purchased the music licensing company RightsFlow for its detailed information about who should get paid when any of over million songs get played.
RightsFlow pictured here now belongs to Google which will use it to simplify royalty accounting on YouTube and possibly other music services.
Once Google has identified songs uploaded to YouTube using its Content ID fingerprinting technology it should be able to figure out more easily which publishers and songwriters to pay.
