Yahoo: Rough and Tumblr | The Economist

Are you kidding me?  I want to scream Yahooo! and tumble on the floor…

What is this world coming to?  Our use of technology to share thoughts and images is creating billion dollar companies and changing commerce.  The internet economy and the gadgets that support it are impacting what we do, how we spend our money and how companies influence what we do and how we spend our money.

Yahoo is making an aggressive move to stay afloat with the cyber giants allowing it to tumble with the best…

Do you Yahoo and tumble?

“AT A recent conference, Ken Goldman, the chief financial officer of Yahoo, admitted that the internet giant had an aging audience and was looking for things to “make us cool again”. The firm’s senior executives appear to think Tumblr can give it a …”

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‘Radio Without Rules’: Google Announces New Music Streaming Service | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

It may be that rules and laws are becoming obsolete when it comes to controlling online content.  Perhaps laws and regulations come from a time when things stood more still and traditions lasted.

Today, the internet and the digital universe continue to expand in a seemingly endless pattern of innovation and entropy that make Napster now seem antique.

“Google announced its subscription streaming service, Google Play Music All Access (wow that’s a mouthful), at Google I/O Wednesday. It’s all about harnessing the power of Google to provide you with stellar music recommendations, on your phone, tablet, or on …”

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CISPA Probably Won’t Be Introduced In the Senate

According to the folks at MASHABLE, cyber space, government intelligence and international and domestic intrigue vis a vis the internet and what goes on between people’s keyboards in their networked relationships and other vital packs of information exchanges through the online data river we call cyber space will not be looked at by the Senate as originally expected.

“The House of Representative’s version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, probably won’t be taken up in its entirety by the Senate, according to a new report. CISPA passed the House last week with bipartisan support despite a veto threat from …”

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No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan – Philanthropy 50 – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

What started as your kids chit chatting and “wasting time on their computer” is now one of the largest money making business in human history and is creating resources that are challenging the wold’s elite in philanthropy…. Such is the new “WWW” world our heads are in with our feet on the ground while we look up at a world that boggles (perhaps “googles”) the mind!

 

Amount donated in 2012: about $498.8-million

Beneficiary: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Background: Mr. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook, and Dr. Chan is a pediatrician.

Mark Zuckerberg, 28, and Priscilla Chan, 27, gave 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at about $498.8-million, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to support education and health programs.

This is the young billionaire’s second large donation. In 2010, he pledged $100-million to establish Startup: Education, a foundation to support programs working to improve public schools in Newark, N.J.

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6 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss

The Policy ThinkShop searches all media to keep up with and promote the latest on social and gadget media.  Checkout the following article on Apps that can help you manage information and have fun …

“It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you’re in luck — we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps.”

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Child trafficking: A cruel trade | The Economist

Our ability to communicate via the internet is pervading every corner of the globe and transforming societies open and close.  China is known for being one of the oldest bureaucracies closed to the so called West.  The Internet, however, seems to be growing inside China and providing new types of hope never before considered inside Chinese walls.  The once great wall now seems permeable by internet culture and international digital currents which China does not seem able to avoid.  The following Economist article sheds some light on this phenomenon:

“THE Chinese new year, which this year falls on February 10th, is a time of family reunions. But Xiao Chaohua is preparing to spend his sixth new year without his son, who was …”

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President Obama’s Success – NYTimes.com

NYTs weighs in on how the Country has spoken demanding

• jobs, spreading the tax burden and rejecting politics of deceit

“President Obama’s dramatic re-election victory was not a sign that a fractured nation had finally come together on Election Day. But it was a strong endorsement of …”

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Networked: The New Social Operating System

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by email, text messages, tweets and Facebook updates. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks.

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Google Hit by Weak Results – WSJ.com

Google Inc.’s GOOG -8.01% quarterly earnings report hit Wall Street more than three hours early on Thursday due to a glitch. The bigger glitch was what the Internet giant’s results actually …

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U.S. Says Iranian Hackers Are Behind Electronic Assaults on U.S. Banks, Foreign Energy Firms – WSJ.com

Iranian hackers with government ties have mounted cyberattacks against American targets in recent months, escalating a low-grade cyberwar, U.S. officials say.

The Iranian effort culminated in a series of recent attacks against U.S. banks as well as electronic assaults this year on …

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Social Networking Sites Grow as a Source of News – Pew Research Center

The explosive growth of social networking sites has been a significant contributor to the online search for news, with the percentage saying they saw news or news headlines on social networking sites the previous day increasing from 9% in 2010 to 19%.

 

The other factor driving an increase in the number of Americans who get news digitally is the greater use of mobile devices in recent years.

This has changed the landscape when it comes to how news is consumed. While the percentage of Americans who regularly go online for news – those who get news online three days a week or more – has not increased, those who regularly get news on a cell phone, tablet or other mobile device has nearly doubled since 2010, from 9% to 15%, and the number seeing news on social network sites three days a week or more has almost tripled, from 7% to 20%.

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Video – Can the Launch of Windows 8 Help the PC Survive in the Tablet Age? – WSJ.com

The personal-computer business has entered a tailspin.

Reports from research firms Wednesday provided new details about the industry’s worsening condition, triggered by factors that include …

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