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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Alibaba: The world’s greatest bazaar | The Economist

Perhaps the internet is not so “internet.”  Perhaps the worldwide web is not so wide…

The Chinese are flexing their keyboards and their massive capital and in their wake they are leaving internal and external competitors washed ashore.  New, rising, Chinese companies are weaving a web between buyers and sellers in the largest populated market on earth–China.

The result is a leading internet, already, giant like a Chinese private company called “Alibaba.”  It is peering beyond its borders as it forms relationships with such giants as Yahoo and, according to the London Economist, because of its sheer scale, it is able to keep internet “spiders” like the ones that are the life blood of giants like Google at bay.  The Policy ThinkShop recommends the following Economist article for those who want to be in the know.

“In 1999 Trudy Dai used to spend all night sending e-mails from her friend Jack Ma’s apartment, trying to answer queries from American customers without letting on that she was Chinese. Ms Dai was one of the first dozen employees of Alibaba, an online listings service Mr Ma, a teacher, had just started. It was already having some success connecting small Chinese manufacturers to …”

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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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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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Obama Wins New Term as Electoral Advantage Holds – NYTimes.com

America’s has chosen to stay on the path to fairness, embracing diversity and the working person … The 47% wins!

The New York Times reports Obama victory as “Mr. Etch a Sketch” goes down hard and for ever!

Mitt Catches Bad Loss … America’s 47% wins big!

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“Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as the nation voted to give him a second …”

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A sense of place | The Economist

Stuck in with the nasty weather outside?  Here is a nice read while you’re wondering what to do with your unexpected day off: A nice article in the London Economist about how APPs are changing the real world by allowing people to network and make choices never before possible…

 

“THERE WAS SOMETHING odd about the black car at the junction of Sutter and Hyde Streets. It was an ordinary saloon. Its windows …”

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Do-Not-Track Movement Is Drawing Advertisers’ Fire – NYTimes.com

THE campaign to defang the “Do Not Track” movement began late last month.

Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla’s Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies to stop collecting …

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Tablet News Users Say Their Consumption of News Has Increased – Pew Research Center

The fast growing use of mobile devices has raised questions about the impact on the consumption of news. Are people who own mobile technology getting more news now that they have more ready access to it? Or are they merely replacing one platform with another?

While most (55%) of tablet news users say the news they get on their tablet is replacing news they would have gotten in other ways, nearly as many (43%) say the news they get there is adding to the overall news they consume.

Looking at those who get news across four platforms — tablet, smartphone, laptop/desktop and print — a solid majority (58%) say the news they get from a tablet is adding to the overall amount of news they consume.

In addition, almost a third (35%) of tablet news users say they are spending more time getting news now that they have a tablet. That is nearly identical to the 30% who responded that way in 2011. Just 12% say they get less news now. Read more

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Film That Stoked Mideast Violence Has Murky Parentage – NYTimes.com

The film that set off violence across North Africa was made in obscurity somewhere in the sprawl of Southern California, and promoted by a network of right-wing Christians with a history of animosity directed toward Muslims. When a 14-minute trailer of it — all that may actually exist — was posted on …

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Most Have Broadband Internet Connections at Home – Pew Research Center

Two-thirds of American adults (66%) now have a high-speed broadband internet connection at home.

High-speed access to the internet at home has grown sharply in recent years and the “always on” connection typically increases the frequency with which people use the internet. More than eight-in-ten adults (85%) now say they use the internet.

In February 2001, when about half of adults were online, only 4% of American households had broadband access.

According to data collected in the spring of 2012, seven-in-ten whites and roughly half of African Americans (54%) and Hispanics (51%) have high-speed internet access at home. Read more …

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What Voters Know about Campaign 2012 | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

As the presidential campaign enters its final three months, most voters say they already know what they need to know to form a clear impression of the candidates. But fewer say this about Mitt Romney than about Barack Obama.1 Indeed, the latest Pew Research Center knowledge survey finds that while voters know many key things about the candidates and their issue positions, voters are less familiar with Romney than with Obama.

Three-quarters of voters (75%) can correctly identify Illinois as the state Obama represented in the U.S. Senate, while 60% identify Massachusetts as the state in which Romney served as governor. Roughly six-in-ten (61%) know that Bain Capital is the company Romney once headed.

About two-thirds correctly identify Obama as the candidate who supports tax increases on income above $250,000 (68%), as well as a policy to allow young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to remain here and apply for work permits (66%). Somewhat fewer identify Romney as the candidate who opposes same-sex marriage (60%) and who supports restricting access to abortion in most cases (54%).

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Ecuador to Let Julian Assange Stay in Its London Embassy – NYTimes.com

The government of Ecuador is prepared to allow Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian …

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