Yahoo Joins Growing List of Bidders For Hulu 69
An anonymous reader writes "It's reported that Yahoo has formally put in a bid to buy Hulu only a week after adding Tumblr to the family. From the article: 'Yahoo just spent $1.1 billion of its cash hoard to acquire Tumblr, a blogging site with 300 million mostly young-ish visitors and 24 billion minutes of usage per month. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's team can slap a lot of tasteful, personalized native ads into the Tumblr content streams to monetize the fast growing site. It's the same way that Facebook and Twitter hope to get into the tens of billions in revenue league, but it's a long and winding road. Now Yahoo is taking a run at Hulu, with its 4 million subscribers paying $7.99 per month, original programming , and more than 70,000 full TV episodes. Hulu could immediately put Yahoo's video efforts and revenue in a different league.'"
Comment Re:WTF is the administration supposed to do? (Score 1) 1145
Only problem is that somewhere along the way we elected Toydarians to Congress and our boards-of-directors. Tell one of them to do a true switch to metric, and they'll give you a nice and resounding LOL before mumbling "stupid job-killing regulations" and other such incantations.
Comment Re:THERE IS NO LIMIT (Score 1) 573
The front cover would say "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?" in front of a cute, if anguished, infant.
Really, though, you can't just run a public server, shove a truck of data through it (77 TB, jeez) and not expect the Nickel & Dime Department to show up. Verizon was being ridiculously generous (compared to the other data-miser ISPs lately, anyway), and this was abuse and against the TOS--i.e., Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
Comment Re:Way to go, Dropbox users (Score 1) 185
Truth, all of that, of course.
My favorite part is where everyone here's modding down the wise posts as Trolls. But 'ey, if y'all prefer Facebook 2: +ElectricBoogaloo over federation and XMPP, and ridiculous "abuse" excuses over sensible free software download systems, then I don't have all the time in the world to try to steer the USS Consensus closer to the HMS Sense.
French Police End Missing Persons Searches, Suggest Using Facebook 95
itwbennett writes "According to an announcement on a French government website, police have stopped current searches for missing adults and will not accept new search requests. 'Such 'searches in the interests of the family' were conducted under an administrative procedure almost a century old, introduced to help families separated during the upheavals of World War I to find missing relatives,' according to the French Ministry of the Interior. In a letter to police chiefs announcing the changes, the Ministry advised them to instead 'direct people towards social networks on the Internet, which offer interesting possibilities.'"
Comment Re:Lss Schwab (Score 1) 78
Out there in Mars, that rover's more likely to find a Charles Schwab center and end up owing a consultant money.
Comment Re:Will they still still need X degree and pass ov (Score 1) 172
No. They'll just demand 50 years of SAP experience.
Comment Re:Can they? (Score 2) 260
Plus between trade secrets and accounting wonkery there's simply no way for anyone short of a spy behind a Bloomberg terminal to have an idea what'll happen.
In brief, this article is SOP for the Lobster.
Comment Re:Magnets (Score 0) 152
The secret isn't really magic, it's magnet--18 magnets to be exact!
Comment Re:Closed protocol? (Score 1) 416
I am just worried that Google is trying to do more to force us to use their tools, rather than allowing us to use our favourite messaging clients., but with their service.
...and just a month after the FSF "commend Google for doing the right thing and respecting the importance of full federation", after they reversed a Jabber invite block they started in March as an "anti-spam" measure. I guess it's now an "anti-privacy" measure, right Google? Or is it an "anti-Facebook" one? Oh, Larry Page...
Comment Re:why are you eating boogers? (Score 1) 75
"I'm not addicted to cake rolls! I'm just trying to increase the glycan* sugar level in my mucus!"
*Not to be confused with the lycan sugar level, which is both different and much scarier.
Comment Re:Never expose any security holes (Score 3, Funny) 120
...and when those fail:
3. I need to spend more time with my family.
Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1, Interesting) 43
I call that the Fool's PGP.
(This xkcd comes to mind.)
Comment Re:Let's hold on a sec. I see what's she's doing. (Score 3, Informative) 162
Except Yahoo is working with Facebook now, due to general patent shenanigans...so it's actually even worse because the data will all get merged...with Facebook.
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