Jobs’ seat on Disney board not to be filled by widow or Trust
by admin on 22/01/12 at 10:24 am
Steve Jobs with Pixar execs Ed Catmull (left) and John Lasseter. (Credit: Pixar) Neither Steve Jobs’ widow nor a representative of his trust will be on the ballot when Disney shareholders meet in March to vote on re-electing the company’s board of directors, Reuters reports. That’s despite the fact that the Jobs trust is Disney’s largest shareholder.
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Shoppers will be able to use PayPal in more than 2,000 brick-and-mortar stores come March. The e-commerce payment business, owned by eBay, started a preliminary run this week in 51 Home Depot stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to PayPal spokesman Anuj Nayar. By the end of the year, PayPal plans to add 20 more retailers and expand nationally.
Full StoryCan the education-focused OLPC XO 3.0 tablet teach consumer manufacturers anything useful?
Will the OLPC XO 3.0 start a trend of inexpensive, waterproof, low power tablets? I hope so, just as long as I don’t have to deal with the consequences. (Credit: Eric Franklin/CNET) Nearly 18 months ago, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laid out plans to introduce a $100, education-focused tablet .
Full StoryGames that make you rage on iOS
Old-school gamers will remember an age when there were no continues, no checkpoints, and no respawns. If you died during a level, that was it–you went back to the beginning of the level to do it all again. The craziest thing about it?
Full StoryGroupon acquires online retailer Mertado
Try going to any part of online retailer Mertado’s Web site and you’ll be redirected to one page with this message: “Today, we’re pleased to announce that we are continuing this journey by becoming a part of the Groupon family.” As of today, Groupon has acquired Mertado, an online social-shopping company that used Facebook as its distribution platform and sold product deals matched to users’ lifestyles, such as housewares, electronics, and food. “Our mission at Mertado has always been to expose a selection of high quality, unique, lifestyle-oriented products to consumers wherever they spend their time,” Mertado’s good-bye message read. The site says former customers should be able to have a similar user experience by shopping at Groupon Goods , which also offers daily deals on various lifestyle products.
Full StoryProtect IP, SOPA supporters vow not to give up fight
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Opponents of a pair of Hollywood-backed copyright bills took to the streets yesterday in San Francisco and other cities. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Internet opponents of a pair of controversial Hollywood-backed copyright bills won a temporary reprieve today, when upcoming votes in the Senate and House of Representatives were postponed . But the lobbyists and politicians backing the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and Protect IP haven’t given up.
Full StoryInfo-starved no more–home energy gadget clues you in
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A looking glass into your electricity meter–a sensor that reads data and send it to a Wi-Fi gateway for reading online. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) You may think you know how much electricity you’re using, but there’s a whole lot more you could–and should–know. Despite living in the information age, most of us are basically in the dark when it comes to electricity bills, with just a rough idea of how much we consume every month and what it will cost.
Full StoryApple schools us on the next wave of textbooks
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Apple’s new textbook store within iBooks. (Credit: Jason Parker/CNET) This week marked the end of speculation about Apple’s plans to expand its business in the education market. At a relatively low-key event held in New York this week, the company debuted a new version of its iBooks software with support for textbooks, alongside free authoring tools for Macs that can be used to create and publish new iPad -compatible works.
Full StorySony to move lithium battery assembly abroad: report
TOKYO | Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:38am EST TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Sony Corp will transfer domestic construction of lithium ion batteries used in products like mobile phones and electric cars overseas by March 2014, as it works to overcome the strong yen, the Asahi newspaper reported on Saturday. The consumer electronics giant will move the assembling of the batteries to factories in China and Singapore, but continue producing the parts needed for production in Japan, the national daily said, without citing sources. As part of the move, Sony plans to convert its Tochigi Prefecture lithium ion battery factory into a research facility and is considering asking about 500 workers to apply for job reshuffling or voluntary retirement, the paper added.
Full StoryLawyers to ask shareholders to sue Olympus: report
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Full StoryMegaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges
By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:52pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday. The company and seven of its executives were charged in a 5-count, 72-page indictment unsealed on Thursday accusing them of engaging in a wide-ranging and lucrative scheme to offer material online without compensating the copyright holders. Authorities in New Zealand arrested four of those charged, including one of its founders, who legally changed his name to Kim Dotcom.
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