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- Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake (AP)
- Post-quake, West teases East on social networks (AP)
- Facebook to let users pre-approve photo tags (AP)
- Facebook privacy overhaul adds photo tagging approval, easier selective sharing (Yahoo! News)
- News of rare East Coast earthquake spreads through Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare (Yahoo! News)
- Google Adds Friend Annotations to the +1 Button (Mashable)
- Northern Calif. newspapers to combine, cut staff (AP)
- Woman who was assaulted settles Match.com lawsuit (AP)
- Canon announces two wireless photo printers that communicate with smartphones (Digital Trends)
- China Telecom gains in mobile (Investor's Business Daily)
- China's Renren signs agreement with Microsoft's MSN (Reuters)
- Quake bolsters calls for public safety wireless network (Reuters)
- Report: Sprint to get the iPhone 5 (Appolicious)
- Dish Network (Investor's Business Daily)
- LAPD probe threatening letter to Craig Ferguson (AP)
- Exclusive: Apple readies cheaper iPhone for growth markets (Reuters)
- Android finally integrates with Chrome, Google TV (Appolicious)
- Facebook to build second Menlo Park campus (Digital Trends)
| Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:06 PM PDT LOS ANGELES – Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent. "Really all this excitement over a 5.8 quake??? Come on East Coast, we have those for breakfast out here!!!!" wrote Dennis Miller, 50, a lifelong California resident whose house in Pleasanton sits on an earthquake fault line. On Twitter and Facebook and over email, people circulated a photo of a table and four plastic lawn chairs in a serene garden setting. One of the chairs flipped on its back. The mock image carried the title "DC Earthquake Devastation." All the more laughable for some were the images of people fleeing buildings — the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do in a quake. "Hey East Coast, the entire West Coast is mocking you right now," tweeted Todd Walker, an Anchorage TV anchorman. The tough earthquake talk comes from a coast that is apparently jaded by its own seismic activity — or perhaps not as experienced as it imagines itself to be. Tuesday's quake was the East Coast's largest since 1944. California alone has seen 35 quakes of that size since then, and since Japan's massive 9.0 quake on March 11, that country has experienced 93 aftershocks that registered more than magnitude-6.0. The flippancy partly disguises how serious the quakes are taken in California, Alaska and other earthquake-prone parts of the country. Many West Coast residents are trained to dive under desks and tables when the shaking starts and there is a recognition that temblors of similar size to the one that hit Virginia have caused deaths and millions of dollars of damage here. Despite the frequency of middling temblors, many people haven't experienced a truly earth-shaking quake. The last major metropolitan-scale disaster was all the way back in 1994, when the magnitude-6.7 Northridge quake ravaged greater Los Angeles. Joanne Razo, a legal assistant who lives in Washington, D.C., has lived through an earthquake in Los Angeles and said she knows that a 5.8-quake is mild by West Coast standards. But for her, the scary part was not the ground shaking but that "this area is not equipped to handle anything like this." Andrew Lakoff, a University of Southern California anthropology and sociology professor who studies cultural responses to disasters, said West Coasters seemed to be reacting to scenes of East Coasters losing their cool over the quake. In California, where there is firsthand knowledge of what large quakes look like, something magnitude-5.9 is a relatively minor threat. "A perverse consequence of living with the ongoing specter of catastrophe is this sense of pride," he said. Marcus Beer, a video game critic who moved to Los Angeles in 2002 after growing up in the seismically stable British nation of Wales, said he didn't unleash his own smart-alecky tweet about the quake until he saw that it hadn't caused any major damage or harm. He said he was amused by how much media attention was being seized by a quake of a size that — barring serious damage — would prompt little more than a few nervous chuckles on the West Coast. "For me, it was just ironic that the major news centers being based on the East Coast finally got hit by what we consider a temblor and it's, `Oh my God!'" Beer said. "We get those all the time, and we're so used to them." Some East Coasters seemed to understand the eye-rolling from the West Coast. On Foursquare, a service that lets people tell others where they've been, users all over the East Coast checked in to made-up locations such as "Earthquakepocalypse," just as they checked in to "Snowpocalypse" during winter storms. Sarah Atkinson, a manager for a marketing firm in San Jose, was unimpressed by all the excitement. "5.9? That's what us Californians use to stir our coffee with," she tweeted. __ Associated Press writers Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska, and Barbara Ortutay in San Francisco contributed to this report. |
| Post-quake, West teases East on social networks (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:12 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO – On the East Coast, people tweeted and Facebooked with expressions of surprise, worry and sometimes panic over the most powerful earthquake to hit them in decades. The magnitude 5.8 quake, centered outside Richmond, Va., was felt across office buildings and sidewalks along the Eastern Seaboard — in places more accustomed to snowstorms than earthly rumblings. Buildings were evacuated. News networks shook off the August lull. On Facebook, Twitter and even Google's fledging Plus network, people asked Tuesday if it was really an earthquake they just felt or perhaps Godzilla paying a visit. For many, it was the first quake they ever experienced. Their West Coast peers, more used to such rumblings, promptly started making fun of them. "Really all this excitement over a 5.8 quake??? Come on East Coast, we have those for breakfast out here!!!!" wrote Dennis Miller, 50, a lifelong California resident whose house in Pleasanton sits on an earthquake fault line. He said he's had a number of people click "like" on his post on Facebook — all of them from the West Coast, though. "I haven't heard from anyone on the East Coast because they are probably still sitting under their kitchen tables," Miller said in an interview, with a laugh. Miller added, "I wouldn't even wake up to a 5.8 if I was asleep." On Twitter and Facebook and over email, people circulated a photo of a table and four plastic lawn chairs in a serene garden setting. One of the chairs flipped on its back. The mock image carried the title "DC Earthquake Devastation." Even East Coasters seemed to understand. Joanne Razo, a legal assistant who lives in Washington D.C., has lived through an earthquake in Los Angeles and said she knows that a 5.8 quake is mild by West Coast standards. But for her, the scary part was not the ground shaking but that "this area is not equipped to handle anything like this." Still, there was a sense of humor from the side of the country that's experienced its own share of natural disasters. On Foursquare, a service that lets people tell others where they've been, users all over the East Coast checked in to made-up locations such as "Earthquakepocalypse," just as they checked in to "Snowpocalypse" during winter storms. As with the earthquake in Japan earlier this year, many people first heard about the events on the East Coast through social networks. Stellamarie Hall, who works for a marketing agency in San Francisco, suddenly saw her Facebook page explode with, as she put it, "East Coast people freaking out." Her company's East Coast office, meanwhile, sent out a companywide alert that travel might be affected. "We were laughing but we definitely understand that New York and certain metropolitan areas are not designed around earthquakes," said Hall, 26. Hall, who was born and raised in San Francisco, has lived through several earthquakes, big ones like the 1989 Loma Pierta quake that killed dozens of people and small ones that happen several times a year. "We're accustomed to rumblings," she said. Of course, the tables might just turn if a freak snowstorm ever hits San Francisco. |
| Facebook to let users pre-approve photo tags (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:02 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO – Drunken revelers rejoice: Facebook will now let you decide whether your friends can attach your name to a photo before it is circulated. Currently, your friends can add your name to a photo on Facebook without your consent or knowledge. You can remove it later, but only after lots of others may have seen the embarrassing shots. Now, you can insist on pre-approval. This won't affect whether your friends can add a photo of you, only whether your name is attached to it. Still, not having the name, known as a tag, can make it more difficult for people to find a potentially embarrassing photo in a search. Facebook said on Tuesday that the change is in response to user requests. Pre-approving photo tags has been the most requested change, said Kate O'Neill, product manager for Facebook. The pre-approval process will also apply to written posts that others tag you in. In addition, you have the option of pre-approving what others tag on your own photos and posts. The company is making other changes to its privacy controls, too. These changes won't affect what information will be made public or private. Rather, they will affect how users can control what they are sharing in an effort to make the process simpler. "We are making it easier for people to share what they want, every time (they) post," O'Neill said. The changes will be rolled out starting Thursday. Facebook has long been trying to simplify its privacy settings, which have many moving parts and have confused a lot of users. That confusion partly results from Facebook's efforts to let users apply different privacy settings to different parts of their profile on the site. But the company has also come under fire for pushing users toward disclosing more about their interests to the public. Among the latest changes: • Instead of going to a separate settings page, privacy controls will be on users' profile pages, next to the information they share, such as the music they like or the schools they went to. Previously, most these controls were located several clicks away on an "account settings" page. • Instead of calling public posts visible to "everyone," Facebook will now simply call these "public." • Facebook is also making a feature called "view profile as" more prominent. This lets you type in the name of another Facebook user and see how your profile looks to that person. For example, if you hide your photos and favorite music from some of your Facebook friends, this content won't show up if you view your profile as one of them. • In a nod to Google Plus, the online search leader's fledgling social network, Facebook is making it easier to share posts with specific groups of people. A dropdown menu next to each post you make will let you select "public," "friends" or a "custom" audience. Over time, Facebook said this menu will expand to include smaller groups of people. • You will now be able to tag anyone on Facebook, even if you are not friends with them. They will have to approve your request to tag, though, before the photo or post shows up on their profile. |
| Facebook privacy overhaul adds photo tagging approval, easier selective sharing (Yahoo! News) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:07 PM PDT |
| News of rare East Coast earthquake spreads through Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare (Yahoo! News) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT |
| Google Adds Friend Annotations to the +1 Button (Mashable) Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:15 PM PDT [More from Mashable: HTC Doubles Down on Android After Google-Motorola Deal] Google is making the +1 Button more social with the addition of friend annotations. "You may have already noticed faces and names when you hover over a +1 button," Google Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan said in a post on the Google+ Platform preview. "This change rolled out late last week. Now, you can make these recommendations even more visible to your users. Simply update the +1 button code, and an inline annotation will show next to the button." [More from Mashable: Google+ Hangouts Can Now Be Initiated From YouTube] The new annotations appear when a user hovers over the +1 button. Hovering over it will display a list of friends and contacts that have already clicked the +1 button for that page. Google has also unveiled new code for the +1 button that will display the faces and names of friends that have used the +1 button. This feature works much like how the Facebook Like Button appears for Mashable stories, displaying how many people have +1'd the page and which friends have +1ed it. The changes are small, but they will likely make the +1 button even more sticky. The search giant will need to do more though to compete with Facebook's button, which has become standard on millions of websites across the world.
This story originally published on Mashable here. |
| Northern Calif. newspapers to combine, cut staff (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:48 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO – MediaNews Group is combining most of its daily newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area to save money on their print editions so that the company can invest in ways to bring in more revenue from the Internet and mobile devices. The shake-up announced Tuesday will affect about a dozen newspapers located across the bay from San Francisco. Beginning Nov. 2, those newspapers will shed their distinct identities and adopt one of two new brands, the East Bay Tribune and The Times. Fewer newspapers brands will result in fewer jobs. The Bay Area News Group, a division that operates the affected newspapers, expects to reduce a staff of 1,500 by about 8 percent, or 120. An office in Walnut Creek, Calif., will close. Most of the cuts are expected to occur within the newsrooms and operations that print the newspapers. Mac Tully, president of the Bay Area News Group, said in an interview that it was inefficient to produce so many different newspapers "when two could do the job." Like other major newspaper publishers, MediaNews has been hard hit by a prolonged advertising slump that has left it with less money to cover its bills. The downturn caused MediaNews' parent company, Affiliated Media Inc., to file for bankruptcy protection last year and negotiate a reorganization plan that left it under the ownership of dozens of lenders, led by Bank of America Corp. The new ownership is searching for a replacement for MediaNews co-founder and CEO William Dean Singleton, who is also chairman of The Associated Press. There had been signs that the steep drop in newspaper advertising was easing late last year, but the industry has seen declines grow larger so far this year. "The economy has been more challenging than anticipated," Tully said. But he said most of the changes would have been made even if revenue had been rising, so the newspapers could adjust to the rising demand for the digital delivery of news and advertising. Although specifics weren't provided, the newspapers expect to develop more services for tablet computers and smartphones. The largest newspapers affected by the overhaul are The Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek. The Oakland newspaper will be folded into the East Bay Tribune brand along with the Alameda Times-Star, The Daily Review, The Argus in Fremont and West County Times in Richmond. The Contra Costa Times will be blended with The Valley Times, San Ramon Valley Times, Tri-Valley Herald, San Joaquin Herald and East County Times. Most of those newspapers already had been re-classified as editions of MediaNews' largest Bay-area newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. But the newspapers retained their own names, making that switch less noticeable to readers. With Tuesday's changes, the new names will appear at the top of the front page. In another change announced Tuesday, the Mercury News' brand will be stamped on the San Mateo County Times, another nearby daily owned by MediaNews. Including its various editions operating under other brands, the Mercury News had an average daily circulation of nearly 578,000 during the six months ending in March. That made it the fifth-largest daily newspaper in the U.S. |
| Woman who was assaulted settles Match.com lawsuit (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:12 PM PDT LOS ANGELES – A woman who sued Match.com after being sexually assaulted by a man she met on the dating website settled her lawsuit on Tuesday when she saw proof that the site screenings its members for sexual predators. Carole Markin sued the website when she found out her attacker had been convicted of sexual battery. She did not seek monetary damages in her lawsuit, just a court order requiring the site to check its members' backgrounds to weed out convicted sex offenders. "If I save one woman from being attacked, I'm happy," Markin said. "I went into this lawsuit to protect other people, and it worked." Robert Platt, an attorney for the site, said Match.com has begun checking its members against state and federal sex-offender databases. Last week Alan Wurtzel, 67, pleaded no contest to assaulting Markin. He could face a year in jail, five years of probation and a lifetime registration as a sex offender when he is sentenced Sept. 19. Prosecutors said that on their second date last year, Wurtzel drove Markin to her home and followed her inside where he sexually assaulted her while holding her down. |
| Canon announces two wireless photo printers that communicate with smartphones (Digital Trends) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:55 PM PDT
Today, Canon announced the release of two new wireless photo all-in-one printers to its consumer line of PIXMA printers. The PIXMA MG8220 and MG6220 photo printers can communicate with Apple and Android smartphones to quickly print high-quality photo prints of recent pictures taken with mobile devices. In addition, consumers can utilize the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint application to scan photos or documents on the printer and have them sent directly to the smartphone. The scanned item can be copied to photo albums as a jpeg, saved as a PDF or emailed to contacts from the application. The Canon MG8220 photo printer can print a 4″ by 6″ photo in approximately 20 seconds and has a maximum color resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi. Using a 3.5-inch LCD to customize print settings, the MG8220 prints up to 9.3 images per minute in color and up to 12.5 images per minute in black and white. This printer is also the only model in the PIXMA line that comes with a Film Adapter Unit to convert negatives and slides to a digital format. The PIXMA MG8220 has an estimated retail price of $299.99. The Canon MG6220 offers many of the same features as the Canon MG8220 such as the quick 4″ by 6″ photo printing and similar speeds when printing in both color and black and white. Retailing for $199.99, the main differences in the MG6220 include a smaller 3.0″ LCD screen size and the absence of the Film Adapter Unit. |
| China Telecom gains in mobile (Investor's Business Daily) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:32 PM PDT The phone company said first-half 2011 profit rose 8% vs. last year to $1.5 bil. China Telecom's (NYSE:CHA - News) sales rose 11.5% to $18.8 bil. Mobile phone revenue rose 28% despite competition from rivals China Mobile (NYSE:CHL - News) and China Unicom (NYSE:CHU - News), while fixed-line revenue fell. China Telecom was long the country's dominant carrier, but fell behind as demand shifted from landlines to wireless. China Telecom also is in talks with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) about carrying the iPhone. It rose 2% to 51.07. |
| China's Renren signs agreement with Microsoft's MSN (Reuters) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:28 PM PDT SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese social-networking site Renren said on Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Microsoft's joint venture instant messaging firm, MSN, to cooperate in areas of instant messaging and social networking. The two companies will cooperate on providing universal login access to both platforms and cross sharing of photos and status updates. The agreement will see a significant level of integration between the two platforms, Renren said in a statement. "Renren's alliance with MSN network is in the spirit of a win-win situation," Renren's chief operating officer Liu Jian said in a statement. Last month, Microsoft said it will partner with Baidu to provide Baidu with English-language search, giving the U.S. software giant a chance to expand its tiny Web presence. China is the world's largest Internet market by users with around 480 million netizens. Around 230 million of them use social networking sites and 385 million of them use instant messaging. (Reporting by Melanie Lee; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) |
| Quake bolsters calls for public safety wireless network (Reuters) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Disruption of cell phone service by a rare East Coast earthquake on Tuesday prompted renewed calls for Congress and regulators to provide a dedicated wireless network for emergency workers. The 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia shut federal government agencies some 90 miles away and sent office workers into the streets as tremors were felt as far as Canada. The Federal Communications Commission said it is assessing a significant disruption to cell service due to the quake and will be looking at ways to improve communications during emergencies. Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and Frontier Communications Corp all reported higher call volumes and network congestion in affected areas, making it difficult to reach out to family and friends after the quake over cell phones. "We were unable to get cell phone access for a period of about an hour immediately after the quake," said Dennis Martinez, chief technology officer for the RF Communications Division of Harris Corp. The large percentage of first responders who rely on cellular data networks for some of their services would have experienced the same outage, Martinez said. Creating a nationwide mobile broadband network for emergency services is a key 9/11 Commission recommendation that has yet to be put into action as the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks by hijacked airliners approaches. The wireless network would allow firemen, police and other first responders to easily communicate, but lawmakers and regulators have yet to reach a consensus on how to build, maintain and fund the network. Of particular contention is whether to allocate a highly sought after segment of the 700 megahertz band of airwaves called the D Block directly to public safety groups, or to auction it to commercial carriers who will be mandated to share it with first responders. Public safety groups have pushed for control of the D Block, which the FCC is currently under instruction from Congress to auction off, and used the earthquake to strengthen their case. "In the wake of the earthquake, cell service went dark," said Public Safety Alliance spokesman Sean Kirkendall. "It's a perfect illustration why public safety needs nationwide, mission critical broadband capability of its own." Ongoing discussions among lawmakers on debt reduction could help sway the fight for the D Block in public safety's favor. Harris' Martinez said auctioning spectrum to generate revenue has caught the eye of lawmakers, and there is broad support to use a portion of the auction proceeds to fund the public safety network. AT&T and Verizon Wireless also have supported giving the D Block to public safety. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, while AT&T is awaiting regulatory approval for a $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom AG. But smaller carriers hoping to acquire more spectrum to better compete with industry powerhouses have favored a shared commercial and public safety network. A study commissioned by Sprint and T-Mobile said there were no technical barriers standing in the way of first responders having priority access on a network shared with commercial carriers. Still, a previous effort to auction the D block for shared commercial use with public safety groups failed. "There's no reason to believe it would succeed on a second go-around," Martinez said. (Reporting by Jasmin Melvin; editing by Carol Bishopric) |
| Report: Sprint to get the iPhone 5 (Appolicious) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:02 PM PDT |
| Dish Network (Investor's Business Daily) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT |
| LAPD probe threatening letter to Craig Ferguson (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:44 PM PDT LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles police are investigating a threatening letter sent to Craig Ferguson which contained a white powder that turned out to be harmless. Det. Gus Villanueva declined Tuesday to discuss the nature of the threat against the talk show host, saying only that it came in an envelope sent from overseas. Two people at CBS Television City, where "The Late Late Show" is filmed, were temporarily held in isolation after being exposed to the powder around 3 p.m. They were released after a hazardous materials team screened the powder and found it to be benign. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the agency was working with police to find out who sent the letter. |
| Exclusive: Apple readies cheaper iPhone for growth markets (Reuters) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:36 PM PDT TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Apple Inc will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardizing profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets. Asian suppliers have begun making a lower-cost version of the hot-selling smartphone with a smaller 8-gigabyte flash drive that will arrive around the same time Apple unveils its much-anticipated iPhone 5, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The world's most valuable technology company has long stuck to the higher end of a booming mobile device arena, but is now seeking out new markets to sustain the rip-roaring pace of growth that has enthralled Wall Street. It is in talks with leading Chinese carriers China Mobile Ltd and China Telecom Corp Ltd, both of which are eager to carry the device that defined the smartphone market when Apple launched it in 2007. "A lower-priced version of iPhone 4 seems to be a necessary evil at this point in the iPhone adoption cycle, especially in emerging markets where the average income of individuals is much lower," said Channing Smith, co-manager of the Capital Advisors Growth Fund, which owns Apple shares. Pat Becker, portfolio manager at Becker Capital Management, said Apple is looking to take a chunk of the market that is currently dominated by Finnish rival Nokia Oyj, which is widely expected to release a new phone running on Microsoft Corp's Windows software as early as end of the year. Nokia dominates the lower end, while Apple has so far focused only on the premium market. "Your best defense is sometimes your offense," he said. A cheaper phone risks cannibalizing Apple's premium iPhone model and pressuring margins, but the California company needs one to expand its emerging market share, analysts say. The flash drive for the 8-GB iPhone 4 is being manufactured by a South Korean company, one of the sources said on Tuesday, declining to name the company. Apple currently sources its flash drives from Japan's Toshiba Corp and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. Apple, which demands high levels of secrecy and security from suppliers and employees, would not comment. Samsung also declined comment. IPHONE 5 BY END-SEPT? The iPhone 4 was launched June 2010 in black 16-GB and 32-GB versions, with white versions added to the lineup in April. The 8-GB version is expected within weeks, the sources said. "Apple may want to push into the emerging market segment, where customers want to switch to low- to mid-end smartphones from high-end feature phones, which usually cost $150 to $200," said Yuanta Securities analyst Bonnie Chang. "But I think for an 8-GB iPhone 4, the price is hard to go below $200, so Apple will still need a completely new phone with low specifications for the emerging markets." An iPhone 4 without contract commitments now costs over $600. In addition to the launch of the smaller iPhone 4, Apple is targeting an end-September launch for the next-generation iPhone 5, one source said, confirming earlier reports on Apple follower blogsites and industry websites. The new iPhone -- which some call the iPhone 4S because of its largely identical appearance to the existing iPhone 4 -- will have a bigger touch screen, better antenna and an 8-megapixel camera, one source said. The iPhone 5's two manufacturers have been told to prepare production capacity for up to 45 million units altogether, the source said. The phone will be made by Hon Hai Precision Industries Co Ltd and Pegatron Corp, the person added. Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones in the second quarter versus an expected 17 million to 18 million, and is increasingly looking to Asia to boost future results. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said in July the company is particularly optimistic about Greater China, in which Apple includes mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. "I firmly believe that we are just scratching the surface right now," Cook said about China. "I think there is an incredible opportunity for China there." Asia-Pacific -- which accounts for about one-fifth of Apple's total revenue -- and Greater China in particular helped Apple's revenue surge 82 percent to $28.6 billion in April-June. Overall, Asia-Pacific revenue more than tripled to $6.3 billion in the quarter. (Additional reporting by Poornima Gupta in SAN FRANCISCO, Roger Tung in TAIPEI and Miyoung Kim in SEOUL; Editing by Edwin Chan and Gerald E. McCormick) |
| Android finally integrates with Chrome, Google TV (Appolicious) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:33 AM PDT |
| Facebook to build second Menlo Park campus (Digital Trends) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:11 PM PDT
Facebook, currently with a little over 1,500 employees, has been growing too big for its Palo Alto britches with 750 million users, a sharp growth in ad revenue and an expected public stock offering next year. 500 employees have already begun settling in Menlo Park—known as East Campus—this month, but it seems company doesn't think the Sun Microsystems site w Justin Murphy, a development service manager for Menlo Park, told the San Jose Mercury that Facebook plans on hitting the 3600 worker cap for East Campus by later half of 2012. The company revealed that they'll be building a West Campus which will be able to house 2,800 additional workers. West Campus will be built on a 22-acre site connected to the East Campus by a tunnel running under highway 84. The site will feature five buildings three- and four-story's tall and will have a five-story parking garage. Construction is planned for early 2013. “While the locations of the buildings and the related infrastructure have been outlined, we are still working on the final design and are excited about the potential for the site,†Facebook's Menlo Park endgame is approval for 9,400 employees, with 6,600 in East campus and the rest occupying the West Campus. The envisioned amenities include a two story projection screen in the East Campus courtyard, doctor's office, open put barbecue, laundry and a Roman and Williams styled cafe. The social networking giant hopes to gain permission to pack these thousands of workers into Menlo park by tying the permitted workforce to the number of rush hour vehicle trips coming to the site. |
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