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Yahoo has reportedly made a bid to buy online video service Hulu.
The veteran media company, just days after announcing a $1.1 billion takeover of Tumblr, submitted an offer Friday morning to snatch up the popular Web and mobile streaming app for TV and movie content, according to AllThingsD.
Yahoo joins others such as Directv, Time Warner Cable, and The Chernin Group in making a play for Hulu, which is owned by Walt Disney, News Corp., and Comcast. Guggenheim Digital, which is headed by former interi [...]
Yahoo said to press play on Hulu bid
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Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Yahoo has reportedly made a bid to buy online video service Hulu.
The veteran media company, just days after announcing a $1.1 billion takeover of Tumblr, submitted an offer Friday morning to snatch up the popular Web and mobile streaming app for TV and movie content, according to AllThingsD.
Yahoo joins others such as Directv, Time Warner Cable, and The Chernin Group in making a play for Hulu, which is owned by Walt Disney, News Corp., and Comcast. Guggenheim Digital, which is headed by former interi [...]
Five climbers feared dead in Nepal
24 May 2013
Last updated at 13:30 ET
Mt Kanchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world
Five climbers who went missing earlier this week on Mount Kanchenjunga in Nepal are feared dead, officials say.
Expedition organiser Mingma Sherpa said that the five went missing possibly after an avalanche on Monday.
Tourism ministry officials say it happened as they descending from the summit of the 8,586m high mountain.
Mr Sherpa said those feared dead were from South Korea, Hungary and Nepal, and he was not optimistic of [...]
Memorial Day poppies and the woman who launched a movement
Every Memorial Day, when I run into the grocery store to pick up those last minute items for the three day weekend’s picnic, I’m met with members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) selling their poppies.
We cherish, too, the poppy red/ that grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies/that blood of heroes never dies
– “We Shall Keep the Faith” by Moina Michael
I remember as a kid that it was very common to see paper poppies being sold around Memorial Day. You could even go to the post office and purchase one [...]
Internazionale appoint Walter Mazzarri as new manager
Internazionale have appointed the former Napoli manager Walter Mazzarri as their new coach after sacking Andrea Stramaccioni following a disappointing ninth-place finish in Serie A.
“The agreement with Walter Mazzarri will last two years,” the club said in a statement.
Mazzarri left Napoli on Sunday after just under four seasons in charge having guided them to second spot.
“FC Internazionale would like to announce that the club has appointed Walter Mazzarri as the new head coach,” the club said on their website.
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New bird flu may be capable of human to human spread
By Lavinia Mo
HONG KONG |
Fri May 24, 2013 12:09pm EDT
HONG KONG (Reuters) – The new H7N9 bird flu virus can be transmitted between mammals not only via direct contact but also in airborne droplets, and may be capable of spreading from person to person, Chinese and American researchers have found.
A study published in the journal Science and presented at a briefing in Hong Kong on Friday found that three ferrets – an animal often used for research on flu – that were in the same cage as ferre [...]
Obama meets with Friedman, Ignatius
President Obama held a private meeting with top national security journalists on Thursday afternoon following his national security policy address at the National Defense University in Washington, POLITICO has learned.
Present at the meeting were Thomas Friedman, The New York Times columnist; Gerald Seib, The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau chief; Fred Hiatt, the editorial page editor of The Washington Post; David Igantius, The Washington Post columnist; Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic correspondent and Bloomberg View columni [...]
NASA Inspects Ion Engine Prototype For Asteroid-Hauling Rocket
When NASA sends a rocket out to tow an asteroid into Earth orbit, it’ll be ion propelled.
Ion propulsion engines harness magnetic fields to create thrust, instead of depending on chemical explosions the way chemically fueled engines do. NASA engineers are developing such an engine for the agency’s plans to bring an asteroid into Earth’s orbit and then send astronauts there to study it. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden went to see a prototype engine yesterday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California [...]
Google advertising under investigation in US
The US federal trade commission is investigating whether Google’s DoubleClick advertising subsidiary has illegally pushed customers to buy its other products, the Guardian has established.
The regulator is understood to be looking at whether the display advertiser, acquired by Google in 2008 for $3.1bn (£2bn), is being used to muscle clients into buying adverts on other Google advertising properties such as its text-based AdSense. That could constitute “tying”, which is illegal under antitrust law.
FTC spokesman Peter Ka [...]
Guatemala extradites ex-leader to US
24 May 2013
Last updated at 15:19 ET
The former president told reporters the law had been violated in the case against him
Guatemala’s former President Alfonso Portillo has been flown to the United States to face corruption charges.
Mr Portillo is accused of having used US banks to launder more than $70m (£46m) in public funds during his presidency, between 2000 and 2004.
He told local radio he was being unjustly “kidnapped” before boarding a plane to New York.
Mr Portillo had been fighting extraditio [...]
Investors consider life after Fed stimulus
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The bull market hit a speed bump this week as investors begin to consider what life will be like when the Federal Reserve starts to taper off its long-standing asset purchasing program.
The Dow Jones industrial average was little changed less than an hour before the closing bell. The SP 500 and the Nasdaq were slightly lower.
But all three U.S. indexes are on pace to close out the week in the red, snapping a four-week winning streak. Trading volume was light Friday, ahead of the Memorial Day Holiday. U.S [...]
Person familiar with the decision tells AP Jets RB Goodson will return, practice Tuesda...
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – A person familiar with the situation tells the Associated Press that Jets running back Mike Goodson is expected to return to practice Tuesday despite his legal troubles.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because the team hasn’t announced anything regarding Goodson’s status. He missed the Jets’ first three Organized Team Activity practices this week after being arrested last Friday on multiple charges of drug and weapons possession. He offered a plea of not guilty to all charges Wedn [...]
Obama: Assaults hurt effectiveness
President Barack Obama said Friday that as Americans’ trust in major institutions wavers, it’s the responsibility of each person serving the country to act with integrity, even when no one else is looking.
“It’s no secret that many Americans have lost confidence in many of the institutions that have helped shape our society and our democracy,” he told the graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy during a rain-soaked speech in Annapolis, Md. “But I’m here to stress to you that institutions do not fail in a vacuum. Institutions are made up of pe [...]