Remember Webvan.com? A lot of people do, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone with anything nice to say about it. At the dawn of the internet retail revolution, Webvan was supposed to do for groceries what Amazon had done for books. The site failed miserably. But that's not what futurists of the year 2000 predicted for it.
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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Vh2wd31PABc/@kcampbelldollaghanNEW YORK (Reuters) - A deal between SAC Capital and U.S. prosecutors to resolve a criminal insider trading case against the firm could come in a few days, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Any potential deal between Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital and federal authorities would likely involve some admission of liability by the firm, the source said.
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both previously reported that a deal between the hedge fund and prosecutors was close and could involve a penalty of more than $1 billion (619.1 million pounds).
(Reporting by Matthew Goldstein; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
Napkin is a Mac-only app that stores and syncs its documents on iCloud, Apple's ubiquitous online service. It has no iOS version. Nothing for iPhone. Nothing for iPad. Yet, with iOS 7, you can now drill down into Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage, select Napkin, and delete any of its saved documents with a single swipe and two taps. Same holds true for other Mac-only apps, including Apple's own TextEdit.
That's both kinda cool... and kinda scary.
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"South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker got caught in the dark.
Oh my God! They killed — the lights! On Tuesday, a blackout plunged the Los Angeles-based South Park Studios into darkness, preventing this week's show from being completed — which meant for the first time in its 17-season history, the series was unable to turn in a fresh episode of "South Park" on time.
Trey Parker (co-creator of "South Park" with Matt Stone) wrote on the studio's website: "It sucks to miss an air date but after all these years of tempting fate by delivering the show last minute, I guess it was bound to happen."
The animators are known for cutting their deadlines close; they usually turn in episodes to Comedy Central with less than 24 hours before they air for the first time. The delay of a blackout meant the final touches couldn't be made to Episode 1704, "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers," so Comedy Central had to run an encore presentation of "Scott Tenorman Must Die."
"Posers" will air next Wednesday, Oct. 23, but here's a clip (includes some bleeped-out vulgarity)!
Hulu has announced that Mike Hopkins, a board member at Hulu and president of Fox Networks Group, is the company’s new CEO. Hopkins had previously been reported as the likely candidate for the role.
It’s been a bumpy year for the online TV site. Then-CEO Jason Kilar left in March and was replaced by acting CEO Andy Forssell who now, according to Hulu, is leaving the company.
Then there were rumors that the media companies that own Hulu (21st Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company, and NBC Universal) were looking to sell, though they eventually invested another $750 million instead.
In an email to the company, which was also posted on the Hulu blog, Hopkins acknowledged that things have been rough, but he wrote:
The fact is, through all the recent uncertainty not only have you kept this business together, but you’ve continued to deliver on every key performance metric. In fact, you are delivering one of the strongest years Hulu has ever seen: We expect revenues to be close to a billion dollars this year, and Hulu Plus subscribers continue to climb.
With the foundation you have built, the significant capital infusion of three quarters of a billion dollars, and our partners aligned and fully supportive of what we need to get it done, the sky is the limit for Hulu. I am looking forward to working with you all.
What does Hulu need to “get it done,” and what will it mean for Hulu users? It’s hard to say at this point, but when I brought this up with TechCrunch’s Ryan Lawler, he pointed out that Fox programming on Hulu, such as American Dad, requires a subscription to, say, DISH Network (or another supported pay-TV service) access — otherwise you wait a week. So perhaps we’ll see Hulu adopting this policy with other content providers.
Radiation is serious—especially in Japan. With the country still dealing with a nuclear disaster, people need to protect themselves.
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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/OR8bTuni6CQ/@jcondliffeWe now live in a world in which you can buy a smartphone with a curved glass screen, with Samsung’s Galaxy Round hitting South Korean stores. But, in the eyes of its creators, it’s just a prototype. Still, whack it on the shelves, eh?
According to insider sources speaking to SamMobile, the device is just being used to test both consumer interest in the technology, and the reliability of such a handset out in the real world. Only an extremely limited number of the handsets will be going on sale, and, priced at somewhere upwards of $800, it might be a bit of a tough sale regardless. It’s now looking very unlikely that this particular curved screen phone will be hitting western stores anytime soon. Still, it’s just a twisted Galaxy Note 3 without the S-Pen to begin with, so no biggie. [SamMobile]
