After a massive earthquake jolted the Himalayan region and led to killer avalanches on Saturday, a 30-member team of soldiers which had gone to peak the highest summit in the world escaped by the skin of their teeth. - Source
(Reuters) – Micro-blogging website Twitter Inc had lower-than-expected quarterly revenue, according to market data firm Selerity, which revealed the earnings numbers before the company’s scheduled announcement.
Cablevision today announced it would begin offering the Hulu Plus subscription service to its broadband customers, making it the first time Hulu has ever established a deal with a traditional pay TV provider to resell its streaming service. The move comes shortly after Cablevision also became the first pay TV provider to sell access to HBO NOW, the network’s new, over-the-top service… Read More
Twitter was supposed to be releasing its earning results after market close this afternoon — but financial intelligence firm Selerity published the numbers early. Where oh where could they have gotten that information? It appeared at first to be a leak, but as Selerity points out the earnings release was already live on Twitter’s investor relations site. (We’re not totally… Read More
Twitter announced some big moves to boost its commerce ads and sell more of them. It’s acquired commerce ads tech firm TellApart, which was formerly a big Facebook ad partner. Twitter will also now allow its ads to be bought through DoubleClick’s bid manager to help advertisers centralize their buying.
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Buried groundwater network may harbor life, offer new clues to martian habitat - Source
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Hewlett-Packard currently holds the #1 worldwide market share in servers in terms of revenue and units, so when the #1 guy stands up and makes technology and market declarations for IT, the industry should probably pay attention. This is true for what Hewlett-Packard calls “Compute”, which is the company’s take on how IT needs to be looking at servers in the future. From my vantage point, “Compute” isn’t just marketing spin because it is called a “vision”. HP is actually laying out a cogent case for what my firm and I see as a future foregone conclusion- a software defined data center (SDDC). The reality is that with today’s mobility, cloud, security and big data and tomorrow’s IoT and AI, IT can’t possibly survive with the same old approaches, and that’s the point Hewlett-Packard is making with “Compute,” additionally providing signposts and guidance along the way to help IT get there. - Source
The move will eliminate a talking point for those who criticize the league, but it means that the salaries of its executives will no longer be publicly disclosed. - Source
The gut bacteria of people who switched diets for two weeks shifted—and so did their risk for cancer. - Source
Perhaps the greatest energy trader of all-time and self-made billionaire, T. Boone Pickens, has recently said he thinks we will see $6 natural gas again. - Source
The June 5 graduation ceremony for Allen, Texas, High School will take place in its 18,000-seat, $60 million football stadium — unlike last year. - Source
