Tag archive: Reuters

As reported by Reuters this week, 36-year-old Billy Payne Jr. and his 23-year-old girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, were both murdered after removing and blocking a woman previously on their Facebook friend's list named Jenelle Potter. The parents of an 8-month-old baby boy named Tyler where allegedly shot and killed within their own home by Marvin Enoch “Buddy” Potter Jr., the 60-year-old father of the blocked woman, as well… Read More

News agency Reuters launched a new YouTube channel on Tuesday, boosting its presence on the Google-owned video streaming website. ReutersTV forms part of YouTube’s plans, announced last October, to boost its current channel line-up with lots of new, originally produced content. The news provider says content on its YouTube channel aims to showcase “Reuters’ 3,000 award-winning journalists [while delivering] investigative journalism, concise… Read More

After the devastating crash of the Carnival Costa Concordia cruise liner on Italy's coast, relatives and friends of the survivors have been seeking information about their loved ones through social media channels like Facebook and Twitter according to a recent report from Reuters. A 22-year old British dancer by the name of Rose Metcalf used Facebook to post a cry for help while the ship was sinking. Included as a Facebook caption on a… Read More

Reported first by Reuters today, Verizon Communications is preparing a streaming service that will offer movies and television shows to customers that don't have access or currently subscribe to Verizon FiOS. While no pricing has been released for the proposed streaming package, the source told Reuters that the service would potentially launch during 2012. The programming would be limited to a couple packages of movies similar to the… Read More

Google is now allowing publishers to choose top stories to highlight within the Google News section. The new Editors' Picks section started as a Google Labs experiment last year and Google has been actively working with more than 20 major publishers on perfecting the new content feed. Publishers get to decide what stories, videos or audio clips are going to be displayed in the feed and send that information to Google with a special RSS… Read More

As speculation begins to ramp up for what Apple will roll into the next edition of its iPad tablet device, Reuters has been going to companies known to supply components for Apple products. Reuters was able to get off-the-record comments from four suppliers that they were ramping up production of products used in the current iPad, two said they're ramping up production of components for use in a new iPad, and one—just… Read More

The will-they-or-won't-they dance between AOL and Yahoo seems to be getting more complicated, with Reuters reporting that AOL is considering a “complicated series of transactions” that will see the company casting off its long-moribund dial-up business and merge its content and advertising based businesses with rival Yahoo. As with most rumors surrounding the combination of the two companies, some industry watchers believe… Read More

According to Reuters, Google is now worth more than any other media company out there with a current stock market capitalization of more than $80 billion dollars. Previous high-value companies include Time Warner which at one point was bought by AOL for $106 billion and Yahoo! which carries a current market value of $27 billion dollars. Google went public 10 months ago and had an opening stock price of $85 dollars a share,… Read More

“XM Satellite Radio is holding active discussions with wireless carriers about offering some form of its radio service on mobile phones, XM chief executive Hugh Panero said on Monday. “We have conversations that are ongoing with the carriers about going into the wireless market,” XM CEO Hugh Panero told Reuters in an interview. “They are clearly looking for content to support their platform and we are a logical… Read More

“The association threatened to abandon the open standard and called for new, cheaper digital rights management (DRM) systems, although this could mean fragmentation that would prove frustrating for consumers. The operators' complaints follow similar grumbling by manufacturers of mobile phones and consumer electronics, who told Reuters in late February that a $1 royalty per mobile device was too high a price just to protect… Read More

“TiVo's decision comes as it looks to boost growth of its more-profitable “stand-alone” users

According to Reuters, in an interview with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Sony Chief Executive Nobuyuki Idei said it would use Cell to power its next-generation game console as well as a network television that will offer functions similar to a personal computer. The Cell processor will be up to 10 times more powerful than conventional chips and able to shepherd large chunks of information through a high-speed Internet network.… Read More

“Our strategy is to get huge in DVDs and then expand into downloads,” Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings told Reuters on Friday. “When we get to 5 million or 10 million subscribers, eventually what we spend on postage becomes a prize for the movie studios.” Money saved by sending movies directly to consumers' homes via the Web could be plowed back into buying more DVD titles to meet customer orders. Read… Read More