Facebook unveils a 'Reader' as a possible new bid mobile project

The social network has been working on an application like Flipboard that allows users to add news from multiple sources.

With the implementation of an increasingly mobile Internet, Facebook is under pressure to increase its services and advertising on mobile devices.

Last April the company of Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook Home, a new user interface developed for Android phones, in order to help the company to increase revenue from their advertising space in this ecosystem.

Now The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the social network takes more than one year working on a fix, internally called 'Reader', to display the contents of the users of Facebook and other editors in a new visual format —a kind of homegrown - news service through mobile devices.

As noted by the American newspaper, the new development resembles Flipboard, the popular application of smartphones and tablets that allows users to read news aggregated from multiple sources.

Like Twitter, Facebook users often share news of breaking with their contacts and this new service could attract a large number of followers to the social network.

It is not clear if the so-called 'Reader 'project will be launched or will be as a mere investigation, but yes reinforces what the new identity that wants to adopt Facebook, trying to get to corner the market of mobile users and that they spend more and more time on it.

This effort is critical for Facebook, already that need to activate their stock price that held 35% below since it faced its initial public offer (IPO).

The Board of Directors of Dell returns to show his refusal to Carl Icahn offer

The members of the Board of Directors of Dell considered that the proposal of the popular Investor Carl Icahn to buy your company lack credibility.

The aforementioned Council has indicated in a letter to the Commission of the market of values of United States (SEC), which Icahn has not yet shown as carry out an operation of such magnitude, but neither has explained how will be the management of the same.

In that regard, the Council believes that it has not been able to achieve the necessary financing for the project nor has rinse where you will get the money to make it reality.

The document also criticizes the inconsistency shown by Icahn in its proposal, and is known from the Board of Dell, they are willing to negotiate with other potential candidates that offer a more consistent supply.

Icahn, who last week joined the universe of Twitter by opening its own profile, is opposed to plans of Michael Dell privatize the company since you prefer that this follow trading on stock exchange.

A second airline for Larry Ellison?

The objective of the management of Oracle seems to be becoming a magnate of the tourist market, where it began its investments in June 2012.

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, increased his fortune. Last March in the ranking of the magazine Forbes, Ellison, of 68 years, appeared as the fifth richest man of the world and the third richest American, with a net worth of 43,000 million dollars.

On the other hand, another report has revealed that in 2012 the Executive was the highest-paid us.UU. with an income of $ 94.6 million.

Now the billionaire CEO of Oracle seems to be interested in the acquisition of a second airline in Hawaii after having acquired in February Island Aircompany, which has seven aircraft and offers direct flights to the island of Lanai from Honolulu.

Ellison in Hawaii tourism investments , aiming to become a tycoon of this market, began in June 2012.

On that date Ellison bought 98% of the island of Lanai, the sixth largest Hawaiian with an area of 365 km2, billionaire David Murdock. Then the Executive declared that his intention was to convert the island into a "laboratory" for the green life.

Their plans seem to complete now with a new purchase, the company Phoenix Mesa Air Group, parent company of inter-island airline in Hawaii, and become the second airline in the archipelago, according to Reuters.

The airline has 40 flights a day through a fleet of five CRJ-200 jets.

"We are committed to the construction of a regional airline strong and for this process we are studying all options, including conversations with Mesa Air," it said in a statement Paul Casey, CEO of Island Air.

Vodafone offers 7.7 billion euros the German Kabel Deutschland

The offer, 87 euros per share, is higher than estimated and has been welcomed by the Board of the German operator.

Important movement in the European telecom landscape. The group Vodafone has made an offer of 7.7 billion euros to acquire the main German cable operator Kabel Deutschland.

British Telecom has confirmed the offer through a statement published on its website official.

The offer, 87 euros per share, is higher than expected and has been welcomed by the Board of the German operator, which has recommended acceptance of the offer to its shareholders. Bloomberg has recently estimated that the value of the German is 7,000 million euros.

Carry out the operation, absorption would entail the creation of an integrated communications giant with revenues exceeding 11,500 billion of euros.

The teleco stands out also for cost savings (a total of 300 million euro) that will result of the acquisition, since the existing synergies that have to operate in the country would be avoided.

Complete, Vodafone would significantly increase the burden on the country with a large customer base (32.4 million in mobile, 5 million in broadband services and 7.6 million TV customers).

Western Digital buy sTec to continue growing in the market of SSD hard drives

The American producer of hard disks Western Digital has reached an agreement to buy its rival Stec for 340 million dollars, in a deal that will allow you to increase your market share.

sTec is a veteran California specializing in Flash drives (SSD) who was born in 1990, and in recent years is mired in a crisis because of the advance of companies like the own Western Digital, Seagate or Fusion-io, the current market leader.

In addition, sTec last year suffered a scandal when it was discovered that its co-founder and CEO Manouch'k Moshayedi, who founded the company along with his brother Mike, he had used inside information to profit in the stock market.

For Western Digital purchase lets you focus in disks SSD, a business with a future and growth, in contrast to traditional hard drives.

The offer made from Western Digital amounts to the 6.85 dollars per share, which is equivalent to 91% of the closing share price last Friday.

Finally, should be noted that it is expected that the operation will occur during the third or fourth quarter of this year 2013.

The market of PCs, tablets and smartphones will grow 6% in 2013

Combination of PCs, tablets and smartphones sales worldwide will remain upward in the next two years.

According to estimates of the prestigious Gartner Consulting, in 2013 the growth will be 6% to a total of 2,350 million devices.

Is expected that PC marketing fall to 10.6% in 2013. Or sales ultrabooks, nor Chromebooks, nor of devices with Windows 8 will help to increase sales in an industry that will remain in the doldrums. The fall will mitigate thanks to shipments of ultra-light devices against the PC classics.

The consumerist emphasis will move to mobile devices. The Tablet shipments will grow a 67.9% to 202 million units, while the mobile market will grow by 4.3% to 1.8 billion units (between smartphones and mobile phones).

In terms of operating systems, Android will continue to dominate the global picture. It OS from Google will double its presence between 2012 and 2014.

"The presence of Apple is the more homogeneous", indicate analysts after the report. The presence of Android brings together 90% of mobile phones and Microsoft in 85% of the PC market.

The number of phishing attacks doubled in the last year

E-mail is no longer the most common mechanism; 88% of the cases comes from links via browser or messaging systems.

The phishing attacks have increased 87% over the past 12 months, moving from the 19.9 million to 37.3 million.

They are striking data which presented the report the evolution of attacks phighing from 2011 to 2013 prepared by Kasperksy Russian security firm. This technique, formerly considered to be a subset of spam is now an own ciberamenaza. "Phishing is not only a tool [...] for the illicit enrichment of cybercriminals, but it represents a significant and visible threat,"says Nikita Shvetsov, the Director of research of Kaspersky in a statement.

30% Of all reported incidents have been through Yahoo!, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Most were conducted in Russia, USA, India, Viet Nam and the UK.

The technique lies in the creation of a false copy of a popular site. Cybercriminals gather the information of the users, who used to send email spam, sell stolen passwords or databases to steal money, if that is duplicated is a banking site. American Express, PayPal, Xbox Live and Twitter are among the 30 most attacked sites.

The report warns that the email is not the most common mechanism to carry out these attacks; the 88% of cases comes from links via browser or messaging systems like Skype.

The ' economica´ of the iPhone version will continue to have a high price

While it was rumored that Apple bet on an iPhone that clunker dramatically its price on the current models, in Taiwan they explained will not exactly so.

T.H. Tung, CEO of the Taiwanese manufacturer Pegatron, has revealed to el cheap iPhone coming soon will not be as cheap as it comes speculating.

To Tung that is because it is not good to take the connotation of cheap since it would ruin the reputation and sales of the models of the iPhone, report on TechEye.

It's a phone that is expected to come with covers of multiple colors, and that it will have numerous functions of mobile high-end with a price of between 350 and 400 dollars, a quantity that is a disappointment to users who hoped that it would be much more affordable.

Experts remind us that while expected a more competitive price, Apple has opted not too lower price to avoid losing image, already placing it at a disadvantage compared to alternatives such as the 4, Nexus which are more economical.

Steve Ballmer could begin the restructuring of Microsoft on July 1

The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has in mind to make major corporate changes that could result in dismissal of part of the template.

At the moment the Executive has chosen to not air their plans too and many senior veterans of Microsoft are afraid to be dismissed.

Apparently, Ballmer only trust and consult their positions with few chosen team and part of the Board of Directors.

Among the changes that podrian take place on 1 July and envelope which has been talking about since early June, charged too much force the outputs of some managers to occur, as it has learned people from AllThingsD.

In addition, there will be senior executives expected to receive promotions and pass to positions of greater responsibility, and it is rumored that some divisions of business could integrate into new ones or become part of some already existing.

On the web The Verge added that the strategy devised by Microsoft seeks joint operating systems Windows and Windows Phone consolidation and make it easier to make that applications can run on both platforms.

ICT Giants pushing for declassified information from the PRISM case

The EU evaluates to reconsider diplomatic relations with us.UU amid allegations of espionage to Community citizens.

The PRISM program espionage and wiretaps by U.S. citizens has led to technology giants involved to clarify its position on this issue after demand transparency from the Administration.

Throughout the week the information has gone out little by little and begin to shuffle clear numbers on the volume affected by the transfer of data from the companies to the authorities.

Facebook and Microsoft have been the first to announce the scope of the requests made to them by the Government and in all cases the figures are surprising.

In the last 6 months of 2012 Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests of data that involved a total of between 18,000 and 19,000 users. Microsoft has stated that during the second half of 2012 was between 6,000 and 7,000 petitions that adversely affected between 31,000 and 32,000 customer accounts.

From the December 1, 2012 until the 31 May 2013 Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests that committed to between 9,000 and 10,000 customers and the latest company to join give information has been Yahoo.

In your case, the data correspond to requests carried out between December 1, 2012 and on 31 May 2013, period in which accumulated between 12,000 and 13,000 Government demands of information for the sake of national security.

There are still to be known numbers from giants like Google in this national scandal and who has crossed borders.

Without going any further, the EU evaluates to reconsider diplomatic relations with the us.UU amid accusations that espionage under the PRISM program also has been conducted with European citizens.

The bloc of 27 studies measures although some countries try to approach it as a national opportunity.

This is the case of France, as ZDNet, where the French Minister for innovation and digital economy, Fleur Pellerin, said that if PRISM turns out to be true is relevant to locate data centers and servers in national territory "in order to ensure greater security of data".

Microsoft Spain: "flexible working is part of our company culture"

GALLERY. Microsoft has today staged its flexible work policy, and has done so in Madrid, on the occasion of the day of the Home Office.

Only 13.2% of Spanish companies has implemented a policy of flexible work. Microsoft Spain is one of them. Taking advantage of the celebration of the day of the Home Office, the company has shown the benefits of this strategy that works for 10 years.

The Central Nuevos Ministerios metro station Esplanade has welcomed during the morning part of the template of Microsoft Spain. A facility with sofas and umbrellas to protect themselves from the hot day has accommodated to the employees of the company.

The most curious people who approached to ask about what is celebrating just they have disturbed the concentration of workers who answered emails, made conference calls and there same team meetings. The Spanish division of software giant has sought to demonstrate that you can work from anywhere.

Microsoft has introduced its model of flexible working from a decade ago. "Every employee knows what are the results that must be getting and how we get so decides the employee", says the head of human resources, Blanca Gomez.

Flexible work is the opposite of a culture's presence. Microsoft wants employees to choose the optimum place to perform each task. "For work requiring concentration can you go to the library or do it from home," says Gomez, "the Office, our meeting place we have to work with others".

The essence lies in not putting barriers of any kind.Anyone who wants to go on a daily basis to the Office, you can do it. You won't have that objections will not pass in a month.

"The vast majority choose a hybrid system," says Gomez.

For employees who have worked today from the central Madrid square, flexibility means freedom and productivity. Silicon News explained "the good vibes" that exists between them due to this method of work. "You can go to find the kids to school and getting in the best way," indicates one of them.

To the question of whether so much freedom can become against of the company in terms of productivity, the head of HR is emphatic. "They do not abuse because they appreciate it," he says.

The secret, says, is not radicalize positions. "Flexible working is part of our corporate culture," he concludes.

The main values of the Nasdaq end week in red

With the exception of cases such as that of Facebook and Adobe, most of the great values of the Nasdaq have yielded significant losses this week.

For Apple is bad news on the Nasdaq, as value down 4.41% from Monday and on Friday day loses 1.33% which makes down the actions to the $411,30.

BlackBerry does not get rid of the red numbers and descends a 4.74% in the weekly jackpot. 1 Hour from the close on Friday their qualifications navigate in 13,79 dollars which is equivalent to a cut of 1.36%.

Microsoft has good news. -3.43% in the jackpot of the week and Friday March with a - 0.87% and the value in the $33,20.

Oracle, who yesterday presented results flat and announced their transfer from Nasdaq to the NYSE, is without a doubt the great victim of the week fell by 10.33% from Monday. The big drop came on Friday, day in it has been an 8.79% that puts their actions $3,29.

Analyzing Intel, can be seen as processors falls a 3.21%company these five days and on Friday obtained a - 0.29%, which reduces the value to the $24,11.

Yahoo also points to the red with losses accumulated since Monday of 4.03%, and on Friday the drop is 0.22% that calls down to the value to the 25.24 dollars.

In the case of Google, the Mountain View company started very well week but yesterday it suffered a dramatic downturn which has lose a 0.27% and makes the close on Friday, it lost a 0.66% and marche in the $878,89.

For Dell, the descent is gentle, since declining 0.45% in the past five days and Friday marks a slight down 0.19% that the actions to the 13.34 dollars.

On the other hand, Facebook is of the few given a joy this week to the increase its value a 2.90% and rise a 1.77% on Friday, which means that you actions are left in 24,32 dollars

Adobe climbs 4.01% this week after he published a few decent results thanks to the good financial March of its services in the cloud. That Yes, Friday March in negative to record a decline in the drop of 0.99% who leave the value in the 44.45 dollars.

HP says that it continues to promote strong r & d

HP Spain wished to make it clear that your company continues to promote strong innovation and development as one of the fundamental drivers of their business strategy.

While a few days ago spoke of descended there HP interest in innovation in recent years, the company responded indicating that r & d is one of the pillars.

To carry out their policies in the field of innovation, the company has known as HP Labs, from which is investigated in a way continues on trends and products that will be launched to the market.

In addition, HP highlights that in those laboratories "working very closely with our various business units to move to real applications throughout the company, innovative power especially in those areas that are key to our clients and to society".

In relation to investment in r & d, in the case of HP Spain this amounts to 60 million dollars (45 million euros), while at global level of $ 3.4 billion.

The Californian company has identified that they understand than "the value of r & d is not temporary" and should be kept as an essential part of their investment strategy.

Is also important to highlight at the national level that the company is founder and form part of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation I + E (Innovation Spain), body representing 40,000 employees of innovative multinational whose activities involve 200 million euros in r & d.

Finally, HP have confirmed SiliconNews that van "to continue to have substantial investments in r & d in the future to provide a continuous stream of innovative products and services and high quality in order to maintain and improve our competitive position".

The law Sinde should have been more effective to protect the culture

The former Minister of culture, Ángeles González Sinde, welcomes the decision of the Supreme validate the power that has given law but says that it should have led to a situation better.

The Court's decision the Supreme validate the power given by the law Sinde Administration to close websites welcomes to the former Minister of culture, Ángeles González Sinde.

Sinde has stated that he never fit "no doubt" of that standard was adjusted to "the law" and to "the Constitution".

Nonetheless said that it should have been more "ambitious and effective, and have led to a much better situation than we now have, to an economic landscape for the culture much better".

After being approved in 2011, the former Minister has described the application of the law today "little", although he has stated to feel satisfied to know that the Government has a "initiative to reform it".

Last March, Ignacio Wert, Minister of education, culture and sport, announced details of the new Law Lassalle posed a tougher reform of the law Sinde.

The changes that arise on the current text, and which will be the reinforcement of the work of the Commission on intellectual property, revolve around that notifications may be made in a way telematics, will include a broader works catalogue, greater control and transparency of management companies, and adaptation to the reality of digital private copying.

With this new step, recently to Spain has become you to delete from the list of permissive countries with piracy.

The international intellectual property Alliance (IIPA) announced that our country had not shown a positive in 2012 development and again raised its incorporation to the 301 list of Nations that do not respect intellectual property.

The theft of personal data is concerned about more than half of Spaniards

80% Of respondents shows great concern against possible security failures in sectors sensitive such as banking, public administration or hospitals.

Security the biggest concern of Spaniards remains to be victims of theft of personal information for fraudulent purposes. Thus a 54% of respondents said it by Unisys in its latest report.

This represents an increase of 8 per cent concern with respect to the results of last year.

According to the latest Safety index, Unisys, 65% of the users who participated in the research said be worried specifically by the theft and fraud with credit and debit cards.

Spain ranks among the countries hosting the most phishing websites, where cybercriminals engaged in phishing activities mainly focus on theft of bank details of Internet users.

Ana Rubio, President of Unisys Spain, has stated that "citizens should be cautious when making any operations with credit cards, either physically or online, but are the public institutions and the private sector who must ultimately ensure the safety of online transactions".

On the other hand, 80% of respondents has shown to feel concern for a possible security flaw in sectors such as banking, public administration, health organizations, telecommunications providers, airlines and hotels.

The truth is that the Trojans, malware and other computer hazards involving the theft of information for users and businesses have increased exponentially in the market.

Samsung loses again its patent battle with Apple in Japan

A Tokyo Court has pointed out that Samsung Electronics has infringed a patent for its rival Apple in some older models of their smartphones.

In particular, Apple accused Samsung of having infringed the patent on the "bounce-back" function that allows users with tasks such as return to the starting point when they move through an electronic document.

Finally, Japanese Justice has decided to give the reason Apple but still the punishment he will have to face the people of Samsung has not been leaked.

Also should remember that you to avoid problems, the South Korean brand already solved the issue in the latest models that presented and inserted a blue line that appears at the end of your documents instead of the controversial icon.

The truth is that This is not the first battle that lost against Apple in Japan, Samsung already that the Cupertino company achieved that give you the reason to their allegations that the Galaxy S phones, Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S II violated its patent for synchronization.

Microsoft and Oracle announced an Alliance on Monday

The Oracle CEO has already anticipated that there will be major agreements with major companies SaaS and Cloud next week.

An event for Monday anticipated evidence: Microsoft and Oracle will announce an Alliance on the Cloud.

The equation is simple, simply review the list of attendees: the meeting will be held with the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, and the head of Cloud in Redmond, Satya Nadella. It will also Mark Hurd, President of Oracle and Ellison right hand.

Larry Ellison said recently that next week there will be announcements of alanzas with "the largest and most important companies SaaS and companies infrastructure in the cloud", as explained by Business Insider.The event will be held days before the annual Microsoft Developer Conference.

Oracle has just presented its latest financial results . The company has registered flat growth in the last year and its sales in software They are slowing down. The company needs a boost to win the battle to players like Salesforce.com.

Stupid questions in job interviews Google wasn't for nothing

A Google executive says that the brainy puzzles posed only served to make the interviewer feel intelligent.

How many golf balls entering an aircraft? How long take you clean all the Windows in Seattle? These were some of the questions that Google made to candidates to work in your company.

The ordeals of selection of Mountain View with these complicated puzzles soon pierced borders, giving rise to all kinds of comments and criticisms of potential employees who stayed on the road.

Years later, the Vice President of Google staff said that estos brainy puzzles are "a complete waste of time", to the same quepedir you average grades at the University.

Laszlo Bock, in an interview with The New York Times believes that "not predicted anything" and that only serve to "make feel smart to the interviewer".

Google now has another strategy of hiring, which consists in making interviews related to the behavior of the candidates. You are being asked to tell how they have performed in certain situations and delve into this.

The information obtained is more valuable, says Bock, as you can learn about the way in which they interact in a real situation and also obtained additional data on the personal considerations of each candidate.

The hiring of employees who are not graduates grew up in Google, explains the Executive."We have teams where 14% has not never gone to College,"says.

The ICT industry is still having a balanced presence of women

The CTO of Cisco has highlighted the difficulties that women still in this sector, dominated by men, to gain access to senior managers.

The women in the technology industry continue to be a large minority.

In the latest ranking of Fortune 500, the list that contains the 500 largest U.S. companies, appear only 21 women who hold the post of CEO.

Other data presented recently corroborate these low figures. According to the National Center for women and information technology from us.UU. (NCWIT), women represent only 14% of the posts of senior management work in Silicon Valley startups.

In general, only 23% of the workers in positions related to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are women, in accordance with the initiative to national Math + Science (NMSI).

The Technical Director (CTO) of Cisco, Padmasree Warrior, is one of the few that stands out among the high profiles of technology and one of the most influential people in the industry.

But even she found it difficult to enter in the ICT industry, dominated by men, when he began his career.

"When I started working we were only a group of women in the sector," said in a post published on the corporate blog of Cisco.

The directive has pointed out that there is no shortage of jobs in science, technology, engineering or mathematics and are very well paid positions. There is a lack of representation of women in these jobs.

Earlier this week the CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, has been recognized as one of the 100 most outstanding inside between the STEM subjects CEO, granted by the STEMconnector organization.

However, only 18 of the 100 senior executives recognized were women, another fact that Warrior has highlighted how "disappointing".

Marissa Mayer claimed the bet by the video launched by Yahoo

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, advocates the implementation of a strategy for your company that have an important video content.

The directive said at a forum organized by Reuters that the online video business is growing much, forcing Yahoo to work toward increasing its presence in that field.

In that sense, Yahoo has been in recent months trying to buy any company in the sector without any operation when you reach fruition.

The best placed to integrate portfolio of the Californian company Dailymotion, it seemed but the operation collapsed by the refusal of the French Government to the same.

Now, Hulu appears to be the main priority for Mayer, but for now it is unknown as the negotiations on the operation are.

Next to this desire to buy one of the large sector of streaming videos, Yahoo not neglected the field of television programs , and has agreements for the issuance of content as the reality show "Burning Love" or the Saturday Night Live television show.

Nor can forget that Mayer has implemented redesigns in its e-mail service and home of its portal website, as well as the recent purchase of the popular service Tumblr blogs.

The leader has also commented that his biggest challenge for the future is to achieve to increase the traffic of their services, since that will mean improving its economy, and it has insisted that for Yahoo has a high importance the section on advertising revenues.

Facebook surpasses one million advertisers

Google reached one million advertisers in 2007. It is estimated that now have more than 2.5 million members.

Mark Zuckerberga company has just reached a new milestone.already has one million advertisers.

The social platform has become in a high demand channel for small and medium-sized enterprises. Its scope, with more than 1,100 million active users, makes him become one of the favorite sites to reach end users.

The company has thanked advertisers its confidence through a post on his official website.

It is good news, that ensures the continuity of income from Facebook and that confirms their ability to monetization, commissioning juico fabric so many times.

The company of Zuckerberg is still far from Google. The Mountain View giant it reached one million advertisers in 2007, as indicated by Forbes. Since then it has not made additional information in this regard. Estimates point to more than 2.5 million from advertisers.

Be that as it may, one million Facebook advertisers indicates that Zuckerberg signed has been successful in attracting local businesses.The formula that raises them like between small and medium-sized enterprises, above all by the local component that allows targetizar your messages.

The good news was noted, although shy way, in the price of Facebook that closed markets slightly above the opening.The value of securities is now 24,21 dollars per share.

The cloud services remain strong for Adobe

Financial results for the second quarter for Adobe have meant an income higher than the predicted on the part of Wall Street analysts.

In total, Adobe entered 1.011 billion dollars, some data similar to the forecasts of the experts, but instead the earnings per share were slightly higher than expected, since they arrived at the 36 cents when there was talk that it would be in the 34 cents.

Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe has indicated that the results reflect the pexposure of leadership of your company in the field of digital marketing and digital media.

Also, the Executive explained that their "Creative Cloud" cloud services represent a revolution to the creation process, and pointed out that increasingly companies, brands and advertising agencies use your "Adobe Marketing Cloud" platform.

In the case of "Creative Cloud", the company can boast of having more than 700,000 subscribers, implying an increase of 479.000 on the data recorded during the first three months of 2013.

In addition, hope that the success of that service continues, and at the end of 2012 the number of subscribers is above the 1.25 million.

For its part, "Marketing Cloud" also presents good data since this area has been for Adobe 229,9 millions of dollars in revenue.

Yahoo! puts the eye in two new startups

The goal would be to incorporate the templates of both companies to mobile developments and service of Yahoo searches.

The CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, is trying to recruit new talent, entrepreneurs engineers and product managers that enable the company to become a leader in the industry.

To do this, one of the tactics that the Executive is using is to buy startups in order to hire employees.

As Business Insiderreports, Yahoo is doing a new manoeuvre in its procurement plan and just put on the table an offer to make with two startups more.

On the one hand, the Internet giant has presented a proposal of between 30 and 40 million dollars for the company Xobni, which has address book applications that have not proved to be very popular.

The goal of Yahoo with this purchase is probably the Xobni team to work on mobile versions of Yahoo Mail.

On the other hand, the manufacturer wants to buy the startup Qwiki, of New York, for $ 50 million.

Qwiki has developed a technology that makes the web videos in search results and your template could instill good ideas to improve the results of searches from Yahoo, now that the company has turned in the user interface innovation.

So far year, Marissa Mayer has completed about a dozen acquisitions of this type in its intention to renew Yahoo.

Los Angeles schools reach an agreement with Apple

The school district of the city of Los Angeles has launched a program that will involve lead Apple tablets to 1,087 schools of the city.

In total, there is a budget of 30 million dollars and it has been confirmed that the program in the first phase you will arrive at 47 schools in Los Angeles and later enjoy also in other centres.

Each iPad sold by Apple commercials to schools will offer 3 years warranty, and will have a cost of $ 678 per unit, and it is known that mobile devices will bring educational software pre-installed.

As to other alternatives to the Apple device known Los Angeles students may acquire portable Chromebooks from 249 euros each unit, reported in VentureBeat.

In relation to the Apple contract, from the district's schools have pointed out that it is a long-term agreement that will also allow students, teachers and employees of the schools, testing devices that is able to correct the deficiencies detected.

Google shuffles the possibility of having for its upcoming financial operations venture capital firms

Google wants to continue making major investments from technology companies purchase and considering allying with venture capital companies to obtain the necessary financing.

Don Harrison, director of the area of mergers and acquisitions of Google, has confirmed to Bloomberg that his company could invest for economic performance, and others in order to acquire any asset that is interesting to them.

In this scenario, the Mountain View company is considering for the first time the possibility of relying on venture capital firms to help them finance their operations.

In addition, desire that these firms offer once they end operations, professional advice in such a way that they serve as support if the acquired company needs a restructuring.

Harrison also wanted to highlight that purchases that you make from Google will be designed to add any product to its portfolio, and will have the Mission of ensure that users are increasingly "attached" to their online services.

The official revealed that before you buy a company, Google wonder if it offers a service that used the Internet once or twice a day, and if it helps to solve a problem.

That line has been the recent Waze according to Harrison, will serve to improve the Google Maps service and make it more accurate in its indications.

Finally, Harrison has commented that although they take into account the price before you buy a company, they are willing to pay a high amount if it is a product that presents important signs of growth.

Can afford it Huawei buy Nokia?

An estimate calculated from the number of shares on the market puts the capitalization of Nokia around 14,400 million dollars.

A few statements from the CEO of Huawei revolutionized the ICT industry late in the day yesterday. The "open mind" of the Chinese company to carry out a possible acquisition of the giant Nokia caused all kinds of reactions.

The first, and the most immediate was that of the own Huawei, whose head of Foreign Affairs corrected statements of the head of consumption, denying any plan to acquire the Finnish company.

Nokia remains silent, fueling rumors about the existence of negotiations.

One estimate puts its capitalization around 14,400 million dollars. should Huawei can be allowed a similar weight movement?

Huawei joined in 2012 a total of $ 35.353 million and reported $ 3.204 billion operating profit. The availability of cash and short-term investments amounted to 11.503 billion dollars, according to data from 2012.

The purchase of the Nokia mobile phone division would be more feasible than the absorption of all the historical.

What seems clear is that the movement would open the European and American market to Huawei. After the publication of the report of the U.S. Senate on suspicious activities related to espionage, the ambitious Chinese giant seek way of earning industry.

Cisco Systems is expected to increase its operations in Israel

The technology company Cisco Systems will invest $ 15 million in venture capital funds in Israel, a measure that seeks to increase its operations outside the United States.

The technology company Cisco Systems will invest $ 15 million in Israel, venture capital funds a measure that seeks to increase its operations outside the United States.

In particular, it is funds that support integration between Arabs and Israelites and bet by the development of innovative technologies in the field of security.

In that regard, since Cisco will fund research in technologies of security online, as well as one that affects health, industrial and financial sectors.

Likewise, the American company it is forming a network of specialised security consultants and are selecting 100 employees who will join the 2,000 that already has on its staff in Israel.

Cisco last year bought the israeli company NDS, dedicated to producing cards for pay television by vision, by an amount of $ 5 billion.

John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, said that Israel is a power in terms of startups and pointed out that it will be the first country that will be 100% digital thanks to a project to create a fiber optic network super fast which could be ready in less than 3 years, and that his company will provide $ 140 million.

The leader also defended China and United States should be those who take to the world of the crisis, now that their wellbeing depend on other countries.

Finally, Chambers has explained that he will continue most of their investments outside the United States, since your country has high taxes.

Microsoft releases 2 million PCs infected

The joint operation of the FBI, Microsoft and officials from 80 countries who communicate earlier this month is being successful, according to the Redmond.

The joint operation of the FBI, Microsoft and authorities in more than 80 countries around the world has managed to pull a major organization cibercriminal.

As already it was published a few weeks ago, is credited with the theft of a total of $ 500 million from banks and have infected to carry out atrocities million PCs around the world.

"Have released 2 million PCs globally", estimated Richard Domingues Boscovich of the crimes, Microsoft digital unit, Reuters were the majority of the infected PC in the U.S., Europe and Hong Kong.

Maggots were used to steal large amounts of money into financial institutions such as Bank of America and Credit Suisse, according to Microsoft, which has dismissed the successful operation.

It is still working in the massive identification of persons after the robbery and the possible existence of more active botnets.

Soria urges opting to ICT to boost the reindustrialization in Spain

The Minister of industry, energy and tourism has today inaugurated the event promoting SMEs in Madrid.

The Minister of industry, energy and tourism, José Manuel Soria, has been commissioned to inaugurate the meeting promoting SMEs today in Madrid.

Soria, who has been presented as "the Minister of SMEs" has done a review to the national reform Plan which has set up the Executive of Mariano Rajoy and pointed out that the economic trend goes in the right direction.

The Minister has defended the need to create the appropriate framework for investment, to make this growth and creation of employment later. Especially concerned about the fall of industrial weight in Spain; 20% in 2000 to 15% today, in terms of gross value added.

"Only with tourism not can generate employment", said Soria. You need a solid plan of re-industrialization, which will have a main character that will protrude from the rest: the ICT sector. He pointed to technologies such as Cloud Computing, they generate large profit margins.

The event promoting SMEs is being developed since the beginning of the year through 12 meetings in 12 Spanish cities. The aim is to promote contact between SMEs and companies driving experts.

The meetings are component of a series of talks are to small and medium-sized enterprises the main trends which adhere, the way to save costs and increase productivity or how to reach potential customers.

Representatives of Microsoft, post, Endesa or Philips have been uploaded onto the stage in Madrid to share experiences and advice to the audience.

The 'Internet of Everything' will generate 613.000 million dollars in 2013

Apart from the geographical location or size, companies that adapt faster to the trend will be people who win the race.

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is the term that Cisco uses to refer to the interconnection between people, processes, objects and the resulting value that everything is connected to the network.

The implementation is transforming information into actions that generate new capabilities and most complete experiences.

According to a study made by the own Cisco, this concept will generate 613.00 million in benefits by 2013. United States, China and Germany are countries who will benefit more from this business opportunity.

" Success does not depend on the geographical situation or the size of the companies, but the capacity to adapt more quickly", suggests Rob Lloyd, President of sales and development of the company, in a statement.

The speed of adaptation refers to investment in infrastructure, the adoption of practices that allow the participation of employees and the design of strategies for information management.

Interviewed by Cisco business leaders believe that the impact of the IoE will be noted in employment and the security of the information.

69% Of business leaders consulted believe that the labor market will remain static or improve the impact of the IoE. The 59% believe that their arrival will improve safety.

Nerves in the shareholders of ARM by the reception of Mobile Intel chips

The good start of Intel in the mobile telephony market awakens the uncertainty of investors and analysts with respect to ARM.

Intel has begun to put pressure on ARM from several areas. Now that the chip giant has turned its strategy betting on the mobile market, ARM investors are worried.

The news that Samsung opted for Intel front ARM to supply processors to its new tablets has led to the shares of the company to a spiral downward since early June.

So far, ARM had practically free way in the mobile field, but the arrival of processors Core next-generation from Intel, with remarkable energy saving benefits, draws a very different scenario for the British company.

As ZDNet, while ARM had great expectations pinned on strengthen its reach in the segment of mobile platform Microsoft Windows RT hand tablets, the truth is that this still has not had a good reception among consumers and enterprise customers.

Analysts at Bernstein Research have pointed to "a lot of evidence with respect to that with their current products Intel is a strong competition against ARM"and have been concerned about the prospects of the British holding company.

Almost 130,000 mobile lines less in April

Spain continues to fall month-to-month in mobile phone users mainly by the loss of prepaid lines.

During the month of April, and for the first time in history, the alternative operators (MVNO) were the only ones who won mobile lines, 219.297 more, while other companies experienced losses.

The latest data from the telecommunications market Commission (CMT), released today, are running during that month Movistar lost 214.059 lines; Vodafone, 107.210; Orange recorded a decline of 15.467; and Telstra of 12.307.

In total, nearly 130,000 mobile lines became extinct in April.

Again, the cause of the decline was basically the collapse in the number of prepaid lines. The fall was set exactly in 129.746 lines less (76.982 lines and 52.764 datacards).

In short, the month was closed with 52,05 million mobile lines and a proportion of 112.7 lines per 100 inhabitants (if mobile lines and datacards are computed).

In addition, mobile portability marked a new record with 560.361 exchanges, 66.2% more than in the same period of the previous year.

April was the fifth month straight with figures of portability which exceeded half a million monthly exchanges. Thus, in the period from December to April, nearly 3 million customers changed their company.

Moreover, as a counterpoint, broadband continued to register a positive and upward trend, and added 42.550 lines to the market during the month of April.

According to the new report by the CMT, the uptake of broadband lines was also led by alternative operators, with 33.688 lines, followed by Telefonica which won 11.352 lines. Cable operators lost 2.490 them throughout the month.

Businesses react too slowly to security threats

McAfee reveals in its latest report that very few organizations have real time access to the simple knowledge of the theft of your data.

Companies take an exceptionally long time to detect data leakage.

This is the main conclusion which is extracted from the study carried out McAfee, so-called security company ' Needle in a Datastack'.

"This study has shown what we have suspected for a long time, that very few organizations have real time access to the simple knowledge of the theft of your data," said Mike Fey, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of McAfee worldwide.

The report has revealed that only 35% of companies can quickly detect security breaches, since many of them are not able to handle large volumes of data protection.

"The inability to analyze and properly store large data is a monumental threat", has concluded McAfee in its analysis, as it collects ITProPortal.

In their latest research, the security company highlighted that 22% of the companies surveyed said that needs a whole day to solve the problem, while 5% said that he would need a week whole. The mid-term business is 10 hours.

Despite the low times of response, the vast majority of organizations believed that it can detect and manage threats, a claim that McAfee has signed up as an excess of confidence.

73% Of respondents said that you can evaluate its security status in real time and 74% believed to have detection of insider threats in real time.

A few days ago, McAfee also has unveiled how the volume of Trojans that steal information has increased exponentially in the market.

It has registered a rise of 28% of malware aimed at PC, and although a decline has occurred in mobile malware, the Android universe has garnered 40% of the increase in threats.

Facebook negotiates agreements with Samsung marketing

The social network of Mark Zuckerberg wants to increase your advertising billing in the field of mobile devices and Samsung could have an important role in this strategy.

The first step was a meeting that has been the CEO of Facebook with Shing Jong Kyun, Chairman of the South Korean technology company, which is have discussed potential agreements that will help the social network to improve the performance of your advertising space.

Also, the leaders also took this opportunity to discuss the current situation of the technology industry.

On Facebook they have the mission to obtain formulas that make their actions to improve in the Park of the Nasdaq, because since they left a bag, his titles have accumulated a decrease of 37 percent.

If there is something clear is that the social network they attach importance high to the commercial opportunities that present the mobile devices, and in that scenario it is necessary to count with the collaboration of Samsung, the largest producer of smartphones worldwide.

Zuckerberg to South Korea visit also included a meeting with Park Geun Hye, the country's President, who said that it plans to increase its investment in the fourth largest economy in Asia and used his company to help startups.

Facebook will launch a "new product" on June 20

The company's Mark Zuckerberg has summoned to the media at an event that will take place this Thursday and where he will present a "new product".

"A small team has been working on a great ideto", says the invitation sent to the media showing Mashable. There is a circular mark which has a cup of coffee left on the side of the invitation.

As usual, the speculation about what will be the new release have flooded the network. TechCrunch believes that the small team refers to the talent come from the acquisition of Instagram and the big idea is the integration of video into the application of photography. A sort of Vine, but with a retro touch of Instagram.

The last big release of Facebook was Home, its user interface which makes the smartphone device that revolves around the social network. Most recent was the announcement of inclusion of hashtags.

 

Twitter helps economic growth in San Francisco

The Mayor of the Californian City of San Francisco, which houses the headquarters of Twitter, has recognized the important role played by the company in its city.

Ed Lee, Alderman of San Franciso, commented that thanks to Twitter have opened 11 new companies in the area of Market Street, where the social network has its offices.

In his opinion, the area needed investment to grow and with the presence of Twitter has been achieved the necessary climate so that more and more technology companies bet on it.

On the other hand, the Mayor has also revealed that there are 1,826 tech companies in the County of San Francisco, which provide work to more than 42,000 people.

Lee also recognizes that San Franciso offers added to compete against other cities values to compensate for the fact that the tax legislation does not offer the advantages of other parts of the country.

In that regard, highlight the advantages in topics of education, infrastructure, art and culture.

In any case, over the technological, San Franciso stands out for the large influx of tourists who visit it every year.

By 2020 there will be 35.2 zettabytes of digital information

Win the career success of those companies able to convert large volumes of data into knowledge.

Within 7 years there will be 35.2 zettabytes of digital information. What is this number? Considering that 1 zb is equal to one trillion gigabytes... it can be estimated that there will be more than 37,000 million GB in circulation by in cyberspace.

For those who still do not is the idea. 1.8 zb are equivalent to 200 HD movies billion.

With these data on the table, not strange that Big Data profile as a driving force in the information age, where the data will be that drink and water will depend on much of the business world.

The main sources that generate large amounts of data are, according to estimates of Sogeti, traditional business applications, mobile data, search engines, social networks and the information from sensors.

The companies that get separate the really valuable from other information, process it and turn it into knowledge will be those who win the race. And therefore will require a strategy for Big Data, with a strong roadmap that would raise benefits in the medium term. Gartner estimates do not give rise to doubts: companies that climbing on Big Data will have some results financierosn 20% best to those who do not.

HP makes changes in its policy with the aim of improving its presence in China

Hewlett Packard has carried out a change of business area for two of its executives with the Mission of assaulting the Chinese market and compete against Lenovo.

Those affected have been Todd Bradley, until now head of the area of PCs and printers, and Dion Weisler, senior Vice President and responsible for the business of HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

Starting from now, Bradley is responsible for leading a team that will have as a top priority to achieve a positioning of the brand in China and deal with its rival Lenovo, which hopes to build a large network of partners and enhance operations on the channel, collected in ZDNet.

In particular, the new position of Bradley is the EVP of strategic growth initiatives where it is expected to have more luck that at the stage that has just ended, since the sales of personal computers have been reduced in the second quarter of the year at 20 percent and the printers, have fallen by 1%.

In the case of Weisler, is responsible for the division of PCs and printers who leaves Bradley. Weisler, carrying from January 2012 at HP, has experience in China to have occupied for Lenovo the position of COO in the areas of mobile and Digital Home, as well as having worked in management positions with Acer.

The largest shareholder of Sony increases its share in the company

The plan of the billionaire Daniel Loeb passes through influence, through its new investment, the Board of Directors to execute the turnaround for Sony Electronics.

The billionaire Daniel Loeb, principal shareholder of Sony, it has expanded its participation in the company, which already owned a 9.4% share.

The shareholder had up to now with a Fund of titles of 6.5% , which amounted to $ 1.1 billion.

With this new investment, Loeb is bring forward a restructuring plan in the company to mislead the refloating of the electronics division through the fragmentation of entertainment and insurance lines.

According to information from Bloomberg, Loeb has expressed in a letter that "taking into account my large participation, I reiterate the offer of spinoff to the Board of Directors of Sony".

The central key of the proposal for the investor is to make public between 15% and 20% of the values of Sony Entertainment, which could thrive independently with support from the parent company, while this capital increase could be used to revitalize Sony Electronics.

Loeb holds that a partial spin-off of Sony Entertainment would also elevate the stock price of the firm by 60%.

For his part, Kazuo Hirai, CEO of Sony, recently confirmed in a Press Conference that the company could assess the proposal of the shareholder.

Sony is struggling to resist a strong competition, particularly from Apple and Samsung, and need to reinvent itself to attract new investors.

The manufacturer maintains its strategy of reviving the business of consumption on cameras, mobile phones and games to PlayStation devices. Without going any further, last week unveiled its Playstation 4 clear movement challenge to rival Microsoft.

The CEO of Asus bet by the ' devices for vestir´

Fashion known as "wearable devices", is gaining more weight between the technology industry and has now been Asus which has unveiled new developments in that field.

Jonney Shih, CEO of the Taiwanese company Asus, has pointed out that they are studying joining the business of "wearable technology", thus following in the wake of Google Glass and the expected Apple iWatch.

The leader has confirmed that Asus engineers have already held meetings to shuffle the possibility that your brand will develop "wearable devices".

Shih, he is a crucial sector in regards to the innovation of the companies and that has to grow in the coming years, they report in Focus Taiwan.

In his opinion, technology companies should look for those products that produce a greater benefit for consumers, and for this reason Asus are "testing of simulations in their laboratories".

Finally, the Executive has indicated that the main challenge for your company is to position itself as the leading producer of "wearable devices" when those devices become popular.

The CEO of France Telecom will keep their charge

The Board of the company maintains the Executive in his Office after the support shown by the French President.

The French State, the maximum the teleco shareholder, supports the Executive, that will keep the charge despite found in the middle of a judicial investigation.

Last week Justice pointed to Stéphane Richard, CEO of the operator after the Orange brand, by its possible involvement in the case Tapie, that investigates the role of the State in alleged illegal compensation from the employer. Richard was one of the first swords from the Finance Department during the tenure of Nicolas Sarkozy.

French President Francois Hollande has publicly expressed support for Richard until justice is pronounced. The Board of Directors of the operator will follow the example of the head of the French Government and will keep Richard in the position of CEO.

The French State has a share of 27% in France Telecom, which is the biggest operator in the country. The teleco is present in Spain through Orange.

Workers, who have 5% of the shares of the company, have also shown their support to Richard. Reactions among Union officials however have been in some cases contrary to the maintenance of the Executive, according to Bloomberg.

Asia-Pacific will be placed over Europe in the enterprise storage market

According to a report by consulting firm IDC, in the next two years there will be a change in the enterprise storage market.

Data from IDC speak that market Asia-Pacific excluding Japan, will start ahead of Western Europe and only behind the United States, which will remain the undisputed leader.

Some emerging regions as Asia Pacific excluding Japan, Middle East, and Africa, "will continue to show very high growth rates, thanks to the increase in the demand for services of enterprise storage and the emergence of new infrastructures in growing economies".

In relation to the figures of the global expenditure in enterprise data storage markets, forecasts speak of a growing annual average of 4.1 per cent between 2012 and 2017, reaching assume 42,500 million euros last year.

Digital files, business documents storage and the importance of data protection, have been essential to that growth, as they reported at ITProPortal.

Also IDC indicates in its report that in 2017 the demand of the companies reach the 102 exabytes of storage and 36 exabytes of storage internal figures that involve a significant growth of 20 external exabytes and 8 inmates reached in 2012.

Between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for data received Apple of the US Government.UU.

The company gave information to federal, State and local authorities that involved about 10,000 client devices.

The technological Giants want to show that they have nothing to hide about the data they requested the Government of Barack Obama in the scandal of wiretapping citizens.

Information goes out a little bit and begin to shuffle clear numbers on the volume affected by the transfer of data from the companies to the authorities under the controversial program PRISM.

To the figures that were disclosed on Facebook, that in the last 6 months of 2012 it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests that involved a total of between 18,000 and 19,000 users, or Microsoft, that it received between 6,000 and 7,000 requests that affected a between 31,000 and 32,000 users accounts, now Apple data are dumped.

The Cupertino company has issued an official release where has shown that from the 1 of December 2012 through May 31, 2013 received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests of data by the Government.

These requests involved at between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices, whose data came to federal, State and local authorities, alleging criminal investigations and matters of national security.

"Like other companies, we have asked the Government of United States.UU. permission to report the number of applications received in relation to national security and the way in which we handle it. We have been authorized to share some of those details, we are offering for transparency", Apple said in its statement.

The company has pointed out that the majority of these requests came from the police to investigate cases of theft and other crimes, for the search of persons disappeared or patients with diseases such as Alzheimer's memory loss, as well as to try to prevent suicides.

Can AT & T absorb a giant like Telefónica?

AT & T entered 127.400 million dollars in 2012, and since the beginning of year repeated towards information that looks closely at the European market.

It is being the news of the day. AT & T giant American Telecom would have made an offer to buy Telefonica.

The sum that was the Edition in the El Mundo newspaper today spoke of 70 billion euros more 52 billion euros in debt absorption of the Spanish company.

As soon as the information has been known the competent authorities and the party involved have refused such proposals.

The Minister Soria has declared not to know the interests of the United States in the Spanish company. Telefónica has sent a statement to the National Commission of the stock market by denying any kind of interest from AT & T.

Reportedly holding the Spanish newspaper, the Executive of Mariano Rajoy would have exerted of retaining wall for which such offer is fraguase claiming that Telefónica is a strategic company for the interests of Spain.

You have carried out such an offer and have agreed to the operation, it would be the most important business movement of recent years. The most important in the history of Spain.

But can AT & T afford an acquisition of such weight?

The most important Telecom of United States he entered in 2012 a total of 127.400 million dollars (movement for the purchase of Telefonica would 93.000 million dollars). Only in the first three months of the year it reported consolidated 31,400 million revenues.

The giant has launched the largest United States 4 G network and is the leading provider of wireless, high speed internet and voice and cloud services.

The hypothetical acquisition of phone I would have allowed it to strengthen its presence in Latin America, market that is disputed with the Spanish teleco. The U.S. maintains a 9% stake in America Movil, important Mexican player of the phone with more than 230 million mobile subscribers.

The purchase had also favored the presence of the U.S. in the European market. As The Wall Street Journal, the CEO of AT & T, Randall Stephenson admitted recently that Europe was a complicated procurement market.

These statements made them shortly after rumours pointed to a possible agreement between AT & T and Verizon to launch a takeover bid for the British Vodafone.

CIOs speak of their budget priorities

Technology investments focus on priority issues such as the computing in the cloud via SaaS services and aimed at the mobile TI paradigm shift.

The consultancy Forrester said early year to TI business spending will grow in 2013 a 5.4%.

As detailed consultancy firm, this year will be transitional until 2014, when it is expected to global technology spending to increase by 6.7%.

But CIOs have already established their priorities for investment, as ZDNet in a meeting held with representatives of the industry alongside the body of professional services of the Australian Institute of management (AIM).

CIOs have given their points of view about preferences of TI in their companies, devoting significant budget items to priority as the cloud computing topics through software as a service (SaaS), information security and change mobile aimed at the TI paradigm.

CRM software (Customer Relationship Management) will also be one of the main focuses of the expenditure in enterprise applications around the world this year and the next, according to data presented recently by the Gartner research firm.

Companies are heading for the mass introduction of mobile devices, which require changes in its technology, investment strategy to make that many of its services are accessible without any problems from any device.

The Forrester report has seeded the arrival of mobile technologies companies need that they will accompany changes in corporate organization and new business processes and address.

'Tweet' is already an official word in English

From 2011 the 'retweet' concept was collected in the dictionary as the first technological terminology referring to the social network Twitter.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has just recognize 'tweet' as official word in English.

In the update of its June edition, scholar and most complete English language dictionary as well as the main reference point for the etymological studies of this language, incorporates this new terminor, as both noun and verb use.

The popular concept he has joined with a set of technological terms that has been collected in the latest edition of the dictionary, such as 'big data', 'crowdsourcing', 'mouseover', 'e-reader' and're-direct'.

As reports AllThingsD, an exception has been made in the case of 'tweet' for your RAID, since one basic rule to incorporate a new Word is that you wearing active at least 10 years before considering their inclusion.

John Simpson, Chief Editor of the OED, explained that this term has already permeated the population and hence its adoption.

On the other hand, the word 'tweet' was present in the dictionary since 1851 with another meaning, that of sound imitation of the singing of the birds. It has now expanded its meaning, by adding to the definition of "Act of making a publication on the social network Twitter service".

A curious question, however, is that the OED had already added the term 'retweet' in 2011, without knowing exactly why you picked up this concept first 'tweet'.

She resigned one of the founders of the startup Square

Tristan or ' Tierney, an entrepreneur who in 2009 founded Square mobile payments along with Executive service as the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has decided to leave the company.

In the 4 years that has been in the company, or ' Tierney has been responsible for the technical part mainly for creating applications of Square which will operate in the iOS universe, while Dorsey is in charge of business operations.

Or ' Tierney's professional career is varied and includes work as an engineer expert in Mac computers for companies like Yahoo, Apple, or VMWare.

It is also responsible for Twinkle, one of the first customers for Twitter which appeared in the app store Apple's App Store.

In the case of Square, during these four years in which it had to or ' Tierney in your template, the startup has managed to raise 341 million dollars and has expanded to reach businesses of all sizes.

It has also introduced a software suite that allows businesses to perform online tasks such as the checkout of the products purchased by customers, and includes tools for management and analysis of data.

The progress of O'Tierney, which has not clarified which will be their future, join others lost recent for Square, and Keith Rabois, Chief Operating Officer of the company who had to leave her to be accused of having sexually abused an employee, or Alyssa Cutright, Vice President of the international business of the startup.

The EU moves ahead in the research of Android against Google

The agreements of the Internet giant with mobile telecom operators and mobile phone manufacturers are analyzed to find out if it has blocked competition.

European authorities, investigating Google since 2010 by practices antitrust, could be considering the option of force to change parts of the Android business.

A report of the Financial Times suggested recently that Google might be forced to make modificcaiones on its Android platform, without specifying what measures.

Now, regulators antitrust of the European Union (EU) are referring to the manufacturers of mobile phones and mobile telecommunications operators on their agreements with Google around Android.

The aim is to find out if they the Internet giant has locked to mobile rivals, which could lead to a second investigation of the company.

According to Reuters, the Commission has asked the suppliers if agreements on Android with Google "contained clauses that them they even or limiting release or distribute not Android devices".

The competition authorities also want to know if there have been restrictions for Android devices that do not comply with the requirements of compatibility of Google.

Respondents have until July 26 to respond to the list of 82 questions that could determine if the Commission will open a new investigation into Google, which currently tries to alleviate the consequences of the abuse of dominant position in the EU.

Microsoft Office Mobile for iOS is already in the United States.UU.

From today you can find in the store of Apple applications in the United States.UU. the new Office suite from Microsoft for iOS devices.

After a long time of speculation and rumors, it has finally happened. An official with all the benefits of Office application from Microsoft is available for iOS devices.

As reported by The Next Web, the so-called Mobile Office already operational for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, although at the moment only available for users of Office 365, that from today they can be found in the Apple App Store in the United States.UU.

For users of iOS with a subscription to Office 365 this means that you can access, view and edit any previously saved file in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

The application extracts all the files for the users of the cloud, allowing Office documents can be stored and downloaded from SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint.

The suite also includes a system of synchronization, so the recent documents that have been edited or that have been accessed on a device - for example a desktop computer or a tablet of Microsoft - shown in the iOS application through a panel of documents.

The release significantly increases the value of the service of Office 365 with richer graphics and animation content.

As Microsoft has confirmed in a statement, the new application will reach 135 markets, including Spain, in brief, and will be translated into 29 languages.

Telefonica refused an offer of purchase of AT & T

The Spanish teleco denies any kind of offer.

The teleco American giant AT & T Spanish Telefonica has denied reports that this morning unveiled the newspaper El Mundo on the launch of a takeover bid by part.

First thing in the morning, the Spanish newspaper launched pump: the most important operator of United States would have interested the the Spanish teleco and would have offered $ 70 billion for purchasing. It also offered him the absorption of its debt, worth 52 billion dollars.

Reportedly, the Government of Mariano Rajoy through the competent ministries (economy and industry) has been who has stopped the operation, considering the company as a strategic value for the interests of the country.

The company has denied through a statement to the National Commission of the stock market any type of offer. "It has not received any approach, nor any indication of interest written or verbal, of no one," told from the Teleco.

César Alierta company listed on the rise since the information have been known. Currently listed 2.89% above the value in the opening of the markets.