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.