Saturday, December 31, 2011

Nate Diaz and Donald Cerrone bury the hatchet and express mutual respect

Nate Diaz and Donald Cerrone bury the hatchet and express mutual respect

LAS VEGAS - The prefight lead up for Donald Cerrone and Nate Diaz was as nasty as any this year in the UFC. When they finished crushing each in the cage tonight for 15 minutes, a strange thing happened, the bitter enemies hugged, said sorry and patted each other on the back.

Diaz won the fight pretty convincingly, but his face still showed wear from the battle. Cerrone's face was extremely swollen, but he seemed almost thrilled about what he'd just experienced.

"It's awesome. That's what I like to do. That's what makes fights," said Cerrone, who saw six-fight win streak snapped "That to me was a good time. That was fun. I mean standing there and throwing, That's what everyone likes to see."

Cerrone had genuine dislike for Diaz before the fight. After 15 minutes, he couldn't help but admire him.

"He stood there and went toe-to-toe. There's some respect in that," Cerrone said. [After the fight] I looked him in the eyes and said 'god [expletive], you're a tough SOB.'"

Diaz and his brother Nick often complain that fight game is filled with wrestlers, who try to win fights on points. On this night, Cerrone was getting battered but never tried to take the fight to the ground.

"I knew he was tough and he was going stand there and keep fighting," Diaz said. "I don't like getting hit, but that's just what happens. I'm there to fight and if you're not taking me out, keep trying."

Diaz and Cerrone combined to land 335 shots. Diaz doled out most of the punishment by landing 238 at a 66-percent clip. Their boss, Dana White rewarded them with the Fight of the Night bonus.

"They're nasty man. These guys are fighters. You talk about the word fighter and what it means to be a fighter ... these two guys sitting up here are it," said White, who awarded each fighter with $75,000. "They went out there and proved that tonight."

Diaz started the prefight bad blood in October before UFC 137. Cerrone tried to shake his hand during a workout session. Diaz reacted by slapping his hand away and cursing at him. Cerrone told the story often in the lead up to this fight which juiced up Diaz even further. On Thursday during the prefight press conference, Diaz further fanned the flames by knocking Cerrone's hat from his head. It all led to Cerrone fighting with a little too much bravado and not enough strategy.

"I just wanted to stand. I just wanted to play. I got outboxed and I talked a lot of [expletive]," Cerrone explained why he never tried to change the style of the fight. "He got in my [expletive] head. He was good. He brought the fight to me. All the [expletive] I talked and he made me eat my words didn't he?"

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Friday, December 30, 2011

For Google+, User Count Is A Journey Not A Race

Google User Count JourneyThat's a good thing because Google+ missed the starting gun. And its "invite only" launch strategy saw all its disconnect users flailing independently. But in the long run that might not matter much, because Google+ doesn't need a critical mass or tons of engagement. It needs signups so it can get its identity layer under users of its other products. That way it can turn everyone's searches, mapping, email, and more into fuel for its ad targeting engine.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Avastin May Help Some With Ovarian Cancer: Studies (HealthDay)

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies suggest that the drug Avastin may lengthen progression-free survival by about four months for women with ovarian cancer.

What isn't clear yet is whether adding Avastin (bevacizumab) will make a difference in overall survival. One study suggested it would, while the other study didn't find a difference in overall survival between two treatment groups.

"The bottom-line results are a 28 percent reduction in disease progression with patients on continued bevacizumab compared to the standard treatment group. There was a 3.8 month median difference in progression-free survival," said Dr. Robert Burger, author of one of the studies and director of the Women's Cancer Center at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

"We still have to fine-tune or optimize this sort of new paradigm of treatment. This regimen [chemotherapy plus continued Avastin] could be considered a frontline option for patients with advanced ovarian cancer. However, there are some risks to the treatment, and we haven't shown an impact on overall survival. But, in the European trial, they saw an overall survival benefit," Burger added.

"I think the difficult reality is that these studies are not clear-cut," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. "The improvements in progression are modest and appear to be greater for women who have worse disease. What this ultimately means is that it's absolutely important for doctors treating women with advanced ovarian cancer to read these studies very carefully so they know who may benefit and the risks of treatment, and to counsel their patients very carefully before moving forward with Avastin treatment," Lichtenfeld explained.

"This is not a case where treatment can be initiated in every woman. The benefits for many women are modest at best," he added.

Results of both studies are published in the Dec. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The studies were funded by Roche and Genentech (a Roche-owned company). Burger said Genentech played no role in the study design or analysis.

Burger's study included almost 1,900 women with newly diagnosed stage 3 or stage 4 epithelial ovarian cancer. All of the women had undergone surgery to remove as much cancer as possible. They were then randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: standard treatment including paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy; the Avastin-initiation group that included the standard chemotherapy and Avastin for the second through sixth treatment cycle; and the Avastin maintenance group that included chemotherapy plus Avastin for up to the 22nd treatment cycle.

The average progression-free survival was 10.3 months for the standard group, 11.2 months for the Avastin-initiation group and just over 14 months for the Avastin-maintenance group. There was no difference in overall survival for the three groups.

The European study included more than 1,500 women with varying types of ovarian cancer. Most had epithelial ovarian cancer, but the severity ranged from early-stage disease to stage 4. Seventy percent of the women enrolled in this study had stage 3 or stage 4 cancer.

The women were randomly assigned to receive either standard chemotherapy treatment or chemotherapy plus Avastin for up to 12 cycles of chemotherapy. The dose of Avastin used in this trial was half of what was used in Burger's trial.

Progression-free survival was 20.3 months for the standard group and 21.8 months for the standard therapy plus Avastin. In women who were considered at high risk for progression, the progression-free survival was 14.5 months on standard therapy and 18.1 months with the addition of Avastin. Overall survival in high-risk women was 28.8 months for women on standard chemotherapy and 36.6 months for standard therapy plus Avastin.

High blood pressure is a common side effect of Avastin, but Burger said that in most cases, it can be controlled with blood pressure medication. Another serious side effect associated with Avastin is bowel perforation, which means a hole opens in the bowel wall. This side effect occurred in fewer than 3 percent of women treated, but occurred twice as much in women taking Avastin.

Published reports peg the cost of the drug at somewhere between $4,000 and $9,000 a month, depending on co-pay assistance that's available from Genentech, Avastin's manufacturer. In a previous study, another research group looked at the cost effectiveness of treatment with Avastin in Burger's trial and found the standard treatment arm of the trial cost $2.5 million. Treating the Avastin-initiation group cost $21.4 million and the Avastin-maintenance group cost $78.3 million, according to the study, which was published in the March 7 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. And, most of those costs came directly from the cost of the medication. Those researchers concluded that Avastin was not a cost-effective medication.

"We don't want cost to be a deciding factor, but for many women with ovarian cancer, cost may be a significant factor, and it needs to be weighed in the equation," Lichtenfeld said.

Avastin isn't approved in the United States for the treatment of ovarian cancer, so some insurance companies may balk at paying for it. Plus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pulled Avastin's approval for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in November because the FDA found the risks of the drug outweighed its modest benefits. Avastin is still approved for the treatment of some types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancer in the United States.

However, the drug was just approved by the European Union for use in ovarian cancer in combination with chemotherapy.

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RT?s 10 that shaped 2011: Europe's debt debacle

With 2012 just around the corner, RT continues its own countdown with ten special reports on events that have shaped 2011. We are looking back at major stories through the eyes of RT correspondents who witnessed them.

?Greece remains in the eye of the European financial storm. RT has been looking back at what has been a year of despair and discontent for austerity-hit Greeks. Our correspondent Sara Firth witnessed their anger reach a boiling point as she covered the protests in the country.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Militants attack Iraqi camp housing Iranian exiles (AP)

BAGHDAD ? A security official says militants have fired a Katyusha rocket at a camp housing several thousand Iranian exiles in northeastern Iraq.

The Diyala province official says the attack on Camp Ashraf took place late Tuesday. It was the second rocket attack on the camp this week. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

The Iranian group ? known as the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran ? was a one-time ally of Saddam Hussein in a common fight against Iran.

The group said Wednesday the rocket fell near housing units inside the camp but that there were no casualties.

Under an agreement with the United Nations and the Iraqi government, the residents are to move to a new location in Baghdad in the coming days.

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Three released from Iraqi military custody

A Long Island Army veteran and two co-workers were released from Iraqi military custody Tuesday after being held for almost three weeks, a congressman said.

Alex Antiohos, a private contractor with a security firm doing work in Iraq, and his two colleagues were released from an Iraqi military compound, said Congressman Peter King (R-L.I.).

?He?s now safe, in American hands in Baghdad, supposedly well-treated, and to be coming home any day now,? King said.

The trio was stopped and detained on Dec. 9 while escorting a convoy. They were grabbed by members of the Iraqi Defense Ministry in a dispute over paperwork required for foreigners to be working in Iraq, King said.

?They had legal papers, given by the Interior Ministry, and they were stopped by Defense Ministry people who said the paperwork was invalid,? King said. ?There was some internal fight within fractions in Iraq, and they were pawns.?

King said he and his staff learned of Antiohos? dangerous predicament when the contractor?s wife, Melissa, called King?s Long Island office saying the Iraqis had arrested her husband.

King and his staff notified the White House, the State Department, the Defense Department and the Iraqi embassy and pressed for the contractor?s release.

The contractors were being held in Mahmudiyah, part of the infamous "Triangle of Death," King said.

When answers were lacking, King said he started the paperwork to send a staffer - a former intelligence officer with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan - to Iraq to press the cause.

King?s office received word Tuesday that Antiohos, 32, and colleagues Jonas March of Savannah, Ga., and Kevin Fisher of Fiji had been released.

?We needed to press, but not create a situation. Things are such that we were afraid if we didn?t get them out soon, we might not get them out at all,? said King, chairman of the House Homeland Security committee.

King said he was worried that the fact that Antiohos was a former Green Beret, and the interest from the Homeland Security committee, could hurt rather than help the effort to get the three released.

?If whatever was going on internally grew worse, they really could have been turned into real pawns,? King said.

Antiohos? wife declined comment until her husband came home.

His mom and sister - who hadn?t known he had been detained - were stunned, but grateful.

?I remember telling him, with all the soldiers leaving Iraq, to make sure you have 14 eyes instead of just two to be alert and take care,? said his mother, Marian Sakoutis.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Shoppers win 'game of chicken' with stores

Half off at the entire store at Ann Taylor. Sixty percent at Gap. Forty percent off almost everything at Abercrombie & Fitch.

Aggressive last-minute deals in the days before Christmas are good for procrastinators, but they could be an alarm bell for the retail industry.

While scattered markdowns are standard every year, discounts across entire stores ? which analysts say are more widespread than last year ? suggest merchants are stuck with too much merchandise.

?It?s really a game of chicken,? said David Bassuk, managing director and head of the retail practice at the consultant firm AlixPartners.

Many retailers entered the season ?with pretty optimistic plans? that shoppers would rush into stores and pay full price, Mr. Bassuk said. But that did not pan out, and the final days before Christmas have retailers being ?much more aggressive in terms of promotions being offered,? he said.

Shoppers are filling their holiday lists against the backdrop of an uncertain year, with stubbornly high unemployment, increased food prices, volatile gas prices and unpredictability for stocks and Europe?s debt crisis. The government on Thursday said that third-quarter economic growth had not been as brisk as it previously estimated, because of a drop in consumer spending on services like health care.

Story: Consumer spending tepid in November

Toys ?R? Us announced on Thursday new deals on dozens of items for Friday and Saturday, including ?buy one, get one half off? on popular toys like Legos. A sampling of other promotions: Up to 70 percent off toys at Amazon; up to 50 percent off gifts at Restoration Hardware; 40 percent off almost everything at American Eagle Outfitters, Talbots, Limited and Wet Seal; and 30 percent off everything at J. Crew.

?There?s been kind of a waiting game with retailers,? Gerald L. Storch, the chief executive of Toys ?R? Us, told CNBC last week. ?And it looks like the consumer wins.?

Paul Lejuez, an analyst at Nomura Equity Research, surveyed mall deals over the weekend and said he was concerned. ?It looks like 40 percent is the new level you have to be at, 40 percent off, to drive traffic. Those that weren?t at that level weren?t getting their fair share,? he said.

Going into the holiday season, inventories had grown more than three times as fast as sales at several retailers, including American Eagle Outfitters, A?ropostale, Gap Inc., Urban Outfitters, Chico?s and Talbots. ?If inventory is growing ahead of sales growth, there is a need to be more promotional to move the goods,? Mr. Lejuez said.

Although sales over Thanksgiving weekend were surprisingly strong, Mr. Lejuez said they seemed to have cut into shopping that more typically would occur in December. Sales were sluggish the first two weeks after Thanksgiving, though they improved in the third week, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers.

In e-mail inboxes, the promotional cadence is rapid. Retailers sent about 5.6 e-mails each last week on average, according to the e-mail marketer Responsys. That was a 26 percent increase over the same week last year, and matched the record high hit during the week of Cyber Monday this year.

Stores including Macy?s and Toys ?R? Us are offering 24-hour shopping in the days before Christmas, and many stores moved ?Super Saturday,? a promotion that falls on the final Saturday before Christmas, back a week hoping to spur sales.

The deals are a boon for people who have put off shopping.

?Last-minute Christmas shopping,? posted a Twitter user named Samra Tekeste. ?Literally everything is on sale, LOL. Knew my procrastination would come in handy some day.? Another Twitter user with the handle BossNugget suggested that the King of Prussia mall near Philadelphia hang up a sign saying ?It?s Almost Christmas, and Everything Is on Sale.?

The big discounts mean that retailers are willing to sacrifice profits for revenue.

?More and more each year, sales become less of the issue, and it?s more about what retailers have to do to get those,? Mr. Lejuez said. ?There?s a little more pressure on that out-the-door price than we would have thought, and, I think, what the market would have anticipated.?

And, after Christmas, the value of most merchandise slides.

?The inventory is worth so much less in two weeks,? said the chief executive of a retailer, who asked not to be named because he did not want to reveal his store?s strategy. ?With that kind of inventory, you?ve got to get rid of it. Whatever the margin is today, it?s that much lower next week and the week after when traffic stops.?

This story originally appeared in the New York Times on Dec. 23 under the headline "Retailers Are Slashing Prices Ahead of Holiday."

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N. Korea: Military Generals Real Rulers, not Kim Jong Un (Time.com)

The policy under Kim Jong Il, North Korea's late Dear Leader, could not have had a name that was more straightforward: "military first politics." For most of Kim's 17-year reign as dictator, North Korea's military -- the Korean People's Army, or KPA -- got pretty much whatever it wanted. Even during the crippling famine, which killed tens of thousands in the late '90s, food was diverted to the military. Better a soldier with a full stomach, even if almost everyone else were starving, Kim seemed to think. "His position toward the military was one of weakness," says Christopher Hill, formerly the chief U.S. negotiator to the six-party nuclear talks.

Little wonder, then, that nearly everyone who tries to figure out what is happening in the world's most isolated regime believes that, in the wake of Kim's sudden death on Dec. 17, it is the military brass who will be firmly in control of the country, even as the young Kim Jong Un formally becomes what the Koreans call the suryong (supreme leader). "The military," says Hill, "will clearly be a critical factor in determining whether the [Kim] family dynasty survives." (See "After Kim Jong Il: A Look at the Kim Family Tree.")

Some analysts have argued that the North Korean brass were already deeply resentful that Kim Jong Un, in his late 20s, was last year given four stars and a position as vice chairman of the Central Military Committee "without having served a day in the military," as Victor Cha, who ran Asia policy on George W. Bush's National Security Council, recently put it. "Such a system," Cha says, "simply cannot hold."

This may overstate the regime's fragility, precisely because it underrates just how deeply rooted the Kim family dynasty is in North Korea and how deeply the KPA's interests are aligned with its continuation. The key man to watch, analysts say, is Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho, chief of the General Staff in Pyongyang and, like Kim Jong Un, a chairman of the Central Military Committee, the key military policymaking body in the country. (See pictures of North Koreans mourning the death of Kim Jong Il.)

Ri, 69, is a third-generation elite who over the years established a close relationship with Kim Jong Il, and over the past two yeas was photographed at various public events seated alongside the late Dear Leader. He is also said to be close to Kim's sister as well as his brother-in-law Chang Sung Taek, the man who some believe is now Kim Jong Un's "regent," the power behind the throne who will be calling the shots. Ri is also a graduate of the Kim Il Sung Military Academy, as is Kim Jong Un. Diplomats and intelligence analysts believe there is no scenario under which the young Kim could have been elevated to the position of successor over the past two years without the brass's approval. "He's there because the military officials believe they can control him, at least for several years, and there's no other institution that can hold the place together," says an East Asia?based intelligence official. On Thursday, in fact, Reuters -- quoting an unnamed official with "close ties" to Beijing and Pyongyang -- reported that a "collective leadership'' arrangement has already been agreed to by Kim Jong Un and top military officials. (TIME has been unable to confirm this.) "The military has pledged its allegiance to Kim Jong Un," Reuters quoted its source as saying.

Most likely, that is vice versa. The military's powerful position in North Korean society can hardly be overestimated. Not only is it the overseer of the country's nuclear program -- the ultimate guarantor of Pyongyang's security -- but it is also its largest employer. There are over 1.1 million soldiers in the KPA's five branches, or nearly 20% of the male population between the ages of 17 and 54. It is also, therefore, the country's most powerful economic entity, the largest consumer of goods in the country as well as an exporter of missiles and nuclear technology via the shadowy Second Economic Committee, run by a man about whom little is known in the outside word -- Park Se Bong -- except for his reputed close ties with the ruling Kim clan. "Again, the boy would not be in this position if people like Park had strenuously objected," says the intelligence source. "People are reacting too much to the so-called suddenness of Kim Jong Il's death. This is a guy who had a severe stroke three years ago. For a while there, he looked like death warmed over. The idea that the regime didn't have its ducks in a row, that everyone assumed the Dear Leader was going to be around for another decade or more, doesn't withstand scrutiny. And the regime very much includes the military." (See "Kim Jong Il's Most Dangerous Legacy: A Thriving Nuclear-Export Business.")

It's also critical to understand, a variety of sources say, that North Korea is nothing if not a "kleptocracy," as Hill puts it. The centrality of the KPA means that senior military officials get their beaks wet as much as anyone, calling in favors (economic and otherwise) whenever they choose. Consider a small, recent example: a TIME correspondent visited a newly opened university in Pyongyang a few weeks ago, one in which the students were pretty much all elite, politically connected kids. How connected? Remember that all other college students in North Korea this year were not attending classes; they were out on construction sites, building monuments and memorials in anticipation of the glorious 100th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth in April 1912. All college students, that is, except those at the Science and Technology University that TIME visited.

There, a senior officer in the KPA with the rank of general recently visited the school's president, in order to arrange a place for his son. No freezing-cold construction sites for him, 100th anniversary of the Great Leader be damned. Loyalty to the Kim dynasty among the brass extends only so far; they do pretty much what they want, and it may well be that the young, inexperienced Kim Jong Un works for them now, not the other way around.

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CHP officer injured in crash on I-880 northbound in Union City

FREMONT -- A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer was injured Thursday morning after he was ejected at least 100 feet when he was rear-ended by a minivan on Interstate 880 at the Decoto Road onramp, officials said.

The officer was able to get out of oncoming traffic on his own and was taken to Washington Hospital for treatment.

The incident happened about 7 a.m.

The CHP said the motor officer and an officer in a car were escorting a semi-truck carrying a wide load onto the northbound lanes of the freeway at Decoto.

The motorcycle officer was in the first lane of traffic for only a few seconds when he was hit from behind by a minivan that was traveling in excess of 60 mph, the CHP said. The officer was thrown at least 100 feet onto the roadway but was able to get up and get off the freeway on his own.

The van driver stopped and was questioned and released by the CHP pending further investigation.

The on-ramp and traffic lane where the officer was hit were shut down for about an hour.


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Saturday, December 24, 2011

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Tegra 3 Optimized SHADOWGUN Now Available in the Android Market

If you picked up a Transformer Prime?(our hands-on)?this week?err?if you pre-ordered one and have yet to receive a cancellation notice, then you?ll be excited to know that the Tegra 3 version of SHADOWGUN can now be purchased in the market. Well, you can purchase it once your tablet arrives, whenever that may be. Week of December 19 we were told. Anyone received one yet?

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Yahoo to weigh deals for Asian assets: sources (Reuters)

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? Yahoo Inc is considering a plan to unload most of its prized Asian assets in a complex deal valued at roughly $17 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, winning nods of approval from Wall Street and driving its shares higher.

The offer - the latest among proposals put forth in recent months to resuscitate the once high-flying Internet company - is expected to be considered by Yahoo's board on Thursday, sources said.

The board was uninterested in entertaining offers for the entire company at this point, said one of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Yahoo's increasing difficulty in competing with Internet heavyweights such as Google Inc and Facebook have forced it to explore proposals to revamp its business.

The former Internet powerhouse, which fired its Chief Executive Carol Bartz in September, has a market value of around $18.5 billion.

The Asian split-off plan to be considered by the board follows previous proposals by private equity firms to buy a minority stake in Yahoo. Those proposals were fiercely opposed by some of Yahoo's largest shareholders, including activist hedge fund manager Dan Loeb, of Third Point LLC.

"It's clear that Dan Loeb at Third Point is exerting some influence," said Adam Seessel, director of research at Martin Capital Management, which added to its position in Yahoo a few weeks ago. He "is doing all Yahoo shareholders a favor by looking over the board and making sure they do the right thing."

Yahoo shares, which languished in the red along with much of the technology sector on Wednesday, reversed course and ended the session almost 6 percent higher at $15.99. It inched further upward in after-hours trading to $16.09.

At a $17 billion valuation, which includes the value of the Alibaba stake that Yahoo would retain under the latest proposal, a deal would mean the Asian assets are worth $14 per Yahoo share, one of the sources said.

The deal would essentially mean that Yahoo's core U.S.-based Internet business is valued at only $2 a share, according to Lawrence Haverty, a fund manager with GAMCO investors, which owns Yahoo shares.

Given that Yahoo has roughly $2 a share in cash on its balance sheet, Haverty said the deal left plenty of room for upside in the core business.

"This is the right thing to do. This is how you maximize shareholder value," he said, noting that he believed the tax-free structure of the plan seemed feasible.

TAX-FREE DEAL

Alibaba chief Jack Ma has said several times he would like to buy back Yahoo's stake in his company, one of Asia's largest Internet corporations. Investors have long said Yahoo's investment in Alibaba, along with its 35 percent slice of Yahoo Japan, are far and away the U.S. company's most prized assets.

In the deal under contemplation, Yahoo would effectively transfer most of its 40 percent slice of Alibaba back to the Chinese company and all of its stake in Yahoo Japan to Softbank Corp, sources said.

Alibaba and Yahoo Japan would each create separate legal entities where they would put cash and operating assets, and then trade those with Yahoo, making the deal tax-free, the sources said.

At the end of the contemplated transaction Yahoo would retain a 15 percent stake in Alibaba, the sources said.

The final deal size will depend on how the assets are valued, another source said.

"It's definitely a step in the right direction. It shows that the board is thinking about shareholders as opposed to their own interests," Martin Capital's Seessel said.

Yahoo declined to comment. The possible deals were first reported in The New York Times.

Last week, sources told Reuters a consortium consisting of private equity group Silver Lake, Microsoft Corp and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz were reworking a bid for a minority stake in Yahoo.

(Reporting by Paritosh Bansal and Peter Lauria in New York, Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; editing by Matthew Lewis, Andre Grenon and Richard Chang.)

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Chrome 15 overtakes IE 8 for top browser spot

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By Athima Chansanchai

If you're reading this on Chrome, you're part of a wave that has ditched Internet Explorer or Firefox and helped vault Google's browser to the top Web browser spot worldwide.

We've been watching for a while now as reports have shown a consistent rise in Chrome's popularity. We saw how in one report, it's already gone past Firefox, knowing it was just a matter of time before it usurped one of the longest reigning dynasties in the browser world, IE.

But wait, there is a caveat to this: Chrome 15 beat IE 8, specifically, this one week at the end of November, with 23.6 percent of the worldwide market, compared to IE 8's at 23.5 percent.?With all the versions of IE floating around, IE is still No. 1 in the world, but Chrome is right behind it.

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Ireland-based?StatCounter???which posts Web analytics based on aggregate data it collects from a?sample exceeding 15 billion pageviews per month (including 4 billion in the U.S.),?collected from the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites???released a statement?about Chrome 15's ascension, humbling the initial enthusiasm of any Google devotee when it also made it clear that in the?U.S., reports of IE's demise are still premature. According to StatCounter, It was still able to capture?27 percent of browser action last week, compared to 18.1 percent for Chrome 15.

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Different companies will issue different stats on just how much of a lead IE still has on Chrome, with companies such as?NetMarketShare?showing?IE's year-long steady free fall, but still at about 52 percent a month ago.?

Chrome has made a steady rise as IE declines, but Firefox still stands in its way. But not by much. And by StatCounter's measure, in the world outside the U.S., Chrome already brushed past Firefox in November, when it wrested the No. 2 spot with 25.69 percent of the worldwide market (up from 4.66 percent in November 2009) compared to Firefox's 25.23 percent.?

Will 2012 be the year that sees the fall of IE everywhere, including the U.S.? Take our poll and let us know which browser you're using.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Video: Making Money on Aussie Dollar

CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge winner, Gary Lewis, reveals his strategy to CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.

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Square Enix servers hacked, 1.8 million users affected (Digital Trends)

final fantasy 7This is shaping up to the year of high-profile hacker attacks in the gaming world, as game developer Square Enix announced this week that 1.8 million user accounts were compromised as a result of a recent online security breach.

The developers responsible for the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest game franchises reported yesterday that a hacker ?may have gained unauthorized access to a particular Square Enix server? and took its websites in Japan and the U.S. offline in order to assess the extent of the attack. Subsequent reports indicate that one million Japanese users? accounts were affected, as well as those of 800,000 users in the U.S.

Fortunately, the accounts affected by the hack contained no credit card information, but they did contain customers? names, email addresses, postal addresses, and phone numbers.

?There is no possibility of any credit card information leak,? stated Square Enix in its official statement regarding the security breach. ?We have asked our customers to be aware of the incident in case they receive suspicious messages using our name.?

This is the second attack on Square Enix servers this year. Back in May, a hacker breached security on the developer?s European servers and leaked the email addresses of 25,000 customers and the resumes of 250 job applicants.

This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

German government party stays on course on euro

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Economic Minister and Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler listen to the debate at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. German lawmakers discuss the results of last week's climate summit in Durban. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Economic Minister and Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler listen to the debate at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. German lawmakers discuss the results of last week's climate summit in Durban. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Economic Minister and Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler listen to the debate at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. German lawmakers discuss the results of last week's climate summit in Durban. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Philipp Roesler Vice Chancellor Economic Minister and chairman of Free Democratic Party announces the results of a party's members' bid against the permanent eurozone rescue fund in Berlin, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. The motion was defeated by 10,841 votes to 8,809 and Germany's government junior partner stays on course. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Philipp Roesler Vice Chancellor Economic Minister and chairman of Free Democratic Party announces the results of a party's members' bid against the permanent eurozone rescue fund in Berlin, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. The motion was defeated by 10,841 votes to 8,809 and Germany's government junior partner stays on course. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

(AP) ? Rebels in Germany's junior governing party failed on Friday to turn it against eurozone efforts to set up a permanent rescue fund, an outcome that averts a possible political crisis for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Dissenters in the struggling pro-market Free Democratic Party had forced the ballot on whether lawmakers in the party should support the euro500 billion ($650 billion) European Stability Mechanism, which is due to take start work next year.

However, the party's embattled leader, Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler, said that their motion was defeated by 10,841 votes to 8,809. There were 280 abstentions in the ballot, conducted by mail over recent weeks.

"The FDP is, and remains, a party with a clear pro-European direction, with the necessary economic policy good sense," said Roesler, who is also Germany's economy minister.

Leaders of the party have talked tough on Europe's debt crisis but support the rescue fund, a cornerstone of efforts led by Merkel to get the situation under control.

Health Minister Daniel Bahr, an FDP member, questioned earlier this month whether the governing coalition could continue to work if party members voted against the fund. No date has yet been set for a parliamentary vote on it.

Had the ballot gone the other way, rebels would have needed a third of party members, which number 65,000 in all, to participate for the result to be valid. But they also missed that target.

The rebels' failure gives Roesler, 38, a respite after a difficult week in which speculation swirled that his days as party leader were numbered.

Roesler took over only in May, promising that the FDP would "deliver," but he has failed to lift the party out of a poll slump.

Roesler annoyed dissenters by declaring on Sunday, two days before voting ended, that they had failed because it appeared too few votes had been cast in the ballot. A complicated voting system also attracted criticism.

One of the FDP's top officials, general secretary Christian Lindner, quit unexpectedly on Wednesday.

Roesler and the most prominent rebel, backbench lawmaker Frank Schaeffler, sought to put on a show of unity Friday.

"We will now ... look ahead, united and together," Roesler said. "We will now put an end to the internal argument ? we have found our position."

Schaeffler said he wanted to "contribute to the divisions in the party being closed," though he added that "the fact the decision was so close in the end" showed it was right to consult members.

The FDP joined Merkel's conservatives in government in 2009, winning nearly 15 percent of the vote after an election campaign focused heavily on income tax cuts ? a pledge that has been ground down to almost nothing.

The party has attracted much of the blame for frequent infighting in the coalition and has been punished by voters in state elections this year. Nationally, it regularly polls below the 5 percent needed to win seats in parliament.

The main opposition Social Democrats' general secretary, Andrea Nahles, said the euro fund ballot showed that "the FDP's grass roots are deeply divided on the government's course."

"The FDP's days of chaos are far from over," she predicted.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Britney Spears And Jason Trawick: A Timeline Of Their Love

The couple started dating in 2009 while Trawick was still Britney's agent.
By Jocelyn Vena


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Months ago, rumors began circulating that Britney Spears and longtime boyfriend Jason Trawick were going to tie the knot. And on Friday (December 16), sources close to the pair and a mysterious tweet from the star herself confirmed that the couple is engaged.

Trawick had already been working with the star as her agent at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment when they began dating in 2009. They went public with their romance when they showed up hand-in-hand to the 2010 Grammy Awards. That May, the two decided to separate their business and personal relationships, and it was confirmed that Trawick would no longer be representing Spears.

The pair have always been pretty low-key. In an interview with Ryan Seacrest this March, the pop star opened up about their life together. "We're really normal," she said. "We just like to watch movies; we work out a lot; we take walks." In May, Spears told Harper's Bazaar, "I've thought about both [marriage and kids]," saying that tying the knot with Trawick could happen "if the timing was right."

And in an interview with Us Weekly in April, Spears gushed about life with Trawick. "We have such a great time together! He makes me laugh, and we are so comfortable being ourselves," she said. "Maybe [I'll marry again]. Never say never!"

In August, Spears and Trawick walked the red carpet at the 2011 MTV VMAs, and Britney later thanked Trawick when she took the stage to accept her Moonman for Best Pop Video for "Till the World Ends."

While the two have remained relatively private, they gave fans a peek at their personal life when they played the lead roles in Britney's "Criminal" video. The video focuses on a fictional love affair between their characters, who go on a crime spree that leads to a steamy encounter. Director Chris Marrs Piliero said Trawick "killed it."

This will be Britney's third marriage. She was married to Jason Alexander for 55 hours in 2004. Later that year, she married back-up dancer Kevin Federline; the two divorced in 2006. Federline and Spears have two sons, Jayden James and Sean Preston.

A rep for the singer has yet to confirm the news of this latest engagement to MTV News.

Send your well-wishes to Britney and Jason in the comments.

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'Batman' star Bale tries to visit China activist (AP)

BEIJING ? "Batman" star Christian Bale, in the midst of promoting a film he made in China that some critics have called propaganda, was stopped trying to visit a blind activist living under house arrest ? with a CNN crew in tow.

CNN posted footage of a scuffle between Bale and the activist's guards on its website Friday.

The run-in and publicity is likely to cause discomfort in China's government-backed film industry, which hopes Bale's movie "The Flowers of War" will be a creative success at home and abroad. It also raises questions about whether it was prudent to bring the star to see an activist guarded by thugs who have turned away dozens of reporters and fellow activists trying to see him in the past.

Bale was due to leave China on Friday and his representatives could not immediately be reached for comment. A CNN spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about the story, but said a statement would be forthcoming.

Bale, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for last year's "The Fighter," traveled Thursday with a crew from CNN to the village in eastern China where blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng lives with his family in complete isolation.

They were stopped at the entrance to Dongshigu village in Shandong province by unidentified men.

The footage shows Bale asking to see Chen, with a CNN producer providing interpretation, but being ordered by one of the guards to leave. He then asked why he was unable to pass through. The guards responded by trying to grab or punch a small video camera Bale was carrying.

"What I really wanted to do was to meet the man, shake his hand and say what an inspiration he is," Bale was quoted as saying by CNN.

Journalists and scores of Chinese human rights activists have sought to visit Chen in the past, all unsuccessfully. Chen's case has also been raised publicly by U.S. congressmen and diplomats, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, all to no response from China.

CNN said Bale first learned of Chen from news reports when he was in China filming "The Flowers of War," China's official submission for best foreign language film Oscar. It said he "reached out to CNN and invited us to join him on his journey to visit Chen."

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

"Twilight" movie wins slow box office weekend (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? The newest "Twilight" vampire movie ruled the domestic box office for a third time with $16.9 million in ticket sales over one of the slowest movie-going weekends of the year, studio estimates released on Sunday showed.

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1" from independent studio Summit Entertainment beat a pack of family films at U.S. and Canadian theaters. The fourth and second-to-last film in one of Hollywood's most lucrative franchises added $40.2 million at international locations.

After three weekends in theaters, "Breaking Dawn" has soaked up $588.3 million in global ticket sales.

The "Twilight" movies are based on best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer about a human-vampire-werewolf love triangle.

The third domestic win in a row for "Breaking Dawn" came during the post-Thanksgiving weekend, typically one of the bleakest of the year at movie theaters following big releases a week earlier.

This year, total U.S. and Canadian ticket sales rang up at an estimated $82 million for the weekend, making it the year's second slowest, according to Hollywood.com Box Office. Overall sales only slightly edged the $81.5 million take from the September 9 weekend that followed Labor Day.

With no new films released nationwide, sales also slumped 4.8 percent below the same weekend last year.

After "Breaking Dawn," the rest of the weekend's top five belonged to family fare.

Disney's "The Muppets" starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams alongside Kermit, Miss Piggy and their puppet friends, rang up $11.2 million at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters. The movie represents a comeback for the Muppet characters, last seen in movie theaters in 1999. Worldwide sales for the new film have reached $60.1 million through Sunday.

"Hugo," a 3D family movie about an orphaned boy who lives in a 1930s Paris train station, moved up to third place from its fifth place finish last weekend after expanding to more theaters. The film pulled in $7.6 million domestically, bringing its total after two weekends to $25.2 million.

Animated 3D movie "Arthur Christmas," which explains how Santa delivers presents around the world in one night, pulled in $7.4 million domestically to finish in fourth place. To date, the movie has brought in $70.6 million worldwide.

In fifth place, dancing penguin sequel "Happy Feet Two" earned $6.0 million at domestic theaters. Total global sales reached $85.8 million after three weekends of release.

Walt Disney Co released "The Muppets." Privately held Summit Entertainment released "Breaking Dawn - Part 1." "Arthur Christmas" was distributed by Sony, and Hugo was released by Paramount, a unit of Viacom Inc.. Time Warner unit Warner Bros. distributed "Happy Feet Two."

(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

APNewsBreak: Possible scam victim died months ago (AP)

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? An Ohio coroner says a man suspected of being the third fatal victim of a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme died in August, weeks before the suspected killings of two other victims.

The body of Ralph Geiger was discovered Nov. 25 in Noble County in rural southeastern Ohio during an investigation into two other deaths and the wounding of a fourth man.

Noble County Coroner Alan Spencer lists Geiger's date of death as around Aug. 9, according to a copy of Geiger's death certificate obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

Authorities believe the other victims were killed in October and November.

Police have identified as suspects a 16-year-old high school student and a 52-year-old self-styled preacher.

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Somber Boeheim apologizes after Orange edge Gators (AP)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. ? Florida's Billy Donovan hasn't won two national championships and been to three Final Fours without knowing a little about the coaching fraternity. So, he certainly can sense when a member of that group is hurting.

Friday night was one of those times.

"I've known him since I was playing," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "And I feel bad for everybody involved up here. I just told him I'm thinking about him. I'm sure it's taken a lot out of him."

It certainly appears to.

On this night, Donovan was referring to his opposition, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, the embattled 67-year-old Hall of Fame coach who appeared like his normal stoic self on the sideline of the No. 4 Orange's 72-68 win over the No. 10 Gators at the Carrier Dome.

But in the postgame press conference, as the focus turned toward an intense federal investigation into his program, it was a different story.

Boeheim, suddenly, was visibly emotional and full of regret.

"I believe I misspoke very badly in my response to the allegations that have been made," a humbled Boeheim said. "I shouldn't have questioned what the accusers expressed or their motives. I am really sorry that I did that and I regret any harm that I caused.

"It was insensitive to the individuals involved and especially to the overall issue of child abuse."

The coach returned to the subject of his fired former assistant coach, Bernie Fine, apologizing for his initial remarks involving the men who accused Fine of molestating them as minors. Two of the three men were former Syracuse ballboys. Fine has maintained his innocence.

Boeheim said it was important that he get involved in terms of raising awareness and promised he would.

"I'm going to do everything I can to do that, whether I'm coaching or not coaching," he said.

Some sex abuse victims' advocates said Boeheim should resign or be fired for his initial disparaging comments about the accusers. Boeheim said he was acting "out of loyalty."

"I acted without thinking. I couldn't believe what I was hearing," he said.

As he did at Tuesday's home win over Eastern Michigan, Boeheim received a warm ovation when he was introduced to a crowd of 24,459. It was the largest on-campus attendance in the nation so far this season, and it included former Syracuse star Carmelo Anthony and former Orange assistant Rob Murphy, in his first year at EMU, in front-row seats.

Throughout this process, it's been clear that Boeheim has the support of his players, a unit that is now 8-0.

"Coach Boeheim is our father," Scoop Jardine said. "He's a big part of this team, a big part of this community. He's taught me a lot the five years I've been here. We play hard for him. We play hard for ourselves.

"It's our season and we want to protect it."

So far, so good.

Syracuse breezed to its first seven wins with an average margin of victory of 26 points, but the Gators (5-2), whose only previous loss was by seven at No. 2 Ohio State, figured to provide a stiff challenge and they did in a game that seemed like a midseason encounter in the Big East.

One again, the game was secondary.

"It's been crazy," said Matt Roe, a Syracuse star from the late 1980s who does color on radio broadcasts. "Nonstop for 14 days. What am I going to say? I don't know anything. (Boeheim) is a good man."

He certainly seemed to have the support of the crowd, as well, especially fans in the jammed student section, where one sign said, "In Boeheim We Trust" and another, "In Jim We Trust."

As for the game, Brandon Triche had 20 points and Jardine finished with 16 and seven assists for the Orange. Kenny Boynton led Florida with 22 points and Erving Walker had 17.

Neither team led by more than six points in a first half that was tied six times.

Florida, which entered the game shooting 42.9 percent from beyond the arc and was averaging 12 3-pointers a game, went 3 of 14 from long range in the period ? all by Erving Walker ? while the Orange struggled even more, hitting just 1 of 10.

Syracuse still managed to forge ahead at the break, 31-27, behind seven points each from Kris Joseph, Fab Melo and Triche.

After the Orange built a 39-30 lead early in the second, Boynton led the Gators back with three 3s, the last putting Florida back on top 49-46 with 9:19 to go. Triche tied it for the fourth time in the period 11 seconds later with his first 3 of the game.

Jardine fed Joseph for a one-handed slam to break the tie and Jardine's steal and layup had the Orange up 54-49 with 6:20 to go and the crowd shaking the Carrier Dome.

The roar reached another crescendo when Jardine hit a runner in the lane as the shot clock neared zero, Joseph fed C.J. Fair for a baseline jumper, and Jardine hit a 3 from the left wing in a span of 2:19.

That gave Syracuse a 61-53 lead with 3:52 left and the Gators couldn't rally back.

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