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U.S. TV networks court YouTube crowd in quest for digital viewers

July 26, 2015 creative beauty-gurus, california, call-at-vidcon, camera, fitness-buffs, internet, mobile-devices, nickelodeon, often-looking, passionate, picture, stars-include, viacom-owned, youtube

By Lisa Richwine ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) – For the first time, cable TV network Nickelodeon staged a casting call at VidCon, a convention that draws stars of YouTube and social media like Vine, Instagram and Snapchat and their passionate followers. The Viacom-owned channel's talent search is one way traditional TV networks are recruiting Internet personalities to build audiences. YouTube stars include comedians, beauty gurus, product reviewers, gamers, musicians and fitness buffs who post videos of themselves, often looking directly into the camera.

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Colorado cop’s cute encounter with baby owl posted online

July 24, 2015 creative boulder-county, driving-near, office, owl-delighted, sheriff, the-mountains, the-unusual, their-tracks, tracks, unusual

Video of a Colorado deputy’s encounter with a curious, clicking baby owl delighted animal-lovers on Friday after authorities posted footage of the unusual meeting in the mountains to the Internet.

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Competitive video-gaming organization to start drug testing

July 24, 2015 creative driving-near, drugs, electronic, field, office, randomized-skin, sheriff, shooting-game, testing-players, the-unusual

A competitive video-gaming organization will begin testing players for performance-enhancing drugs next month, as the field of so-called eSports moves further into the mainstream and prize pools climb. The announcement by the Electronic Sports League came just weeks after one gamer admitted to using the stimulant Adderall at a tournament, sparking discussion around an issue that has long plagued traditional sports.

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WTO slashes tariffs on IT goods but implementation held up

July 24, 2015 creative driving-near, drugs, electronic, field, geneva, global, import-tariffs, miles, sheriff, testing-players, world

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization finalised a list of 201 information technology products to be freed from import tariffs in a $1.3 trillion deal on Friday, but said it was still short of the critical mass of countries needed to put it into force.

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Pennsylvania professor’s social media comments condemned as offensive

July 23, 2015 creative abdulazeez, adl, after-returning, chattanooga, facebook, jewish, kaukab-siddique, made-derogatory, make-it-clear, marines, post-earlier, said-it-knew, the-information, the-website

Kaukab Siddique, a literature professor at Lincoln University, made derogatory comments toward women regarding rape in a Facebook post earlier this month. “We strongly condemn Professor Kaukab Siddique’s reported remarks targeting the LGBT community, the Jewish community, and women,” said Nancy Baron-Baer, ADL regional director, in a statement.

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Airbnb hires Blackstone CFO Tosi: Bloomberg

July 23, 2015 creative blackstone, chattanooga, destabilizing, economy, hearing-called, initial-public, library-parking, marines, most-successful, private-equity, rally-before, short-term

The San Francisco-based company, one of Silicon Valley's most successful start-ups since it was founded five years ago by a trio of graduates, has so far snubbed an initial public offering in favor of ever-larger private fundraising rounds. Tosi's appointment, however, would better position the company to go public.

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Mike Lynch-backed Darktrace valued at $100 million in new funding

July 22, 2015 creative 22-5-million, account-details, awards-ceremony, billion-over, filed-on-monday, firm-backed, funding-round, herbalife, london, lynch, management-team, mission-district, said-it-had, summit-partners, user

Darktrace, a cyber-security firm backed by former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch, said it had raised $22.5 million from U.S.-based venture capital company Summit Partners in a funding round that valued the company at more than $100 million. The company was one of Lynch's first investments after he left Hewlett-Packard Co in 2012 in an acrimonious split over the $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy. HP is suing Lynch and a former colleague for more than $5 billion over their management of Autonomy

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Contractor that built flawed Maryland health exchange website to pay $45 million

July 21, 2015 creative 22-5-million, affordable, avoid-legal, billion-over, firm-backed, flawed-health, herbalife, lynch, president, state, state-officials, summit-partners, user

By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) – The prime contractor hired to build Maryland’s flawed health exchange website will pay $45 million to the state and federal governments to avoid legal action over its performance, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday. Maryland’s health exchange program made national headlines last year when the state had one of the worst sign-up rates for state-run exchanges set up under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act

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Hackers threaten to leak data of 37 million clients of cheating website

July 20, 2015 creative biderman, breach, credit, credit-card, dating-website, function, krebsonsecurity, leak-details, media, said-it-had

Hackers threatened to leak details including the credit card information, nude photos and sexual fantasies of as many as 37 million customers of a dating website that caters to cheating spouses, the KrebsOnSecurity blog reported. The dating website AshleyMadison.com's Canadian parent, Avid Life Media, confirmed the breach on its systems, and said it had since secured the site and was working with law enforcement agencies to trace those behind the attack

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WTO negotiators agree tariff cuts on more IT products

July 19, 2015 creative biderman, credit-card, dating-website, expand-the-list, krebsonsecurity, list, media, nations-had, tentative-deal, trade, weekend

World trade negotiators seeking to eliminate tariffs on information technology (IT) products agreed over the weekend to expand the list of items covered. Participants said the 54 nations had struck a tentative deal to expand to about 200 the IT products on which tariffs would be dropped. The list had an annual trade value of some $1 trillion, the World Trade Organization said late on Saturday.