Yahoo Tables a Bid of $250 million for Fullscreen

(Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com) - Yahoo has reportedly offered a deal in the region of $250 million to snap up YouTube content provider Fullscreen, setting sights on expansion in reaching young consumers through the acquisition of the company.

Interestingly, though, Yahoo is facing a stiff competition from Chernin, a private investment company who is already a shareholder in Fullscreen.

According to Britain's Sky News, the shareholder has a right to purchase Fullscreen at an agreed, preset value if other bidders do not offer in a minimum of $300 million.

Established by former Google executive George Strompolos in 2011, the YouTube content provide is currently owned by Peter Chernin, an ex- News Corp executive.

Tier III Data Center in West Africa 70% completed

MainOne plans to complete Tier III data center in Q3 this year and now the facility is 70% completed. Having finished, the US$40m facility is able to provide 600 rack spaces and redundant power supplies up to 6MVA.

It should be noted that MainOne’s connectivity platform includes metro and international fiber, an internet backbone and interconnection with all the major networks in Nigeria, as revealed by Well-known Digital Marketing Agency.

According to Main One’s CEO Funke Opeke, the facility is being constructed in response to demand for managed computing and network services in West Africa.

The CEO said: “Access to bundled data center services and connectivity solutions from a trusted provider means organizations save the capital costs that would have been needed to build and maintain dedicated data center facilities.”

The advantages of Hypercat

According to Digital Marketing Agency reported, the new modern option was developed to make apps and machines.

It is kwon as a new specific and effectively acts, and its function as an address book for data to hold information transmitted by network connected devices.

Moreover Hypercat offers an app to ask a hub about type of data and permission that it need to access.

More than that it would let the system have a standard consultation to each other. The purpose of this program is to reduce the need for human argument. 

More than these Hypercat is an open and lightweight hypermedia catalogue format.

Google: To wrap Android in a bigger box than phone, ‘TV’

Again, with listless and proliferated researches toward modern technology, Google has once again comes up with smart idea of generating smartphone operating system into TV.

The TV will offer the same interface and operating system as Android smartphone as well as providing the downloadable applications, contents and games. And of course, it still functions as a normal TV with local and international channels to switches over for users as well.

Despite Google TV since 2010, Android TV will have a different and better approach towards entertainment. According to Digital Marketing Agency information, Google aims is to make Android users experience all of their tiny smartphones’ contents on a bigger screen.

Author Images to be removed from Search Results

According to the announcement by John Mueller, Google will cease showing author profile images and Google+ circle counts in desktop and mobile search results. The announcement will be effective over the next few days.

Mueller wrote: "We've been doing lots of work to clean up the visual design of our search results, in particular creating a better mobile experience and a more consistent design across devices. As a part of this, we're simplifying the way authorship is shown in mobile and desktop search results, removing the profile photo and circle count." as revealed by Well-known Digital Marketing Agency,

The test shows that the image appearing in the search result helps increases click-through rates and attracts users' eyes, but Mueller denied the test. However, SEO consultant Kristine Schachinger supported the test.

She said: "I have three times intentionally lost my image from the results and each time the drop was approximately 25 percent. Since I have 1 million impressions and 110,000 CTR on average every 3 months, I think my tests show there is a significant drop."

Google Confirms Working on Android TVs, Cars, and Watches

(Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com)- Google Inc. is planning to officially launch its newest inventions in the form of televisions, cars and watches later this year, all of which will be run with Android software.

Statistically, this software from Google is running on more than three out of every four smartphones sold globally, generating a massive income for the company.

As Google’s executive cited, the first cars will be on sale at the nearly end of the year, coming with Android Auto software for navigation, music and messaging, while Android wearable devices called Google Fit are scheduled to be launched on Wednesday.

On the other hand, the company’s Android TV will give viewers an easy interface through which to search for and display content, building on its failure in catching on with consumers four years ago.

Google: To interweave Android operation with car infotainment system

According to trustworthy Digital Marketing Agency mentioned, Google, the famous networking company has introduced, for the first time, its in-car operating system called ‘Android Auto’ pertaining to both Android smartphone and the vehicle’s infotainment system.

With the combination of their Android-operated gadget connected to their automobile’s infotainment system, they can access navigating systems, online searching engine, and other phone contents on the car for a safer option as Google stated, "This is accessible through your car's controls, and more importantly, is far safer than fumbling around with your phone,". The firm also expects that there is no need for the users to lift even a finger to their infotainment screen through the technology of vocal command on Google.

The rival of Android Auto is Apple’s Carplay, however; Google believes that its operating system will be a worthy option for users because of the firm’s famous ‘Google map’. It is reported that both system will be compatible with most automakers.

The production of the system will commence within this year.

New Smartwatches is available now

According to Digital Marketing Agency reported, buyers cab find the smartwatches comes with Android Wear operating system on the market now.

This watch was powered by Google Android Wear, it has rectangular screens that make an attempt to the standard way and possible for Android Wear device function.

Moreover, both the LG G watch and Samsung Gear Live make a return to Android with the same feature of rectangular screens.

By the way Android Wear will provide a more focused on what the devices are available. More than that, the users can also reject calls to their phone via the watch and select a pre-set text message.

The advantages of Hover cars

According to Digital Marketing Agency reported, the new technology cars, hover cars, which can stay in the place on air, were designed for two people and it will be suspended from elevated magnetic tracks to different style to avoid from crowded traffic.

Moreover, these vehicles will achieve speed 70km/h up and the firm expected that they will offer much faster.

Anyway passenger can order these cars on their smartphone to meet them at the specific station.

One more thing, these cars are not too scary, it is cheaper than take a train line and uses part of the urban landscape, and they have 20 feet above ground and that isn't currently used.

Then the passengers can head directly to their direction, and the system will be up and run by late 2015.

Newest iPhone to Be Manufactured Next Month

(Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com)- Apple Inc. has reportedly given a green light for its suppliers to make a mass production of the newest generation of iPhone in China, which will start in July.

Over the past weeks there have been speculations that the company plans to design and sell a device with a larger screen so that they can compete in the market with their rivals as Samsung and HTC, provided that phones with much bigger displays are increasingly popular in Asia and elsewhere.

And now reliable reports are out claiming that Apple intends to increase production of iPhones with 4.7 and 5.5-inch screen sizes, which may be shipped to retailers this fall.

According to the reports, Hon Hai Precision Industry will employ over 100,000 people in mainland China to produce the newest iPhone from Apple.

Also, fellow Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron Corp will expand its workforce in one mainland factory by 30 percent to meet anticipated high demand for the new iPhone.

CNN with GIT collaborate on researching a future newsgathering source ‘UAVs’

As reliable Digital Marketing Agency revealed, the top news cable network, CNN and Georgia Institute of Technology has announced their collaborations in a research studying on unmanned aerial vehicles for the future efficiency of information gathering.

The duo initiators of the project stated that they will share the data with Federal Aviation Authorities about UAV study in order to boost, and have a harmless and effective process of the study project.

David Vigilante, CNN's senior vice president for legal, said "Our hope is that by working cooperatively to share knowledge, we can accelerate the process for CNN and other media organizations to safely integrate this new technology into their coverage plans,"

CNN and Georgia has expressed their delight towards each other as partnerships by exchanging grateful statements.

"It's a natural opportunity to work with our neighbors at Georgia Tech, who have experience and insights into this area." said Vigilante.

"We're excited to be engaging with CNN to study the newsgathering applications for UAVs and look forward to working with one of the most respected news operations in the world," said Mike Heiges form the GIT.

The collaborated project will most certainly begin this summer.

Dell seals a deal with Nutanix to sell the latter’s data center building block

Nutanix and Dell have clinched original equipment manufacturing (OEM) deal in which Dell will sell the former’s data center infrastructure building blocks. Joint sales, marketing, support and service investments are also included in the agreement between the two companies. Furthermore, the endorsement will make it easier for Nuntanix to attract and convince its buyers.

Nuntanix channel vice president Kaplan said: “the deal will help, rather than hinder, Nutanix’s existing reseller partners, because Dell’s endorsement will be an inducement to buyers who may be nervous about a new technology concept.” as revealed by Well-known Digital Marketing Agency.

He added: “I ran a VMware consultancy in the early days of virtualization and every day was a struggle. When Dell signed an OEM partnership with VMware, that was a massive endorsement which made everything easier. Having Dell come into our channel is a huge endorsement of what we’re doing.”

German Publishers wants payment from Google and other search engines

According to German publishers, Google and other search engines like Bing and Yahoo are in violation of the country's ancillary copyright law and want them to pay 11 percent of revenues generated from linking to and publishing snippets of their content.

VG Media, a collection agency for copyright holders, mentioned that they expect the search engines companies infringing on Germany’s copyright law to pay for the amount of money demanded by Germany, as revealed by Well-known Digital Marketing Agency, 

In response to the demand, Jeff Jarvis said: "Google does not place advertising on Google News. Are the publishers seeking 11 percent of 0?"

Furthermore, the bottom line is that these organizations are getting valuable link juice and visibility from sites like Google and Bing. Based on this fact, he added: "If the publishers really want a fair exchange of value, then they should also be paying Google for the links — the readers — it sends their way."

IndonesianCloud expanded cloud operation in response to growing demand

Well-known Digital Marketing Agency,  A largest cloud provider in Indonesia, IndonesianCloud has deployed in Equinix data center to meet the growing demand in the country. IndonesiaCloud has joined the partnership with Equinix with the latter providing extensive advisory support to PT DCI in the design and operations of the data center.

Thanks to the new law requiring the financial institution to maintain ownership of data transactions and the data within Indonesia, there has resulted in increased demand for local data centers.

Neil Cresswell, CEO of IndonesianCloud said:  “As our customers deal with mission critical and confidential corporate assets and information on a daily basis, we needed to ensure that their data is stored in the most reliable, most secure data center environment possible.”

He added: “Equinix enables us to become the only cloud provider in Indonesia that meets these strict requirements.”

The hottest top messaging app in the chart ‘YO’ face a security flaw

As easily as it was made by having spent only 8 hours to establish its foundation, the now-top-charting app, which can only utter a single ‘Yo’ to other users, with a one million US dollars investment is confronting an issue of being hacked by students and possibly other developers as famous Digital Marketing Agency mentioned.

It is reported that despite the ‘Yo’ being the only word the app can send, the reason for the app to climb at the peak of the chart is for the current World Cup issue when users cheer for their favorite teams scoring by sending out the ‘Yo’ message using the app.

The inventor, Mr. Abel, claimed that the issue is being dealt with at the moment.

"Some of the stuff has been fixed and some we are still working on,".

However, he did not give in for more detail on the fixing problems as of now.

Google Pondering a Stake in New Subsea Cable

Google Inc. is reported to be pondering an investment in a new cable across the Pacific Ocean with a view to increasing amount of traffic across private networks.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google would use the new subsea cable to connect data centers in Oregon and Japan after expending in a similar $300 million cable in 2010, as highlighted by always reliable Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com.

Currently, private networks are used for home, office and businesses, as they provide security for vital information and cannot be accessed by devices outside the network.

As the reported mentioned, a great deal of Google’s bandwidth is reserved for its private 'B4' network, transmitting emails and YouTube videos among other data.

Yo has been hack easily

According to Digital Marketing Agency reported, there is only short time to hack Yo.

The hacker can spam users with custom messages and pretty much everything has to offer the app.

The hacker can control the app’s developer, and there are much vulnerability had been fixed.

The hacker can check the users’ phone number and view their contact. The skill of hacking is special, but it not really difficult to learn, that the statement from hackers.

PS4 rumored to sustain sale by promoting the game console packages

Having been sold globally with quite adequate amounts of unit during its release, the top gaming console company still strives to retain the price and scale of the sale in order to hit the satisfying goal. And to do so, Sony, the owner of PS series, is suggested the idea of packing the hardware altogether, reported by respectable Digital Marketing Agency.

After successfully parceling PS4 and PS vita together, the company has implied the possibility of the extra PlayStation TV wrapped in the same box.

The biggest advantage of having this cool package is the streaming of both TV and game prospects and remote play.

It is believed that if Sony can pack these gadgets together and have a promotionally reasonable price, the game fans will be hooked up even more and can push the company’s sale to great length compare with other competitive firms.

CLS had challenged a law by the Alice Corp

According to Digital Marketing Agency reported, the US Supreme Court has been solving an argument between CLS and Alice Corp.

The judges agree that a software patent has problem. Alice Corp had added the existing technique and other ideas.

CLS had challenged a law by the Australian company Alice Corp. the court has official decision that Alice Corp had added CLS abstract idea that involve with financial trades and they also added the concept of “generic computer implementation”.

And then this decision of the court was support by Google and Facebook, and IBM is also warning the limited of the quality of business.

YouTube Planning to Monetize Music Service

Despite criticisms that the content of certain labels might be blocked from appearing on its free, existing ad-supported Website, YouTube has confirmed that it is working on a paid streaming music service, which is expected to launch at the end of the summer.

This new service offered by YouTube will enable users to listen to music without any ads, to listen to music offline, and to listen to an artist's entire album instead of just individual songs, apart from other amazing abilities.

According to YouTube, they are adding subscription-based features for music to bring their music partners new revenue streams in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars they already generate for those partners each year, as highlighted by always reliable Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com.

Streaming music services have become increasingly popular among users, with Apple already paying $3 billion for streaming music service and premium headphone maker Beats, while Google launching the $9.99-per-month Play All Access subscription music service last year.

Google updates feed requirements for Google Shopping

Well-known Digital Marketing Agency,  It seems to be something new to those running Google Product Listing Ads with Google’s feed requirement update. Up to now Google has updated the feed requirements for Google Shopping with some new attributes.

Google has added a new “mobile link” to make sure users are taken to mobile landing pages from their smartphones. Advertisers can now enter a separate mobile landing page URL via this attribute.

Google’s additional updates included:

1. Merchant-defined custom bundles, such as a camera with additional case and lens, must now be identified as such in order to be displayed appropriately

2. Apparel attributes allow more detailed descriptions of apparel products

3. Item availability now simplified to allow a clearer distinction between different availability states