Well this is interesting: fresh off of buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, Yahoo! is making a bid for Hulu.
Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid told Reuters on Friday.
As someone who once worked at Yahoo!, I think the reaction of Chris Lehmann, my former boss at Yahoo!, sums up my feelings about this perfectly…
One of the central complaints around Windows 8, beyond the fact that it’s blatantly designed to be used on a tablet instead of a PC, is the fact that there’s no Start button. In practice, it takes all of five minutes to get used to the new way of doing things, unless you’re stubborn and like to bellyache. But for those of you who just can’t let it go, Microsoft will give you a Start button. Of sorts. Read the rest of this entry »
If AT&T is your mobile service provider, you should probably check your bill regularly anyway. But this month it might be particularly important, because buried amid the actual taxes and other minor fees it has to collect, AT&T may just be trying to pull a fast one. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hey, remember Jennifer Lopez? J.Lo? Inexplicable film career? Even more inexplicable music career? Yeah, she’s now co-founder of a “premium” mobile store, Viva Movil, aimed squarely at Latinos. Read the rest of this entry »
Amid Apple’s offshore bank accounts and Facebook helping itself to half a billion dollars of your tax money, it’s nice to see a tech company not treating the government as a piggy bank. Like Tesla, for example, the electric car company that has just paid off a $465 million loan nearly a decade before it had to. Read the rest of this entry »
LoJack, in case you didn’t know, is the popular brand of anti-theft device for cars. But it also has been extending that brand to laptops, and now, phones. Although the selling point here is less “tracking your phone” and more “sending a large, scary man to get your phone back.” Read the rest of this entry »
Airbnb is a service largely popular among tourists, as well as the occasional prostitute, looking for a place to crash in New York City (and many other places as well) who don’t want to pay exorbitant rates to stay at a hotel. Unfortunately, New York courts have decided it’s better for you to stay in a motel on Long Island than in a stranger’s home. Read the rest of this entry »
Soon after Defense Distributed was forced to take down its 3D plans for a goofy, useless plastic gun some other guy — this time the anonymously named “Joe” — put up a video of his much better, but still awful, plastic gun made on a much cheaper 3D printer. And he called it the “Lulz Liberator.” There’s a name that inspires confidence. A lot of people are freaking out about these things. But they really shouldn’t be. Read the rest of this entry »
So today Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared before a Senate panel to talk about that whole tax thing people have been talking about, and Sen. John McCain, man of the people, asked Cook a question we’d all probably like to ask him.
“Why the hell do I have to keep updating apps on my iPhone all the time?”
Meanwhile, how great would it have been if Cook had replied by asking, “Why the hell did you pick Sarah Palin to be your running mate?!” Pretty great, I think!
