Facebook Stock (NASDAQ:FB) : Impact of Slingshot Launch and New iPad App on Facebook Financial News

Facebook wants to break the “1% Rule” of Internet culture that says a tiny fraction of users create the content for everyone else. So after a momentary leak last week, today Facebook officially launches Slingshot for iOS and Android in the US, an app where friends send you photos and videos, but you have to reply with your own before you can see them. “Slingshot” has all the same basic functions as “Snapchat,” but with a few minor tweaks here and there. Everyone is a creator and no one is a spectator”, says Product Manager Will Reuben, and that makes it different from Snapchat .

Facebook Paper’s New Trending Section Makes It A Better Real-Time News Reader

Facebook Paper is pretty, but sluggish when it comes to news. It’s human curated sections take awhile to ingest the latest world events. But today it added a “Trending” section that highlights news stories and photos that capture the essence of most mentioned topics on Facebook. The update also lets you tap any hashtag to see a Paper-style cards of public and friends’ mentions. Paper also got a long list of other updates that Facebook says are a bunch of features you’ve asked us for”. Facebook’s IPad App Becomes An Entertainment Hub With New Games And Trending Videos Sidebar.

Facebook Targets Gamers With New iPad-Only Update

Facebook introduces a new feature specific to iPad: a right hand sidebar dedicated to trending topics, gaming, and overall discovery within the app. Over 70 percent of people who use Facebook for iPad played a Facebook-connected game in the past 90 days, so the company is helping them discover or re-engage with games through a new home page sidebar it starts testing today on its iPad app. It includes social notifications for native mobile and Facebook web games you already play, video trailers for games you don’t plus Trending videos popular with your demographic.

Alibaba Gives Details Ahead Of IPO Bigger than Facebook

Alibaba is pulling back the curtain a little bit, providing more information about its partnership structure and financials ahead of its planned initial public offering of stock. China’s biggest e-commerce company filed in May for an initial public offering in the U.S. that could top the $16 billion that Facebook and its early investors raised in the social networking company’s IPO two years ago.

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Harvey Dyer06/1908/14

business, electronics, Software

How and Where to Sell Your Old Desktop Computer

While some people are happy to recycle their old electronics like computers, others realize that their old computer gear still has value. Selling your old computer equipment isn’t likely to completely fund your new computer purchase, but it may certainly help defray some of the expense. Many buyers are in search of great deals on used equipment, so you simply need to tap into a … Continue reading How and Where to Sell Your Old Desktop Computer

Harvey Dyer06/1708/14

Finance, Live Stream

WWE Monday Night Raw Live Stream and Video Replay

Watch WWE Monday Night Raw live stream tonight at 8:00pmET online or on TV. Stay in the loop to view WWE Monday Night Raw free event online through a live stream link provided below. On Monday June 16th 2014, watch a 3-hour super show of WWE Raw on USA Network.

Tonight’s WWE Raw includes Superstars suchas John Cena, Luke Harper, Randy Orton, Erick Rowan, Bray Wyatt, Roman Reigns. A great show to come for all WWE fans in the USA and outside the US! The following superstars have qualified for the impending main event ladder match: Sheamus, Cesaro, Bray Wyatt, Orton and Alberto Del Rio. There are reportedly two more spots at the Money in the Bank PPV main event, and it is a foregone conclusion that John Cena will win take one of the final spots at the unprecedented match.

At 7:30pm ET, live from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, WWE fans are ready to watch the WWE Monday Night Raw lie stream online or in front of their TV sets.

WWE Raw is a professional wrestling television program that currently airs live on Monday evenings on the USA Network in the United States. The stars of World Wrestling Entertainment unleash their mayhem on one of cable television’s highest-rated programs. The show debuted in 1993 on the USA Network.

WWE Monday Night Raw Live Stream

Ok, get ready to use those tissues. The WWE just posted the sweetest tribute video of Connor ‘The Crusher’ Michalek, a young boy who just passed from cancer. Back in 2012 Connor’s family made a YouTube video of the then 7-year-old asking professional wrestler Daniel Bryan to meet. The wish came true and the two kept in touch for two years! This past April the WWE invited the little boy into the ring for some fun and sadly a few weeks later he lost his battle with cancer.

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Harvey Dyer06/1609/22

Analysis, BioTech, business, Finance

BioTech Stock News in Video : Valeant (NYSE:VRX) vs Allergan (NYSE:AGN) Takeover Battle, Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) + Covidien (NYSE:COV) $45 Billion Deal in Video + GMO Experiments

A source familiar with the matter said on Saturday, Medical-device maker Medtronic Inc and rival Covidien, are in advanced talks to combine in a deal valued at $45 billion to $50 billion. The person said, asking not to be named because the matter is not public, the deal, which would allow Medtronic to be domiciled in Ireland where Covidien is based and thus take advantage of lower tax rates, could come as soon as Monday. Minneapolis-based Medtronic, which makes cardiovascular and orthopedic devices, has a market value of about $61 billion.

An executive vice-president of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc will leave the company, even as the Canadian drugmaker fends off criticism about management turnover from its takeover target Allergan Inc . Valeant confirmed late on Friday after inquiries by Reuters, Executive vice-president and company group chairman Ryan Weldon will leave. Like Chief Executive Mike Pearson, Weldon previously worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Valeant said Weldon’s departure was planned, and takes effect after it completes a $1.4 billion sale of several injectable treatments to Nestle SA.

Before residents in southern Oregon overwhelmingly voted to ban genetically modified crops last month, farmers negotiated for months with a biotech company that grows engineered sugar beets near their fields. Their goal was to set up a system to peacefully coexist, an online mapping database of fields to help growers minimize cross-pollination between engineered and non-engineered crops. But the effort between farmers and Swiss company Syngenta failed, leading to the ban. Last October, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber directed the state’s Department of Agriculture to undertake something far more ambitious than that failed mapping effort — map GMO field locations across the entire state and establish buffer zones and exclusion areas for GE crops.

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Harvey Dyer06/1508/14

Finance, Internet

5 Stocks to Watch Next Week : Intel, Priceline, Intel, Finisar, Univision

Our selection of Technology stocks to watch for next week with Intel, Priceline, Intel, Finisar and, Univision.

WSJ’s Emma Moody outlines three stocks to watch on Friday, June 13: Priceline, Intel and Finisar.

Univision, the biggest Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S., is in early talks with several media companies about a possible sale. The big question is just how high that price tag will ultimately go. WSJ’s Shalini Ramachandran joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: AP

The European Union’s second-highest court on Thursday upheld a record €1.06 billion ($1.43 billion) fine against Intel Corp. for abusing its dominant position in the microprocessor market, marking the latest in a long line of victories for EU antitrust authorities at the European courts.  

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Harvey Dyer06/1408/14

business, Finance, Internet, Mobile, Software

BlackBerry’s Mega Deal (NASDAQ:BBRY) , New Product for Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple in Trouble in Europe (NASDAQ:AAPL)

BlackBerry Ltd said on Thursday it has signed a agreement with EnStream LP, a mobile payments joint venture owned by Canada’s three large wireless carriers, to provide a secure platform for transactions between banks and consumers. Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry has been trying to reinvent itself under new Chief Executive Officer John Chen as its phones have lost ground to Apple Inc’s iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s Galaxy devices.

The company’s QNX software already is a mainstay in the automobile industry, powering electronic and other systems in a wide range of cars.  

Amazon’s newly announced music streaming service is yet another attempt by the company to move beyond e-commerce and infuse itself into the daily lives of Americans with an increasing number of offerings, including grocery delivery and streaming TV. The announcement comes just days ahead of the expected unveiling of the company’s first smartphone.

Starting Thursday, Amazon.com Inc. will offer more than a million tracks for ad-free streaming and download to Kindle Fire tablets as well as to computers and the Amazon Music app for Apple and Android devices.  

The European Commission will launch a formal investigation on Wednesday into Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland, Irish state broadcaster RTE reported, without naming its source. The EU’s competition authority said last year that it was looking into corporate tax arrangements in several member states and had requested information from Ireland.  

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