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TWITTER CEO GIVES UP $200M IN STOCK FOR COMPANY EMPLOYEES 14
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DESKTOP VS MOBILE:
COMPUTERS IN
COMPETITION
TECH COMPANIES FACE ROCKY ROAD
ON THE WAY TO MAKING CARS
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GOOGLE OPENS
ALPHABET ERA
WITH 3Q REPORT
THAT LIFTS STOCK
Google received an “A” from investors for its
third-quarter report that ushered the Internet
search leader into a new era under Alphabet, its
recently formed parent company.
The numbers released Thursday indicated
that Google is making significant strides in the
increasingly important mobile-device market,
with its earnings surging 45 percent to nearly $4
billion, or $5.73 per share.
Ruth Porat, Alphabet’s chief financial officer,
cited improvements in mobile search and more
mobile traffic on Google's YouTube video site as
keys to the quarter.
Alphabet, which replaced Google as a publicly
traded stock earlier this month, won extra credit
by announcing plans to spend nearly $5.1 billion
buying its own shares over an unspecified
period. Buying back stock is something Google
never did in its 11-year history as a publicly
traded company.
The third-quarter gains also reflected the
financial discipline that has been imposed by
Porat, who made it clear she intended to curb
spending shortly after joining Google in May.
Google's operating expenses in the third quarter
rose at slightly slower pace than net revenue,
helping to fatten profit margins.
Google's revenue for the three months ending
in September totaled $18.7 billion. After
subtracting ad commissions, revenue totaled
$15.1 billion, a 15 percent increase from last year.
Both the third-quarter earnings and revenue
topped the analysts’ projections that steer
investors’ expectations.
Alphabet's Class C stock soared $62.86, or 9
percent, to $744. If the shares hit that level in
Friday's regular session, it will be a new high
for the stock.
The report covered a three-month period
ending marked Google's final quarter as a
public company. Google now is a subsidiary
of Alphabet, which was created to oversee the
hodgepodge of businesses that have been
launched with the tens of billions of dollars that
Google has made as the Internet’s dominant
search engine.
In January, Alphabet will report Google's
financial numbers separately from a group of
peripheral businesses that experiment with self-
driving cars, invest in startups, make Internet-
connected thermostats and search for cures to
health problems.
That breakdown is expected to reveal how much
money Google would have been making in
recent years if it hadn’t been diverting billions
of dollars to finance risky projects that Alphabet
CEO Larry Page calls “moon shots.’
Page, Google's co-founder, had been the
company’s CEO until Alphabets birth. Google's
new CEO, Sundar Pichai, assured analysts during
a Thursday conference call that the company
is “just beginning to scratch the service .... Our
vision is for Google to remain a place of incredible
creativity and innovation that uses a unique
technical expertise to tackle big problems.’
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Google's profit margins have been squeezed
by the shift to mobile devices from laptop
and desktop computers during the past five
years. The company was better prepared for
the upheaval than most of its technology
peers because it had the foresight to build and
develop Android, a mobile operating system
that features Google's search engine, maps,
email and YouTube video site.
Even though Android is being used on 1.4 billion
devices around the world, Google still has been
hurt by the move to mobile. That’s because
advertisers haven't been as willing to pay as
much for marketing messages shown on the
smaller screens of smartphones.
The phenomenon is one reason that Google's
average price for ads, a statistic known as “cost
per click,” has declined for four straight years.
The third-quarter cost per click dropped another
11 percent from the same time last year.
But marketers are gradually paying more
to connect with prospective customers on
mobile devices as Google has come up with
ways to fit more ads on screens and done a
better job of demonstrating that the pitches
translate into sales.
In the U.S., the average cost per click for
ads shown after mobile searches climbed
18 percent, according to digital marketing
consultants IgnitionOne. Google says average ad
prices on mobile devices have been rising in the
U.S. but hasn't provided specific numbers.
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TWITTER CEO
GIVES UP $200M
IN STOCK FOR
COMPANY
EMPLOYEES
After laying off more than 300 workers, Twitter
CEO Jack Dorsey is trying to lift the spirits of
the remaining employees by giving them 6.8
million shares of the stock he owns in the online
messaging service.
Dorsey is giving up the stock, currently worth
more than $200 million, so Twitter can award
the shares to its employees, according to
documents filed Friday with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
The gesture comes a week after Dorsey laid off
8 percent of Twitter's workforce in an effort to
make the company profitable for the first time
in its nine-year history. The gift represents nearly
one-third of the stock Dorsey owns in the San
Francisco company.
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“Vd rather have a smaller part of something big
than a bigger part of something small,” Dorsey
tweeted about surrendering some of his stock.
“im confident we can make Twitter big!”
Twitter said Dorsey's shares will be earmarked
for stock issued to employees next year under
the company’s incentive plan.
Dorsey will still own 15 million Twitter shares
worth about $460 million, based on Twitter's
current market value.
Twitter's stock gained $1.13, or nearly 4 percent,
to close Friday at $30.28.
The shares have declined by 40 percent in
the past six months amid concerns about
Twitter's slowing user growth and inability to
make money.
Twitter Inc. brought back Dorsey, one of its co-
founders, as its CEO in hopes that he can figure
out a way to make the messaging service more
appealing beyond its core audience of about 300
million users. By comparison, Facebook's social
networking service has 1.5 billion users, even
though it is only two years older than Twitter.
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Dorsey was Twitter’s original CEO, but was
ousted because the company’s board didn't
think he was the right leader at that time.
While he tries to re-tool Twitter, Dorsey is also
serving as CEO of Square, a payment processor
that is preparing to price an initial public
offering of its stock.
Dorsey has given back nearly 15.1 million shares
of Square stock during the past two years,
too, according to Square's IPO documents. He
remains by far Square's largest shareholder
with a 24 percent stake in that San Francisco
company, which is located a block away from
Twitter's headquarters.
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TECH COMPANIES
FACE ROCKY ROAD
ON THE VAY TO
MAKING CARS
Silicon Valley may think it can build a better car.
But should it?
As tech giants like Google and Apple look to
automobiles as the next frontier for innovation,
they face a looming reality: Cars are a lot harder
to manufacture and sell than smartphones.
Industry veterans and critics warn that the auto
business is a different animal. It's fraught with
massive costs to erect auto plants, complexities
in developing new sales and service systems,
and daunting liabilities involved when human
lives are at stake.
Automakers recalled a record 64 million vehicles
in 2014, shattering the old record of 30.8 million
set in 2004.
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General Motors Co. has had to pay $5.3 billion
to cover fines, victim compensation and the
recall of millions of vehicles for faulty ignition
switches. Toyota Motor Corp. paid a $1.2 billion
fine for failing to report safety defects, and
Volkswagen Group has set aside $7.3 billion for
the potential costs of its emissions scandal.
“| think, like so many Silicon Valley techies, that
they believe they are smarter than the world’s
automobile business, and that they will do it
better,’ said Bob Lutz, a retired General Motors
vice chairman. “No way.”
He added that tech companies would pay the
same high prices for expensive components
such as electric car batteries, likely pushing
retail prices of their vehicles out of reach for the
average driver.
“It will be a huge money loser,’ Lutz predicted.
To be sure, Google and Apple have plenty of
cash to burn, with about $270 billion in the
bank combined. But the challenges of the car
industry may be steering them to find ways to
revolutionize automotive technology without
becoming actual automakers.
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GOOGLE
Mountain View, California-based Alphabet,
the new holding company for Google and its
affiliated businesses, has spent six years working
on cars that can drive without human assistance.
But the company says it doesn’t want the
responsibility of building the robotic vehicles.
Instead, it plans to make the self-driving system
available to automakers that already have
factories, dealerships and experience.
“We have enormous respect for the expertise
of the automotive industry and how big and
complex a job it is to manufacture a vehicle,’
company spokeswoman Courtney Hohne said.
“We'll partner with many different companies to
bring this technology into the world safely.”
The strategy is consistent with how Google
currently operates. It relies on other companies
to produce the devices powered by its software.
Most smartphones, for example, operate on
its Android software. But the company doesn't
make any of the devices.
If its self-driving system makes it to market, the
company could license the software for a fee or,
perhaps, making it free to use like Android.
That's because it makes most of its money from
ads within their popular online services. If they no
longer need to drive, people might spend time
in their cars watching videos on Google-owned
YouTube or seeking information on Google's
search engine - both of which show ads.
But licensing their technology won't insulate it
from safety issues. The company potentially could
be held liable if one of its self-driving cars goes
awry and injures or kills people in an accident.
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APPLE
Apple CEO Tim Cook told an audience this week
that the automotive industry is ripe for “massive
change,’ with new software, electric motors and
self-driving capability becoming “much more
important, in a huge way.”
But Cook avoided commenting on reports that
Apple may be building its own car, according
to a video recording of his remarks Monday at a
technology conference sponsored by The Wall
Street Journal.
“What we really want, hopefully in the short
term, is we'd like people as they enter their car
to be able to have an iPhone experience in their
car, he said.
Apple has developed software for automakers
called CarPlay, which lets drivers use an
iPhone and its voice-activated assistant Siri
to operate some electronic controls and
entertainment systems.
In a research note, UBS analyst Steven
Milunovich cites the $2 trillion auto industry
as a potential new opportunity at a time when
sales of smartphones, tablets and PCs are seeing
slower growth globally.
Milunovich noted, however, that cars have
significantly lower profit margins than iPhones.
Apple, which makes most of its money from
iPhones, reported $39.5 billion in net income for
its last fiscal year, on total sales of $182.8 billion.
GM reported only about $4 billion in profit for its
last fiscal year, on sales of $151.1 billion.
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Apple outsources manufacturing to contractors
in Asia. That may be more difficult to do with
cars, said Jack Nerad, an analyst at Kelley Blue
Book's KBB.com.
While an iPhone is complex, with about 1,700
components in an iPhone 6 Plus, it pales
in comparison to a vehicle, which has some
10,000 parts.
Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler
Automobiles, sees a car in Apple's future, though
he doubts they'll attempt to manufacture it
themselves. He welcomes the competition.
“| think that this industry in general needs to
open up to disrupters,’ Marchionne said in an
interview on CNBC Wednesday. “Whether it’s
the Google car or the Apple car... it’s going to
change the traditional nature of car-making.’”
UBER
Self-driving technology has also piqued the
interest of Uber, the fast-growing Silicon Valley
startup that operates a ride-hailing service
in cities around the world. Uber said earlier
this year that it was partnering with Carnegie
Mellon University to research and develop new
technologies for mapping, vehicle safety and
autonomous driving.
The company hasn't said whether it hopes
to use autonomous technology to replace its
thousands of drivers, who work as contractors
driving their own cars.
But CEO Travis Kalanick has suggested Uber could
someday expand with the help of self-driving
vehicles, and touted the technology’s promise for
improving safety and easing traffic congestion.
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TESLA
Electric car maker Tesla Motors, also based in
Silicon Valley, serves as both role model and
cautionary tale for companies thinking of
getting into the car business.
Tesla is admired for its elegant, emissions-free
vehicles packed with technology. It does no
advertising but has built a global fan base.
It also illustrates the challenges of the industry.
The 12-year-old company has never made
an annual profit. It has produced only three
vehicles, all of which cost more than $70,000.
This year, it expects to make between 50,000
and 55,000 cars. That's two days’ worth of
production at GM.
Tesla has also felt the pain of safety issues. In
2013, it faced questions after several Model S
sedans caught fire after road debris damaged
their batteries. Tesla wound up strengthening
the battery shield on new and existing cars.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it clear recently that
he's watching Apple's moves.
“For Apple, the car is the next logical thing to
finally offer a significant innovation,’ he told
German newspaper Handelsblatt in an interview
earlier this month.
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COMPUTERS IN
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Despite the last few years’ repeated claims of an
impending “post-PC” age, when mobile devices
would replace personal computers as the most
commonly-used medium for computing, more
recently, evidence has emerged that PCs
are far from dead. In fact, for many of us, the
question isn’t whether we should continue using
a computer; instead, it’s what type of computer
we should opt to use.
The fact remains that, for many purposes,
especially business work and academic study,
a PC remains the most useful computing
device. And, whereas recent years have seen
smartphones greatly diversify in their sizes,
designs, features and software, computers
reached the same stage many years earlier.
PCs aren't dying; rather, as The Verge’s Tom
Warren has recently remarked, they have simply
“matured enough that you don't need to replace
the one you bought years ago if it’s still working”.
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OR MORE THAN TWO...
Today, computers can be sorted into two broad
categories: desktop and mobile. In other words,
large and powerful PCs intended to long remain
static, and slightly smaller and less powerful
computers designed for easy and regular
transportation. Strictly desk-bound computers
like the iMac fall into the first category;
notebooks like the MacBook and tablets like the
iPad fall into the second.
However, there are also many subcategories
of computer. At one end of the scale, there are
small tablets like the iPad Mini; further along
that scale, there are medium-sized tablets like
the iPad Air, plus notebooks that are almost as
portable and good for both media consumption
and corporate productivity. At the higher end,
there are hefty professional slates like the
Microsoft Surface.
Then, right at the top end, there's the Mac Pro.
This is a very different beast to the similarly-
named MacBook Pro - and “beast” really is the
right word, as the desktop workstation known
as the Mac Pro is the most powerful of all of
the computers available from Apple. The most
advanced version has a Xeon E5 CPU boasting
twelve cores and four 1866 MHz DDR3 slots -
that’s awe-inspiring...
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KEY AREAS WHERE DESKTOP
COMPUTERS STILL LEAD
Desktop processors are typically beefier than the
notebook chips; while, for example, MacBook
processors can range from 1.6GHz dual-core in
the Air models to 2.5GHz quad-core in the 15-
inch Retina display Pro, with the iMac models,
the range is 1.6GHz dual-core to 3.3GHz quad-
core. This is a major plus point for desktops, as
their better processors mean better ability to
long run new software.
These processors are especially fit for
sophisticated editing of images and video,
for which a larger screen also wouldn't go
amiss. Apple has already just brought Retina
displays to its 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac
models, and those displays should better
bring to life the gorgeous visuals possible
with discrete graphics systems. These systems
offer especially strong graphics performance,
but appear more often in Apple's desktop
computers than its notebook offerings.
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It's also worth mentioning that the sizes of
the new iMacs’ screens comfortably exceed
those of the MacBook line, which peak at
15-inch for the largest MacBook Pro models.
There's good reason to believe that those
bigger screens could boost comfort and, as a
result, productivity. That’s certainly according
to an Apple-funded study hinting that the
productivity increase could be as much as 50-
65%. A decent amount of RAM - this rises to
16GB in the MacBook Pro, but is configurable
to 32GB for the iMac - should also allow for
smoother multitasking, crucial for particularly
demanding work tasks.
Finally, desktops permit many more extension
possibilities. For example, the Mac Mini's hard
drive can be readily swapped, while the Mac
Pro's RAM can be updated with little difficulty.
Printers, large keyboards and multiple screens
can all be used much more easily with desktop
computers - largely because these accessories
are typically not primarily designed to meet the
unique portability concerns of notebook users.
MacBook
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GAME ON! GAME ON THE RIGHT
COMPUTER, WE MEAN
Mobile computers can undoubtedly be fun for
gaming on the go - and, thanks to both the
long-established huge popularity of Windows
among game developers and the emergence
of iOS and Android as major gaming platforms,
there's now a great choice of big name games
on both notebooks and tablets. However,
the fast pace and sophisticated graphics of
many of the most well-known games demand
unadulterated power - and this is not common
in mobile computers for two big reasons.
One is that, by virtue of being small for easy
portability, manufacturers simply can’t pack as
much power into these little things as they could
into high-end desktops like Apple's recently
unveiled 21.5-inch and 27-inch Retina display
iMacs. Another is that smaller computers can
be much less easy to enhance through hardware
modifications. These computers include the Retina
display MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, which
Macworld calls “basically non-upgradable” due
to their soldered RAM and hard drives, while
iPads have never allowed for expandable storage
through the use of physical storage cards.
In fact, the Mac platform has long been
considered the far inferior computer gaming
platform to Windows - though not quite to
the same extent as it used to be. TechRadar’s
Matthew Bolton has observed that the Mac is
now getting many of the same popular games
as Windows, if still often several months later
due to various complications of the porting
process. He has even declared: “In a balance of
gaming power and size/weight, there’s not a
lot that can touch the MacBook line.’
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DESKTOP AND MOBILE:
LOCKED IN A POPULARITY CONTEST
So, do mobile computers today remain
secondary in use to their desktop counterparts?
Or is it now the desktop that should be
considered complementary to the mobile
device, rather than vice versa? This is, frankly, a
very difficult question to answer - largely due to
the lack of publicly available statistics that point
clearly to a widespread preference for either
desktop or mobile computers.
The market research firm IDC regularly collects
data about global PC sales through its Worldwide
Quarterly PC Tracker. However, the data focuses
much more on differences in market share
among different vendors than different types
of computers. Further complicating matters,
it considers PCs to include desktops and
laptops such as ultraslim notebooks and
Chromebooks, but not tablets.
be ‘it
One intriguing statistic reported by IDC is
that, whereas laptops and laptop hybrids
saw “double digit” sales growth in the US
last year, in the same period, desktop sales
shrunk by 10%.
Nonetheless, we also have to consider that sales
of particular types of computers are unlikely to
always strictly correlate with how widely they
are used. Much of the sales decline for desktop
PCs could be attributed not to falling public
interest, but instead the ease with which these
computers can be modified - meaning that they
call for complete replacements less often than
more portable computers.
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AVERY PERSONAL CHOICE
For all that we have just said about various
computers, there can be no completely objective
judgment of which type is better; different
computers are built for different uses, and so
there can only be a question of which type of
computer is right for each individual. If you are
considering buying one, we can only emphasize
the importance of thoroughly researching
beforehand to ensure that you get as much
return on your spending as possible. Hopefully,
we at AppleMagazine have already helped... m
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Free rent and groceries were selling points, but
college freshman Aishwarya Mandyam was
more excited about the chance to connect with
like-minded women when she moved into the
eight-bedroom house offered up by a Seattle
software startup.
“There's inspiration. There's tech support,” said
the computer science major who is interested in
a career that combines medicine and technology.
Mandyam and seven other women are sharing
a 3,100-square home, rent-free, blocks from
the University of Washington. TUNE, a software
startup that provides technology for marketers,
is paying the rent for the house with the goal of
creating a supportive community for UW women
interested in computer science and technology.
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It’s the latest effort to get more women into
the male-dominated industry. Women make
up more than half of the nation’s workforce,
but they still play a small role in inventing
technology, according to the National Center for
Women and Information Technology.
Efforts like the TUNE-sponsored house and
numerous other initiatives are trying to increase
the number of women interested in the field.
Organizations such as Girls Who Code, a national
nonprofit, are introducing more high school
girls to computer science. Women-only training
programs such as Hackbright Academy in San
Francisco and Ada Developers Academy in
Seattle are also teaching women coding and
other technical skills.
“There is definitely a momentum, but | would
caution that it’s not going to be solved
immediately,’ said Elizabeth Ames, a senior vice
president at the Palo Alto, California-based Anita
Borg Institute. “There are some real challenges
and it will take time.’
While there's a lot of emphasis on increasing the
pipeline, more work has to be done to address
the barriers that women run into later in their
careers, she added.
UW, which is not involved in TUNE’s housing
program, has been closing the gender gap in
its computer science program. Last June, 31
percent of UW’s computer science undergraduate
degrees were awarded to women, more than
twice the national average. Nationwide, just 14
percent of computer-science college graduates
were women in 2014, according to a Computing
Research Association survey.
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“There’s no silver bullet. You have to do lots of
little things all the time,’ said Ed Lazowska, UW
professor of computer science and engineering.
UW has introduced K-12 students and teachers
to computer science through summer camps. A
seminar explores the role of women in computer
science, and about 40 percent of the school’s
teaching assistants are women.
Megan Hopp, a UW senior, said it was inspiring
to see so many female teaching assistants when
she took the intro courses. She’s now a teaching
assistant for an upper level course and makes a
point to reach out to other female students to
tell them to consider the field.
She had not considered computer science
because she thought it was too nerdy, but
her older brother pestered her to take the
introductory course.
“| had that epiphany moment and realized how
much | love it,’ she said.
At the Ada Developers Academy in downtown
Seattle, a selective tuition-free program is
teaching women - many with little or no coding
experience - to become programmers.
Michelle McCarthy, 35, worked in retail selling
computers and electronics and had no coding
experience before she enrolled in the yearlong
program in May. Her class includes a former
clinical psychologist, a flight attendant, a teacher
and others hoping to make a career switch.
“There’s a lot of focus on technology. It’s a part
of every field and there're not enough people
doing the work,’ said McCarthy, who just landed
a five-month internship with Indigo Slate, a
digital marketing agency.
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Elena Donio, an angel investor in Ada and
president of Concur Technologies, said it’s
important to recruit and support women at
different stages, from high school to early- or
mid-career to leadership positions. “You don't
have to be an engineer coming out of school to
be able to learn how to code,’ Donio said.
All of the 37 women who graduated from Ada
have software development jobs, said executive
director Cynthia Tee.
At the TUNE-sponsored house during the first
week of school, Mandyam and her twin sister,
Karishma, bonded with their new housemates
over dinner and reunited with another freshman
whom they had met at a girls coding camp.
Lilian Liang, a sophomore, described how
stressful it was when she took the introductory
computer science courses last year. While she
found some women to talk to, she’s looking
forward to having a built-in network of
mentors and women who share her interests in
computer science.
TUNE's founders wanted to create a live and
learn community because they benefited from
living in an entrepreneur-specific dorm at
Babson College, said Kristina Linova, manager of
engineering growth.
Meredith Lampe, a junior who lives in the
house, said she’s heard of women in the field
who experience feelings of isolation or feel
like they're not part of the club. “You can give
someone $10,000 to pay for their tuition, but
giving them a community of other girls who are
likely experiencing the same thing and having
that be another way to have them succeed.”
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APPLE BEATS EARNINGS ESTIMATES,
ISSUES HEALTHY FORECAST
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Defying skeptics on Wall Street, Apple says it
plans to keep setting records for selling new
iPhones around the world.
The giant tech company reported quarterly
earnings Tuesday that beat analysts’ estimates,
while forecasting healthy iPhone sales during
the upcoming holidays. Apple also said sales
nearly doubled in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
during the last quarter, despite concerns that
China's economy is slowing.
And in a closely watched indicator, Apple issued
a forecast for the upcoming December quarter
that suggests it will slightly surpass last year’s
record of 74.5 million iPhones sold during the
crucial holiday season.
We think we can grow iPhone (sales) during the
December quarter, Chief Financial Officer Luca
Maestri told The Associated Press.
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Apple reported $11.1 billion in net income for the
quarter ended Sept. 26, up 30 percent from a year
earlier, while sales rose 22 percent to $51.5 billion.
Earnings amounted to $1.96 cents a share.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected Apple
to report revenue of $50.9 billion and adjusted
earnings of $1.89 a share. Apple’s stock price was
up almost 2 percent in after-hours trading.
Apple said it sold 48 million iPhones during the
September quarter, which included two days of
sales for its newest iPhone models, the 6S and 6S
Plus. That’s about what analysts expected.
But its forecast for the December quarter
may please investors more. Apple's stock has
been dogged for months by worries that the
company might have difficulty maintaining its
torrid growth. Apple relies heavily on iPhone
sales, which contribute more than two-thirds
of its revenue. Overall smartphone sales are
slowing around the world, as most consumers in
developed nations already have one.
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corporation by stock-market value, Apple
shares have been off about 15 percent from a
mid-July peak of $132.97.
iPhone sales skyrocketed last year after Apple
introduced new models with bigger screens
in September 2014. Analysts have questioned
whether the company can duplicate that success
with the latest iPhones introduced last month.
Last year’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus tapped into
strong demand from consumers who had
envied the larger screens offered by Apple’s
competitors. This year’s iPhone 6S and 6S Plus
have additional features, but they’re not as
dramatically different from last year's models.
The iPhone 6 was such a blockbuster launch,
said analyst Angelo Zino of S&P Capital |Q. As
a result, he said, investors have been cautious
about whether that momentum can continue.
Apple shares rose nearly 3 percent after the
earnings report was released.
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By Facebook, Inc.
Category: Social Networking
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#02 - Smashy Road: Wanted
By Remco Kortenoever
Category: Games
Requires iOS 5.1.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#03 - Facebook
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Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Category: Games / Price: $0.99
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Category: Music / Price: $199.99
Compatibility: OS X 10.84 or later, 64-bit processor
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Released: 2015
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The Vatican itself is called upon to exorcise
a demon affecting a young woman, but as
Angela displays increasingly erratic and deadly
behavior, it appears that they may not be up to
the job...
FIVE FACTS:
1. The screenplay for the movie was featured
in the 2009 blacklist, a list of the “most liked”
unmade scripts of the year.
2. Amember of terrifying metal band Slipknot
has a small cameo in the movie. Percussionist
and founder Shawn “Clown” Crahan can be
seen being interviewed by a reporter at the
end of the film, although he is not listed in the
credits. He and director Mark Neveldine are
good friends.
3. Neveldine has also helped to direct the
“Crank” movies, a series of action movies
starring Jason Statham.
4. Producer Gary Lucchesi has also worked on
“Million Dollar Baby’, The “Underworld” movies,
and strangely, teen comedy “She's the Man’.
5. Olivia Taylor Dudley, who plays the
character of Angela, has starred in a wide
array of movies and TV shows, including
“Paranormal Activity’, Transcendence’, and
“Arrested Development”.
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Furious 7
The seventh movie in the “Fast and Furious”
series sees the crew come to terms with a
slightly sketchy past, whilst new tribulations
are thrown their way...
FIVE FACTS:
1. Production on the movie was halted after
the tragic death of Paul Walker, who was killed
in a car crash.
2. Over 230 cars were destroyed whilst filming
this movie.
3. At 2 hours 17 minutes, this is the longest
movie in the franchise.
4. This movie was announced before
its predecessor, “Fast & Furious 6”, was
even released.
5. The first movie in the franchise to reach
one billion dollars at the box office.
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ventures; a must for those who like their music
on the heavier side of the scale. For fans of the
likes of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.
FIVE FACTS:
1. Although the band may not be known to
most, they've still managed to play prolific
festivals and venues such as Rock en Seine and
the Bowery Ballroom in New York.
2. Released 20 or so days after Segall formed
yet another new band, featuring members of
legendary punk band The Melvins.
3. Despite being big on the underground
scene, and amassing a cult following, Fuzz
have a lack of social networks/websites.
4. One of 20 or so albums that Ty Segall
features on.
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BOX OFFICE TOP. 20: ‘STEVE JOBS’
STRUGGLES, NEVV FILMS BOMB
It's a bad time to be a new movie in theaters.
None of this weekend's new openers made
much of an impact, and one, “Jem and the
Holograms,’ which made $1.4 million, even got
the dubious distinction of having the worst
opening ever for a major studio movie released
in over 2,000 theaters.
But “Jem” only cost $5 million to produce. The $15
million “Rock the Kasbah” opened in 13th place
and earned only $1.5 million, and the expensive
Vin Diesel vehicle “The Last Witch Hunter”
opened in fourth place with $10.8 million. It cost a
reported $70-$80 million to make.
“Steve Jobs” also failed to impress in its first
weekend in wide release earning only $7.1
million, despite a strong two weekends in
limited release, stellar reviews and awards buzz.
Poor performances by the new films allowed
“The Martian” to reclaim the top spot at the box
office in its fourth weekend in theaters with $15.7
million. Holdovers “Goosebumps” and “Bridge of
Spies” took the second and third place spots.
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The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters
Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution
studio, gross, number of theater locations,
average receipts per location, total gross and
number of weeks in release, as compiled
Monday by Rentrak:
7 “The Martian,” 20th Century Fox,
s $15,732,907, 3,504 locations,
$4,490 average, $166, 188,055, 4 weeks.
“Goosebumps,” Sony, $15,525,901,
# 3,501 locations, $4,435 average,
$43, 738,043, 2 weeks.
3 “Bridge Of Spies,” Disney, $11,374,203,
s 2,811 locations, $4,046 average,
$32,590,400, 2 weeks.
4 “The Last Witch Hunter,” Lionsgate,
« $10,812,861, 3,082 locations, $3,508
average, $10,812,861, 1 week.
“Hotel Transylvania 2,” Sony,
1 $8,883,348, 3,154 locations,
$2,817 average, $148, 175,889, 5 weeks.
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“Paranormal Activity: The Ghost
6. Dimension,” Paramount, $8,070,493,
1,656 locations, $4,873 average,
$8,070,493, 1 week.
“Steve Jobs,” Universal, $7,105, 735,
s 2,493 locations, $2,850 average,
$9,818,543, 3 weeks.
8 “Crimson Peak,” Universal, $5,666,525,
« 2,991 locations, $1,895 average,
$22,557,300, 2 weeks.
9 “The Intern,” Warner Bros., $3,787,039,
# 2,061 locations, $1,837 average,
$64,634,921, 5 weeks.
7 O “Sicario,” Lionsgate, $2,844,854,
« 1,448 locations, $1,965 average,
$39,280,401, 6 weeks.
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7 7 “Pan,” Warmer Bros., $2,628, 197,
« 1,944 locations, $1,352 average,
$29,909,891, 3 weeks.
7 2 “Woodlawn,” Pure Flix, $2,575,337,
s 1,475 locations, $1,746 average,
$7,949,985, 2 weeks.
7 3 “Rock The Kasbah,” Open Road,
« $1,470,592, 2,012 locations,
$731 average, $1,470,592, 1 week.
“Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,”
7 4. 20th Century Fox, $1,417,404,
1,008 locations, $1,406 average,
$77,697,363, 6 weeks.
7 5 “Jem And The Holograms,” Universal,
« $1,375,320, 2,413 locations,
$570 average, $1,375,320, 1 week.
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7 e) “Black Mass,” Warner Bros.,
1 $579,437, 458 locations,
$1,265 average, $61,318,273, 6 weeks.
1 / “Everest,” Universal, $554, 190,
« 400 locations, $1,385 average,
$41,780,170, 6 weeks.
7 8 “The Visit,” Universal, $535, 725,
« 508 locations, $1,055 average,
$63,874,445, 7 weeks.
| 9 “War Room,” Sony, $495,934,
« 449 locations, $1,105 average,
$66,287, 144, 9 weeks.
2 O “Shaandaar,” Fox International
« Productions, $384,685, 136 locations,
$2,829 average, $433,541, 1 week.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast
Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics
are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney,
Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned
by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are
owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units
of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors
including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn;
Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by
AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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ESPN PULLING
VIDEOS FROM
YOUTUBE DUE TO
RIGHTS ISSUES
ESPN has begun removing its videos from
YouTube due to rights issues surrounding next
week’s launch of YouTube's ad-free subscription
service, Red.
Fans can go to ESPN’s own websites for its
videos, the sports network said Friday.
The $10-per-month Red service launching
Wednesday combines ad-free viewing with
unlimited on-demand music. YouTube has
said that creators have to participate in Red
to have their videos show on YouTube in the
U.S., even on the free ad-supported side. It has
said creators behind 99 percent of all content
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watched on the site have signed on, including
ESPN's parent, The Walt Disney Co.
Spokeswomen for both ESPN and YouTube on
Friday declined to say what legal issues might
impede its participation.
Media analyst Laura Martin of Needham &
Co. said it is likely that ESPN’s pre-existing
contracts with cable and satellite companies
like Comcast Corp. prevent it from participating
in YouTube's subscription plan.
“It has to leave YouTube so it doesn’t get sued
by its pre-existing partners,’ she said.
ESPN's contracts with pay TV distributors
are multi-year deals. Comcast's can’t be
renegotiated before expiring around eight
years from now, Martin said. “I think YouTube
will have to cave if they want ESPN back.”
On ESPN's main YouTube channel, the most
recent videos are now 4 years old, but some
specific channels like ESPN First Take have videos
that are new as of Friday.
YouTube began sending out new contracts to
its creators six months ago to sign new terms
that would allow them to participate in new
revenue from Red subscriptions. Those that don't
participate would have their videos turned to
private in the U.S., effectively turning them off for
all but the uploader.
YouTube is part of Google, a division of the newly
created holding company Alphabet Inc.
ORACLE TO BUILD
HIGH SCHOOL ON ITS
SILICON VALLEY CAMPUS
Oracle founder Larry Ellison already owns
an island in Hawaii. Now, his company is
building a high school next to its Silicon Valley
headquarters to help fulfill Ellison's desire to
teach students more about technology and
problem-solving.
The plan unveiled Tuesday at an Oracle
customer conference calls for the business
software maker to complete the 64,000-square-
foot school by August 2017.
Although it will be owned by one of the world’s
biggest technology companies, the school isn’t
going to be called Oracle High. Instead, it will be
known as Design Tech, or d.tech, a public school
approved last year.
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The campus being built by Oracle will
accommodate up to 550 students and 30
teachers in the shadow of Oracle's towering
office in Redwood Shores, California, about 25
miles south of San Francisco. The school will be
free and open to any student living in California.
Since starting Oracle Corp. 38 years ago, Ellison
has amassed an estimated fortune of $54
billion that has enabled him to buy most of the
Hawaiian island of Lanai, own elaborate homes
around the world and bankroll two victories in
sailings premier race, the America’s Cup.
But Ellison isn’t financing Design Tech. Oracle is
footing the entire bill, though the company isn’t
disclosing how much it expects to spend.
Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz stressed the company
wouldn't be getting involved if Ellison hadn't
sketched out a vision to create a school where
students learn to think.
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Although Oracle will own the high school, the
company won't be involved in the curriculum.
Design Tech gained Oracle's financial support
because it reflects Larry’s vision for a unique
high school founded on principles we believe
in innovation, creativity, problem-solving and
design-thinking, Catz said.
Oracle's commitment to Design Tech comes less
than a week after Facebook's billionaire CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla Chan,
announced plans to finance a school for pre-
school through eighth-grade students in one of
Silicon Valley’s few least affluent communities,
East Palo Alto. The Primary School will provide
health care services in addition to educational
instruction for up to 700 students.
Zuckerberg and Chan also have given $100
million to schools in New Jersey and pledged to
donate another $120 million to other schools
located in low-income communities in the San
Francisco Bay Area.
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Bacon, hot dogs and cold cuts are under fire:
The World Health Organization threw its global
weight behind years of experts’ warnings and
declared Monday that processed meats raise the
tisk of colon and stomach cancer and that red
meat is probably harmful, too.
Meat producers are angry, vegetarians
are feeling vindicated, and cancer experts
are welcoming the most comprehensive
pronouncement yet on the relation between our
modern meat-eating lifestyles and cancer.
The WHO's International Agency for Research
on Cancer in Lyon, France, analyzed decades
of research and for the first time put processed
meats in the same danger category as smoking
or asbestos. That doesn’t mean salami is as bad
as cigarettes, only that there's a confirmed link to
cancer. And even then, the risk is small.
The results aren't that shocking in the U.S., where
many parents fret over chemicals in cured meats
and the American Cancer Society has long
cautioned against eating too much steak and deli.
But the U.N. agency's findings could shake
up public health attitudes elsewhere, such as
European countries where sausages are savored
and smoked ham is a national delicacy.
And they could hurt the American meat
industry, which is arguing vigorously against
linking their products with cancer, contending
that the disease involves a number of lifestyle
and environmental factors.
While U.S. rates of colon cancer have been
declining, it is the No. 2 cancer for women
worldwide and No. 3 for men, according to
the WHO.
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A group of 22 scientists from the IARC evaluated
more than 800 studies from several continents
about meat and cancer. The studies looked at
more than a dozen types of cancer in populations
with diverse diets over the past 20 years.
Based on that analysis, the IARC classified
processed meat as “carcinogenic to humans,’
noting links in particular to colon cancer. It said
red meat contains some important nutrients,
but still labeled it “probably carcinogenic,’ with
links to colon, prostate and pancreatic cancers.
The agency made no specific dietary
recommendations and said it did not have
enough data to define how much processed
meat is too dangerous. But it said the risk rises
with the amount consumed.
An analysis of 10 of the studies suggested that
a50-gram portion of processed meat daily - or
about 1.75 ounces - increases the risk of colorectal
cancer over a lifetime by about 18 percent.
An ounce and three-quarters is roughly
equivalent to a hot dog or a few slices of
bologna, though it depends on how thinly
it is sliced.
Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal
cancer in the U.S. is about 1 in 20, or 5 percent,
according to the cancer society. By the WHO's
calculations, having a cold-cut sandwich every
day would only raise that to around 6 percent.
Experts have long warned of the dangers of
certain chemicals used to cure meat, such as
nitrites and nitrates, which the body converts
into cancer-causing compounds. It is also
known that grilling or smoking meat can create
suspected carcinogens.
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“For an individual, the risk of developing
colorectal cancer because of their consumption
of processed meat remains small, but this risk
increases with the amount of meat consumed,”
Dr. Kurt Straif of the IARC said in a statement.
“In view of the large number of people who
consume processed meat, the global impact on
cancer incidence is of public health importance.’
The cancer agency noted research by the Global
Burden of Disease Project suggesting that
34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are
linked to diets heavy in processed meat. That
compared with 1 million deaths a year linked to
smoking, 600,000 a year to alcohol consumption
and 200,000 a year to air pollution.
Doctors in rich countries especially have
long counseled against eating lots of red or
processed meat - and not just because of the
cancer danger but because of the heart risks
from the saturated fat and sodium.
The WHO researchers defined processed meat
as anything transformed to improve its flavor
or preserve it, including sausages, beef jerky
and anything smoked. They defined red meat
to include beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, horse
and goat.
The report said grilling, pan-frying or other
high-temperature methods of cooking red meat
produce the highest amounts of chemicals
suspected of causing cancer.
“This is an important step in helping individuals
make healthier dietary choices to reduce
their risk of colorectal cancer in particular,’
said Susan Gapstur of the American Cancer
Society, which has recommended limiting red
and processed meat intake since 2002, and
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suggests choosing fish or poultry or cooking
red meat at low temperatures.
The North American Meat Institute argued ina
statement that “cancer is a complex disease not
caused by single foods.”
Independent experts stressed that the WHO
findings should be kept in perspective.
“Three cigarettes per day increases the risk of
lung cancer sixfold,’ or 500 percent, compared
with the 18 percent from eating a couple slices
of bologna a day, said Gunter Kuhnle, a food
nutrition scientist at the University of Reading.
“This is still very relevant from a public health
point of view, as there are more than 30,000 new
cases per year” of colon cancer, he said. “But it
should not be used for scaremongering.’
HOVV COMCAST
WANTS TO METER
THE INTERNET
Three years after Comcast began offering
unlimited home-Internet usage, the cable giant
is moving in the opposite direction. In more
parts of the US,, it’s starting to charge heavy
data users extra.
The reason? Too many of its customers are
dropping cable and doing their TV-watching
over the Internet instead, a trend that threatens
to cost Comcast money. To recoup some of
those dollars, Comcast is experimenting with
caps on how much data you can use. Go over
the limit and you'll see a bigger bill.
Comcast used to cap monthly data use at 250
gigabytes, but ended it in May 2012 in order
to experiment with alternatives to a simple
cap. That August, it capped monthly data use
for Nashville, Tennessee, customers at 300 GB;
going over the limit costs $10 for every 50 GB.
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COMCAST
The company launched a similar plan in Tucson,
Arizona, that October - 300 GB for a base plan,
600 GB if you signed up for a faster and more
expensive connection.
By December 2013, Comcast had rolled out
the Nashville system to Atlanta and a handful
of smaller markets, many in the South. It also
offered a slow Internet plan of 3 megabits per
second that gave you a $5 credit if you used 5GB
or less each month, and charged you $1 for each
gigabyte of data over 5 GB.
This month, Comcast added a twist as it
expanded the cap into Miami, Fort Lauderdale
and the Florida Keys: Customers can now pay an
additional $30 a month for unlimited data. (In
Atlanta, it’s $35 a month.) At this point, roughly
12 percent of Comcast territory is subject to
“usage-based pricing,’ MoffettNathanson analyst
Craig Moffett estimates.
Comcast's Internet business is going gangbusters,
although it continues to shed cable customers.
In the third quarter, Comcast said Tuesday, it
lost 48,000 TV customers while adding 320,000
Internet customers. Revenue rose 8.3 percent to
$18.7 billion in the July-September period, while
net income dropped 23 percent to $2 billion
because of a tax gain from last year.
The average household watches 240 hours of TV
a month, Moffett says; using current streaming
technology, it would likely exceed the Comcast
cap by watching the same amount of online
video. (Comcast says the 300 GB cap would let
you stream 230 to 575 hours of video a month,
depending on if you watch it in standard
definition or HD, or on your phone, computer
or tablet versus a TV.)
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over 300 GB, the company says. Data caps really
amount to a mechanism “that would introduce
some more fairness into this,’ says Comcast
spokesman Charlie Douglas. Yet Neil Smit,
president and CEO of Comcast's cable division,
said in July that there are no plans to extend the
caps “on a widespread basis anytime soon.’
Data caps are under scrutiny by regulators
who worry that they could hurt online video
competitors. In April, the feds quashed
Comcast's $45 billion bid for Time Warner
Cable, partly out of concern that the merged
company might undermine online video rivals
like Netflix. Comcast rival Charter subsequently
made its own bid for Time Warner Cable, and has
promised no data caps for at least three years if
regulators approve the deal.
Matthew Pulsipher, 23, lives in the Atlanta
metropolitan area and decided to pay Comcast's
extra fee for unlimited data to support his
family’s streaming of shows from Netflix and
Amazon Prime Video. But he’s not happy about it.
“| think the idea of limiting your usage is
absolutely insane,’ Pulsipher said. “It would make
sense if the cap was 2 terabytes, but 300 is just
low enough to punish streaming.’
Shares of Comcast fell 1 percent to close at
$61.54 Tuesday.
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Anew online streaming service launches on
Monday that hopes to one day become the
Netflix of Broadway, offering high-definition
broadcasts of top theatrical events to computers
and phones.
BroadwayHD currently has a modest list of plays
and musicals ready to stream but hopes to
eventually be the place where theater fans and
educators turn for their live event fix.
It was founded by Broadway producers Stewart F.
Lane and Bonnie Comley, a Tony Award-winning
husband-and-wife producing team behind such
shows as On Your Feet! “A Gentleman’s Guide to
Love & Murder and Legally Blonde.
We're not going to replace the Broadway
experience, but if you can’t get to Broadway, get
to BroadwayHD, said Lane. Hopefully it will whet
your appetite to go see it live.
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Users can buy a monthly subscription for $14.99
and or a yearly one for $169.99. There's also
free content. The shows can be streamed to
computers, mobile devices and TVs - both Apple
TV or Google Chromecast.
While sites such as iTunes, Amazon Video, Netflix
and GooglePlay stream musicals and plays on
phones and tablets, BroadwayHD hopes to
become the go-to library to find live-captured
theatrical events, whether from off-Broadway
or the West End, after a show has been seen in
cinemas or on cable TV.
While the service currently leans heavily on the
archives of the BBC, WNET-TV in New York and
Broadway Worldwide, the creators hope they will
be able to expand their titles with partnerships
and their own captures. They've also added
commentaries, introductions and documentaries.
Offerings at launch include more than 120
productions, mostly classics from Shakespeare
and Anton Chekov. A lot of it is classic archival
pieces, but then we start layering in the new
things and go out and start shooting new
shows, Comley said. We're looking for this to be
the landing place.
The site comes at a time when so-called event
cinema has exploded. When once there was just
the Metropolitan Opera at the movie theater,
now there’s the Bolshoi Ballet, concerts from
One Direction, circuses and a steady stream of
English plays.
To those who sneer at reducing a live Broadway
show to the size of an iPhone screen, Lane
responds by pointing out that people also said
the theater experience would be diluted when
microphones were introduced.
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going to replace the communal experience of
seeing actors live. | understand that. New York has
an amazing caliber of talent - of writers, directors
and performers - that we'd like to share with the
world. If they can’t get here in time, we can share
that with the world in the best way we can.
A sample of what you can now find on
BroadwayHD includes Orlando Bloom in the
2013 Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet, a
live Jekyll & Hyde with David Hasselhoff in 2001,
Helen Mirren in A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Montego Glover and Chad Kimball in Memphis,
Daniel Craig and Stephen Rea in Copenhagen
from a BBCTV movie in 2002, and Rufus Sewel
in Henry IV. Up next will be Audra McDonald as
Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and
Grill after it airs on HBO.
There's plenty of stuff out there but what we're
trying to do is have anecdotal evidence for
producers and all of the creatives to see where
this goes, Comley said.
Online:
http://www.broadwayhd.com
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