Yahoo going to make 'Digital Newsstand'

Yahoo has announced a "digital newsstand" called coach handbags wholesale outlet Livestand for tablet devices and cell phones that has been designed to deliver content from the company's various sites and online publications.

Livestand has been designed for portable devices, so that articles, photos, videos, graphics and ads are optimized for the screens and interfaces of mobile phones and tablet PCs, the company said Thursday.

Livestand will tailor content delivered to users based on a variety of factors, including their interests, their location and the time of day, and will draw from Yahoo properties like Sports, News, Finance, OMG and Flickr.

The platform will have embedded social media capabilities that publishers can take advantage of to engage readers and foster interaction among them, Yahoo said.

Livestand will be initially available as an coach mia hotsale application for Apple's iPad and Android tablet devices in the first half of this year. Versions for mobile phones and for browsers will be delivered later.

"Livestand brings the best of magazines and the best of the Web," said Irv Henderson, vice president of product management for Yahoo Mobile and Connected Devices, during a press conference.

Although Yahoo officials only showed Livestand featuring content from Yahoo properties during the press conference, they said the company is already working with an initial set of external publishers, whom they declined to name.

"It's a digital platform and we're its first customers," Henderson said.

Livestand will let publishers generate revenue both from advertising and from subscriptions.

The current user experience for publications on tablet devices leaves a lot to be desired for readers and advertisers, said Blake Irving, executive vice president and chief product officer for Yahoo.

Tablet versions of digital magazines and newspapers are "mostly PDFs" that aren't as engaging and interactive as they should be, Irving said.

Livestand has been designed to make content truly personalized and interactive, and advertising to combine the impact of television and the precision and richness of digital, he said.

Cambodia temple slander

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia – Cambodia angrily alone Thailand's coach outlet allegation that Cambodian troops acclimated a centuries-old temple forth their acknowledged bound as a aggressive base, revving up a war of words Wednesday amidst a brittle truce. 

The mountaintop Preah Vihear temple, appointed as a World Heritage site, was the arena of angry arms battles during a four-day blast of a abiding bound altercation amid the two neighbors. The angry larboard at atomic eight asleep and dozens wounded. 

Shrapnel from the blasts chipped abroad at some of the sanctuary's age-old walls, sparking a agitation amid the two abandon over how abundant accident was done and who is to blame. 

Thailand accuses Cambodia of stationing soldiers at the temple and battlefront beyond the bound at Thai soldiers, abrogation them little best but to retaliate.

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Cambodia's Foreign Ministry said in a account Wednesday it "strongly rejects such a calumniating assertion," abacus that "there has never been and there will never be Cambodian soldiers" at Preah Vihear temple. 

"This has consistently been a abode for adoration and tourism," the account said, abacus that the alone aegis attendance at the temple is a baby amount of policemen with ablaze weapons to ensure assurance at the site. 

On Wednesday, however, hundreds of Cambodian soldiers were apparent by Associated Press journalists deployed in and about the sprawling temple compound, which was adherent by sandbagged bunkers. 

Dressed in aggressive camouflage, some played cards central the temple's black walls. Some adequate on cots or hammocks while others caked new sandbags and ample them up. Aside from broadcast rifles, weapons were not visible.

Gayus Tambunan, Corrupt tax official seven years in jail

An Indonesian tax official has been convicted in New coach outlet a multi-million-dollar graft case which exposed a web of corruption in the country's justice system.

Public interest in the case of Gayus Tambunan was so intense that he was unable to move from the holding cell into the courtroom until a phalanx of police pushed through the crowd of journalists and onlookers.

Gayus was a tax assessor caught taking bribes to understate the income of well-connected taxpayers.

But he was only a minor player and the couch handbags media wanted to know the identities of the big players.

Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has staked his reputation on getting to the bottom of it all, but those high stakes are matched by the depth of corruption in Indonesia.

After it was revealed that Gayus had bribed his way out of an earlier trial, he was persuaded to cooperate with a team of investigators appointed by the president.

Police, prosecutors and the judiciary have all been implicated, and along the way Gayus testified that scores of companies had paid him to reduce their tax bills.

The companies included several linked to one of Indonesia's richest men, Aburizal Bakrie, who is the head of the country's second largest political party and a potential presidential candidate.

The companies and Mr Bakrie have denied movado watch any wrongdoing, and Gayus has so far failed to reveal any evidence against them.

Instead Gayus was brought to trial for taking bribes from a small food manufacturer.

The Panel set out to Govern Financial System

The new regulatory board Discount coach outlet online charged with overseeing the stability of the financial system took its first big steps on Tuesday to set out tentative guidelines to limit trading by banks for their own accounts and to restrict the growth of the biggest financial companies.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council, the grand council of financial regulators created by the Dodd-Frank Act, also proposed rules as to which large financial companies that were not banks would be regulated by the Federal Reserve because they constituted a potential threat to the nation’s financial system’s stability based on their size.

It is likely to take several days for Cheap coach purses outlet Wall Street to wade through and decipher many of the implications of the recommendations, which were embedded in reams of studies, reports and regulatory filings released simultaneously Tuesday afternoon. Among the four documents was a 79-page report on the Volcker rule, the ban on trading by banks for their own accounts that is named for Paul A. Volcker, the former Fed chairman who championed the idea, and 46 pages of proposed rules on regulating nonbank financial companies.

The recommendations made public on Tuesday are subject to revision based on public comments and the recommendations of various other state and federal regulatory agencies. But the proposals are among the most concrete steps yet aimed at preventing financial institutions from becoming “too big to fail” and at keeping tabs on insurance companies and other companies whose activities could endanger the American economy.

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, who serves as chairman of the oversight council, said the proposed rules and policy recommendations were necessary “so that consumers and investors can have more confidence that they won’t be taken advantage of and so that businesses and working families will not be vulnerable again to the type of crisis we’re just coming out of.”

Among its actions, the council laid out a set of 10 steps to adopt the Volcker rule.

Jaret Seiberg, a research analyst at MF movado watch Global’s Washington Research Group, said in a report that some of the council’s Volcker rule recommendations were “even more positive than the industry was expecting,” including provisions that would allow banks to hedge trading positions used in market-making activities that serve clients.

Beat business brains getherd to form flood task force

Australia's brightest business minds will form a Discount coach outlet online task force to help Queensland recover from its devastating floods, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced.

The group will seek corporate donations and use its expertise to help with rebuilding and recovery efforts, Ms Gillard said today.

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan will chair the group, with his assistant treasurer Bill Shorten, trucking magnate Lindsay Fox and Queensland treasurer Andrew Fraser also among its 10 members.

"The purpose of bringing leading corporate identities together ... is to further leverage corporate support for the recovery and rebuilding in Cheap coach purses outlet Queensland," Ms Gillard told reporters in Melbourne.

"Already, corporate Australia has been tremendously generous.

"But given the scale of this disaster, we need to do more."

Rural business giant Wesfarmers quickly answered the prime minister's call and has pledged $5 million towards the Queensland appeal.

"It's that kind of additional generosity on top of current efforts that we are looking for through this business task force and through its business connections to corporate Australia," Ms Gillard said.

The prime minister said she wrote to corporate Australia on Monday asking if they would consider making further donations to the flood appeal.

Standing beside the prime minister as she made the announcement, Mr Fox said it was a pleasure to back up all of the requirements of the head of Queensland's flood recovery task force Major General Mick Slater.

"Some of the areas where he needs movado watch supply of some goods, we've probably got the access. And I guess it's my job to help create a lot of that access that comes through in ultimate outcome for the people of Queensland," he said.

Top Prize at Palm Springs Film Festival presented to 'The Whistleblower'

Larysa Kondraki’s The Whistleblower, which coach outlet online stars Rachel Weisz as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia, was won the audience award for best narrative feature at the 22nd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.

The awards were announced at a luncheon ceremony at Spencer’s Restaurant on Sunday.

The runner-up narrative films included Aftershock, Goethe, The Hedgehog, Paper Birds and Simple Simon.

Louder Than a Bomb, Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel’s film about a poetry slam festival in Chicago, received the audience award for best documentary feature.

The doc runners-up were coach purses outlet Bill Cunningham New York, Jane’s Journey, A Not So Still Life, Waste Land and Wild Horse, Wild Ride.

The festival, which formally ends on Monday, screened 205 films from 69 countries, including 41 of the 65 foreign language entries for this year’s Academy Awards. 

A jury of international critics reviewed the foreign-language submissions and gave the FIPRESCI award for best foreign language film of the year to France’s Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois.  

Lars Rosing received the FIPRESCI award for best actor “for his affecting portrayal of a young man facing death against the stark landscape of Greenland” in Otto Rosing and Torben Bech’s Nuummioq. Anne Coesens received the FIPRESCI award for best actress “for her intense and uncompromising performance as an immigrant facing an inhumane legal system” in Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Illegal.  

The New Voices/New Visions jury, which looked at 13 new international talents making their feature film debut at the festival, gave its award to Mikkel Munch-Fals’ Danish film Nothing’s All Bad. It also gave special mentions to the films Sound of Noise and 40. 

The John Schlesinger Award for an outsstanding new documentary went to Summer Pasture, directed by Lynn True and Nelson Walker.  

Iciar Bollain’s Even the Rain won the movado watch Bridging the Borders Award. The film is Spain’s best foreign language film Oscar submission.

the audience award for best documentary feature won by "Louder Than a Bomb"

Larysa Kondraki’s The Whistleblower, which coach outlet online stars Rachel Weisz as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia, was won the audience award for best narrative feature at the 22nd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.

The awards were announced at a luncheon ceremony at Spencer’s Restaurant on Sunday.

The runner-up narrative films included Aftershock, Goethe, The Hedgehog, Paper Birds and Simple Simon.

Louder Than a Bomb, Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel’s film about a poetry slam festival in Chicago, received the audience award for best documentary feature.

The doc runners-up were coach purses outlet Bill Cunningham New York, Jane’s Journey, A Not So Still Life, Waste Land and Wild Horse, Wild Ride.

The festival, which formally ends on Monday, screened 205 films from 69 countries, including 41 of the 65 foreign language entries for this year’s Academy Awards.  

A jury of international critics reviewed the foreign-language submissions and gave the FIPRESCI award for best foreign language film of the year to France’s Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois.  

Lars Rosing received the FIPRESCI award for best actor “for his affecting portrayal of a young man facing death against the stark landscape of Greenland” in Otto Rosing and Torben Bech’s Nuummioq. Anne Coesens received the FIPRESCI award for best actress “for her intense and uncompromising performance as an immigrant facing an inhumane legal system” in Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Illegal.  

The New Voices/New Visions jury, which looked at 13 new international talents making their feature film debut at the festival, gave its award to Mikkel Munch-Fals’ Danish film Nothing’s All Bad. It also gave special mentions to the films Sound of Noise and 40. 

The John Schlesinger Award for an outsstanding new documentary went to Summer Pasture, directed by Lynn True and Nelson Walker.  

Iciar Bollain’s Even the Rain won the movado watch Bridging the Borders Award. The film is Spain’s best foreign language film Oscar submission.