Letgo, as
an app more known from its cute commercials to sell used items, now adds
housing sales to its secondhand marketplace. The Craigslist look-alike gives
users the option to buy or rent houses and apartments in the app and it will be
fully available by the end of the month to all users.
Rupert
Murdoch request Facebook and Google to pay for news
Rupert
Murdoch, the executive chainman of News Corporation, proposed in his statement
today that big tech platform should pay publishers in exchange for the value
those publishers add to the platforms. He stated, “If Facebook wants to
recognize ‘trusted’ publishers then it should pay those publishers a carriage
fee similar to the model adopted by cable companies” and “The
publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through
their news and content, but are not being adequately rewarded for those
services. Carriage payments would have a minor impact on Facebook’s profits but
a major impact on the prospects for publishers and journalists”. Thoughts?
Montana to
keep net neutrality
Steve
Bullock, the Governor of Montana signed an executive order to force ISPs with
state contracts to continue abiding by net neutrality rules that have been
repealed by FCC on national level. Yet the future of this order will likely
face a legal battle, as in FCC’s repeal specifically blocks state from having
its own rules.
Netflix
jumps over $100 billion in worth
After
having an outstanding fourth quarter by adding a total of 8.3 million
subscribers, Netflix’s stock price rose to $227.58 at market close, pushing up
the market cap to over $100 billion. The strong performance is largely driven
by Netflix’s growing overseas presence, with 75% new subscribers collected from
international market.
Meet
Flick, Facebook-invented new time unit
Facebook
launched Flick, a new time unit that is slightly larger than nanosecond, the
smallest time unit. A flick is 1/705,600,000 of a second and is used to sync
video frame rates. The unit is evenly divisible by the commonly adopted
framerates and frequencies in media production such as 24 frames per second,
120 hertz and 44.1 KHz, thus ridding the inconvenient and infinite decimals
resulting from the abovementioned fractions of 1/24, 1/120 , 1/44100 (which
will in turn become 29,400,000 flicks, 5,880,000 flicks, and 16,000 flicks).
