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DONALD STERLING WANTS TO PURCHASE TMZ

May 1, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Los Angeles, California – What’s next for Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling after being dealt with a lifetime ban from the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a pocket change fine of $2.5 Million?

The unprecedented disciplinary action, announced in New York on Tuesday by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, is the fallout resulting from Sterling’s taped racist comments made to his girlfriend and leaked to TMZ.

Well, the billionaire has set his eyes on the very entertainment media company that caused this entire mess, TMZ. According to sources very close to Sterling, he has offered to buy the TMZ network for $1.5 Billion. TMZ is reportedly seriously considering the offer.

If the sale goes through, Sterling’s focus would be to spy on basketball team owners within the NBA with the goal of bringing them down with him. “I am confident TMZ investigative reporters will find some scandal involving each of these owners,” he reportedly said. Ultimately, the sources said, Sterling wants to take down the entire NBA.

For latest updates on this developing story, tune to CNN.

This Article has beeen UPDATED. We apologize for misnaming Donald Sterling as David Sterling in our earlier story. We were duped by a headline from The Telegraph of London.

Business, Human Interest, International, Science and Environment, Technology, The Media

SILICON VALLEY ENTREPRENEUR HAS SOLUTION FOR GROUP ‘SELFIES’ : RETRACTABLE BOOM POLES

April 30, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Silicon Valley, California – Had there been a Nobel Prize for social media entrepreneurship, a Silicon Valley man would have been nominated for his ingenious solution to group ‘selfies.’

It is estimated that 4 out of every 5 smart phone owners take a photo of themselves on an average of three times a week and post the ‘selfies’ on social media. More and more, however, thanks to that infamous selfie taken by Ellen DeGeneres at this year’s Oscars, selfie-enthusiasts are resorting to group selfies with their friends and family. The big challenge is that unless one has long arms, it is difficult to capture all the group members that needed to be in the photo.

Enter this entrepreneur who goes by a single name of Chakra. Like the Silicon Valley companies that have grown into multi-billion enterprises, Chakra operates his small business from his garage.

His solution for an all-inclusive group selfie? A retractable, telescopic boom pole similar to the boom poles used by film and broadcast companies to extend the reach for their microphones. Chakra’s invention which has been recently patented uses a thin telescopic pole which, when retracted , is about the size of a pen – thus making it easy to carry around anywhere for those instant selfie moments. At one end of the pole is a custom adjustable clip that can hold a smart phone or tablet. It is bluetooth-enabled so that the selfie taker can click the camera wirelessly from his or her end of the pole.

The Adobo Chronicles has learned that smartphone giants Samsung and Apple are competing to be the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of this new device.

Stay tuned. In the meantime, go get a ‘selfie.’

Business, International, Technology

TWITTER USERS NOW LIMITED TO 139 CHARACTERS PER TWEET

April 30, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

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San Francisco, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – With almost 700 Million users worldwide, Twitter is fast approaching maximum capacity and has just announced new rules for its popular instant messaging network.

Twitter users will now be limited to 139 charcters per tweet, down from 140 characters, according to CEO Dick Costolo. “We understand this may upset our loyal account holders, but we are left with no choice but to try to explore all avenues to prevent our network from an overload,” he told reporters at a press conference held at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

Costolo explained that reducing the chatacter limit will save the company 700 million characters per tweet, enough to prevent what could be a devastating network computer crash.

Twitter account holders will soon receive an email announcing the change, along with some suggestions on how to best deal with the new character reduction policy. Suggestions include using single instead of double exclamation points (!!) and question marks (??) in tweets, or eliminating the period (.) from the words Mr and Mrs

Costolo is confident that it will not take long before account holders will get used to the new character limit. “As soon as we complete expansion work on our network capacity, we will restore the 140 chatacter limit,” he said.