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Facebook hit with lawsuit over new stock option that gives Zuckerberg a license to print money

Publié: avril 30, 2016, 4:01pm CEST par Mark Wilson

When Facebook announced its first quarter results this week, it also announced that it created a new class of stock. The non-voting Class C stock proposed would enable Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to more easily fund their philanthropic ventures, whilst keeping Zuckerberg himself firmly in control of Facebook. In response to this, a lawsuit has been raised that says the proposed deal is unfair. The shareholders raising the class action lawsuit said the deal would grant Zuckerberg even more control and that the board committee didn’t do enough "to obtain anything of meaningful value" in return. The… [Continue Reading]
Outlinely Express is a powerful free outliner for Mac

Publié: avril 30, 2016, 2:15pm CEST par Mike Williams

Glam Software has released Outlinely Express 2.0, a free version of its popular Mac outliner, Outlinely. The new edition has all the same outlining features as its commercial cousin, with no annoying restrictions or limitations. You don’t get any library management features -- new tools for storing and organizing your outlines -- but the program is very usable without them. (Arguably Outlinely Express 2.0 is better than regular Outlinely 1.x, as it has a much-improved interface and many new shortcuts and productivity tweaks.) If you're new to Outlinely, it's essentially a text editor optimized for outlining. You already know how… [Continue Reading]
Apple: You're saying it wrong -- iPhones is not a word!

Publié: avril 30, 2016, 12:50pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller has taken to Twitter to set the record straight about the nomenclature of the company's product names. Specifically, he takes umbrage with just sticking an 's' onto the end of product names to pluralize them. Yep -- iPhones is, apparently, not a word. Someone might need to speak with Tim Cook to get him on the same page though, as he doesn't seem to have seen the memo. Schiller goes as far as saying that there is simply no need to ever pluralize the name of any Apple product. If you've been referring to iPhones,… [Continue Reading]
Twitter's unfair token system gives it far too much control over rival apps

Publié: avril 30, 2016, 11:40am CEST par Mark Wilson

In recent days you probably heard about the demise, and subsequent resurrection, of the Twitter client Fenix. Earlier this week, the app became a victim of its own success, succumbing to what it described as "the infamous Twitter tokens limitation". It's now back in the Google Play Store having carved out some sort of deal with Twitter, but the debacle highlights an important issue. If you want to create a Twitter client -- and why wouldn’t you? -- you'll need access to the Twitter API. This is not something Twitter wants, or permits, to just be a free-for-all, and it… [Continue Reading]