Despite some good news on the results of financial activity in the third quarter, Yahoo! recently is in a dire situation, its performance is characterized by low stock prices, the high rate of reduction in the number of employees, unsuccessful attempts to develop products.

September 6 board of directors fired in the format of a call, Carol Bartz CEO (Carol Bartz) after a heavy fall of stocks, which reached the level of August 8 at $ 11.09, and now Yahoo!, reportedly on the lookout for potential buyers of your business.

The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter closely, says that Microsoft is in talks about possible overall deal with the acquisition of Yahoo!

The current executive director of Google, Larry Page (Larry Page) does not like to spend time on meetings and conferences, he even got rid of the Secretary, that he once again did not inform him about the upcoming meeting. Also, he does not bestow an e-mail (even if it comes to his own service, Gmail) – solve problems and exchange views in case it takes too much time.

Mr. Paige has never been so impatient, it is now. He has been a transformation in the era of Google midlife crisis company, which threatens to displace it from the perspective of one of the most dynamic leaders of Silicon Valley.

The new application Jizo Flight Finder appeared in recent times on the Russian web-site Facebook. It allows users to consider this social network in real time all the offers on airline flights and purchase tickets for them at a low price.

The application is developed on-line company Jizo.ru (Russia), which specializes in metadata hotels and air tickets. Jizo Flight Finder application is different from the corporate accounts and other similar applications that the user is prompted not seek, and the purchase of tickets have already been found by which he can get his friends to tape friends.

According to the company «Applied Control Solutions», an unknown group of hackers to penetrate into the IT system of wastewater treatment plants in the United States of America. This has not yet been able to do to anyone.

The result of a hacker attack on the control of water treatment plants became the U.S. failure of one pump that was used for water supply. Experts do not exclude the fact that hackers were able to partially or completely take control of other equipment and computer room, which establishes the system of supervising water treatment and water supply.

Internet portal YouTube, and film production company The Walt Disney Co signed the deal, according to which Western users have access to commercial products Disney on YouTube. The deal – one of the largest portal for and extremely important to her as YouTube plans from the ranks of amateur video hosting go to a class of media platforms.

Parties to the transaction said that the first hundred films Walt Disney (including production studios DreamWorks and Pixar) has been downloaded to the arsenal of YouTube, and Western users can rent them from YouTube.com / movies. Among the novelties to be downloaded by all of the outstanding highlight of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Alice in Wonderland.”

In recent attack by hackers are often subjected to various government websites in Japan. As the representatives of Japanese companies producing computers, Fujitsu, in an attack on Wednesday was subjected to a number of systems, services which the company does.

All the sites targeted by the attack belonged to government agencies in Japan. As a result of the attack the whole online system is designed to provide residents of Japan official documents and certificates of government departments could not operate normally. Total on-line system includes approximately 200 sites belonging to different federal and municipal agencies. The investigation into this incident, Fujitsu is already in full swing.

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program, known as Seti, still focused on the relationship with the biological creatures, originating from the Earth-like planets. However, the leading astronomer of the program, Dr. Seth Shostak has suggested that the probability of observing the universe alien artificial intelligence is much higher than the probability of getting a signal from the biological life forms.

Involved in the Seti scientists have long been put forward various theories about the different ways of life with a completely different matter. It is assumed that aliens can not only look different, but also at a biological level to be quite different than the members of the human civilization. Nevertheless, the basic assumption on which relies Seti, is that the aliens in the sense understood by the people living organisms.