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Anthony Welcher, who worked outside government before becoming a director of external affairs for the bureau, is also making $259,500 a year. His position also did not exist under the previous administration, according to bureau records. |
In a statement, a CFPB spokesperson blamed Cordray for the elevated salaries that Mulvaney's appointees are making, saying "non-career staff are being paid on par with the career staff who directly report to them." Mulvaney himself is not making a salary as acting director, and earns a salary as Trump's budge... |
The spokesperson also said it is up to Congress to change the bureau's structure and compensation practices. |
Ken Sweet covers banks, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other financial topics for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at @kensweet. |
We know that Google is set to release a slew of hardware Tuesday at an event in San Francisco, including smartphones, smart home devices and even a new Wi-Fi router. Here’s what the leaks and rumors say about the specifics of the company’s big release day tomorrow. |
Google is set to release the already-widely-leaked Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, which will boast flagship specs and run totally stock Android. It’s the same idea as the Nexus line of phones – top-end smartphones designed to showcase the possibilities of the operating system free from the modifications that OEMs impo... |
It’ll have a fingerprint scanner on the back, pack 4GB of RAM, and boast a 1440p screen. That’s a lot of, well, pixels. While Nexus devices used to be sold for comparatively low prices, rumor has it that the Pixels will set you back just as much as other flagships. That’s not yet known for sure, however. |
Amazon’s Alexa and Echo making as big a dent in the smart home/voice assistant market as they have must have Google a little puzzled, but they’re coming back at this space in a big way, having already announced Google Home this spring at I/O 2016. The company’s expected to release the device, or at least give up a defi... |
Google’s already in the home Wi-Fi space with OnHub, a premium router designed to be as simple as possible to set up and use. Android Police reported last month, however, that the company’s going to expand its presence and add a new product, called simply “Google Wifi.” It’ll retail for about $130 and have mesh-network... |
Another thing Google teased at I/O 2016, Daydream is the company’s entry into the burgeoning consumer VR space. It works on the same principal as Google Cardboard – basically, you stick your phone into a specialized headset, and a clever app changes the view on your screen based on movements. Daydream adds a simple han... |
It’s not the same thing as sophisticated all-in-one systems like the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, but it does have one big advantage over those devices – the cost could be as low as $80, compared to $600 for the Rift and $800 for the Vive. |
Chromecast, Google’s handy little HDMI dongle that lets you stream stuff from your computer or your phone to your TV, is changing its form a little bit. Where it started off as a cheap ($35) gizmo with relatively limited functionality, the forthcoming Chromecast Ultra will jack up the price to $70 and add some new feat... |
Building video calling apps is no small task. Learning about video codecs, signaling, and presence is just the beginning when it comes to implementation. At PubNub, we have partnered our technology with WebRTC to make integration fast and easy to build video chat software. Out of the box, our WebRTC Framework will powe... |
Want to get an idea of what it'll look like when you're finished? Take a look at our live, working demo and code walk through, or watch the video below, or keep reading. |
The PubNub library comes with the functionality to see what users come online and offline with our Presence feature. To start, enable this functionality by visiting our Developer's Portal and enabling Presence on your API key. This will allow your clients to start receiving join and leave events. |
Currently the user data is stored in the data attributes of the element itself. This makes it easy to work with as a prototype, but could be extended to an AngularJS scope or Backbone Collection easily. |
Note here that the stream is stored for use in publishing to a WebRTC peer connection. When you make this call the user will have to allow your application to use the webcam. The callback will not be called until this has been done, so it may be good to notify the user that they need to allow this before moving on. |
Our demo also allows you to log in with any Google+ account. Since our users are identified by a unique user ID, this ID can be anything the developers provide. In this use case, we provide the unique user ID provided by the Google+ API. |
Unfortunately this just gives us an ID for each user, so if we want to tell the user who is currently available for chat they will just see the numerical representation of each user. The way we get around this limitation is by including the user name in each unique user ID. Our user names now look like "1234567-John Do... |
Now we can take this seemingly complex application and simplify the time to develop this so even one person can build it. The most amazing thing about this is that it is scalable from the beginning. Using the PubNub network allows your application to scale on a global level. |
The RTCPeerConnection also abstracts away much of the complexity that deals with codecs and setting up a peer connection. We at PubNub hope to see a whole new wave of communication applications on the web! Check out the demo of our video calling application here. |
When filmmaker Ryan McHenry learned he had cancer, he was in the middle of pre-production for his first feature film, Zombie Musical. |
The creator of the viral "Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal" Vine videos was forced to put all work — including his film — on hold. But his friends on Vine decided to help raise money to support him through an Indiegogo campaign called "Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cancer." |
Although McHenry's hospital bills will be covered because he lives in the UK, the money raised from the campaign will help ease him into normal life after his chemotherapy and recovery. Multiple Vine artists contributed to the campaign video without ever meeting McHenry offline. |
Paul Zenisek, a TV editor from Minneapolis, Minn., who helped organize the campaign, told Mashable that it was a lot easier than he expected to put everything together. |
"Vine feels so different than any other network I've participated in," he said. "I'm not sure why, but getting a glimpse into people's lives 6.5 seconds at a time gives a unique perspective. When I recently met a couple Vine friends in real life, it felt like they were old friends, even though I didn't know of them mon... |
But this isn't just a fundraising campaign. Organizers introduced the hashtag #WeLoveRyan as another way to show support. |
"Together, a lot of us decided it would be great to not only raise some money for him, but let him know the rest of the world is thinking about him," Zenisek said. "The support, and Vines and tweets people are directing at Ryan will be just as helpful as the money we're raising." |
The campaign runs through Sept. 13, 2013. If you would like to donate, check out the Ryan McHenry Won't Eat His Cancer page on Indiegogo or use the hashtag #weloveryan. |
The TCW Tower in downtown L.A. is framed by a nearby sculpture. The company manages investments for large pension funds and other big investors. |
After three years clouded by key staff defections and ownership uncertainties, Los Angeles asset manager TCW Group Inc. will move ahead with a high-profile new partner — private equity firm Carlyle Group. |
French banking giant Societe Generale agreed Thursday to sell its majority stake in TCW to two Carlyle funds and to TCW's managers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies said the transaction would boost the ownership of TCW employees from 17% to 40%. |
TCW, founded in 1971 by Robert Day as Trust Co. of the West, manages investments for some of the nation's largest pension funds, universities and other big investors. Day is the grandson of California oil baron William Myron Keck, who founded Superior Oil Co., a Coalinga, Calif., company that is now part ofExxon Mobil ... |
As part of the partner pact withWashington, D.C.-based Carlyle, the managers of 90% of its assets have signed new five-year contracts, said TCW Chief Executive Marc Stern, who will become chairman of the reconfigured company. |
"This is very, very stabilizing," Stern said, describing how TCW had discussed doing the deal with several private equity firms. |
"Carlyle was clearly the best partner because of its philosophy — not only letting management run the business but encouraging management to run the business," Stern said in a telephone interview. |
The deal gives TCW a new start three years after Stern fired his investment chief and star bond trader, Jeffrey Gundlach. In a twist, Gundlach's firing was triggered by his demands that the owners grant employees more ownership in the firm, something the Carlyle deal has now accomplished. |
Gundlach formed his own company, DoubleLine Capital, where more than 40 of his TCW staffers soon joined him. TCW, which had $110 million in assets under management before Gundlach's firing, saw those assets shrink by $10 billion in 2009 and an additional $25 billion in early 2010. |
TCW bought Metropolitan West Asset Management, a prominent Westside firm that oversaw $30 billion in assets, to fill the gap. Met West's bond-fund managers have attracted tens of billions of dollars in new funds, and the company now says it is managing $130 billion in assets. |
Its dispute with Gundlach ended badly for TCW after a bitterly fought trial at which the company accused Gundlach of stealing trade secrets. The jury awarded TCW no damages and found that it owed Gundlach and three codefendants $66.7 million in back wages. The parties reached a settlement on undisclosed terms in Decemb... |
Societe Generale, which had been TCW's parent since 2001, had been signaling for months that it would unload TCW, and in June wrote down its investment in the firm by 200 million euros. It said it sold TCW to raise capital to help meet rising regulatory standards imposed after the global financial crisis. |
The stability provided by the deal with Carlyle is likely to make it easier for TCW to attract more institutional funds, said Eric Jacobson, director of fixed income research at fund rating firm Morningstar. |
After a tough year in 2011, the bond funds at the heart of TCW are on a tear so far this year, Jacobson said. Gundlach's old mortgage-heavy fund, the TCW Total Return Fund, is up 8%, beating 96% of comparable funds. The Metropolitan West Total Return Fund, a standout for decades, has risen 7.1% this year, putting it in... |
Gundlach's DoubleLine Total Return Fund is up 5.8% so far this year, Jacobson said, putting it ahead of 73% of comparable funds. |
Metropolitan West veteran David Lippman, the head of fixed income at TCW, will succeed Stern as president and CEO. |
Saying TCW has been "a strong, vibrant part of the L.A. community for over 40 years," Lippman said he was celebrating "a historic day." |
Carlyle is "happy with the way we run the firm," Lippman said in a phone interview, noting that TCW's mutual funds have grown 62% over the last year and a half to $42.5 billion in assets. "We've been happy with our relationship with Soc Gen, but it will be nice to have greater independence." |
Olivier Sarkozy, managing director of Carlyle's Global Financial Services Group, said his team had looked at buying many asset managers but was attracted by the way Stern and Lippman were running TCW. |
"This company is hitting on all cylinders, as you can see by its increase in assets over the last few years in spite of a difficult time," said Sarkozy, the half-brother of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "We're buying into a successful business with a lot of wind in its sails." |
There are several large events happening this weekend in South Florida. |
A #RaceForTheCure because more than 880,000 women live in our community and every year almost 1,500 of them are diagnosed with breast cancer. Of those diagnoses almost 500 are late stage, and unfortunately, we lose nearly 300 women in our community a year to this disease. Susan G. Komen® is fighting every minute of ever... |
MORE: Find out the local celebrities scheduled to be at the race. |
It's the last weekend of the fair! |
This event is produced by the same folks who do the "Feast of Little Italy" each November in Jupiter. This is the quintessential Italian Fest with all the food, culture, rides and limoncello one would expect! You can hear Salvatore "The Voice" Valentinetti from America's Got Talent on Saturday Night. |
8 p.m.- Tommy Mara "Rocking Through the Decades" |
4:30 p.m. - Franco Corso" The Voice of Romance" |
6 p.m. - The Atlantic City Boys " A Tribute to Frankie Valli" |
Experience the ever-growing world of craft brewing. Guests will sample and savor brews from some of South Florida's finest breweries. What's cool is you get unlimited samplings while experiencing local entertainment. |
Saturday, January 27 from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. |
The 9th annual Hot Works Boca Raton Fine Arts Show showcases top-notch quality artists from around the globe to sell their original and personally handmade artwork. There is something for everyone in all price ranges. |
Saturday, January 27 and Sunday, January 28 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
Why do government web sites not work, or work much worse than private sector web sites, while costing more to build? The answer may have something to do with the extensive regulations that apply to government contractors. It's all the subject of my column this week. Please check it out at Reason (here) or Newsmax (here... |
JOHANNESBURG - The provincial government in Limpopo has appointed Altech Radio Holdings to establish an affordable, secure open access broadband network across the region, the company said on Friday. |
It said the R585-million project would see connectivity provided to government departments, municipalities, businesses and households across the province over a three-year period. |
"ARH’s appointment follows similar broadband roll-outs in Gauteng, which saw the successful implementation of the Gauteng Broadband Network incorporating 1600 km of high-speed fibre optics," it said in a statement. |
The government's national development plan envisages connecting all South Africans to broadband infrastructure to give them better access to public services, as well as health and educational information. |
A 2017 report by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa showed that in 2015, only 53.5 percent of South African households had one member who had access to the Internet, either at home, their workplace, place of study or an Internet café. |
“Broadband telecommunications infrastructure is viewed as a 21st century basic essential utility, and should be open to community members," Altech Radio Holdings MD Brett Nash said. |
"ARH hopes to play an important role in transforming Limpopo into a knowledge economy and information society province." |
Pinterest has released its S-1 publicly. |
The company joins several other tech companies expected to go public this year including Uber, Lyft and Slack. |
Pinterest released its IPO prospectus on Friday, joining a bevy of tech companies going public in 2019. The stock will trade under the ticker "PINS" on the New York Stock Exchange. |
The San Francisco-based social networking company allows users to "pin" images as they shop, plan their weddings or brainstorm vacations. The company's primary revenue stream is from advertisements, with brands paying for "promoted pins." |
The company generated $756 million in revenue 2018 for a net loss of $63 million. Revenue grew 60% from 2017's figure of $473 million. |
In Q4 2018 the company had 265 million monthly active users. That trails Twitter's 321 million MAUs and Facebook's 2.32 billion. Pinterest said in its filing that it has seen "significant growth" in international monthly active users over the past few years. The company believes this is a result of its "recent focus on... |
Global average revenue per user for 2018 was $3.14, representing a 25 percent increase compared to the previous year. By way of comparison, Facebook booked $24.96 in ARPU last year, and $7.37 just in the last quarter of 2018. |
In the U.S., Pinterest's 2018 ARPU was $9.04, marking a 47 percent increase compared to 2017. International ARPU was $0.25 in 2018, marking a 22 percent increase from the prior year. |
Pinterest said that while no customer accounted for more than 10 percent of its revenue in 2018, a significant portion is concentrated in the consumer packaged goods and retail verticals. |
Pinterest in popular with moms: It claims that 80 percent of its total audience in the U.S. is made up of women ages 18-64 with children, citing an independent study by Comscore. |
In its S-1 filing, Pinterest said one risk factor is that it could fail to penetrate new demographics. Still, Pinterest flaunts its coveted user demographics, claiming more than half of all U.S. millennials. Pinterest said "eight out of 10 moms" are on its platform, adding that "are often the primary decision-makers wh... |
"In the United States, more people use Pinterest to find or shop for products than on social networks, according to a survey by Cowen and Company," according to the filing. This will put Pinterest head-to-head with Instagram, which just this week announced a new shopping feature to encourage users to buy directly from ... |
Pinterest said its user growth had been negatively impacted in the second quarter of 2018 due to Facebook's decision to change its login authentication systems. Pinterest noted that its reliance on other services including Facebook and Google could be a risk factor for the business. |
"[I]f Facebook or Google discontinue single sign-on or experience an outage, then we may lose and be unable to recover users previously using this function, and our user growth or engagement could decline," according to the filing. |
Pinterest also notes that regulators in the U.S. and the European Union could enact more legislation that would hold it accountable for failure to comply with content removal requirements. Regulators have been even more focused on social media companies in the past week after a graphic video of a mosque shooting in New... |
Like many other tech companies, including Google and Facebook, the company will offer two classes of stock. Class A shares will receive one vote per share, while Class B shares will receive 20 votes per share. Pinterest's filing did not list the breakdown of stock ownership among its executive officers and directors. |
Pinterest's prospectus comes after similar filings from Lyft, the ride-sharing company, Zoom, a video conferencing company, and PagerDuty, a tech company whose service helps companies respond quickly when their websites experience outages. Other tech companies including Uber, Slack and Palantir are also expected to go ... |
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Queen Bey is set for another appearance at professional football’s biggest game. Beyonce will join British band Coldplay during the halftime show of Super Bowl 50 on February 7 from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA. The news, which sponsor Pepsi confirmed this afternoon, sets up a likely rendition of “Hymn For The Wee... |
Beyonce headlined the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show three years ago, also reuniting with her former Destiny’s Child bandmates for a few songs. |
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