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Yahoo! to Acquire Citizen Sports Strengthens Social Strategy by Combining the Power of the No. 1 Online Sports Destination with the Web's Most Popular Social Sports Company SUNNYVALE, Calif., Mar 17, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As part of its ongoing commitment to be the center of people's online lives, Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Citizen Sports (www.citizensports.com), a company that brings the world of sports to fans' favorite social networking sites and mobile devices through innovative applications. This acquisition will strengthen Yahoo!'s social strategy of enriching, aggregating and distributing social content from across the entire Web, and offering a highly customizable social experience. "Yahoo! is in a unique position to combine our deep expertise in content and aggregation technology to offer a highly personalized social experience," said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president, Consumer Products Group, Yahoo!. "Sports has been among the earliest online categories to experience rapid social proliferation, and the combination of Citizen Sports leading products with our world-class sports experience on Yahoo! Sports is a win-win for sports fans globally." Millions of people across the globe use Citizen Sports' array of social and mobile products to play fantasy sports, fill out brackets, check live scores and read up-to-the minute news on sports including football, hockey, soccer, baseball, racing, rugby, hockey and cricket. Yahoo! Sports' content will be integrated into these products, creating a seamless experience for sports fans wherever they are. On Yahoo! Sports, users will be able to broadcast their allegiances, create or join a conversation with friends and fans and cheer for their teams through Citizen Sports' applications. This integration will further transform Yahoo! into a more personally relevant experience, drive deeper user engagement and create opportunities for advertisers to interact with audiences in new environments. As the #1 destination for online Sports with more than 39 million monthly unique users in the U.S.*, Yahoo! Sports provides people with the most timely, relevant and comprehensive sports news, information and programming. Citizen Sports' network of popular applications for Facebook, MySpace, hi5, iPhone and Android span professional, college and high school sports. "Citizen Sports was founded with the intent to enable fans to access news, scores and fantasy games on the platform of their choice," said Mike Kerns, founder and CEO of Citizen Sports. "We look forward to becoming a part of Yahoo! and bringing our social experiences to their 600 million users around the globe." Citizen Sports was founded by Mike Kerns and Jeff Ma in 2004. Since then the company has brought together millions of sports fans from around the world to enjoy sports and connect with their friends. Citizen Sports is based in San Francisco. Yahoo! expects to complete this acquisition in the second quarter of 2010. Financial terms were not disclosed. * February 2010, comScore, U.S. Oscar® Winners Avatar, The Hurt Locker and Logorama Benefit from Autodesk Technology Autodesk Congratulates the 82nd Annual Academy Award® Winners and Nominees SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the 15th consecutive year, every Oscar®-winning movie for Best Visual Effects was created with the help of filmmaking tools from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK). Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation software was also used to help shape this year’s nominees and winners for Achievement in Cinematography, Best Animated Feature Film and Best Animated Short Film. “This year’s Academy Award honorees have developed groundbreaking ways to turn their visions into reality” “This year’s Academy Award honorees have developed groundbreaking ways to turn their visions into reality,” said Marc Petit, senior vice president, Autodesk Media & Entertainment. “We’re honored that many artists integrated our interactive and immersive tools into their production pipelines and Autodesk software helped raise the digital filmmaking bar. Autodesk also congratulates the original developers of Autodesk Lustre software for winning a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award.” Scientific and Engineering Academy Award® for Lustre The original developers of Autodesk Lustre software were honored with an Academy Award. On February 20, 2010, Mark Jaszberenyi, Gyula Priskin, and Tamas Perlaki received the award for design and development of Lustre software for digital color grading for film and television. This marks the fifth time that a technology development from Autodesk is recognized and honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Autodesk production-proven technology helped shape Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films in the following categories: Achievement in Visual Effects “Avatar” — Academy Award Winner (also Best Cinematography) James Cameron, together with Lightstorm Entertainment, pioneered new methods of virtual moviemaking to create “Avatar.” “When James Cameron conceived the idea for ‘Avatar’ 15 years ago, the technology wasn’t available. Over the past few years, with the help of Autodesk software, we were able to bring [Cameron’s] vision to life,” said Nolan Murtha, digital effects supervisor at Lightstorm. The filmmakers were able create an innovative, groundbreaking film with the help of Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation tools: the actors’ performances were applied onto pre-built digital characters and viewed in real time by both the director and actors with Autodesk MotionBuilder software; Autodesk Maya software was used to help create the digital characters and environments and Autodesk Mudbox software was used for digital sculpting. “District 9” — Academy Award Nominee District 9, a sci-fi drama populated by computer-generated (CG) characters and digital environments, proved that impressive effects can be achieved on a modest budget. Image Engine visual effects company used Maya and MotionBuilder to help create over 300 visual effects scenes as well as complex, believable alien creatures. “Star Trek” — Academy Award Nominee Artists at Industrial, Light & Magic (ILM) used a combination of Maya and Autodesk Inferno software, which is a part of ILM’s proprietary SABRE high-speed compositing system, to help create amazing visual effects and characters while remaining true to the original TV series. “The speed of Maya, its ability to iterate so easily and its seamless tie into our proprietary Zeno software platform make for a toolset that doesn’t inhibit creativity and was, in fact, a key to the success of the project,” said ILM Animation Director Paul Kavanagh. Achievement in Cinematography Best Animated Feature Film Best Animated Short Film About Autodesk Autodesk, Inc., is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software to help customers experience their ideas digitally before they are built. Fortune 100 companies -- as well as the last 15 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects -- use Autodesk software tools to design, visualize and simulate their ideas to save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation for competitive advantage. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com. Autodesk, AutoCAD, Combustion, Flame, Inferno, Lustre, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Softimage, Smoke and 3ds Max are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Academy Award, Oscar and Scientific and Engineering Academy Award are registered trademarks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. © 2010 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. Magnetic 3D Kicks off Glasses-Free 3D “Suites of the Future” at Sun Life Stadium During Super Bowl Auto-stereoscopic Flat Panel Displays Developed by Magnetic 3D Deliver 2D and 3D Content in VIP Suites at the Big Game NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Magnetic 3D the global leader in glasses-free, auto-stereoscopic 3D displays and 3D digital signage solutions, today announced the recent deployment of glasses-free auto-stereoscopic 3D LCD displays in the “Suites of the Future” campaign at Sun Life Stadium for the Super Bowl held on February 7, 2010. The “Suites of the Future” showcased entertainment innovations that redefine the stadium experience for fans while generating additional advertising revenue channels for the franchise owners. “The ‘Suites of the Future’ campaign gave NFL team owners at the Super Bowl an exclusive first look at the next generation of out-of-home entertainment and innovative fan engagement techniques driven by our glasses-free 3D technology,” said Tom Zerega, co-founder and CEO of Magnetic 3D. “Our goal is to deliver a unique, media-rich fan experience with glasses-free 3D entertainment and sponsored content that literally pops off the screen. As an entertainment experience fans can only enjoy at the stadium on game day, glasses-free 3D aligns perfectly with the franchise’s goal of selling more tickets and merchandise while providing marketing departments with a new and exciting sponsorship opportunity in 3D.” The “Suites of the Future” enables sports and entertainment venues to target and deliver customized 2D and 3D video, promotional content as well as relevant game-day information to virtually any display within a venue. For the deployment within Sun Life Stadium at the Super Bowl, Magnetic 3D installed its state-of-the-art “Allura” 3D Digital Signage product line to provide a sports entertainment experience unlike any seen before. “The 3D technology made a great impression on all who entered the suites,” said Tery Howard, Sr. Vice President of Information Technology for the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium. “Our VIP Super Bowl guests were amazed at the glasses-free 3D technology and the high definition clarity of the displays. We are truly transforming the way our fans experience the game.” The “Suites of the Future” Super Bowl display solution featured a 42” Allura screen, which is capable of displaying high definition glasses-free 3D video and images while also offering backwards compatibility with traditional 2D using the versatile Magnetic 3D FuzionCast network player. Through the FuzionCast player, those in the suites were even able to watch 2D content on the same screens, providing a seamless experience for the audience. The upgrade to glasses-free 3D content and deployment of 3D content to the “Suites of the Future” screens was greatly simplified using Magnetic 3D’s proprietary E3D auto-stereo file format, which uses the latest in image compression technology. Glasses-free 3D content broadcast to the suites included the football league, divisional and team logos, as well as match-up sequences, Super Bowl history messages and a fly-through animation of Sun Life Stadium, in addition to triggered sequences for the kickoff and halftime. Thanks to Magnetic 3D’s multi-stereo Enabl3D™ technology, no 3D glasses were required to view the 3D content, as Magnetic 3D’s lens technology creates multiple distinct images and true Volumetric Perception™ which is the appearance of apparent “pop” and “depth” of content displayed during playback. Essentially, the display wears the 3D glasses instead of the viewer. “The combination of our simultaneous 2D and 3D capable Allura displays and FuzionCAST player enabled the ‘Suites of the Future’ to truly demonstrate the next level in major stadium and event experiences at this year’s Super Bowl,” said Eric Angello, VP of Marketing & Creative for Magnetic 3D. “Not only was the content an exciting complement to the game’s thrilling live action, but our content distribution channel also seamlessly deployed each stage right on cue. Throughout the event, this maintained a steadily engaging, and unforgettable, unique in-stadium experience for the fans, right up until we broadcast the winning logo to cement another place in football history at the end of the game.” About Magnetic 3D Headquartered in New York City, Magnetic 3D (www.magnetic3d.com) designs and produces industry leading end-to-end auto-stereoscopic 3D display solutions, 3D digital media and 3D services. Magnetic 3D’s Enabl3D hardware and software solution modifies flat panel displays enabling them to show HD 3D video content without the need for any special eyewear. The company focuses on delivering the highest quality visual experience for retail digital signage, hospitality, movie-theaters, casino gaming, hotels and other public places, exceeding clients’ 2D visual expectations. Ethics in the work place Having good ethics in the work place is very important for many reasons. At ZMS Marketing and Associates, all employees are required to learn these ethics. Although some may find it a bit hard to go through with these on a daily basis, any employer likes a worker with ethics. The following is a few tips that should help teach you how to gain and keep work ethics necessary for every day of work. Free Timecard Calculator from Redcort Software Redcort Software releases a free web based employee timecard calculator to help hourly workers manage their weekly timesheets. 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