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BlackBerry stock falls after Apple-IBM deal

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blackberry stock fell sharply on Wednesday, one day after the announcement of a landmark deal between rivals Apple and IBM to offer custom-tailored apps for businesses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At around 1440 GMT, Blackberry shares were down 5.58 percent to 10.68 dollars, after falling 6.3 percent when the markets opened in New York.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blackberry helped create a culture of mobile users glued to smartphones, but consumers have moved in droves to iPhones and devices using Google’s Android software. The deal between Apple and IBM seemed likely to hasten the Waterloo, Ontario-based company’s demise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After posting record losses last year, Blackberry brought in new management and outsourced its handset production to Taiwan-based Foxconn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The company said it sold 2.6 million smartphones in the last quarter. Hardware sales accounted for 39 percent of its revenues, while services grew to 54 percent. The remainder came from software and other sources.</span>

BlackBerry stock falls after Apple-IBM deal

Blackberry stock fell sharply on Wednesday, one day after the announcement of a landmark deal between rivals Apple and IBM to offer cust...

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Researchers Create Walking Bio-Bots That Are Powered by Muscle

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Researchers at the University of Illinois are developing what they call “bio-bots," or machines that combine synthetic 3D-printed frameworks with biological muscle tissue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the muscle fibers are jolted with electricity, they contract. Those muscles are attached to 3D-printed "bones," which are flexible enough to bend under the strain, and the result is forward motion. Scientists can control the speed of each bot by varying the frequency of electric pulses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Researchers here have worked on similar projects before. A walking bio-bot in 2012 used rat heart cells to provide motion. However, the heart cells were "always on"; researchers couldn’t control when they fired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Skeletal muscles cells are very attractive because you can pace them using external signals,” head researcher Rashid Bashir said. “We want to have different options that could be used by engineers to design these things.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Illinois group envisions bio-bots that act as surgical aids or drug delivery vehicles, perhaps even with their own neurons so they can recognize and respond to light or chemical stimuli.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The team’s findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</span><br />
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Researchers Create Walking Bio-Bots That Are Powered by Muscle

Researchers at the University of Illinois are developing what they call “bio-bots," or machines that combine synthetic 3D-printed fram...

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Google unveils self-driving car with no steering wheel

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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Google on Tuesday announced its own design for self-driving cars, which will drive people around without a steering wheel or pedals. The company has already shown off its own self-driving technology, which retrofits existing vehicles made by Toyota and Lexus. However this new version, which was announced by Brin at the Recode conference, is a new design that fits two people, and is driven entirely by computer using a variety of on-board computers and sensors. Google says the program is currently in a prototype phase, but that it plans to build around 100 early versions of the vehicles for testing this summer. Those cars, which are reminiscent of a Fiat 500 mixed with Playmobil toys, will initially include manual controls in case something goes wrong, just like the company’s current self-driving car program. After a pilot program in California, Google says it will develop a broader program with the help of partners, presumably for commercial use.</span><br />
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Google unveils self-driving car with no steering wheel

Google on Tuesday announced its own design for self-driving cars, which will drive people around without a steering wheel or pedals...

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25 years of the World Wide Web: Internet inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, explains how it all began

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever date you choose for the actual birthday of the world wide web, it's an invention which has changed humanity forever, and created a new virtual world within a generation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was no birthday cake, but you could have been forgiven for thinking a celebrity had just shown up at the Science Museum. Instead, photographers and film crews were clustered around a black, decidedly old-fashioned computer and keyboard. In an attempt to make the spectacle a little more exciting, museum bosses had dressed up a worker in obligatory science garb – white coat and white gloves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Baroness Maratha Lane Fox was in attendance. The peer, who recently completed a stint as the government’s digital champion, took the limelight as the media gave up attempts to make the computer look interesting. Crowds of school-children passed by with barely a glance - understandable given the uninspiring sight of an old computer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But they couldn’t have been more wrong. For the NeXT cube is the machine on which the World Wide Web was created by British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The only hint of its importance a tattered white sticker with the warning: “This machine is a server: DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!” It may be hard to believe now, but the worldwide web did not exist 25 years ago - until Sir Tim invented a way of using networks of computers to talk to each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet there was no initial grand ambition to emancipate the world through freedom of information for all. The beginnings were much more mundane: an attempt to improve communication between the thousands of scientists involved with Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sir Tim was a 34-year-old physics graduate working as a software engineer at Cern in 1989, when he wrote a paper simply titled "Information Management: A Proposal". It stated: “the hope would be to allow a pool of information to develop which could grow and evolve with the organisation and the projects it describes". Ironically, the aim was envisaged as “a universal linked information system” where “generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was initially damned with faint praise, his boss Mike Sendall writing “vague but exciting” on the cover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks after receiving the first ever Millennium Technology Prize in Helsinki in 2004 (Getty)</span>

25 years of the World Wide Web: Internet inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, explains how it all began

Whatever date you choose for the actual birthday of the world wide web, it's an invention which has changed humanity forever, and crea...

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Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs its freedom

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(CNN) -- Today is a landmark anniversary for Tim Berners-Lee. In March 1989 he wrote a proposal to his employers at CERN for a somewhat abstract "global hypertext" system he called Mesh. A year later he re-named that system the World Wide Web. It caught on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A quarter of a century later, Berners-Lee is like a proud father, seeing his baby all grown up and making its way in the world without him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I feel a certain amount of inventor's pride," he tells CNN. "My greatest pride has been the spirit of collaboration we've had for the last 25 years."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He's watched the Web grow through a carefree childhood and turbulent adolescence, reaching the kind of age when things suddenly get more serious, and it's time to make some important decisions about the future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"At 25 it's more like a young adult," he explains. "Suddenly it needs its independence; young adults are at the stage when they're looking for freedom, and in terms of what they do they're asserting their rights.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When (systems) break the whistle blower is the person who saves society by pointing out something that nobody else will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Now, 25 years on, Web users are realizing they need human rights on the Web ... We need independence of the Web for democracy, we need independence of the Web to be able to support the press, we need independence of the Web in general. It's becoming very important to sort out all that."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Recent years have been marked by growing pains. Revelations of mass surveillance by the NSA and other agencies have caused international outrage. Arguments over net neutrality persist and copyright wars pitching open-net activists against mainstream creative industries have grown bitter, with Berners-Lee himself criticized at times. The stock and use of illicit material has grown with the dark net.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Berners-Lee is clear that our ability to speak and associate freely is under threat. The widespread data gathering of the NSA revealed a "broken" system, he believes, and he praises whistle blowers like Edward Snowden whose leaks expose the excesses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"When (systems) break the whistle blower is the person who saves society by pointing out something that nobody else will, because it's illegal," he says. "One thing I'd like to see built in the future is an international convention and international respect for whistle blowers."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read: Edward Snowden: I'd do it again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If spying is one threat, Berners Lee believes censorship is another. He recalls the situation in Egypt, where the Internet was cut off at the height of anti-government protests in January 2011. "For a lot of people that was the first time they realized you could turn it off, and they asked themselves, who could turn it off for me?" he says, adding that "turning off the Internet is more or less a signal that the regime does not trust its citizens and that the regime is on the way out."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At 58, Berners-Lee is not taking a back seat. Having invented the Web once, he hopes to re-invent it through the "Web We Want" initiative, aiming to create a universal "Internet Users Bill of Rights."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Key targets of the manifesto include spreading net access to the nearly two thirds of the world that still doesn't have it. Establishing clear regulations is also a priority, as is the protection of personal user information.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read: The early Web: Slow, simple and sparse</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Berners-Lee still enjoys enough power over his creation to make big changes realistic, through two authorities he founded and continues to lead. The World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) determines standards for all Web infrastructure, backed by the world's leading academic institutions and software developers. The Web Foundation manages the spread and ethical application of the Web, bringing pressure to bear on governments through initiatives such as The Web Index, which ranks nations by Internet access standards.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's an international spirit that ignores boundaries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Web We Want campaign will rely on mass mobilization across industries, nations and activist bodies to succeed, but Berners-Lee is confident of fostering a spirit of cooperation. He has seen it before and considers it the Web's greatest accomplishment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's really a story of collaboration, people working painstakingly on getting protocols right ... There's an international spirit that ignores boundaries," he says.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As for what the Web will look like over the next 25 years, as it enters its middle age, Berners Lee sees a smarter Web emerging, with users empowered by the huge amounts of personal information collected as part of the "Web of data" -- information that could help personalize our Web experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"People are worrying about what other people are doing with their data," he says, "but they haven't realized what they can do with their own data."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As we grow more connected to, and reliant on, the Web, so the potential for abuse increases. How we use such a powerful tool amounts to a test of our species, says Berners-Lee, but it's one he is confident we can pass together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"In general the Web enables humanity to be more powerful and that power can be used for good things and to do horrible things -- but on balance when it comes to humanity I'm a tremendous optimist."</span>

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Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19 Billion

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Facebook Inc. (FB), the world’s largest social network, agreed to purchase mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. for as much as $19 billion in cash and stock, the biggest Internet acquisition in more than a decade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The accord includes $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash and $3 billion in restricted shares, Facebook said yesterday in astatement. It’s the largest Internet deal since Time Warner’s $124 billion merger with AOL in 2001, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. WhatsApp has more than 450 million members, with 1 million users being added daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who bought photo-sharing service Instagram for about $700 million in 2012, has been adding applications such as messaging and news to court smartphone and tablet users. WhatsApp, which would be the company’s biggest acquisition, competes with apps from Twitter (TWTR) Inc., Kik Interactive Inc. and Snapchat Inc., the photo-message startup that rebuffed a $3 billion Facebook bid last year.</span></div>
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Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19 Billion

Facebook Inc. (FB), the world’s largest social network, agreed to purchase mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. for as much as $19 bil...

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Volkswagen unveils ‘city SUV’

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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Volkswagen has previewed an SUV concept based on its smallest platform, which currently underpins the Up city car.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Taigun, which may or may not intentionally be an anagram of Tiguan, one of Volkswagen’s existing SUV models, is just 3.86 metres long, 1.73 metres wide and is designed purely for urban environments.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Under the bonnet is a new 1.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine based on the non-turbo three-cylinder unit in the Up. It has been under development for some time and is expected to arrive in many Volkswagen group models relatively soon.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In the Taigun it produces 109bhp and 129lb.ft of torque, which should be plenty to make the 975kg mini-SUV very sprightly around town. It also has the potential to average 60.1mpg.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The concept rides on 17-inch alloy wheels which add to its purposeful look, making it look much more imposing in the pictures than the real thing might. Its production is almost a certainty, with buyers across Europe switching from traditional car styles to taller, SUV-type designs in huge numbers and across almost all car classes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>According to Volkswagen simplicity is key to the Taigun’s interior. Its front air nozzles, for example, control the fan speed, temperature and air flow direction, removing the need for separate dials on the centre console.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The concept also has auxiliary instruments that give readouts for oil pressure, coolant temperature and, interestingly, turbo boost pressure. It’s unlikely that the latter, popular in heavily tuned turbocharged cars of the sort seen in films like The Fast and the Furious, will make production on all Taigun models.</i></span></div>
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Volkswagen unveils ‘city SUV’

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Yahoo Appoints Google's Henrique de Castro As COO

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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yahoo has appointed Google executive Henrique de Castro as its next chief operating officer (COO), the second big name it has hired from its rival in recent months.Earlier this year, it appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its chief executive.</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/239726.aspx" target="_blank">In a statement</a>, Yahoo said Mr De Castro will oversee global sales, operations, media and business development.Yahoo has been trying to rebuild itself after falling behind its rivals."This is a pivotal point in Yahoo's history, and I believe strongly in the opportunity ahead," Mr Castro said.'Perfect fit'Yahoo was one of the pioneers in internet search and email and continues to remain one of the biggest names in the industry.</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, it has been losing ground as it has not been able to keep with the likes of Google in the search engine area.At the same time, its email business has been hurt the by the growing popularity and success of social networking websites such as Facebook.The continued success of its rivals has meant that Yahoo has been facing tough competition in attracting advertisers to its portals.Yahoo's share of US online advertising revenues fell to 9.5% last year, down from 15.7% in 2009.</span></i></div>
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With This Refrigerator, Who Needs a Kitchen? (PHOTOS)

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<strong><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">World luxuries - A manufacturer has launched a state-of-the-art fridge, which costs more than the average kitchen, at up to $41,500 (N6,442,875). The Meneghini La Cambusa unit can be custom-fitted with a range of gizmos including a coffee maker, ice-maker, temperature controlled pantry and even a flat-screen television.</span></i></strong></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Looking more like a piece of antique furniture than a household appliance, the fridge is aimed at the super-rich.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As well as refrigerating food, the La Cambusa three-door model includes spaces that can be customised to meet clients' need.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The price can vary enormously because each one is custom-made in Italy.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><i>After shelling out $26,000 (N4,036,500) for the wooden frame, which can be painted in more than 500 colors  clients will then have to pay extra for brass handles, glass shelving and the fridge and freezer units. For those wanting all of the mod cons a number of other devices can be installed. A Miele coffee system, costing from around $3,000 (N465,750) is a popular pick, while flat screen televisions are frequently requested. Ice-maker, a microwave oven and steam oven are other optional extras. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The centrepiece of the appliance is a Liebherr refrigerator system, which starts at $1,200 (N186,300). The Swiss-based company will also construct a temperature-controlled pantry for dry storage.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The three-door La Cambusa measures 8.2ft wide, weighs 1,100 pounds and includes 26.6 cubic feet of storage space.</i></span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At that cost, we'd consider it the start of a family heirloom to pass along to generations!</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Google Inc.-owned video site said Monday it is launching more than 60 new video channels with content from Britain, Germany, France, and the United States. The new programming will be in addition to the 100 channels of content launched in the United States last year.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Like the pre-existing American offerings, the European channels will have a mix of celebrity-oriented, niche, and established programming.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"Some of the channels are personality-driven, others are from partners who are totally passionate about a subject," Ben McOwen Wilson, who manages YouTube's northern European partnerships, said in a telephone interview ahead of the announcement.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>He said the goal was to let content producers come up with something they couldn't deliver on TV. The expansion into Europe marks another step in YouTube's foray into a business model typically associated with traditional commissioning editors.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>McOwen Wilson said the new channels would include programming from BBC Worldwide, the British public broadcaster's commercial arm, Endemol, the Dutch company behind the "Big Brother" reality television franchise, and FreemantleMedia, an arm of German media giant Bertelsmann responsible for "American Idol."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>He declined to say how much YouTube was shelling out for the European expansion. The Associated Press has previously reported that the company paid out $100 million (€77 million) to producers when it launched its U.S. channels in 2011, with advances reaching up to $5 million per channel.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Factual programming includes "Euronews Knowledge," from rolling news channel Euronews and "Truthloader," by ITN Productions.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The channels will also count content from more niche players: the British offerings include online shows such as "Guinness World Records: OMG," co-produced by the famed U.K. record keepers and "The Jamie Oliver Food Channel" co-produced by the celebrity chef.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Other British channels range from offerings on drum and bass (Mixmag TV) to childcare (Netmums) to makeup tips, fashion, royalty, and more.</i></span></div>
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