Bloomberg reports that none of the bidders are close to clinching a deal, and the start-up might remain independent.Founded 4 years ago, Waze makes a navigation application for iPhone and Android used by roughly 45 million people. Its mapping service is powered by the people who use it. The app also connects to Facebook and provides social-networking functions so drivers can see their friends’ whereabouts, share their location, and send private messages.Google’s possible purchase of Waze could add social features to Google Maps, making the service even more robust and popular product. Should Facebook buy Waze, the navigation app would give the social network a way to insert itself into the lucrative mobile search business owned by Google.The search giant netted 93.3 percent of all US mobile search ad dollars last year, according to estimates from eMarketer. The firm anticipates that US mobile internet search ad revenue will total $7.85 billion in 2015; it pegs Google’s share at around $7.1 billion, or 90 percent of the market.Waze, a free service, generates revenue via location-based advertising. Its tools are also available over the Web. … Read More
Car bomb explosion kills 4, injures 46 in Dagestan, southern Russia
The first car with the explosive placed underneath reportedly went off causing no fatalities or injuries. Once law enforcement arrived at the scene, the second bomb detonated, Interfax reported citing the local Investigative Committee.“As far as I know there are three people dead. One of them is our employee,” spokesperson of the Court Bailiffs’ Service Magomed Buttaev told RT.The death toll rose to four people after another man, an employee of the court bailiffs’ service, died of his injuries in hospital, according an Interior Ministry spokesman.Initial reports suggested eight people died at the scene, Interfax news agency reported.“Two cars were detonated within several minutes. At least eight people have been killed, while the number of injured is being clarified. More than 20 cars have been damaged,” the agency quoted the representative of Dagestan’s Investigative Committee. However, the chief physician in Dagestan, Kazanfar Kurbanov, has later confirmed that three people died and 24 were injured. “There have been 46 people hospitalized,” Interfax reported citing its source.As said, the blasts occurred approximately 15 minutes apart from each other with the two bombs were detonated remotely. Interfax quotes a source who said that an explosive was also found in a trash can.“It has already been established that the first explosive was placed under the car,” one of the spokesman told media.The force of the second blast was the equivalent of up to 50 kg of TNT, Rasul Temirbekov from the local Investigative committee told ITAR-TASS, adding that the first blast was less powerful, nearly causing damage to nearby parked cars.According to law enforcement officials, perpetrators clearly used a tactic which is quite common in Dagestan, when the first blast is bait to attract more people and the second explosion goes off when people are at the scene, thus injuring and killing law enforcement members.“The majority of injured are police officers who arrived at the scene after the first blast. There are at least 15 of them now,” ITAR-TASS quotes the local Interior Ministry.Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has sent doctors and psychologists from Moscow to Makhachkala. The IL-76 jet will deliver 26 specialists to Dagestan, and then return with victims of the blast to Moscow hospitals if needed.No one has claimed responsibility for the double blast, with no suspects yet identified. Investigators have said they will use the registration plates of one of the vehicles involved, in a bid to track down the culprits.“We plan to ID the owner of the exploded car and unravel the case trough this information,” an investigative committee spokesperson said. There’s a belief that the car was stolen.In a recent incident near a shopping center on May 1, two teenagers were killed and another two injured as they tried to uncover the dangerous object, wrapped up either in a box or a bag. … Read More
Watch: Largest Meteoroid Ever Recorded Strikes Moon: “Part of a Much Larger Event”
It exploded in a flash nearly ten times as bright as anything we’ve ever seen before. For about one second the impact site was glowing like a fourth magnitude start. … Read More
Several casualties reported after car crashes into crowd at Virginia parade
The incident occurred in the town of Damascus, VA, on Saturday afternoon during the annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail, a famous hiking trail in the northeast of the United States. The nature of the injuries was not immediately known, AP reports.State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says troopers have been sent to the scene but she had no further information.Four helicopters arrived at the site to airlift the victims to local hospitals.DETAILS TO FOLLOW … Read More
US hospitals grapple with growing number of drug dependent newborns
Known medically as “neonatal abstinence syndrome,” babies born with a drug dependency will require small does of an opiate, such as morphine, until they can be weaned off and their withdrawal symptoms are brought under control. According to an Associated Press report, staff at the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville expect to treat 320 children this year for drug dependence, up from 283 the year prior and 33 in 2008. Though the US does not officially track the number of infants born with a drug dependency, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association cites over 13,000 infants were born with the affliction across the country in 2009. Withdrawal symptoms for adult drug addicts appear to be similar to those experienced by infants. Babies born with a dependency can suffer from nausea, vomiting, severe stomach cramps and diarrhea. The newborns may also experience issues eating and sleeping, and can even suffer from seizures. Shockingly, the AP reports that at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital about half of its neonatal unit’s 49 newborns are being treated for drug addiction. The agitation caused by withdrawal have led medical staff to place mittens on the infants’ hands to prevent them from scratching and rubbing their own faces. A similar report by the Wall Street Journal in 2012, which focused on Florida hospitals, describes medical professionals slowly coming to grips with an increase in drug dependent newborns.“The problem that we started having with babies withdrawing from drugs that moms are taking during pregnancy happened very gradually. We’d see a baby a week, then two, then three, then four – to the point that we found 10 per cent of the babies that we had at the hospital were there because they were withdrawing from mom’s drug use,” said Terri Ashmeade, NICU Medical Director for Tampa General Hospital. The same WSJ report cites that between 2000 and 2009 the number of infants in the US demonstrating symptoms of withdrawal from opioids, including prescription painkillers, has tripled. At East Tennessee babies experiencing withdrawal are often placed in private, dark rooms with either rocking machines to try and keep them calm, or frequent visits by one of the hospital’s 57 “cuddlers” – volunteers that supplement regular staff by holding babies, and rocking them to try and ease their symptoms. It is impossible to be unmoved by these infants, said Carla Saunders, the hospital’s neonatal nurse practitioner who spoke with the AP.”If there is anything that could drive the people in our society to stop turning their heads to adult addiction, it’s going to be the babies,” says Saunders. Drug abuse in the state of Tennessee is often ranked among the highest in the US, though as additional reporting already confirms the number of newborns with prescription drug dependencies is hardly confined to that state. At Florida’s Tampa General Hospital, Ashmeade tells the WSJ video reporters of the impact that these babies have made on her staff.“The nurses have a hard time. These babies require a lot of care, and sometimes, despite our best efforts, there is still a period of time before we can get them comfortable,” says Ashmeade. … Read More
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Rand Paul alleges CIA smuggled weapons through Benghazi
On Wednesday a Congressional committee heard testimonies from witnesses of the September 11, 2012 attack, but eight months after the fact many questions still remain unanswered. Sen. Paul weighed in on the event as well this week, but in doing so challenged the administration of US President Barack Obama and particularly Hillary Clinton, the former Department of State secretary at the helm of the agency at the time of the attack and another rumored candidate in the 2016 election.In an interview aired on CNN Thursday evening, Sen. Paul said he hasn’t ruled out the possibility that last year’s attack unfolded as a result of a secret arms trade. The confusion in the immediate aftermath of the event — including unfounded admissions from America’s United Nations envoy Susan Rice that contradicted what is known today about the attack — could actually be a cover-up, the senator said.“I never have quite understood the cover-up — if it was intentional or incompetence,” he told host Erin Burnett. “But something went on. I mean, they had talking points that they were trying to make it out to be a movie when everybody seemed to be on the ground telling them it had nothing to do a movie. I don’t know if this was for political reasons.”In the wake of the attack, then-UN ambassador Susan Rice said the storming of the consulate resulted after an anti-Islamic video produced in the US ended up on YouTube. The government has since admitted her statement was false, but conflicting reports among Washington’s elite has led in part to Paul’s questioning of the incident.“I’ve actually always suspected that, although I have no evidence, that maybe we were facilitating arms leaving Libya going through Turkey into Syria,” he said.“Were they trying to obscure that there was an arms operation going on at the CIA annex?” Paul asked. “I’m not sure exactly what was going on, but I think questions ought to be asked and answered, and I’m a little curious when employees of the State Department are told by government officials they shouldn’t testify and then they are sort of sequestered and kept away from testimony, so I think there may be more to this.”This is not the first time either that Senator Paul raised questions about possible arms supplies under the CIA umbrella. During her testimony in the Senate, Rand Paul asked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton whether the spy agency was sending weapons from Benghazi into other countries. Clinton replied that he would have to ask CIA officials about it. On Friday morning, Paul scolded the former State Department secretary in a Washington Times op-ed and said Clinton “should never hold high office again.”“My office is currently seeking out the witnesses and survivors of Benghazi to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. To date, the Obama administration has refused to let them testify. Too many questions remain unanswered. Now, there are too many new questions,” Paul wrote. “The evidence we had in January already suggested that Mrs. Clinton ignored repeated requests for more security in Benghazi. The new evidence we have today – and that continues to mount – suggests that at the very least, Mrs. Clinton should never hold high office again.”Paul said during a Thursday radio interview that he’s “considering” a run for president in 2016. A Quinnipiac University poll published earlier the week found that Clinton would dominate the Democratic race, winning perhaps 65 percent of the party’s vote if she decides to run. … Read More
