Kobe Bryant Vs Messi

Kobe Bryant matching up against Lionel Messi, are they going to be playing basketball or football? Nope they aren't going to play either against each other, rather they are going to be challenging each other in a selfie photo shoot contest in this Turkish Airlines ads.

How Samsung messed up trying to extinguish the S4 burning issue

How Samsung attempt to silence a Samsung Galaxy S4 owner who posted a video on YouTube showing how his S4 caught fire while charging and the result is the charging port got burnt and rendering the phone not usable anymore.

Here is the video posted by ghostlyrich showing the damaged and burnt Samsung S4 which has 735,154 views at the time of writing,

One would expect Samsung to simply get the phone replaced as soon as possible, but on the contrary they sent the user a document saying that they will exchange his defective device S4 only after he pulls his initial video from YouTube and agree to various other conditions that they have set in the set of documents. Check out ghostlyrich video about it for more details. The video has 1,000,971 views at the time of writing.

The attempt to clear the bad publicity ended up creating even worse publicity for Samsung. So big companies should realized that they can't simply cover up in this age of widespread use of internet enabled portable devices. In fact they could have shown themselves in good light by replacing the devices with a brand new one and other goodies to go along with it to make up for all the trouble :p

How much money does YouTube make?

Google has never ever revealed the details regarding YouTube's revenues and profit officially as far as I know. They bought YouTube for US$1.65 billions way back in the year 2006. It is but everyone guesswork and estimates as to how much money YouTube potentially make and most of it pointed to its acquisition of youtube to be a bargain purchase on hindsight which was considered to be not so at the time of acquisition.

eMarketer has come out recently with its own estimates of the money YouTube is bringing in.
According to eMarketer, YouTube's gross ad revenues will rise 51.4% to US$5.6 billions in 2013, accounting for 11.1% of Google's total revenues and;
Once YouTube has paid ad partners and video creators their share of the revenues, its net ad revenues are still expected to reach US$1.96 billions this year, up 65.5% compared to 2012's US$1.18 billions. It is still pretty decent.