Winners at ONE: Valor of Champions Fight Night

One Championship: Valor of Champions was recently held at the Mall of Asia Arena. 8 bouts to show who deserves to be part of the Valor of Champions. These are the winners...

All 8 bouts pushed through as all fighters meet and passed during the weigh-in, which includes 5 Pinoy fighters as part of the main card.

Valor of Champions

Official results for ONE: VALOR OF CHAMPIONS

Featherweight bout: Wang Ya Wei defeats Sunoto by TKO (Strikes) at 1:21 of Round 3

Wang Ya Wei and Sunoto kicked off an exciting night of fights at ONE: VALOR OF CHAMPIONS in a featherweight bout. Wang easily handled Sunoto, defeating the Indonesian striking specialist by ground and pound in the third round after a timid start from both fighters.

Flyweight bout: Liu Xiao Yang defeats Nicholas Lee by Knockout at 1:59 of Round 1

ONE Championship newcomer, flyweight Liu Xiao Yang, ended matters early against opponent Nicholas Lee, winning by stoppage just minutes into the first round. Liu looped a wide but powerful right hook to Lee’s temple that dropped and knocked him out as referee Olivier Coste stepped in to call a halt to the contest.

Catchweight bout (68kg): Amir Khan defeats Bashir Ahmad by TKO (Doctor Stoppage) at 3:20 of Round 2

Khan vs. Ahmad

Amir Khan improved his record with a thorough victory over Bashir Ahmad in a tremendous display of grit from both warriors. Both men came out striking in the first round, with Ahmad landing some solid right hands while Khan worked his opponent’s body with vicious knees. After their war of attrition continued in the second, a cut opened up on Ahmad’s eyebrow. With his vision obscured, the referee had no choice but to stop the fight and award Khan the victory.

Catchweight bout (57.1kg): Anatpong Bunrad defeats Geje Eustaquio by Split Decision

Eustaquio vs. Bunrad

Anatpong Bunrad scored an upset victory over Team Lakay’s Geje Eustaquio in a close fight in front of Eustaquio’s home crowd in Manila. Eustaquio played the role of aggressor for most of the bout, while Bunrad opted to lay back and counter. Eustaquio, known for his well-rounded striking game, dictated the pace with his boxing and Wushu. Both fighters had their moments in close exchanges but Bunrad scored on a pair of takedowns, including one in the final round that sealed the deal. In the end, Bunrad just narrowly eclipsed Eustaquio by Split Decision, earning two of the three judges’ favor.

Featherweight bout: Edward Kelly defeats Jimmy Yabo by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 4:05 of Round 1

Kelly vs. Yabo

After an impressive showcase of strikes, Edward Kelly finished off fellow Filipino Jimmy Yabo with a Rear Naked Choke in the very first round. Kelly started off quick with high velocity kicks, a staple of Wushu Sanshou as Yabo tried his best to defend from the onslaught. In the clinch, Kelly worked his way to take Yabo’s back and sunk in the choke with a minute left to go in the round. Still on his feet, Yabo signalled to the referee that he had enough by tapping the mat.

Flyweight bout: Eugene Toquero defeats Brianata Rosadhi by TKO (Strikes) at 3:41 of Round 1

Eugene Toquero defeats Rosadhi by TKO in just one round

The charismatic Eugene Toquero brought the crowd to its feet with an exciting grappling performance against Brianata Rosadhi. Toquero dominated the entire fight for as long as it lasted, defeating Rosadhi by scintillating ground and pound in the first round. Within seconds, Toquero took down Rosadhi and worked on a pair of Rear Naked Choke attempts. When that was no longer available, Toquero took top position and began punishing Rosadhi with sharp elbows. Referee Joey Lepiten then stepped in to stop the bout.

Bantamweight bout: Mark Striegl defeats Casey Suire by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:48 of Round 1

Suire taps out to Mark Striegl due to a rear choke hold

The crowd-favorite, Filipino-American Mark “Mugen” Striegl, showed the world that he is definitely more than just hype by dominating the very tough Casey Suire. Striegl’s world-class wrestling immediately shone through, as he took Suire down with a side headlock in the opening moments. The Filipino fighter then moved to take Suire’s back and from there it was just a matter of time before Striegl was able to sink in a Rear Naked Choke, forcing Suire to tap out.

ONE Welterweight World Championship bout: Ben Askren vs Luis Santos (No Contest)

No Contest after Askren accidentally pokes Santos in the eye

The main event of the night, Welterweight World Championship bout between reigning champion Ben “Funky” Askren and challenger Luis Santos was a bit of a disappointment. It ended in a No Contest ruling after Santos was accidentally poked in the eye during an exchange. After a careful review of the exchange verified the eye poke, referee Olivier Coste gave Santos five minutes to recover. However, after five minutes, Santos’ vision was still impaired, which ended the fight and declared No Contest.

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Infobyte Sponsors BarCamp Miami!

On March 28th the fifth edition of Bar Camp Miami took place where people celebrated 10 years of Bar Camp worldwide.

Barcamp tries to bring together a wide range of members in the IT community, including technologists, designers and engineers, as well as angel investors. Barcamp provides an event where people from different backgrounds can participate with an eye on making sure Miami is on the cutting edge of technology and innovations. 

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Overall, it was a great event and we hope to be able to participate in future Bar Camps!

Infobyte en la 3ra Conferencia Ciberseguridad e Infraestructuras Críticas de Información

El próximo jueves 9 Infobyte será parte de la 3ra Conferencia Internacional y Taller de la República Argentina sobre Ciberseguridad e Infraestructuras Críticas de Información 2015 en el Palacio San Martin- Arenales 761 CABA-. 

Nuestro CEO Francisco Amato será orador en el panel del Sector Privado desarrollando sobre el rol de las empresas en la ciberseguridad junto con otras empresas líderes.

La jornada tiene como objetivo realizar un intercambio de buenas prácticas a nivel internacional y nacional, en aspectos técnicos, jurídicos y para los hacedores de políticas de protección de infraestructuras críticas de información y ciberseguridad.

La conferencia además abordará la ciberseguridad en Latinoamerica y contará con oradores como Christopher Painter el Coordinador de Asuntos Ciberneticos del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos, el Ingeniero Manuel Sicilia, Jefe de Análisis en Ciberseguridad  del Centro Nacional para la Protección de las Infraestructuras Críticas CNPIC de España y Alexis Brignoni, Agente Especial FBI. 

Amy Winehouse biopic displays her talking about fear of fame

A new documentary on the life of late British singer Amy Winehouse shows the six-time Grammy-Award winner in her younger days discussing her misgivings about fame, a preview of the trailer showed on Thursday.

Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning nearly four years ago at her London home at the age of 27 after struggling with drinking and drug problems throughout much of her career.

Amy Winehouse

"I don't think I'm going to be at all famous, I don't think I could handle it. I would probably go mad," Winehouse says in the first glimpse of "AMY", due for release on July 3 and using previously unseen footage and unheard tracks.


Directed by Asif Kapadia, who won a BAFTA for his documentary "Senna" on the late Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, AMY features footage of a young Winehouse singing and smiling to camera and talking about her career while a version of her hit "Back to Black" plays in the background.

Seen as one of the most talented musicians of her generation, Winehouse's albums - with songs such as "Valerie", "You Know I'm No Good" and "Rehab" - sold in their millions.

"I never thought ... I would end up being a singer. I just thought I'm lucky that it is something I can always do if I want to," she says in another clip.

Source Reuters

EXCLUSIVE: Sophisticated bank transfer cyber scam uncovered by IBM

A worker is pictured behind a logo at the IBM stand on the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover February 26, 2011. The world's largest IT fair CeBIT opens its doors on March 1 and runs through March 5.

IBM has uncovered a sophisticated fraud scheme run by a well- funded Eastern European gang of cyber criminals that uses a combination of phishing, malware and phone calls that the technology company says has netted more than $1 million from large and medium-sized U.S. companies.

The scheme, which IBM security researchers have dubbed "The Dyre Wolf," is small in comparison with more recent widespread online fraud schemes but represents a new level of sophistication.

According to IBM, since last year the attackers have been targeting people working in companies by sending spam email with unsafe attachments to get a variant of the malware known as Dyre into as many computers as possible.

If installed, the malware waits until it recognizes that the user is navigating to a bank website and instantly creates a fake screen telling the user that the bank's site is having problems and to call a certain number.

If users call that number, they get through to an English-speaking operator who already knows what bank the users think they are contacting. The operator then elicits the users' banking details and immediately starts a large wire transfer to take money out of the relevant account.

The use of a live phone operator is what makes the scheme unique, said Caleb Barlow, vice president of IBM Security.

"What's very different in this case, is we saw a pivot of the attackers to use a set of social engineering techniques that I think are unprecedented," said Barlow. "The focus on wire transfers of large sums of money really got our attention."

IBM did not release any details on which companies fell prey to the scheme or the location of the perpetrators.

Once the transfer is complete, the money is then quickly moved from bank to bank to evade detection. In one instance, IBM said, the gang hit the victim company with a denial of service attack - essentially bringing down their Web capabilities - so it would not discover the theft until much later.

International Business Machines Corp's security unit is recommending that companies make sure employees are trained in spotting phishing attacks - where emails or attachments can infect a computer - and to never provide banking credentials to anyone.

The unit published a blog on the issue on its site.

Source Reuters

Iranians celebrate, Obama hails 'historic' nuclear framework

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Iranians celebrated in the streets after negotiators reached a framework for a nuclear deal that could bring their country in from the cold, hailed by U.S. President BarackObama as an "historic understanding" with an old adversary.

The tentative agreement, struck on Thursday after eight days of talks in Switzerland, clears the way for negotiations on a settlement aimed at allaying Western fears that Iran was seeking to build an atomic bomb and in return lift economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

It marks the most significant step toward rapprochement between Iran and the United States since they became enemies with the 1979 Iranian revolution. But the deal still requires experts to work out difficult details over three months.

Obama and Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, who both took risks to open the dialogue, will each have to sell the deal to skeptical conservatives at home.

With many details still up in the air, France cautioned on Friday against overoptimism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has the ear of U.S. opposition Republicans, fumed against an arrangement he said could lead to nuclear proliferation and war in the Middle East.

"We are not completely at the end of the road and the end of the road should be in June,” said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. "Nothing is signed until everything is signed, but things are going in the right direction," he told French radio station Europe 1.

The framework is contingent on settling the 12-year dispute by June 30. All sanctions onIran remain in place until a final settlement.

Celebrations erupted in the Iranian capital after the deal was reached. Videos and pictures posted on social media showed cars in Tehran honking horns as passengers clapped. In one video posted on Facebook, a group of women can be heard clapping and chanting "Thank you, Rouhani."

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Among the six powers, France has taken a consistently tough line with Tehran. Fabius said Iran's economy stood to gain $150 billion in relief from the sanctions.

"You will have seen that there was a lot of positive reaction in the streets in Iran, and I think it’s real, not fabricated. The Iranians, the people, the youth are expecting something and that should be noted,” he said.

Obama described the agreement as a "historic understanding with Iran". He compared it to nuclear arms control deals struck by his predecessors with the Soviet Union that "made our world safer" during the Cold War. He also cautioned, however, that "success is not guaranteed."

Netanyahu was to convene his security cabinet on Friday after telling Obama in a phone call that he "vehemently opposed" the agreement. In a statement released after the conversation, Netanyahu said a deal based on the framework announced in Lausanne "would threaten the survival of Israel".

"This deal would legitimize Iran's nuclear program, bolster Iran's economy and increase Iran's aggression and terror throughout the Middle East and beyond," he said. "It would increase the risks of nuclear proliferation in the region and the risks of a horrific war."

Israel is believed to be the only Middle Eastern country that has nuclear weapons.

Many details still need to be worked out. Diplomats close to the negotiations said the deal was fragile and the understandings reached could still collapse between now and June 30. Experts believe it will be much harder to reach a final deal than it was to agree the framework accord.

The deal is also opposed by Sunni Arab states which consider Iran, the leading Shi'ite Muslim country, to be a threat.

Under the outline deal, Iran would shut more than two-thirds of its installed centrifuges capable of producing uranium that could be used to build a bomb, dismantle a reactor that could produce plutonium and accept intrusive verification.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday there was a "very good" chance of a final settlement.

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The framework includes limits on Iran's enrichment of uranium for 10 years.

Iran agreed to reduce the number of installed uranium enrichment centrifuges to 6,104 from 19,000, and will operate only 5,060 for 10 years, according to a U.S. fact sheet.

One of the most sensitive issues during the negotiations, Iran's research and development work, will also be limited.

"Iran has agreed to not conduct research and development associated with uranium enrichment at Fordow for 15 years," the U.S. fact sheet said. It also noted Iran will remove the 1,000 more advanced second-generation centrifuges currently installed at Natanz and place them in International Atomic Energy Agency-monitored storage for 10 years.

High enriched uranium can be used to make a weapon, while low enriched uranium is used in power plants. Iran has insisted it wants it only for a peaceful nuclear energy program and denies it aimed to build an atomic bomb.

Iran's "breakout" timeline – the time that it would take for it acquire enough fissile material for one weapon - would be extended to at least one year, for a duration of at least 10 years, under this framework. It is currently assessed to be two to three months, the U.S. fact sheet said.

Iran would gradually receive relief from U.S. and European Union economic sanctions if it complies with the terms of a final deal. Some U.N. Security Council sanctions would be gradually lifted, though others would remain in place.

"We're still some time away from reaching where we want to be," said Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Failure to comply with terms of the deal will cause the U.S. and EU sanctions to "snap back into place", the U.S. fact sheet said. It was less specific on U.N. sanctions, one of the main sticking points in the negotiations, saying only that they could be reimposed in the event of Iranian non-compliance.

Source Reuters

Stock split could cost Google over $500 million

n this June 5, 2014 file photo, a man walks past a Google sign at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google may have to pay more than half a billion dollars for an unorthodox stock split…

An unorthodox stock split designed to ensure Google CEO Larry Page and fellow co-founder Sergey Brin retain control of the Internet's most profitable company could cost Google more than half a billion dollars.

Page, 42, and Brin, 41, have maintained control over Google since they started the company in a rented Silicon Valley garage in 1998. Their ideas and leadership have spawned one of the world's best known and most powerful companies with a market value of $375 billion and a payroll of about 54,000 employees.

Yet many investors have become frustrated with Page's unwavering belief that Google should be spending billions on far-flung projects ranging from driverless cars to diabetes-controlling contact lenses that may take years to pay off and have little to do with the company's main business of search and digital advertising. The big spending is one reason Google's stock price is about 2 percent below where it stood at the end of 2013, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has climbed 11 percent.

To maintain the power to drive Google's direction, Page and Brin initially accumulated virtually all of the company's class "B'' shares, which have 10 votes for each "A'' share. The duo, though, worried that control would erode as Google issued more "A'' shares to pay for acquisitions and reward other workers. A year ago Thursday, Google split its stock to create a new category of "C'' stock with no voting power that would allow more Google shares to be issued without undercutting Page and Brin.

Class "A'' shareholders were outraged, skewering the maneuver as a textbook example of shoddy corporate governance. Google argued there wouldn't be much difference between the price of "C'' and "A'' shares because Page and Brin held majority control anyway with the "B'' shares. To settle a class-action lawsuit challenging the split, Google agreed to compensate "C'' shareholders if the average price of "C'' stock fell more than 1 percent below "A'' shares through the first year of trading.

Google's theory proved wrong, said BGC Financial Partners Colin Gillis. The difference turned out to be between 1 percent and 2 percent, though the final gap won't be announced for up to 30 days as Google works with outside experts to determine the figures under a complex formula.

"This shows the market does place a value on owning a voting stock," he said.

Google disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that it would have owed about $593 million to class C stockholders had the calculations been done on Dec. 31. Based on that estimate, the class C stockholders would receive roughly $1.74 per share in cash or additional stock. Calculating the exact amount that Google Inc. owes will start after the stock market closes Thursday.

The Mountain View, California, company has until early July to pay the money. It's something that Google can easily afford, given the company holds $64 billion in cash. And the damage could have been a lot worse: Google would have had to pay $7.5 billion, or about $22 per share, had the first-year spread between "A'' and "C'' shares was 5 percent or more.

Class C shareholders should ask themselves if the money they are getting is enough to compensate for relinquishing their voting rights and ceding control to Page and Brin, said Charles Elson, director of the University of Delaware's Weinberg center for corporate governance.

Shareholders "are getting this cash for giving up their say in effective management," Elson said. "This could be a case of 'penny wise, pound foolish.'"


Google declined to comment.

Source Associated Press

KFC's parent company is going for Chick-fil-A's throat

KFC and Taco Bell parent company Yum Brands appears to have plans in the works to chip away at Chick-fil-A’s dominance in the U.S.

Yum! has been slowly opening a new franchise called Super Chix, that sells chicken sandwiches, fries and custard, a clear shot at Chick-fil-A’s own offerings. Super Chix is opening a second location in Texas this month after its first store opened this year, Business Insider reports.

Here are some of the glowing reviews for Super Chix’s first location, as collected by Business Insider:

The last original chicken sandwich’ is their slogan. I can clearly see why after I finished lunch there this afternoon. The quality is phenomenal and at a more than decent price!”

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I love how fresh the food is; the food is refreshing in a way most fast food isn’t. You don’t leave and feel worse after eating at Super Chix; you leave and then wish you had another serving of Super Chix.

But not all appear to be totally enthused by the chain’s offerings. One person, Erin O. of Plano, Texas, gave the chicken joint a one-star rating and an unsavory account of the food. “The chicken in the chicken strips was oddly textured, like there was a lot of tendons in it? Urk. And the breading was oddly sweet. I totally get the references to chick-fil-a now… it’s similar yet different, and not quite in a good way,” she wrote.

In 2012, Chick-fil-A overtook KFC as top chicken chain, according to CNBC. Yum! Brands posted earnings in February that failed to meet analysts’ expectations. The company reported earnings of 61 cents per share, while analysts expected 66 cents per share. But Taco Bell saw 6% same-restaurant sales growth, which beat analyst expectations of 3.6%.

Source Fortune