New’s June 3-7 2013

New’s  June 3-7 2013

The grandmother who defeats Rafael Correa on Twitter

The president of Ecuador has won the last seven elections in which he has participated, 100 of the 137 lawmakers in the National Assembly are of his party, brings crowds anywhere in the Ecuadorian territory to traveling, but there is a scenario where he is defeated by a single grandmother Twitter.

Not that the social network will be indifferent to Rafael Correa. The president has his account - @ MashiRafael-followed by more than a million 50 000 users. He has written more than 4,200 tweets, read and scrutinized constantly by politicians, journalists, fans and detractors. But Grandma has a secret: it is wise.

With his followers staggering not only overcomes the Ecuadorian president, but the five Ecuadorian media most popular microblogging network (Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas, El Universo, El Comercio and TcTelevisión) fail to reach or even adding all followers .

While no one is at all unfamiliar Ecuador Correa or the means mentioned above, only about ten people around the country know who my grandmother knew. BBC interviewed her in an old house in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca, on the condition of anonymity.

A cat heated campaign candidate in Mexico

Almost from his first "meow" Politically, the candidate cat-the "candigato" short-Morris became an electoral phenomenon in Mexico.

This invention of some voters tired of traditional politics has more followers on social networks that some of their human opponents. And it has achieved an enviable milestone for any politician: to have everyone talking about it.

The story is this: the July 7 elections are held in the state of Veracruz and 13 other regional entities. In the town of Xalapa, two young-so far the local media has been identified by their first names, Sergio and Daniel, proposed to apply to your cat as a candidate for mayor.

"Given the number of rats that lurk these posts only a cat can bring order.'s Candigato promises nothing more than the other candidates: Rest and frolic," says campaign slogan.

A name on the ballot

The nomination of Morris is virtual. What they propose their promoters is that voters write their name on the ballot, instead of marking one of the officers.

However, his "campaign headquarters" ask not to vote for him just because he is a cat. The call is to those who "have lost faith in the political class" who feel that their vote was not respected and those who are not convinced of the normal candidates, among others.

Kyary, the Japanese Lady Gaga causes a stir

A room full of children's toys, a brain dancer, a shark psychedelic and, in between, a girl doing a dance peculiar is how the world discovered the Japanese Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

The video for their debut song, "PONPONPON" published in July 2011 on YouTube, was viewed nearly 50 million times.

The singer, whose real name is Kiriko Takemura-shot to fame very quickly. In a few years, moved from being a schoolgirl to become the face and voice of culture "kawaii"-in Japanese, "soft" or "sweet."

The video soon attracted the attention of the entire world, surpassing sales of iTunes songs as far away as Belgium and Finland.

Now 20 years old and is becoming a place in music, and his unique aesthetic, copied by thousands of teenagers, does being compared to Lady Gaga.

But Kyary expanded the boundaries of "kawaii" grotesque alabrazar as part of their image. Just look at the bats and skulls in the video for "PONPONPON".

Kyary represents a new class of J-Pop, as known to Japanese popular music. He has had many followers in Asia for decades, but until now had not been able to capture the attention of the rest of the world.

Messi accused of tax evasion

The prosecution of economic crimes Barcelona presented on Wednesday a lawsuit against the Argentine striker Lionel Messi, who plays for Barcelona, and against his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, according to news agency EFE.

They are charged with three offenses against the public for alleged fraud of more than 4 million euros (U.S. $ 5.3 million) on their federal income tax of Individuals (income tax), 2007, 2008 and 2009.

The complaint, signed by the prosecutor Raquel Amado, was filed in the trial court in Gava (Barcelona), where is the residence the Argentine striker.

According to the indictment, the avoidance strategy focused on the transfer of the player's image rights to holding companies based in tax havens located in countries such as Belize and Uruguay.

In parallel, again according to the prosecution, the player formalized licensing agreements, agency or service delivery with other companies located in jurisdictions of convenience, as the UK and Switzerland.

Thus, revenues footballer allegedly transited from these European countries to the companies located in tax havens undergo virtually no taxation and "with full opacity" against the Spanish Treasury, according to the complaint that had access to the EFE.

ccording to Forbes, the 25-year earn a salary of just over $ 20 million per season, which added $ 21 million in revenue from sponsors. In February, four times winner of the Golden Ball FIFA had renewed his contract with Barcelona until June 2018.

Google bought Waze traffic app

Google bought the company that developed Waze, an app for smartphones that uses the information provided by users to give updates on the traffic on streets and highways.

According to Reuters Internet giant paid U.S. $ 1,300 million for the company in Tel Aviv, Israel. However, the company did not disclose financial terms of the agreement.

Waze combines online maps that users send information about traffic jams, road repair work and accidents.

The purchase could enable Google to improve the accuracy of its own navigation system.

It is believed that Google was not the only one interested and that Facebook and Apple also had an eye to the Israeli company.

Waze, founded four years ago, has about 47 million users worldwide.