Warning: A Review of This Week’s Hot Flicks by Shaw Capital Management Online

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Teen sci-fi enthusiasts is going to be absolutely hooked with this smart, if not uplifting prequel of the original “Planet of the Apes” in 1968 and all it’sTV, film and video game offshoots.

A note of caution, though with its use of “motion-capture” engineering that allows the actual gorillas and chimps to look as full-blooded as those of the humans in the film – a product of computer effects overlaid upon a human actor. That’s why the physical violence and disorder in this movie could affect to and make it look very real to the minds of young audience.

James Franco plays the protagonist named Will, an excellent scientist who develops a certain anti-Alzheimer’s medication, albeit with a viral part. It is tested on apes and resulted in the animals to to grow rather violent, paving the way for the project to be scrapped. However,  Will still continue to give the particular medication to his father (John Lithgow), who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Will also takes into his care a baby chimp, Caesar, who was exposed to the drug during their experiments.

When Caesar (Andy Serkis) grew up, he showed signs of superintelligence. But after he acted violently towards someone once, Will is obliged to keep him in a “sanctuary” which ends up to be described as a kind of jail delivering apes for research. Caesar, after having a trainer Tom Felton) frequently maltreat him, instigates the primate uprising against the human race.

The apes encounter law enforcement officials, various weapons, planes and others as they proceed to climb the wires of the Golden Gate Bridge and later dangle through the treetops in Redwood Forest. They plan to rule. That is what you get for screwing up with genetics, cautions this science-fiction film.

There are some scenes in this film that depicts violence between animals and humans that are extreme and may seem too upsetting for some kids, pushing the PG-13 rate to the limit. Early on in the movie, such scenes occur in short sequences but towards the end there is already a prevalent chaos. Although the wounds and the fights are not very visual, there’s certainly death and blood with weapons including iron fence spikes,  electrical prods, guns, tranquilizer darts and others that will not be suitable for the children viewing.

Cowboys & Aliens

Even pre-teens may find this particular PG-13 sci-fi cum Western-themed movie as violent. That’s due to it’s uncomplicated storytelling, though it is actually inspired by a comic novel.

Right away, you’ll realize something’s unusual, when a sturdy man (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the middle of the desert in 1875 and have no idea who he is. What’s more, he’s got a modern-looking metallic bracelet on his arm that he can’t remove.

Later into the film, he eventually learned of his true name, Jake Lonergan,along with the information that he is wanted for murder and theft. Lonergan walks into town met a drunk young person, Percy (Robert Dano) whom he somehow humiliated. As it turns out, Percy’s father is a cattle tycoon, Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a rogue and grumpy military man.

Just as everyone prepares for a classic Mexican standoff, in came an alien plane, blowing and yanking away various people on wires. This odd threat obliged Lonergan and Dolarhyde, along with the rest of the townsfolk, Indian warriors, robbery gangs and cowpokes to find a common goal.

The said aliens sport the usual features (massive, slimy, reptilian-like creatures) sufficient to freak out some kids below the age of 12. Craig and Ford made nice, rough heroes amidst a superb cast.



The weapon fights and alien episodes using their weird-looking planes may come off as an extreme violent movie. Humans engage in more than one bloody and disturbing battle. The actual climactic struggle feature firearms, explosives and bows-and-arrows. It even involves gutting out of several humans by the supposed aliens and burning of a dead body. The screenplay even has expletives, anti-Indian slurs and a mention of ‘whores’. As expected from a cowboy movie, there’s a lot of alcohol-drinking involved and an indirect nudity.

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Andrew Mason, the Chief Executive Officer of Groupon Inc, wrote a lengthy memo to his employees on Thursday, explaining the website’s daily-deal records and growth strategy of the company. He lashed at Shaw Capital Management‘s report to be “insane” and “hilarious”.

He wrote a three-page memo written with glimmers of humor and frustration. Mason claims that his company is heading towards an IPO that sources try to pin down by September. He protected the use of an accounting metric that dismissed concerns for competition of likes in Facebook and Google.

He defends that U.S. revenue jumped around 12% in August from July. A 20% slide is expected for marketing expenses. This is actually printed on a tech blog in All Things Digital. This information, Shaw Capital Management reports, is also confirmed by people close to Mason.

Mason insists that the company has kept mum over all these insane accusations, but there is a way to brush this off too. Media accused Groupon to have been buying customers through reckless marketing and that he made comments having his competitors small and unproductive.

He further explains that this method is impossible to achieve as subscribers will eventually run out. The truth is the business works harder to create competitive benefits that even the largest technology companies have difficulty in penetrating.

Analysts state that Groupon is slowing down in North America with its IPO plans dented with financial disclosures and stock market slump.

ACSOI or adjusted consolidated segment operating income is a debated measure that excludes stock-based compensation, online marketing expenditures, and other related items for acquisition. The company has dropped this in its latest IPO filing this month, as more customers signed in for email alerts.

The CEO harshly criticized reports that the company was shutting down more than ten offices in China and retrenching hundreds of employees with Tencent Holdings. He says this is really baseless and untrue as China has a different market. However, both companies are earning profits.

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Shaw Capital Management Financial News: Facebook pays $40,000 to bug spotters

Facebook said this week that that it has paid out more than $40,000 under its new “bug bounty” security initiative. Launched three weeks ago, Facebook’s program invites security researchers — both the professional kind and hacker hobbyists — to send it the details of any Facebook vulnerabilities that they uncover. If the report checks out, Facebook will pay a finder’s fee of at least $500.

It’s willing to go higher for extra-impressive bug spotting.

“We’ve already paid a $5,000 bounty for one really good report,” Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan wrote in a blog post. “One person has already received more than $7,000 for six different issues flagged.”

Although the social networking has its own security team, Facebook launched its bug bounty program to tap into the collective wisdom of the site’s 750 million users.

“We hire the best and brightest, and have implemented numerous protocols,” Sullivan wrote. “We realize, though, that there are many talented and well-intentioned security experts around the world who don’t work for Facebook.”

Researchers from more than 16 countries have successfully submitted bounty bugs, Facebook said. Its public “thank you” list names dozens of contributors.

Facebook also took pains to assure bug-hunters that it won’t take any legal action against those who submit bugs, even if they were uncovered through less-than-legal routes into Facebook’s systems.

That’s often how hackers find vulnerabilities, but even those without any ill intent — so-called “white-hat hackers” — can land in hot water with companies if they tell them about their intrusion.

“We worked with several third-party groups to ensure that the language in our policy protects researchers and makes clear our intent to work with, not punish, those who report information,” Sullivan wrote.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group that often weighs in on Internet-related legal issues, is a fan of that approach.

“We hope to see others follow Facebook’s lead and go even further,” the EFF wrote last year about Facebook’s security policy. “The more transparent companies are about their approaches to vulnerability disclosure — and the more they encourage users to come forward — the more often they will learn about problems that need to be fixed.”