Prop 100 Results: Voters in Arizona this Tuesday approved a temporary sales tax increase to help avoid budget cuts to education, social services and law enforcement. After almost 85 percent of the hundreds of thousands of the votes on arizona prop 100 counted the results are 64 percent in favor and 36 percent against.
“Voters understand that we had a really huge financial crisis in Arizona and by doing it, we are going to make the state better. But it’s not a cure-all,” said Republican Gov. Jan Brewer about the three million voters of the state.
Arizona prop 100 results - The sales tax increase will take effect starting June 1, changing the sales tax from 5.6 cents on the dollar to 6.6 cents in the state for the next three years and raising a projected $918 million in the first year. If the Arizona Proposition 100 would not pass there were $862 million of budget cuts for schools and social services and law enforcement.
Yahoo confirmed acquisition of Associated Content
This strategic move extends Yahoo’s ability to provide high quality, personally relevant content for the benefit of more than 600 million users as well as tens of thousands of advertisers.
As Yahoo! enhances its social, mobile, local, and media offerings, the acquisition of Associated Content reinforces the company’s longstanding promise to offer the best of the Web — by combining Associated Content’s approximately 380,000 contributors who provide rich and varied content on a broad array of passion points, with Yahoo’s leadership in partnering with established content brands and the award-winning team of editors and experts from Yahoo!.
“The Associated Content team and our 380,000 contributors are looking forward to joining Yahoo! and to the opportunities that being part of a global Internet brand presents,” said Luke Beatty, Associated Content founder and president. “Combining our crowd sourced content with Yahoo!’s distribution, world class editorial team and online marketing leadership will accelerate our growth as we continue to leverage our best-of-breed platform to deliver high quality compelling content on more than 60,000 topics.”
As Yahoo! enhances its social, mobile, local, and media offerings, the acquisition of Associated Content reinforces the company’s longstanding promise to offer the best of the Web — by combining Associated Content’s approximately 380,000 contributors who provide rich and varied content on a broad array of passion points, with Yahoo’s leadership in partnering with established content brands and the award-winning team of editors and experts from Yahoo!.
“The Associated Content team and our 380,000 contributors are looking forward to joining Yahoo! and to the opportunities that being part of a global Internet brand presents,” said Luke Beatty, Associated Content founder and president. “Combining our crowd sourced content with Yahoo!’s distribution, world class editorial team and online marketing leadership will accelerate our growth as we continue to leverage our best-of-breed platform to deliver high quality compelling content on more than 60,000 topics.”
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