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it's Wednesday februari 8 2012 I'm Richard carrion Cena calm and it's time to get loaded amazon has added Viacom shows to its prime instant video library making the service a stronger competitor to Netflix Amazon is adding videos from Comedy Central MTV Nickelodeon and BTW amazon said that it brings the total number of videos on the service to more than 15,000 an amazon streaming video service is included with a $79 yearly prime membership prime minister video streams have skyrocketed in recent months reportedly up nearly three hundred percent in the fourth quarter the up-and-coming photo sharing network called path has taken a wrong turn in the minds of many users after a blogger revealed the path app automatically uploads iphone users entire address books to its servers it's causing a stir because the app never asks for permission to upload names emails and phone numbers paths founder and CEO dave morin responded saying the data was being gathered to help users connect with friends and family on path Morin said the data collection will be optional in an upcoming update another young social service is also causing a stir for not being straight forward with what it does Pinterest is the site for sharing cool finds on the web and it's seen immense traffic growth with a reported 10 million u.s. monthly uniques but as one blog or discovered its adding tracking code still links users share so that it earns money from those clicks so for user posts the link to a cool thing they found on amazon for example Pinterest would make money from anyone who ends up clicking that link and buying the product now lots of sites use tracking codes to make money what's noteworthy is that Pinterest does this on the down low and it's a tactic some bloggers say should be disclosed there's more change in yahoo's leadership as was expected after Yahoo's co-founder Jerry gang stepped down a few weeks ago Yahoo's chairman of the board Roy Bostock and three other board members announced they would not seek reelection this year in a letter Boss Hogg said the effort to sell Yahoo is still active but also filled with complexity sprint reported that it saw its biggest surge in new customers in six years all thanks to people flocking to get the iphone with unlimited data contract but that growth came with a price sprint reported a lost of one three billion dollars and the big hit came from subsidies and had to pay out to Apple Google is launching what looks like to be its own version of TED Talks those educational short presentations from industry leaders and creative thinkers Google is calling it solve for x and it's designed to bring experienced entrepreneurs innovators and scientists from around the world to talk about solutions to the world's problems it started last week with a gathering and is expected to be held a few times a year the topics live on the website we solve for x com those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you just been loaded