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it's Wednesday April for 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded yahoo announced it will lay up two thousand of its employees in a statement yahoo said its restructuring is to make the company nimbler and more profitable the layoffs reportedly will save yahoo about 375 million dollars in annual costs the trouble media company currently employs about 14,000 people around the world tablet owners can now get unlimited access to many leading us magazines for just one monthly price it's called next issue and the services like Netflix for magazines for ten dollars a month thats Hamlet app provides access to 27 monthly titles such as money Vanity Fair and Popular Mechanics for fifteen dollars a month it adds weekly titles like time people sports illustrated in Entertainment Weekly currently it's only available for Android tablets but an iPad version is coming soon the online music service grooveshark has lost the rights to stream music from EMI one of the top four record companies EMI was the only major music label to work with grooveshark and with no big music label contract groove sharks future is murky in a statement grooveshark said the cost to stream am eyes music was unsustainable more than 1 million users downloaded the android version of the instagram app in less than 24 hours after its release the free photo sharing an editing app has been popular in Apple's iTunes Store since it launched in 2010 it was even named Apple's iPhone app of the year in 2011 Instagram lets users put color filters and retro effects on photos and then share them on the Instagram network or on other social media sites unlimited data just isn't what it used to be now the no-contract metropcs is throttling data speeds for customers the top unlimited plan for metropcs has jumped to seventy dollars a month and it's unlimited everything video music and no slowing down the speed but with the sixty dollar a month plan users only get 4G speeds for the first five gigs the data used after that speeds dropped dramatically to 3g or slower Marvel superheroes are going through a digital mutation Marvel has introduced a new way to present comic panels on a tablet like pausing before showing text or panning the camera through an action shot it's called infinite comics and you can catch the first instance of this in Avengers vs. x-men number one in the marvel comics app there's also a new marvell AR app that lets readers use their phone with the printed edition to pull up bonus animation that brings the pages to life those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded