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I'm incredibly excited to be here this afternoon and share more about our vision for Yahoo Yahoo is about making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining and quite honestly there are very few places as inspiring and entertaining at CES as many of you know we announced in November that award-winning journalist author and TV host Katie Couric would be joining Yahoo as our global anchor and today I'm excited to have Katie with us here at CES my first got into the news business 35 years ago and as many of you of a certain age know it was a very different time I've often said it was the time when her ass was two words instead of one thank you for getting that show could you tell us I think one of the most exciting things for me personally about these efforts of the opportunity at Yahoo is it really is a blank slate as many of you know I really enjoy interviewing so I'm very excited the prospect of interviewing newsmakers politicians sports figures philanthropist anyone who we believe has an important and interesting story to tell so I'm really excited to announce a new product today it's called Yahoo News digest and at its core it simplifies news and eliminates the problems of information overload Yahoo knew digests our new product provides you with two daily summaries or digests one in the morning and one in the evening they both contain all the important news the stories are algorithmically produced but editorially curated demonstrating the perfect blend between technology and journalism today I'm excited to announce that David Pogue the award-winning tech columnist that's selling author and tea host will lead our tech magazine so yeah I picked that picture off of Flickr I I thought it would suggest impact and drama and power and yeah I see it it just kind of looks like the cover of Dianetics our country and our technological level I think they break down along the same lines I mean let's face it it's like California and New York and everyone else so I think let's face it you guys are part of the bubble on the edges right everyone at CES is a gearhead you you know what a Snapdragon processor is you care about bus speeds you have a Google+ account okay thank you I wrote that one myself thank you so you might ask well aren't there already many consumer technology sites that could help yes absolutely I'm not going to name any names but they're out there this is yahoo.com slash tech at Yahoo Tech first of all we have a language we're going to speak and it's called English called human it's absolutely gorgeous it looks like nothing else out there so today we're going to be launching the site in fact what I thought would be cool is if we launched the site right now now I've never done this I don't I don't know if there's like a big lever of the Ebro or a big red button of course it's an app I should have known so with that ladies and gentlemen I hereby welcome to the world our baby Yahoo tech we've made some exciting announcements today and we look forward to sharing more with you in the future