Corporate Bits | Wynn volunteers organize outing for seniors

The Wynn Employee (WE) Volunteer Team organized an outing to the Macau Giant Panda Pavilion for nearly 200 senior citizens from the Elderly Activity Center of Tung Sin Tong.
According to Wynn’s statement, the two-day outing “enabled seniors to enjoy a day in the great outdoors, surrounded by nature.”
The press release added that the two pandas, Hoi Hoi and Sam Sam, caused excitement among the visitors, most of whom had not visited the pavilion before.
The WE volunteer team accompanied the elderly citizens on their outing and accompanied them back to Wynn Macau to enjoy lunch and an afternoon filled with educational games and camaraderie.
Wynn Macau supports different charitable activities in the city, with the aim of bettering people’s lives.

twitter tweaks 140-character policy

Twitter is making some big changes, at least in the context of 140 characters or less.
The social media service said yesterday that in coming months, photos, videos and other media will not count toward Twitter’s 140-character limit. That means more wordy tweets are on the way.
The change is yet another attempt by the San Francisco company to make its messaging service easier to use, and to attract new users. Twitter did not, as many had speculated in recent months, abolish its character limit.
A person’s Twitter handle, which starts with the “@” symbol, will also not count against character limits. And people will be able to retweet and quote their own tweets.

yahoo says core business sale underway

Yahoo! Inc.’s strategic review to sell its core business is “well along the way,” Chief Financial Officer Ken Goldman said, without giving any specifics.
“It’s going, I think, very, very well,” Goldman said during a presentation hosted by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Boston yesterday. “We are continuing to work tirelessly to get to the right place.”
Yahoo – under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer – started a review of the company’s options in February after pressure from investors and a failed turnaround.  Bidders have included TPG, Verizon Communications Inc., YP
Holdings LLC, and a consortium led by Bain Capital LP and Vista Equity Partners LLC, people familiar with the matter have said.
While Goldman said the process is robust, he declined to give details on what “inning” the effort is in during the presentation.