The co-founder of YouTube, 27-year-old Steve Chen (
After completing high school, Chen attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana before becoming an employee of Paypal, where he met future YouTube partners Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
Chen and Hurley were at a dinner party in January last year when they realized there was no easy way to share online video, the way people can with photos.
At the time, they were both between jobs and carrying substantial credit card debt. They founded YouTube in February.
The website was officially launched in December 2005. Since then, the service has grown rapidly in popularity.
A tropical depression east of China’s Hainan Province is poised to strengthen into the second tropical storm of this year, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. The storm, which could be upgraded into a tropical storm before noon today, would be named Maliksi, meaning “brisk” in Filipino. As of 2pm, the tropical depression was moving northwest at 12kph, CWA data showed. The moisture the storm carries is likely to move east and merge with a weather front that is closing in on Taiwan, bringing rain over the weekend, CWA forecaster Huang En-hung (黃恩鴻) said. Tropical Storm Ewiniar is also nearby, although it would
China held military drills last week around Taiwan as part of its intimidation tactics, since it is not powerful enough to launch a war against the nation, a US-based professor said on Wednesday. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta and the University of South Carolina Walker Institute of International and Area Studies held a conference on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments in the US-Taiwan relationship and the Indo-Pacific, the office said in a press release yesterday. As this year marks the 45th anniversary of the US’ Taiwan Relations Act and Taiwan’s new government took office earlier this month, political
Singer and actor Aaron Yan (炎亞綸) was given a seven-month suspended prison sentence yesterday for filming and leaking intimate videos of a minor in 2017 and 2018. In its ruling, the Shilin District Court said that Yan, 39, had recorded the videos of him having sex with a minor with the intention of sharing them. The court handed down a seven-month prison sentence, which was suspended for three years and can be commuted to a fine, after Yan reached a settlement in March with the accuser, an Internet personality named Raku (耀樂), the ruling said. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed,
MEETING TARGETS: Due to the policy, local governments are in a rush to hire English teachers regardless of their qualifications, Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao said Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao (鄭英耀) is to hit the brakes on the Bilingual 2030 policy, but would keep it on the nation’s agenda, he said during an interview published yesterday. “These things take time,” he said. “We need to slow down.” Taiwanese enterprises are active globally and need people with professional-level proficiency in the English language, Cheng told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) in an exclusive interview. English-only universities are attractive to high-performing foreign students who can become part of the nation’s skilled workforce, he said. Cheng said that while president of National Sun Yat-sen University, he contributed to