Welcome to NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV for Wednesday June 19, 2013 here’s your SiliconANGLE daily round-up.

Google Offers Mail-In Backup

Google is introducing a new service that allows developers to mail-in their hard drives to be hosted on Google’s Cloud. For a flat rate of eighty-dollars per drive, Google will take any sized hard drive and upload it into a cloud storage bucket, which Google says is “faster or less expensive than transferring data over the internet.”

Further expanding on the cost of uploading storage, Google engineer Lamia Youseff noted, “transferring large data sets (in the hundreds of terabytes and beyond) can be expensive and time-consuming over the public network.”  Even with an extremely fast connection, uploading large data sets can take a number of days, and most developers may not have the connection or time to wait for such transfers. Amazon already offers this service for the same price, but unlike Google, they charge a per-hour fee for importing the data. Google’s service is now in limited preview for users with a U.S. based return address.

Google’s Interactive Carousel lands on desktops

More news from Google, as the search giant introduces what they refer to as an “interactive carousel” of nearby locations to their search feature. By typing a query for locations such as a restaurant, Google will now bring up a map of your location, and a horizontal grid of nearby businesses to match your query. Clicking on a business will then display further details, including the location’s address, relevant photos, and even an aggregated review score. Users can also zoom into various locations on the map to restrict the search to places in a specific area.

The addition of the carousel feature is an indicator that Google is getting more involved with the contextual information of a user’s location, similar to Foursquare’s current strategy.

Adobe reports revenues higher than $1B in Q2

Adobe’s second quarterly earnings have proved to be better-than-expected. The company reported revenues slightly over a billion dollars, which returned a healthy thirty-six cents per share. President and CEO Shantanu Narayen commented on the announcement, saying,

“Our Q2 results reflect our leadership position in Digital Media and Digital Marketing. Creative Cloud is revolutionizing the creative process, and Adobe Marketing Cloud is quickly becoming the platform of choice for the world’s leading brands, advertising agencies and media companies.”

Adobe’s move to the cloud has been an overwhelming success. Adobe’s Creative Cloud software solution now has over seven-hundred-thousand users, up from the four-hundred-seventy-nine-thousand users in the first quarter of this year. With over ninety percent of their subscribers on the annual plan, Adobe expects to see their full user base exceed the one-point-two-five million user mark by the end of the year – a prediction that many analysts believe to be very conservative.

Cloudera welcomes Tom Reilly as new CEO

Cloudera just announced major changes to their executive structure. Former Arcsight head, Tom Reilly, has been selected to be the new CEO, replacing Mike Olson. Olson isn’t leaving the company. He’ll be taking on the role of chairman and chief strategy officer.

When speaking about the changes, Olsen was quoted as saying, Cloudera was an early adopter of Apache’s Hadoop platform for big data, making them the first and biggest company to sell the platform. The company has raised over a hundred and forty million dollars in venture capital since launching in 2009. Cloudera has over three hundred employees and generates about one hundred million dollars in annual revenue.

Facebook hits 1M active advertisers

Facebook announced that it has reached the one million active advertisers mark. The milestone was reached thanks in large part to the growing adoption rate from small businesses. Large, global brands are increasingly  jumping on the Facebook bandwagon, as well.  Earlier this month, Facebook announced an initiative to simplify its advertising products. As a result, half of its ad units will be shuttered by the end of the year. The plan to reign-in the complex ad system came from feedback received from marketers.

Facebook learned from their own customers, and quickly realized that its ad products were too complicated and redundant, which made many advertisers hesitant to use the social network as a marketing platform. Some analysts believe that this type of responsiveness to customer feedback will help Facebook close the gap between themselves and the market leader of online advertising, Google.

LG launches ultra-wide TV

In an interesting move, LG has launched a new ultra-wide TV which will come standard with an all-in-one PC. The TV features a high-quality, twenty-nine inch LCD, that has an amazingly-wide aspect-ratio of twenty-one to nine. The accompanying PC also comes as a standalone TV tuner with an instant-on function, that will allow users to view several different picture-in-picture modes, enabling them to chat while watching TV. The set even supports the inclusion of split screen modes, which allows an HD broadcast and a connected smartphone to appear on the screen simultaneously.

A multitude of inputs are available for the set, and pricing is currently set so that users can purchase the PC and TV separately. The PC is expected to be priced between thirteen-hundred and two-thousand dollars with the ultra-wide TV priced around six hundred dollars.

And that’s your SiliconANGLE daily round-up for Wednesday June 19, 2013.  For continuous coverage on tech innovation and daily breaking analysis join us mornings beginning at 8:30am CENTRAL here at NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV.