Input: SEE IT: Spanish demonstrators use holograms to protest law
Sunday, April 12, 2015, 9:58 AM

A protest without people still made a sound.

And their message was anything but hollow.

A Spanish group protesting the country's new "gag law" that allegedly would hamper people's ability to express themselves found a creative way to speak out.

Holograms for Freedom used real peoples' faces to create holograms of marching demonstrators, then projected them outside government buildings in Madrid, the capital, this weekend.

The government in December passed restrictions on public demonstrations for safety concerns. The law includes fines for unauthorized protests and allows for the expulsion of migrants who try to enter the country illegally.

A message on the group's website said under the law, people would not be allowed to demonstrate before Congress or to assemble in public without prior notice. The group said the law would not allow someone to properly express himself or herself.

"You will only be able to do it if you are a hologram," the message said.

Members of the public submitted images of their faces and recordings of their voices, which were used in the hologram demonstration.

The protest ensured people's voices were heard, but no one was physically there to be arrested.

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Q: Yahoo's interim CEO has tough job ahead of him

SAN FRANCISCO – The newest chief Yahoo, interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, has carved a career out of making deals.

Yahoo's new interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, speaks at the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Yahoo's new interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, speaks at the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Now, as head honcho at the embattled Internet icon, he needs to make plenty.

Levinsohn inherits an unenviable to-do list from a conga line of recent former Yahoo CEOs. Like Scott Thompson, who was pushed out Sunday over innacuracies on his résumé, Carol Bartz, Jerry Yang and Terry Semel, Levinsohn has to unravel Yahoo's knotty issue with Chinese Internet firm Alibaba Group, of which it owns a stake.

He also needs to shore up relations with Facebook, with whom Yahoo has traded patent-infringement lawsuits. And he must figure out what to do with a quasi-successful search deal with Microsoft.

To be fair, the situation isn't entirely dire. The portal attracts about 700 million visitors a month, which helped it generate nearly $1 billion in ad sales last quarter.

But that business is under siege from Google, Facebook and an armada of start-ups vying for eyeballs and revenue. Yahoo's slice of the nearly $40 billion U.S. online ad market — at 16% in 2009 — was 9.5% in 2011 and could slide to 7.4% this year, according to eMarketer.

Levinsohn, who was running Yahoo's Americas business, is familiar around Internet circles. He was president of Fox Interactive Media, when News Corp. acquired Myspace, and helped Myspace land a $900 million ad deal with Google. While in control of Yahoo's U.S. sales operations, he restaffed the team and eliminated middlemen to increase yield on ads sold.

"Ross Levinsohn makes a lot of sense as CEO, because he has a lot of experience in Internet media," says Scott Kessler, analyst at S&P Capital IQ. "A lot of people are hoping he becomes the permanent CEO."

Whether the new CEO and fresh board are the fix remains an open question. Analysts will be closely watching Third Point CEO Daniel Loeb, whose hedge fund owns 5.8% of Yahoo and has won board seats. A hedge fund's influence "runs the risk of making decisions that are good for the short term but not for the long term," Morningstar analyst Rick Summer says.

Up for grabs is whether Yahoo can sell its 43% stake in Alibaba Group, valued at $14 billion, and pump that money elsewhere. Yahoo shares on Monday rose 31 cents to $15.50.

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Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, had tough job ahead of him, but he's a seasoned Internet executive.