It 'was' Friday! Although the News Bits are posted on Friday every week, but this week, due to some technical difficulties, the 'Friday' News Bits are more of 'Saturday' News Bits. Here are the News Bits of this week!

Satya Nadella Replaces Steve Ballmer As Microsoft's New CEO

Satya Narayana Nadella has been appointed as the new CEO of Microsoft, replacing Steve Ballmer who had announced plans of stepping down as the CEO last year.

Satya Nadella has stated:

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionised the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honoured to have been chosen to lead the company

The Indian media and citizens are extremely happy over Satya Nadella being appointed as the CEO of Microsoft. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft has stated that there is "no better person to lead Microsoft".

A Woman Gets Jailed For Trolling Herself

A Britian woman has been jailed for trolling herself on Facebook. Michelle Chapman, 24, made a plan to frame her family members of abusing her after she had an argument with her father. She created fake accounts of her father, stepmother and other family memebers on Facebook and started sending abusive and sexually explicit messages to herself. She then reported this to the police, who then arrested her stepmother and gave warnings to rest of her father and other relatives.

However, internet experts caught her lie after finding out all accounts were made from the same computer. Michelle Chapman has been jailed for 20 months.

13 Year Old Boy Rapes 8 Year Old Sister After Watching Porn on a Xbox

A 13 year old British boy raped his 8 year old sister after watching porn on his friend's Xbox. He told the police that after watching porn, he "decided to try it out" and chose his sister to rape because she's small and she "couldn’t remember stuff". The teenage rapist is now on bail and living with his relatives, awaiting his sentence orders while the victim is being helped by specialists.

Mamoru Samuragochi Admits He Is A Fraud

The 50 year old Japanese music composer Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf composer who has been dubbed as the "Japanese Beethoven", has admitted that he is a fraud and has not composed his own music since 1996. Although the real composer of Mamoru Samuragochi's musical hits has not been named, according to the Japanese media, a man named Takashi Niigaki has issued a statement that he is the "ghost" composer and has been working for Mamoru Samuragochi for 18 years.

Mamoru Samuragochi rose to fame in the 90s and is most popular for his Hiroshima Symphony No 1, which was dedicated to those who were killed in the 1945 atomic blast. He is also known for his music composing for video games such as Resident Evil and Onimusha.

SEGA Launches New Sonic Franchise Called Sonic Boom

SEGA has launched a new franchise of the Sonic brand, titled "Sonic Boom".

The new Sonic Boom franchise introduces a new look for Sonic and his friends(Knuckles, Tails, Amy) and the new franchise includes:

A CG-Animated TV series which will air on Cartoon Network in the US and CANAL J and GULLI in France.
New video games for the Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
A new toyline(from TOMY) and other merchandise.

Muhammad Junaid

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Entertainment Ghost's Friday News Bits! 8-02-2014

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