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Exclusive: Uber checks connections between hacker and Lyft

October 8, 2015 admin europe, federal-court, joseph-menn, legal-efforts, online-travel, perpetrator, priceline, priceline-group, san

By Dan Levine and Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Eight months after disclosing a major data breach, ride service Uber [UBER.UL] is focusing its legal efforts on learning more about an internet address that it has persuaded a court could lead to identifying the hacker. In February, Uber revealed that as many as 50,000 of its drivers' names and license numbers had been improperly downloaded, and the company filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court in an attempt to unmask the perpetrator. Uber's court papers claim that an unidentified person using a Comcast IP address had access to a security key used in the breach.

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Google tests mobile instant publishing service to rival Facebook, Apple

October 7, 2015 admin alphabet, amazon, amazon-com, currently-piloting, jet-com, nearly-three, news-at-google, others-on-price, program-called, richard-gingras, the-online, the-public, wednesday

Google announced on Wednesday it is piloting a program called Accelerated Mobile Pages that allows users to search for news and pull up a host of articles from publishers instantly. “This is a deal-less environment,” Richard Gingras, head of news at Google, said at a media event announcing the program.

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Twitter, Alphabet launch code for fast loading of heavy mobile content

October 7, 2015 admin allows-faster, alphabet, graphics-faster, illustration, load-content, logo, nearly-three, news-at-google, open-source, others-on-price, richard-gingras, the-logo, twitter

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc have launched an open source code that allows faster loading of content-heavy Web pages on smartphones and tablets.

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Saudi’s Kingdom Holding pays $50 million to raise Twitter stake to 0.72 percent

October 7, 2015 admin dubai, graphics-faster, illustration, investment, katie-paul, myanmar, nearly-three, open-source, prince-alwaleed, riyadh, riyadh-based, stock-exchange, tech, the-investment

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding has paid $50 million to double its stake in microblogging site Twitter Inc, the Riyadh-based company said on Wednesday. Kingdom Holding, the investment firm owned by billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, now owns 0.72 percent of Twitter, having originally invested $50 million in the tech company in 2011

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Oregon gunman fascinated by shootings, described as shy and awkward

October 2, 2015 admin before-moving, california, fatally-shot, laurel-harper, oregon, people-were, sprayed-bullets, the-college, timber-town, winchester

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Oregon shooting ‘threat’ may have circulated on social media

October 2, 2015 admin college, fire-at-umpqua, global-creative, gunman-opened, meeting, negative-tweets, oregon, postings, roseburg, sears, spell-the-word, three-years, thursday

The anonymous postings and numerous replies appeared on the site 4chan.org hours before a 20-year-old gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday, killing and wounding an as yet undetermined number of people. Emailed questions to federal law enforcement officials about the postings were not immediately answered

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Square could take hit on IPO with Jack Dorsey leading Twitter

October 2, 2015 admin annual, initial-public, media, public-offering, san, silicon-valley, situation, somerville, source-familiar, success-or-lack, the-end-of-year

By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The much anticipated initial public offering from Silicon Valley payments company Square could take a price hit if its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, takes a second and possibly more demanding job: running Twitter. “Management and management focus are the single most determining factor of the success or lack thereof of a company pursuing an IPO,” said Lise Buyer, an IPO consultant with Class V Group in Silicon Valley who also helped guide Google Inc's IPO

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Online retailer dreams of printing off bespoke shoes at home

October 1, 2015 admin association, australia, carmen, designs-being, designs-on-its, jimmy-fallon, own-footwear, pasadena, print-out-pairs, tablet-displays, television, winter

By Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) – The co-founder of Australian online retailer Shoes of Prey, which allows customers to design their own footwear, hopes to one day allow customers to print out pairs at home as technology improves and consumer demand grows for personalized products.

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Tencent, eBay join Kakao bid for new South Korean Internet bank

October 1, 2015 admin association, australia, carmen, global, internet-conference, messaging-app, operator, pasadena, tablet-displays, two-licenses

Kakao Corp, the operator of South Korea's largest mobile messaging app, said Tencent Holdings Ltd and eBay Inc have joined its bid for a new South Korean Internet bank license. Tencent and eBay will make their investments through subsidiaries, which are expected to take stakes of 4 percent or less in the bank should a license be gained, a Kakao spokesman said.

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Twitter likely to name Dorsey permanent CEO: Re/code

September 30, 2015 admin are-evidence, chief-executive, code-reported, dorsey, internet, online-payment, san, securities, social-media, technology-news, the-annual, the-first, valley, wisconsin, yards

Twitter Inc co-founder and interim Chief Executive Jack Dorsey is expected to be named permanent CEO as early as Thursday, while keeping his job as the head of online payment service Square, technology news website Re/code reported, citing sources.