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Planned Parenthood slams secret video as false portrayal of fetus tissue program
The non-profit organization said the video had been heavily edited and recorded by a group that was established to damage its reputation.
Read moreTwitter confirms purported Bloomberg story is false
(Reuters) – A report claiming that Twitter Inc received an offer to be acquired for $31 billion attributed to Bloomberg LP is fake, Twitter and a spokesman for the news and financial data provider said on Tuesday.
Read moreTennis-Tennis Australia apologises for putting Tomic in ‘Hall of Shame’
Tennis Australia has apologised for a ‘clerical error’ in a media release that said estranged local player Bernard Tomic was playing in a ‘Hall of Shame’ event against compatriot John-Patrick Smith. The media release said Tomic, who was dumped from Australia’s Davis Cup team after a rant against officials, was playing Smith in the ‘Hall of Shame Tennis Championships’, causing a stir on social media networks.
Read moreItalian cyber-security firm suspects foreign government was behind mass attack
Italian cyber-security firm Hacking Team said a government might have been behind a massive hack of its systems and warned that the subsequent leaking of its computer codes could prove a field day for criminals. Unknown hackers last week downloaded 400GB of data from the firm, which makes surveillance software that allows law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap into the phones and computers of suspects
Read moreTwitter misfire puts Walker into 2016 presidential race prematurely
A technical glitch put Republican Scott Walker into the 2016 presidential race prematurely on Friday, days ahead of his official announcement speech. “Scott is in.
Read moreU.S personnel agency chief resigns over massive data breach
By Mark Hosenball and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chief of the U.S.
Read moreEllen Pao resigns as Reddit CEO in fresh sign of turmoil
By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Ellen Pao resigned as acting chief executive of Reddit Friday in the latest sign of turmoil at the site, recently roiled by the firing of a popular employee and ongoing tensions over the limits of free speech on its social-news platform. Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, also a co-founder of travel site Hipmunk, will become chief executive. Alexis Ohanian, another co-founder who has been working as executive chairman of reddit, will work “alongside” Huffman, said Reddit board head Sam Altman in a statement on Friday
Read moreA Classical View on Anti-trust Law
Anti-trust cases are complicated, philosophically speaking, because they deal with the question of how big is too big. In laissez-faire
Read moreCEO, chairwoman offer to take E-Commerce China private
(Reuters) – Chinese online book and media retailer E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc’s chief executive, Guoqing Li, and Chairwoman Peggy Yu Yu offered to take the company private. The all-cash offer of $7.812 per American Depositary Share represents a 20 percent premium to the stock’s Wednesday closing price of $6.51, the company said on Thursday
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