Beijing looks fair bet for 2022 Winter Games, despite lack of enthusiasm
Beijing looks like an improbable front-runner to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Top choice blocked for U.N. digital privacy investigator post
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The Estonian picked as the U.N.'s first digital privacy investigator was blocked on Friday by the German president of the Human Rights Council after activist groups said she would not be a strong enough critic of U.S. surveillance. Katrin Nyman-Metcalf was the candidate ranked first by a “consultative group” of five ambassadors – from Poland, Chile, Greece, Algeria and chaired by Saudi Arabia
Read moreUberPOP halts service in France after clampdown, protests
By Mark John PARIS (Reuters) – Uber Technologies will suspend its UberPOP ride-hailing service in France, the U.S. company said on Friday, after it faced sometimes-violent protests and local authorities denounced it as an illegal taxi service. After fierce protests last week by licensed French taxi drivers who argue it threatens their livelihood with unfair competition, France took two executives from California-based Uber into custody and said they will face trial in September
Read morePayPal to buy digital money transfer provider Xoom
By Mari Saito SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – PayPal Inc said it would buy digital money transfer provider Xoom Corp for $890 million as it muscles into a growing international remittance market and expand in countries like Mexico, India and China ahead of a spinoff from eBay Inc . The offer price of $25 per share in cash represents a premium of about 21 percent to Xoom's Wednesday closing price of $20.70. Xoom shares surged on the announcement and were trading around the offer price in extended trading
Read moreChina adopts new security law to make networks, systems ‘controllable’
By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) – China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law on Wednesday that covers everything from territorial sovereignty to measures to tighten cyber security, a move likely to rile foreign businesses. A core component of the law, passed by the standing committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), is to make all key network infrastructure and information systems “secure and controllable”
Read moreTennis-Wimbledon top grand slam for social media – survey
By Michael Roddy LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) – Wimbledon is the top grand slam championship for attracting social media-savvy tennis fans, with more followers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram than any of the other three, a survey released on Wednesday said. The tournament’s 4.1 million followers on the social media websites put Wimbledon on top, with the French Open second on 3.7 million and the U.S
Read moreTwitter’s M&A team loses second member: Re/code
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc's Rishi Garg, vice president of corporate development and strategy, has resigned from the company to pursue other projects, technology blog Re/code reported, citing a tweet from Garg. Garg, who led the company's mergers and acquisition team, had joined Twitter in May, 2014, according to his LinkedIn profile. This is the second resignation at Twitter's mergers and acquisition team
Read moreU.S. lawsuit claims companies illegally refused to hire ex-cons
Since New York’s prison population was more than half black, the lawsuit argued, such policies served to keep many black people out of the workforce.
Read moreU.S., European authorities investigate possible new leaker: sources
By Mark Hosenball LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. and European security authorities are investigating whether a previously unknown leaker provided sensitive intelligence documents to WikiLeaks about alleged U.S. spying on French politicians, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Read moreEuropean police team to take on IS social media propaganda
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – A Europe-wide police unit is to be set up next month with the aim of shutting down social media accounts used by key Islamic State (IS) militants to spread propaganda and recruit foreigners to their cause, Europol said on Monday. The small police team will scour the internet and try to take down accounts of IS ringleaders within hours of being detected, in a bid to dent a propaganda machine which is reckoned to send out about 100,000 tweets a day.
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