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Internet advertising to drive global ad spend: Zenith

June 21, 2015 admin current-trends, dominant, europol, leading-media, london-based, mobile, mobile-world, tablet, zenith-optimedia

Surging growth in advertising via mobile phones and tablet computers will help Internet advertising overtake television as the dominant medium for global ad spending by 2017, a leading media buyer forecasts. Zenith Optimedia, owned by advertising agency Publicis, said on Monday that it expects mobile advertising – via smartphones, iPads and other tablet computers – to more than double its share of global ad spending between 2014 and 2017, to 12.9 percent.

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Hackers ground 1,400 passengers at Warsaw Airport

June 21, 2015 admin airline, airline-ground, airport, europol, london-based, mobile-world, passengers, polish, the-passengers, zenith-optimedia

Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said. The computer system was hacked in the afternoon and fixed after around five hours, during which 10 of the state-owned carrier's national and international flights were canceled and about a dozen more delayed, spokesman Adrian Kubicki said

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Still an underdog, but China government deals help Alibaba’s cloud ambitions

June 19, 2015 admin alibaba, alibaba-group, chinese-people, cloud-computing, san, similar-cloud, such-as-bill, their-building, typically-goes, usa

By Paul Carsten and John Ruwitch SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is an underdog in the global cloud computing industry, but it has one thing going for it: it's Chinese. Alibaba this week scored a minor deal with China's northeastern port city of Dalian to build a cloud computing center and provide online government services such as bill payment

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Traders bet on Twitter near-term gains as takeover chatter persists

June 18, 2015 admin alibaba, alibaba-group, china, cyber-breach, down-as-twitter, move-failed, stem-the-weeks, twitter, typically-goes, weeks, york

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dick Costolo's decision to step down as Twitter Inc's chief executive last week failed to stem the weeks-long slide in the company's shares, but options traders appear to be betting on a near-term rebound. The stock has shed more than a third of its value since Twitter reported first-quarter results in April

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Head of hacked U.S. agency says problems ‘decades in the making’

June 16, 2015 admin aerial-systems, committee, data, david-morgan, house, house-oversight, interstate, localities-must, successful, the-committee, the-successful, thwarts-hackers

The head of a U.S. agency that fell victim to cyber attacks defended its performance on Tuesday against withering criticism from lawmakers furious about a breach that compromised the personnel files of millions of federal workers

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Google launches a YouTube built for gamers

June 12, 2015 admin amazon-com, bringing-videos, european, european-engineering, gaming, gaming-service, live-streaming, said-on-friday, single-space, various-titles, zurich

(Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday that it is launching a live streaming gaming service called “YouTube Gaming”, creating a rival to Amazon.com Inc's Twitch service.

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China detains nine for spreading rumors about the military

June 12, 2015 admin been-sentenced, chinese, chinese-people, fleet, friday-some, internet, liberation, military, said-on-friday, stand-on-deck, the-military, were-involved, yemen, zhoushan

Chinese authorities have detained nine people for spreading rumors on the Internet that several military officers were involved in protests and for damaging the military's image, the military's official newspaper said on Friday. Some of them also “demonized the military's image”, it said.

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Dataminr finance chief departs unexpectedly: sources

June 11, 2015 admin class, common-shares, dataminr, european-engineering, few-months, gaming, investors-own, its-chief, jpg, lauren-tara, news, single-space, tania, york, zurich

By Lauren Tara LaCapra NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dataminr Inc, a technology company that alerts traders, government officials and journalists to important tweets, has lost its chief financial officer. The abrupt departure of Tania Secor, who had been CFO since November 2013, comes a few months after the company raised a third round of funding from high-profile investors, valuing the company at $700 million.

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On Panama islands, albinos battle a bright foe

June 11, 2015 admin been-venerated, children, children-born, city, dataminr, few-months, grandchildren, greatest, image, investors-own, its-chief, panama, wider-image

By Carlos Jasso GUNA YALA, Panama (Reuters) – For years, the alabaster-skinned people born on this sun-scorched constellation of islands off Panama's Caribbean coast have been venerated as the Grandchildren of the Sun.

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BroadbandTV, Huffington Post to launch citizen journalism network

June 9, 2015 admin chief-executive, computer-virus, huffington, less-attracted, maymann, monthly-unique, new-citizen, obama, people, personnel, software-called, statement, video-content, virus

RTL Group’s online video company BroadbandTV (BBTV) and news website Huffington Post announced plans on Tuesday to launch an online video journalism network as media groups vie for younger audiences less attracted to traditional media. The new citizen journalist network, called Outspeak, will combine BBTV’s 4.5 billion monthly views and The Huffington Post’s 214 million monthly unique visitors, the two companies said in a joint statement