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Revenge porn website permanently barred by FTC

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By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The owner of a “revenge porn site,” IsAnybodyDown.com, has agreed to not publish any nude pictures without the consent of the subject and to destroy his collection, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. Craig Brittain, who opened his website in 2011 and closed it in 2013 after a blast of publicity, had solicited pictures of women he met on sites such as Craigslist, the FTC said in its complaint.

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State lawmakers slam attempt at online sales tax law

January 27, 2015 creative collect-sales, congress, country, easing-the-way, house, internet, non-sales-tax, proposed-online, representatives, sales, speaker-john, state-lawmakers, wrote-the-group

U.S. states for years have asked Congress for federal legislation easing the way for them to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, but now that a bill has been drafted, state lawmakers are resisting. The National Conference of State Legislatures on Tuesday released a letter it sent to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Monday that depicted a proposed online sales tax bill as an unconstitutional attack on states’ rights.

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Open Text revenue hit by strong US dollar, weak emerging markets

January 27, 2015 admin average, china, country, easing-the-way, helps-companies, internet, middle, officer-john, proposed-online, speaker-john, state-lawmakers, thomson-reuters, wrote-the-group

Canadian business-software maker Open Text Corp’s quarterly revenue fell short of market expectations, hit by a strong U.S.

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Open Text profit rises 39 percent on strong cloud services business

January 27, 2015 publisher 53-5-million, cents-per, easing-the-way, its-rapidly, officer-john, percent-rise, speaker-john, threefold-jump, waterloo

(Reuters) – Canadian business-software maker Open Text Corp reported a 39 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by a more than threefold jump in revenue in its rapidly growing cloud services business. Net income attributable to the company rose to $74.3 million, or 60 cents per share in the second quarter ended Dec

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Social media flurry around blizzard: gripes, jokes and romance

January 27, 2015 creative although-some, included-mashup, internet, kelso2utd-wrote, laila-kearney, mayor-bill, motto, northeast, percent-rise, social-media, statue, threefold-jump

By Laila Kearney and Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fear, disappointment and even romantic thoughts about the Northeast’s blizzard of 2015 powered a social media storm that raged on the Internet on Tuesday. The avalanche picking up speed on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook included mashup photos that replaced the Statue of Liberty’s torch with a snow shovel and outfitted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a king’s fur cape and sword with the motto “Winter is Coming” from the “Game of Thrones” television show. Two of the most popular Twitter hashtags were #Snowmageddon2015 and #Snowpocalypse, although some felt #Blizzfizz was more appropriate.

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Snapchat adds news, entertainment content to messaging service

January 27, 2015 creative competition, feature-videos, included-mashup, internet, mayor-bill, media, messaging-apps, motto, northeast, san, snapchat, time-on-their

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Snapchat has partnered with CNN, ESPN and nine other media companies to feature videos and articles on its mobile messaging service, a move that heightens the competition with social networks such as Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc. Snapchat's new Discover service features individual “channels” for its various media partners that include five to 10 stories a day, according to Snapchat, which announced the move on its official blog on Tuesday. After 24 hours the stories disappear, in keeping with Snapchat's trademark feature of private messages that disappear a few seconds after they are viewed by users of the service.

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Facebook’s Oculus forms in-house virtual-reality film studio

January 26, 2015 publisher festival, in-house-studio, international, oculus, park, story-studio, sundance-film, the-animation

By Piya Sinha-Roy PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – Facebook Inc's Oculus VR is getting into movies with an in-house studio dedicated to making virtual-reality films and will show its first short movie at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, the company said. Tapping talent from both Pixar, the animation studio behind computer graphics imagery (CGI) films including “Toy Story” and “Monsters Inc,” and the video gaming world, Oculus' Story Studio will develop film content for virtual reality and advise other filmmakers seeking to try the technology

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IBM dismisses Forbes report of massive layoffs

January 26, 2015 publisher cebit, computer-fair, festival, international, oculus, pictured-behind, robert-cringely, silicon-valley, story-studio, Technology, the-animation, told-investors

(Reuters) – IBM dismissed on Monday a Forbes magazine report claiming the technology firm is preparing to cut about 26 percent of its workforce. A report last Thursday on Forbes' website by pseudonymous Silicon Valley technology gossip columnist Robert Cringely said IBM planned to lay off 26 percent of its global workforce, or as many as 112,000 employees. This equates to several thousand people, a small fraction of what's been reported.” Last week, Chief Financial Officer Martin Schroeter told investors on IBM's fourth-quarter earnings conference call that the company was taking restructuring charges of around $580 million, but he did not specify the number of jobs affected

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Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media

January 26, 2015 admin facebook, festival, government, mobile-devices, picture, president, silicon-valley, Technology

A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block a number of pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, threatening to stop access to the whole social networking site if it does not comply, state broadcaster TRT reported.

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Katy Perry lights the way for Super Bowl’s girl power moment

January 26, 2015 admin jason-lipshutz, nfl, obama, silicon-valley, singer-katy, takes-the-stage, white-house, women

By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – There is a strong chance of a neon-colored spectacle, perhaps some flying and definitely songs of female empowerment when pop singer Katy Perry takes the stage during halftime at the Super Bowl, the most-watched 12 minutes on U.S. television. The pink-loving Perry may seem a mismatch for the macho world of NFL football