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Myanmar’s reformist law used to stifle dissent

October 23, 2015 publisher across-the-tech, chief-executive, country, facebook, laws-drafted, microsoft-corp, military-rule, myanmar, photo, picture-showing, relies-on-sales, the-country, united, word

By Timothy Mclaughlin YANGON (Reuters) – Last week’s arrest of an NGO worker in Myanmar for a Facebook post is raising fears that legislation drawn up as part of the country’s economic and democratic liberalization are being used to stifle dissent in ways reminiscent of laws drafted by the former military junta. Myanmar only began to regain its freedoms of expression from 2011 after 49 years of military rule, and critics fear the arrest of Patrick Kum Jaa Lee for commenting on a picture showing a foot standing on a photo of commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing is a worrying backward step.

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Twitter’s Dorsey says to give a third of his stock to employee equity pool

October 23, 2015 admin annual, chief-executive, dorsey, editing, employee, leslie-adler, media, people, rishika-sadam, the-annual, the-employee, twitter, valley

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said he is giving a third of his stock in the company, about 1 percent, to the employee equity pool. This move is to “reinvest directly in our people,” Dorsey, who was named as the company's permanent CEO earlier this month, said in a tweet on Thursday. Twitter could not be reached immediately for a comment outside regular business hours.

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Cyber security bill advances in Senate

October 22, 2015 publisher both-parties, business-groups, chief-executive, cybersecurity, government, leslie-adler, measure, paris, protect-user, sharing, the-government, white

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without fear of lawsuits advanced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday with support from members of both parties and the White House. Dozens of industry and business groups, including the U.S.

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TalkTalk fears customer data may have been stolen in cyber attack

October 22, 2015 publisher bank-details, been-stolen, breach, customer-data, extent, government, leslie-adler, measure, metropolitan, paris, protect-user, said-private, sharing, the-breach

(Reuters) – British broadband supplier TalkTalk said private customer data, including credit card and bank details, may have been stolen in a “significant and sustained” cyber attack on its website. The company said it was working with cyber crime specialists and the Metropolitan police to establish the extent of information accessed in the breach on Wednesday. …

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NFL keen to see who watches Yahoo game webcast and how

October 22, 2015 publisher bank-details, been-stolen, customer-data, game-on-sunday, global-webcast, government, jacksonville, metropolitan, sharing, the-breach

The U.S. National Football League will be closely watching the audience for Yahoo Inc's global webcast of a game on Sunday as it considers whether to do more deals to live stream games, an NFL official told Reuters Thursday.

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Better search rankings seen key to eBay’s growth

October 22, 2015 creative bank-details, been-stolen, customer-data, government, jacksonville, office-building, quarter-since, rest-on-its, since-it-spun, targets, their-price

After a surprisingly strong quarter shorn of PayPal, further growth for eBay Inc will rest on its ability to make its website more visible to those searching for items to buy. EBay's shares rose as much as 13.5 percent on Thursday, a day after the company reported a better-than-expected profit for its first quarter since it spun off PayPal Holdings Inc, the payments processing business that had been its main engine of growth. At least seven analysts covering eBay's stock raised their price target, to a high of $33, while at least two cut their targets, to a low of $29.

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Space age perils: hackers find a new battleground on the final frontier

October 22, 2015 admin bluffdale, brake-on-future, carson, final-frontier, hang-on-display, museum, nonprofit, nsa, popular-costume, security, space, super-bowl, udvar

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Space, the 'final frontier', is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival networks operating in the $330-billion space economy.

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Intel says may invest up to $5.5 billion in China memory chip plant

October 21, 2015 admin china, computex, core-computer, improve-ties, intel, intel-corp, investment, making-advanced, memory-chips, revenue-streams, said-it-may, taipei, taiwan, time-period

(Reuters) – Intel Corp said it may invest up to $5.5 billion in manufacturing semiconductors in China, stepping up efforts to improve ties with Beijing as it seeks new revenue streams while demand for its core computer processing chips falters. The U.S. firm said it would convert a facility in Dalian, its first plant in China, for memory chip production.

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Senate considers controversial cyber security bill

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating a long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without concern about lawsuits. Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate could pass the bill within days

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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ breaks presale records

October 20, 2015 publisher catching-fire, force, games, hunger-games, juyongguan, philadelphia, said-on-tuesday, taipei

By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Early ticket sales for December's “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” broke IMAX records with more than $6.5 million for U.S. screenings, the theater chain said on Tuesday, while the trailer delivered a boost for ESPN's Monday Night Football.