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Thai military’s plan for ‘Great Firewall’ risks Internet competition

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By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – A proposal by Thailand's junta for a single Internet gateway to allow authorities to monitor content would destroy competition and was reminiscent of the most authoritarian measures to stifle free speech, a former information minister said on Thursday. The plan to create a single gateway for all Internet traffic was approved by the military government in August but details remain unclear. “Once it becomes a single gateway there will be a problem with traffic speeds,” said Anudith Nakornthap, a former information minister under the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra

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Indonesians flock to mobile app for swift action on civic woes

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By Arzia Tivany Wargadiredja JAKARTA (Reuters) – Frustrated Indonesians are using a new mobile app to give their sleepy bureaucrats a wake-up call, demanding immediate fixes for persistently shoddy public services in the capital of the world’s fourth-most populous country.

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In big shift, online retailer Jet.com drops membership fee

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(Reuters) – Jet.com, the online retailer founded by former Amazon.com executive Marc Lore, said on Wednesday that it dropped its $50 annual membership fee, marking a shift in business strategy for the upstart as it seeks to undercut Amazon and others on price.

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Google tests mobile instant publishing service to rival Facebook, Apple

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Google announced on Wednesday it is piloting a program called Accelerated Mobile Pages that allows users to search for news and pull up a host of articles from publishers instantly. “This is a deal-less environment,” Richard Gingras, head of news at Google, said at a media event announcing the program.

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Twitter, Alphabet launch code for fast loading of heavy mobile content

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(Reuters) – Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc have launched an open source code that allows faster loading of content-heavy Web pages on smartphones and tablets.

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In Myanmar, young programmers launch first-ever election app

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By Aye Win Myint YANGON (Reuters) – Huddled in an open-plan office atop a tower block in Yangon’s scruffy downtown, a group of teenagers in jeans and T-shirts sifts through the list of candidates in Myanmar’s election and stares at their computer screens and mobile phones. Meet Team Pop Stack, which has just launched Myanmar’s first ever election app, and is racing to spread the word. Now they are targeting millions of hyper-active Facebook users in Myanmar, where mobile telephones and the Internet have spread rapidly since the end of military rule in 2011, and social media have a critical role in the Nov

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Saudi’s Kingdom Holding pays $50 million to raise Twitter stake to 0.72 percent

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding has paid $50 million to double its stake in microblogging site Twitter Inc, the Riyadh-based company said on Wednesday. Kingdom Holding, the investment firm owned by billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, now owns 0.72 percent of Twitter, having originally invested $50 million in the tech company in 2011

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Facebook to launch satellite to expand Internet access in Africa

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(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it would launch a satellite in partnership with France's Eutelsat Communications to bring Internet access to large parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The satellite, part of Facebook's Internet.org platform to expand internet access mainly via mobile phones, is under construction and will be launched in 2016, the companies said on Monday.

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Google in talks to invest in chat company Symphony: source

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(Reuters) – Google, which has now morphed into holding company Alphabet Inc, is in talks with messaging startup Symphony Communication Services LLC for a round of fundraising, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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Teen star of YouTube’s Bratayley family dies at age 13

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By Daina Beth Solomon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Teen YouTube star Caleb Logan LeBlanc, part of the popular “Bratayley” family on YouTube known for posting humorous, wholesome daily videos, has died suddenly at age 13, his family and police said. LeBlanc died on Thursday in Maryland following a “medical emergency,” the Anne Arundel County Police Department said in a statement on Monday. “Responding officers arrived and observed a juvenile male patient suffering from an unknown medical emergency