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Angry Birds maker’s float seen less likely despite mobile games growth

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By Liisa Tuhkanen LONDON (Reuters) – The often touted but regularly delayed stock-market listing of Rovio, creator of the hugely popular “Angry Birds” mobile game, could be even more distant after this week's warning of lower earnings and a planned cull of more than a third of its staff. While the mobile games market as a whole is thriving and looks set to grow to more than $35 billion in 2017, according to research firm Newzoo, Rovio's woes typify the difficulty established players have in changing with the times

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Facebook must obey German law even if free speech curtailed: minister

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By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) – Facebook will have to abide by German laws banning racist sentiment even if it might be allowed in the United States under freedom of speech, Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview with Reuters. Maas, who has accused Facebook of doing too little to thwart racist and hate posts on its social media platform, said that Germany has zero tolerance for such expression and expects the U.S.-based company to be more vigilant.

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Russia’s MTS teams up with Google to promote mobile Internet

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Russia's biggest mobile phone operator MTS said on Friday it had teamed up with Google Inc to help grow the use of mobile Internet and will get a share of the search site's advertising revenues in Russia. Under a strategic agreement, MTS will feature Google's voice search in its ad campaigns and retail stores, and a relevant application will be pre-installed on the main screen of Google's Android-based smartphones sold in the MTS retail chain.

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Investors still in the dark as cyber threat grows

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By Simon Jessop and Ross Kerber LONDON/BOSTON (Reuters) – Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging the companies in which they invest, with a lack of clarity from the businesses themselves compounding the problem.

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Google rejects ‘unfounded’ EU antitrust charges of market abuse

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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google, the world's most popular Internet search engine, rejected on Thursday European Union antitrust charges that it abused its market power, saying they lacked any economic or legal basis. “Economic data spanning more than a decade, an array of documents and statements from complainants all confirm that product search is robustly competitive,” Kent Walker, Google's general counsel, wrote in a blog

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Manspreading, hangry, Grexit join Oxford online dictionary

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(Reuters) – Feeling hangry? Can’t find a seat on the subway because of manspreading? Annoyed by people butt-dialing you

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Online posts by Virginia shooter show alarming trend: victim’s fiance

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Social media posts by the man suspected of brazenly shooting two television journalists during a live broadcast in Virginia show a disturbing trend of unashamed exhibition of his crimes on the Internet, the partner of one of the victims said on Thursday. “What we are starting to see is continued boldness from people who want to commit murders in cold blood for notoriety,” said Hurst, who was a news anchor at WDBJ7 and was dating one of the slain journalists, Alison Parker. Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were shot dead on Wednesday during a live segment for the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia, at a local recreation site about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Washington.

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Malaysia to block websites promoting anti-government rally

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Malaysia will block websites attempting to spread information about a two-day rally due to be staged in three cities this weekend by a pro-democracy group demanding Prime Minister Najib Razak's resignation.

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Gunman in Virginia TV shooting had history of workplace issues

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While authorities said they had not determined a motive, perceived racism appeared to be a factor in the shootings, according to posts on social media attributed to the shooter and a fax that ABC News said had been sent by the gunman.

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Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with ‘powder keg’ of anger

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By Gary Robertson MONETA, Va. (Reuters) – Two television journalists were shot to death during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, slain by a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a “powder keg” of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States