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Out of the shadows, China hackers turn cyber gatekeepers

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By Paul Carsten and Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) – China, long accused by the United States of rampant cyber aggression, may be synonymous with hacking exploits these days, but that doesn't mean every Chinese hacker is out to pilfer and destroy. As Chinese companies grapple with a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks, many hackers are finding it increasingly lucrative to go above board and join the country's nascent cyber security industry

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Twitter’s M&A team loses second member: Re/code

June 26, 2015 admin code-reported, francisco, garg-garg, its-corporate, linkedin, projects, pursue-other, rishi-garg, shown-at-its, vice-president

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc's Rishi Garg, vice president of corporate development and strategy, has resigned from the company to pursue other projects, technology blog Re/code reported, citing a tweet from Garg. Garg, who led the company's mergers and acquisition team, had joined Twitter in May, 2014, according to his LinkedIn profile. This is the second resignation at Twitter's mergers and acquisition team

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Facebook staff diversity little changed over past year

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By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc released new diversity data Friday that showed the number of women and minorities has remained little changed over the past year. The number of women increased only 1 percentage point, from 31 percent to 32 percent

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Charter lists consumer benefits to win merger approval

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(Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc formally argued for regulatory approval for its Time Warner Cable Inc and Bright House Networks deals, saying consumers would benefit as Internet services would become cheaper and faster.

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China e-commerce firm JD.com to launch credit-scoring rival to Alibaba’s

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By Paul Carsten and Engen Tham BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China's No. 2 e-commerce firm JD.com Inc is launching a Chinese consumer credit data system as a joint venture with U.S.

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U.S. intelligence chief: China top suspect in government agency hacks

June 26, 2015 publisher chinese, computer-screen, difficulty, director, hacking, james-clapper, journal, showing-binary, street, time-the-obama

U.S. intelligence chief James Clapper said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in the massive hacking of a U.S.

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U.S. intelligence chief: China top suspect in hack of U.S. agency: WSJ

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The United States' intelligence chief said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in a hack of a U.S. agency that compromised the personnel records of millions of Americans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The comments from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper marked a departure of sorts for the Obama administration, which has avoided publicly pointing to Beijing, even as officials said privately China likely was behind the attack

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Yahoo’s Alex Stamos says to join Facebook as chief security officer

June 25, 2015 publisher china, difficulty, director, his-profiles, obama, officials-said, profiles, ramses-martinez, singapore, street, twitter, will-join, yahoo-as-chief, zenica

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc's Alex Stamos will join Facebook Inc as chief security officer from Monday, he said in a Facebook post on Wednesday. Stamos, who joined Yahoo as chief information security officer last year, also updated his profiles on Twitter and LinkedIn

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U.S. lawsuit claims companies illegally refused to hire ex-cons

June 25, 2015 admin advance-tech, china, director, koninklijke, obama, ramses-martinez, will-join, zenica

Since New York’s prison population was more than half black, the lawsuit argued, such policies served to keep many black people out of the workforce.

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MTV goes looking for likes with its latest revamp

June 25, 2015 creative advance-tech, being-rolled, china, content, director, hashtag, mtv, obama, putting-their, ratings, social-media, the-channel

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – MTV, the channel that revolutionized the music industry by playing artists’ videos on rotation, is reinventing itself again, opening up to its social-media-savvy audience by putting their videos on air. By using the hashtag #MTVBump, viewers can see their content from social media sites Instagram or Vine within two hours of its being posted, during the channel’s break windows.