By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) – An anchor on China's main state broadcaster, CCTV, apologized on Thursday after a video of him insulting the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, went viral on social media sites, sparking an investigation by the channel.
Read moreBy Shadia Nasralla and Angelika Gruber VIENNA (Reuters) – Facebook presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian court on Thursday trying to halt a class action lawsuit for 25,000 users that accuses the social media giant of violating their privacy. The first day of hearings began with a four-hour session in which Facebook's lawyers tried to convince the judge not to admit the suit brought by law student Max Schrems, 27, who is claiming 500 euros ($538) in damages for each user
Read more(Reuters) – French television network TV5Monde was hacked late on Wednesday by individuals claiming they support Islamic State, Yahoo News reported, citing a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP). The network was not able to broadcast from any of its channels and its social media sites and websites were “displaying claims of responsibility by Islamic State,” TV5Monde’s Director General Yves Bigot told AFP, according to the Yahoo report.
Read moreBy Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court appeared skeptical on Wednesday toward Google Inc's bid to charge Microsoft Corp a high royalty rate to use some of the Internet search provider's Motorola Mobility patents
Read moreShares of digital video and surveillance technology firm Digital Ally rose on Wednesday in heavier-than-average trading, after a white police officer was caught on video fatally shooting a 50-year-old black man in South Carolina. While the recording of the South Carolina shooting was captured by a bystander on an unspecified device, many view the body cameras made by Digital Video as a means of increasing law-enforcement accountability. The company also received heavy interest last year in the aftermath of the fatal shooting by a police officer of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
Read moreBy Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Apple has made mobile payments look easy, after a decade of mostly failed experiments by banks, telecom operators and retailers to woo consumers away from cards and cash. Apple Pay has taken the United States by storm since its launch in September, and the company has said it already accounts for around $2 out of every $3 spent using “contactless” payments on the three big U.S. card networks
Read moreBy Larry Fine AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Golf fans surfing PGA Tour’s websites and apps can now score rewards points in the golf organization’s efforts to reach younger audiences and fantasy game players, a tour executive said Wednesday. More than one million daily visitors to the tour’s various platforms will be accumulating PGA Tour mPoints in conjunction with SessionM in a loyalty program launched this week. “Every month millions of people come to PGA Tour.com to follow all the tournament stuff,” Scott Gutterman, vice president of digital operations for the PGA Tour, told Reuters under a shady tree at Augusta National.
Read moreBy Larry Fine AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 8 (Reuters) – Golf fans surfing PGA Tour’s websites and apps can now score rewards points in the golf organization’s efforts to reach younger audiences and fantasy game players, a tour executive said Wednesday.
Read moreBy Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Likely 2016 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has hired a Google executive to serve as her chief technology officer, a person familiar with the campaign's planning said on Wednesday. Clinton hired Stephanie Hannon, Google's director of product management for civic innovation and social impact, to run her technology operations, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Read moreBy Patturaja and Murugaboopathy BENGALURU, April 8 (Reuters) – The dollar’s biggest quarterly rise against other major currencies since 2008 has undermined sales of India’s IT services firms in non-U.S. markets, including Europe, in what was already a seasonally slow period.
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