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All calm amid political storm at ‘Interview’ premiere

December 12, 2014 admin angeles, arrest-at-home, britain, cyber-security, cylance, engine-on-its, film, franco, north, rogen, stars-seth, tool-on-monday

By Piya Sinha-Roy Los Angeles (Reuters) – All was calm on Thursday at the Los Angeles premiere of Sony Pictures' parody film “The Interview”, which had been in the spotlight for sparking tension with North Korea and potentially prompting a major cyber hack on the company. Stars Seth Rogen and James Franco posed on a small red carpet restricted to photographers as Sony reined in media access after the film made headlines following a devastating security breach that leaked films, data and emails. ..

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Mega retailers battle to survive as e-commerce booms in China

December 12, 2014 admin alibaba, angeles, are-struggling, biggest-retail, britain, china, film, franco, home-appliance, north, rogen, stars-seth, suning

By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) – It took China's biggest retail chain Suning all last year to generate sales of about $17 billion. Last month, e-commerce giant Alibaba saw sales worth more than half that amount pass through its Tmall website in just one day. Big retailers like Suning Commerce Group Co Ltd and foreign rivals Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Best Buy Co Inc are struggling to attract customers to their traditional stores in China, where online shopping is booming

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Islamic State suicide bomber detonates tank in eastern Syria

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – An Islamic State suicide bomber detonated a tank at a Syrian air base in the province of Deir al-Zor, one of the last remaining government strongholds in eastern Syria, jihadist social media and a monitoring group said on Friday. One Islamic State Twitter account published two photos of a smiling man it named Abu al-Farouq al-Libi, who it said carried out the “suicide operation”.

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Max Sound files patent suit against Google, YouTube in Germany

December 12, 2014 creative carried-out, further-delayed, said-on-friday, search-page, smiling-man, sound, such-as-nexus5, two-photos

(Reuters) – Technology company Max Sound Corp said it filed a lawsuit against Google Inc and YouTube in Germany earlier this month, alleging infringement of a video-streaming patent. Max Sound claimed that all the products that use the H.264 video-encoding format for video compression infringed its asserted patent

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State Department’s unclassified email systems hacked

November 17, 2014 creative around-the-same, classified-data, department-shut, down-portions, harry, national-flag, shadow-falling, time-as-white, victim, were-the-victim, white-house

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday said its unclassified email systems were the victim of a cyber attack in recent weeks, around the same time as White House systems were breached, but no classified data was compromised. The department shut down portions of its unclassified system over the weekend to improve its security but said they should be back online shortly, though it declined to predict when.

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Snapchat partners with Square for payment service

November 17, 2014 admin debit, debit-cards, dollar-sign, green-button, post-on-its, snapcash, snapchat, their-account, white-house

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Mobile messaging company Snapchat is launching a new service that lets users send money to each other, in a partnership with online payments company Square.

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Indian retailers hobble online as e-commerce firms race ahead

November 17, 2014 publisher debit, debit-cards, future, future-group, green-button, indian, inside-their, nivedita, online-retailer, post-on-its, snapcash, snapchat, sort-out

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) – The head of Future Group, one of India's largest and most established retailers, admits he can't keep up with web sites like Snapdeal and Flipkart when it comes to spending money to entice shoppers to buy online. Private investors have poured $2.

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China’s internet TV sites in $1 billion battle for foreign shows

November 17, 2014 creative attract-users, britain, debit, debit-cards, post-on-its, snapchat, taiyuan, united, united-states, will-continue

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – China's big internet-TV companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign TV shows and films in a battle to attract users and advertisers, but risk bumping up against regulators protecting the domestic TV and film industry.

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U.S. to auction 50,000 bitcoins seized in Silk Road case

November 17, 2014 creative attract-users, britain, during-the-2013, online-auction, picture-taken, prosecution, raid-on-silk, snapchat, taiyuan, the-prosecution, united, united-states, will-continue

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S.

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Mali tries to trace over 200 contacts in second Ebola wave

November 14, 2014 publisher been-at-least, confirmed-its, initial-batch, more-suspected, mosque-before, protective-gear, said-on-friday, their-21-day, trace-at-least, workers-put

BAMAKO/GENEVA (Reuters) – Mali is trying to trace at least 200 contacts linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims in an effort to control its second Ebola outbreak, health officials said on Friday. An initial batch of contacts linked to a 2-year-old from Guinea who died of Ebola last month were close to the end of their 21-day quarantine period when Mali confirmed its second case this week.

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