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Convicted murderer in ‘Serial’ podcast allowed to call new witness

May 19, 2015 admin chairman, murder, saint-laurent, seoul, special-appeals, time, united, witness

(Reuters) – A Baltimore man serving life for murder, whose conviction was called into question by last year’s “Serial” podcast, will get a chance to call a new witness who says she can give him an alibi. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals granted Adnan Syed an opportunity to call a woman who said in an affidavit she saw him at a library around the time of the murder of his ex-girlfriend and high school classmate, Hae Min Lee, on Jan. 13, 1999

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Obama tweets, and a million follow: ‘It’s Barack. Really!’

May 18, 2015 publisher confirm-whether, east, murder, not-immediately, president, president-barack, robert-downey, roberta-rampton, saint-laurent, seoul, twitter, twitter-town, white-house

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sent his first tweet from his very own account on Twitter on Monday, quickly amassing a million followers in five hours, the latest of many White House efforts to amplify his message with social media. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account,” Obama tweeted from his verified @POTUS account.

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Property management software maker AppFolio files for IPO

May 18, 2015 admin confirm-whether, east, morgan-stanley, not-immediately, offers-legal, pacific, pacific-crest, president-barack, robert-downey, saint-laurent, seoul, william-blair

Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Pacific Crest Securities and William Blair are underwriters to the IPO. The California-based company, whose investors include BV Capital and IGSB, provides software to small and medium-sized property managers and also offers legal software for small law firms under the brand “MyCase”.

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AT&T working on exclusive content for connected cars

May 18, 2015 creative chris-penrose, confirm-whether, eight-automaker, malathi-nayak, morgan-stanley, not-immediately, robert-downey, streamed-onto, such-as-videos, william-blair, york

By Malathi Nayak NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T Inc is gearing up to bring connected car users exclusive content such as videos and games that can be streamed onto personal mobile devices later this year, AT&T's senior vice president of emerging devices Chris Penrose said.

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Flightradar24 finds not just planespotters flocking to its website

May 18, 2015 creative city-committee, computer-screen, homes, homes-known, march-french, plane-tracking, rain-shower, the-information, victoria-bryan

By Victoria Bryan and Peter Maushagen BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Within 40 minutes of Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashing in the Alps in March French accident investigators from the BEA authority were on the phone to plane tracking website Flightradar24. “BEA called us and we of course passed the information over to them right away,” the website operator's chief executive Fredrik Lindahl said

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Fitness studios keep clients on track with photos, social media

May 18, 2015 creative california, fitness, friendly-nudge, gregory-chertok, homes-known, nudge-on-their, plane-tracking, rain-shower, sarajevo, sports

Boutique fitness studios are keeping track of clients' progress with methods ranging from videotaping their workouts to measuring their fat, to posting a friendly nudge on their Facebook pages. Gregory Chertok, a sports psychology consultant with the American College of Sports Medicine, said research has shown that even small amounts of social support can produce large and lasting gains in physical activity.

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Thailand worried by blast of anti-migrant vitriol on social media

May 18, 2015 publisher asylum, bangladeshis, california, friendly-nudge, homes-known, myanmar, plane-tracking, rain-shower, rickety-boats, sarajevo, sawitta, sawitta-lefevre, sports, state-john

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand expressed concern on Monday at a wave of anti-migrant vitriol on social media, which the government said underlined why it cannot accept any more of the asylum seekers who have been arriving by boat on its shores.

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Malaysia’s Najib hits back at critics in blog post

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Malaysia's embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak broke his silence on Sunday after weeks of calls from long-time leader Mahathir Mohamad for his resignation over corruption and mismanagement allegations.

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No sign hackers got info in attack on German parliament system: spokeswoman

May 16, 2015 publisher after-the-long, bundestag, german-federal, his-predecessor, internal-data, koran, laptop-computer, malaysia, najib, najib-razak, prime-minister, the-spokeswoman

The German Bundestag lower house of parliament is trying to repair its computer system after a hacking attack but there are no indications yet that hackers accessed information, a parliamentary spokeswoman said on Saturday. The Bundestag is analyzing what happened and experts from the Bundestag administration and the BSI (the German Federal Office for Information Security) are working to repair the system, the spokeswoman said.

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California man sues Uber claiming it stole ride-sharing idea

May 15, 2015 publisher california, chief-executive, claims, early-investors, francisco, francisco-based, funding-round, kalanick, kevin-halpern, officer-travis, technologies, trade-secrets, usa, vehicle-near

A California man has sued Uber Technologies Inc and its Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, claiming they stole his idea for a cellphone-based car hailing service. Kevin Halpern sued Uber, Kalanick and several early investors in the company in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, accusing them of misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract

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