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Indian jeweller pulls ‘racist’, ‘slave-child’ ad with Bollywood actress

April 23, 2015 creative 67th, aids, aishwarya, carpet-as-she, child, festival, india, indian, joint-united, said-the-image, screening, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major Indian jewellery chain has withdrawn an advert featuring Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with a dark-skinned boy holding a parasol over her after it was slammed by activists and on social media for being racist and promoting child slavery. Kalyan Jewellers, which employs about 4,000 people across India, said the advertisement featured in a national newspaper on April 17 was intended to present “royalty, timeless beauty and elegance”

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Facebook’s Oculus forms in-house virtual-reality film studio

January 26, 2015 publisher festival, in-house-studio, international, oculus, park, story-studio, sundance-film, the-animation

By Piya Sinha-Roy PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – Facebook Inc's Oculus VR is getting into movies with an in-house studio dedicated to making virtual-reality films and will show its first short movie at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, the company said. Tapping talent from both Pixar, the animation studio behind computer graphics imagery (CGI) films including “Toy Story” and “Monsters Inc,” and the video gaming world, Oculus' Story Studio will develop film content for virtual reality and advise other filmmakers seeking to try the technology

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IBM dismisses Forbes report of massive layoffs

January 26, 2015 publisher cebit, computer-fair, festival, international, oculus, pictured-behind, robert-cringely, silicon-valley, story-studio, Technology, the-animation, told-investors

(Reuters) – IBM dismissed on Monday a Forbes magazine report claiming the technology firm is preparing to cut about 26 percent of its workforce. A report last Thursday on Forbes' website by pseudonymous Silicon Valley technology gossip columnist Robert Cringely said IBM planned to lay off 26 percent of its global workforce, or as many as 112,000 employees. This equates to several thousand people, a small fraction of what's been reported.” Last week, Chief Financial Officer Martin Schroeter told investors on IBM's fourth-quarter earnings conference call that the company was taking restructuring charges of around $580 million, but he did not specify the number of jobs affected

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Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media

January 26, 2015 admin facebook, festival, government, mobile-devices, picture, president, silicon-valley, Technology

A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block a number of pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, threatening to stop access to the whole social networking site if it does not comply, state broadcaster TRT reported.