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Yandex has international ambitions (Reuters)

Reuters – Internet search company Yandex, fresh from raising $1.3 billion from an IPO, now has the clout to make an impact farther from its Russian heartland.

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BofA, JPMorgan, Wells form JV for online banking services (Reuters)

Reuters – Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co have teamed up to create a joint venture for online banking services.

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Ubisoft going online with "Ghost Recon" videogame (AFP)

AFP – Ubisoft is crafting a free-to-play online version of its popular “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” shooter videogame.

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Ubisoft going online with "Ghost Recon" videogame
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Yandex IPO raises $1.3 billion, more than expected (Reuters)

Reuters – Russian Internet company Yandex NV raised 19 percent more than expected on Monday in the sector’s biggest U.S.

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Yandex IPO raises $1.3 billion, more than expected
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Telecom gets nod for New Zealand broadband (AFP)

AFP – New Zealand’s largest telecoms company Telecom Corp. won a contract Tuesday to build most of the government’s NZ$3.0 billion ($2.4 billion) ultra-fast broadband network, officials said.

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Ex-IMF chief’s wife ‘touched’ by blog messages (AFP)

AFP – Anne Sinclair, the wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Monday she was “touched” by many messages of support, but was closing down her blog for the time being.

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Russia looks abroad for web laws, including to China (Reuters)

Reuters – Russia is looking to the experience of other countries, including China, to “regulate” Internet use, though Moscow has no plans to broaden web censorship, a government spokesman said on Saturday.

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Russia looks abroad for web laws, including to China
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Philippines to show speeding cars on internet (AFP)

AFP – Manila authorities are putting up pictures of speeding vehicles on an official website in an usual attempt to stop drivers breaking the law on the Philippine capital’s sometimes hair-raising roads.

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Comcast Screws Up Blazing Extreme 105 Service (PC World)

PC World – Comcast recently introduced Extreme 105–its new 105mbps high-speed broadband service. It sounds awesome at face value, but Comcast managed to screw it up in not one, but two ways that make it a horrible deal.

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