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U.S. presidential candidate Fiorina spins web around interviewer

May 10, 2015 admin chief-executive, chuck-todd, freedom-summit, indian, laid-off-during, meet-the-press, online, pakistan, record, speaks-during, string-attacks, the-outskirts, works-inside

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina apparently has learned something about registering website domain names. Shortly after the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive announced her campaign last week, she found out that a cybersquatter had bought the rights to carlyfiorina.org and was using it to criticize her record. Chuck Todd of NBC News brought up the issue while interviewing Fiorina on “Meet the Press” and showed the website, which features row after row of frowny-face emoticons representing 30,000 people laid off during her Hewlett-Packard tenure from 1999 to 2005

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Music streamer Spotify revenues topped 1 billion euros in 2014

May 8, 2015 publisher chief-executive, chuck-todd, daniel, meet-the-press, online, operating-loss, speaks-during, the-outskirts

Online music streaming service Spotify's revenues leapt 45 percent to top 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) last year, though its operating loss widened due to product development and expansion costs, its holding company said. The company, founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, was reportedly valued at about $8 billion in a recent fundraising. It said the increased loss was due to substantial investments in product development and international expansion, as well as an increase in staffing.

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Facebook’s Seattle site leader leaves company

May 7, 2015 creative been-reported, data, facebook, lease-on-space, logo-reflected, new-building, online, over-leadership, seattle, silicon-valley, wednesday

By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) – The leader of Facebook Inc's fast-growing Seattle office left the company last month, a spokeswoman for the online social network told Reuters on Wednesday, a crucial personnel change at Facebook's largest engineering office outside of its Silicon Valley headquarters. Engineering manager Paul Carduner, who took over leadership of the Seattle office about six months ago, was in charge of more than 600 people.

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Expedia Inc maintains 2015 earnings guidance: CFO

April 30, 2015 publisher 2015-earnings, california, china, contribution, law-enforcement, online, police-officers, possible-cases, thursday

(Reuters) – Online travel services company Expedia Inc on Thursday affirmed earlier guidance for 2015 earnings but said it expects fierce competition for travel bookings in China to continue to produce quarterly losses for its subsidiary brand eLong Inc.

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FireEye raises revenue forecast as demand for cybersecurity rises

April 30, 2015 publisher 2015-earnings, california, chief-executive, law-enforcement, networks, online, police-officers, possible-cases, seen-outside, thursday

Cybersecurity company FireEye Inc raised its full-year revenue forecast as governments and businesses increase spending to protect their networks from sophisticated cyber attacks. Shares of FireEye, which also reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue, rose 1.7 percent in extended trading on Thursday.

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Indonesia’s Lippo appoints banks for initial $200 million e-commerce funding

April 19, 2015 creative 200-million, customers-buy, launch-payment, monday-lippo, nascent, online, other-portable, relief-workers, rothschild, the-nascent

Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group has appointed Credit Suisse and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to lead its first round of funding, worth $200 million, for its e-commerce push.

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Europol Director: hackers target banks, not customers

April 17, 2015 publisher conference-on-cyber, creasingly-the-main, customers, customers-buy, cyber-security, europol, friday, launch-payment, online, online-thieves, relief-workers, rothschild, sterling, the-main, their-customers

By Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Banks, rather than their customers, are increasingly the main target of online thieves, Europol director Rob Wainwright said on Friday in an interview. “That has been an important change,” Wainwright told Reuters after a conference on cyber security in The Hague.

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Sony Pictures condemns Wikileaks release of documents from hackers

April 16, 2015 publisher 287-documents, attack-on-sony, culver, massive-cyber, media, online, pictures, private, stolen-employee, will-continue

Sony Corp's Sony Pictures Entertainment objected to the online release by WikiLeaks on Thursday of a searchable database of more than 30,000 documents that were obtained by hackers in a massive cyber attack last year. “The cyber-attack on Sony Pictures was a malicious criminal act, and we strongly condemn the indexing of stolen employee and other private and privileged information on WikiLeaks,” the company said in a statement

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Russia cannot divide Europe over Ukraine, says German minister

April 16, 2015 creative europe, german-foreign, lithuania, member-states, minister-alexis, online, sanctions-over, will-continue

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday Russia could not succeed in breaking European Union unity on sanctions over Ukraine by using strategies such as offering to remove trade embargoes against individual EU member states. There were such attempts and they were not successful,” he said in Lithuania, where concern about neighboring Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is especially acute

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Microsoft and Yahoo amend search deal

April 16, 2015 creative accessed-on-pcs, carol-bartz, companies, deadline, europe, lithuania, microsoft, more-control, online, steve-ballmer, the-companies, will-continue, yahoo

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc amended a 2009 search partnership, giving Yahoo more control over how search results are displayed on desktops and mobile devices. The 10-year search partnership, crafted by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, allowed the companies to amend or terminate it after five years.