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Nationwide considers halting controversial child safety ad

February 2, 2015 admin boy-narrating, comedian-patton, during-the-game, gauge-whether, jennifer-saba, media-as-soon, seahawks, super, the-commercial, the-reaction, world

(Reuters) – Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company is considering whether or not to drop a TV advertisement featuring a dead boy speaking to viewers after a backlash on social media as soon as the commercial about child safety aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast. Nationwide spokesman Joe Case said on Monday that some of the reaction “was stronger than we anticipated” and “we’ll gauge whether or not to run the ad more.” The ad, Case said, was intended to start a conversation around child safety and accidents in the home, part of the insurer’s Make Safe Happen campaign.

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Twitter buys Indian mobile marketing start-up ZipDial

January 20, 2015 creative accounts-on-its, industry-race, key-profit, mobile-phone, popular-mobile, procter, seen-at-its, the-start-up, until-at-least, via-cloud-based, world

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it will buy Indian mobile phone marketing start-up ZipDial, reportedly for $30 million to $40 million, as the U.S. microblogging service looks to expand in the world's second-biggest mobile market. Bengaluru-based ZipDial gives clients phone numbers for use in marketing campaigns.

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Google partners with auto suppliers on self-driving car

January 14, 2015 admin biggest, chris-urmson, mountain, mountain-view, remiss-not, top-automakers, white, world

By Paul Lienert and Joe White DETROIT (Reuters) – Internet company Google Inc has begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers and has assembled a team of traditional and nontraditional suppliers to speed up efforts to bring self-driving cars to market by 2020, a top Google executive said on Wednesday.

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Norway’s Kuddle plans to raise $7.4 million through crowdfunding

January 14, 2015 admin 28-7-million, biggest, country-manager, further-growth, growth, instagram, mountain, norwegian, silicon-valley, top-automakers, white, world

OSLO (Reuters) – Kuddle, a picture sharing app for children, will launch a crowdfunding initiative on Thursday aimed at raising $7.35 million to pay for further growth of its service, Chief Executive Ole Vidar Hestaas said on Wednesday. The Norwegian firm, which bills itself as a child friendly rival to Facebook’s Instagram, is in the process of hiring 40 to 50 people in its newly established Silicon Valley office and has recently hired a country manager for Brazil.

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Chinese game maker Perfect World gets go-private bid from founder

January 2, 2015 publisher california, chinese, district-judge, early-trading, free-shipping, friday-perfect, gathers-items, said-it-had, world

(Reuters) – Chinese online game developer Perfect World Co Ltd said it received a go-private proposal from founder and Chairman Michael Yufeng Chi at $20 per ADS, valuing the company at nearly $1 billion.

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IBM says cloud business enjoying ‘breakthrough year’

December 17, 2014 admin announce-their, cloud-data, cnn, data-following, north, number, past, petah, premiere, the-number, theater-during, world

By Eric Auchard LONDON (Reuters) – IBM aims to expand the number of data centers it offers clients around the world by 25 percent to meet fast-rising demand for internet-based services, after what a company executive said has been a “breakthrough year” in 2014 for its cloud computing business. IBM has quadrupled the number of cloud data facilities it offers around the world to 49 in the past 18 months, responding in part to laws requiring the local retention of data following revelations over U.S. government Web surveillance as well as increased corporate compliance rules

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U.S. startup sues France’s Orange over social calling app

December 17, 2014 admin california, claims-were, paris, paris-court, property-case, startup, telesocial, totally-lacking, wednesday, world

(Reuters) – French telecom group Orange SA confirmed on Wednesday that it has been sued in California by San Francisco-based startup Telesocial in an intellectual property case, but said that the startup’s claims were unfounded. Orange said Telesocial has already taken the company to two French courts including the Paris Court of Appeal based on the same complaints, but in both cases the claims were rejected. “This reinforces our view that Telesocial’s complaints are totally lacking in merit,” the group said in an emailed statement

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BlackBerry woos keyboard loyalists with launch of Classic

December 17, 2014 publisher black, blackberry, california, expanded-app, help-it-win, larger-screen, launched-its, officer, paris, telesocial, world, york

By John McCrank and Euan Rocha NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd launched its long-awaited Classic on Wednesday, a smartphone it hopes will help it win back market share and woo those still using older versions of its physical keyboard devices. The Canadian mobile technology company said the new device, which bears striking similarities to its once wildly popular Bold and Curve handsets, boasts a larger screen, longer battery life, an expanded app library with access to offerings from Amazon. ..

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Online lender OnDeck Capital’s shares soar in debut

December 17, 2014 publisher amid-heavy, black, california, capital, help-it-win, larger-screen, market, officer, online-lender, rose-as-much, shares, telesocial, their-market, wednesday, world

By Neha Dimri (Reuters) – Shares of OnDeck Capital Inc rose as much as 40 percent in their market debut, underscoring investor appetite for startups using technology to disrupt traditional banking. The online lender’s shares touched a high of $28 amid heavy trading on Wednesday, valuing the company at about $1.85 billion

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Online ventures target global Muslim consumer market

December 16, 2014 publisher are-content, constables, india, internet, islam, said-on-tuesday, the-growing, two-policemen, world

By Bernardo Vizcaino (Reuters) – From travel guides to shopping portals, new Internet ventures aim to capitalize on the growing “Muslim lifestyle” market, which is expanding beyond food to include areas such as tourism, fashion and credit cards. Excluding food, where “halal” dietary restrictions must be followed, most of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims are content to buy the bulk of their goods and services from conventional suppliers. ..