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Facebook acquires voice recognition firm

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By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc acquired a company that makes voice recognition technology for wearable devices and Internet- connected appliances, the latest sign of its ambition to extend its reach beyond computers and smartphones.

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Google’s Gmail blocked in China

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By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – Google Inc's Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world's biggest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the Great Firewall was to blame. Large numbers of Gmail Web addresses were cut off in China on Friday, said GreatFire.org, a China-based freedom of speech advocacy group. Users said the service was still down on Monday

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AdvisorHUB site tried to sell broker data to major wirehouses

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By Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK (Reuters) – (This is a correction to Dec. 19 story, which originally lacked the word ‘temporarily’ in 11th paragraph.) AdvisorHUB, a year-old gossip and news website for the brokerage industry, has become such a part of brokers’ daily reading routine that some call it the “New York Post of financial news.” The website’s founder, Andrew Parish, says the site has 200,000 registered users and gets half a million unique hits a month. …

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Obama mocks absurd plot twist of cyber attack on Sony

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WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Faced with the most destructive cyber attack of a company on U.S. soil, President Barack Obama resorted to humor to explain an absurd plot that even Hollywood did not see coming.

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Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results

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By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has stopped including results from Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine on its social networking site. The move, confirmed by a company spokesperson, comes as Facebook has revamped its own search offerings, introducing a tool on Monday that allows users to quickly find past comments and other information posted by their friends on Facebook

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WTO talks on duty-free trade in IT goods collapse

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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Talks on cutting trade tariffs on hundreds of information technology products collapsed on Friday, delaying and potentially scuppering a deal estimated to be worth $1 trillion to global trade. “We are disappointed not to be celebrating a deal this week. We missed a big opportunity,” U.S

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Facebook says government requests for user data rises 24 percent

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(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said requests by governments for user information rose by about a quarter in the first half of 2014 over the second half of last year.