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Facebook makes paid time off for baby leave a global benefit

November 28, 2015 admin child, executive-mark, extending-its, facebook, facebook-chief, human-resources, matloff-goler, parental-leave, paternity-leave, social, united, university

Less than a week after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave, the social media company announced it is extending its parental leave policy to full-time employees outside the United States. Employees may take leave at any point up to a year after the birth of their child, Lori Matloff Goler, the company's head of human resources, said in a Facebook post late Wednesday. Facebook currently offers only U.S.-based workers up to four months of paid leave

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German court says ISPs may have to block music-sharing sites

November 26, 2015 admin cell-phone, facebook-chief, matloff-goler, music-onto, music-rights, parental-leave, united, warner-music

Germany's highest court said Internet service providers could be made responsible for blocking websites offering illegal music downloads, but only if copyright holders showed they had first made reasonable attempts to thwart such piracy by other means. The federal Supreme Court dismissed two cases brought by music rights society GEMA against Deutsche Telekom and music companies Universal Music, Sony and Warner Music Group against Telefonica's O2 Deutschland.

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FanDuel, DraftKings fight threatened shutdown in New York

November 25, 2015 publisher contests, daily, draft, fantasy-sports, from-offering, highly, players-conference, popular-online, schneiderman, state, supreme-court, their-contests, wednesday, week-seeking

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel urged a New York judge on Wednesday to spare them from a potentially crippling shutdown in one of their top markets by ruling that their contests do not constitute illegal gambling. “Chance pervades fantasy sports,” McGee said.

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Florida ‘Facebook killer’ found guilty of second-degree murder

November 25, 2015 creative circuit-court, daily, daughter, daughter-killed, facebook-jurors, fantasy-sports, highly, jennifer, macabre-trophy, miami-area, players-conference, popular-online, supreme-court, the-internet, wednesday

A jury on Wednesday found a Florida man guilty of second-degree murder after he killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook. Jurors rejected the argument that Derek Medina, 33, acted in self-defense when he shot 27-year-old Jennifer Alfonso eight times in August 2013 at their Miami-area residence, according to a circuit court spokeswoman in Miami-Dade County.

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BRIEF-New york judge says no ruling today on daily fantasy sports

November 25, 2015 publisher are-legal, circuit-court, daughter, highly, michael, source, supreme-court, whether-daily, york-judge

Nov 25 (Reuters) – * New york judge says no ruling today on whether daily fantasy sports are legal in the state Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: [ ] (Reporting By Michael Erman)

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Tegna CEO looks to rejuvenate local TV

November 25, 2015 creative broadcast, chief-executive, create-more, daughter, including-news, make-local, michael, month, source, supreme-court, the-broadcast

Tegna Inc, the broadcast and digital company that split from Gannett Co Inc earlier this year, has assembled a group of employees to make local broadcast television, including news, more interesting to a younger audience. The McLean, Virginia-based company is also trying to create more original programming and discussing ways to better integrate its lineup with social media, Chief Executive Officer Gracia Martore told Reuters earlier this month

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Big brands don’t mind live Periscope stumbles to reach millennials

November 25, 2015 publisher create-more, daughter, even-though, including-news, last-month, michael, north-america, periscope, royal-caribbean, supreme-court, the-broadcast

When Benefit Cosmetics, a San Francisco-based maker of skin care and makeup, used Twitter's Periscope live-streaming video service to make a product demonstration, a heckler became part of the live show, typing to the presenter, “I can see down your top” even though there was no wardrobe malfunction. During BMW of North America's debut of its M2 coupe on Periscope last month, the sound dipped in and out as the driver talked about how the car handled

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UK police make fifth arrest in TalkTalk hack inquiry

November 25, 2015 creative attack, cell-phone, computer-screen, investigations, london, matloff-goler, music-rights, page-on-its, parental-leave, party-claiming, police-said, said-on-oct, shows-details, united, youth

An 18-year-old youth from Wales who was detained on Tuesday in the fifth arrest connected to a cyber attack on telecoms company TalkTalk was bailed on Wednesday pending further investigations, police said in a statement. Police searched an address in the town of Llanelli on Tuesday and took the youth into custody on suspicion of blackmail. TalkTalk said on Oct

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Jury weighs murder charges for Florida ‘Facebook killer’

November 25, 2015 admin circuit, facebook, florida, his-trial, lifeless-body, medina, miami, miami-area, miami-florida, opening, trial

A Florida jury began weighing on Tuesday whether a man who killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered, lifeless body on Facebook committed first-degree murder. Attorneys for Derek Medina, 33, argued that he was acting in self-defense when he fired eight shots at Jennifer Alfonso, 27, in the kitchen of their Miami-area residence

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Minneapolis police arrest two in shooting of Black Lives Matter protesters

November 24, 2015 creative bloomington, florida, his-trial, lifeless-body, miami, miami-florida, minneapolis, police-said, the-shooting, trial, while-the-older

By David Bailey and Todd Melby MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Minneapolis police said on Tuesday they have arrested a 23-year-old white man and a 32-year-old Hispanic man over the shooting of five people near a city police station where demonstrators have gathered for more than a week to protest the killing of an unarmed black man by officers. The younger suspect was arrested around 11:20 a.m

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