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U.S. judge says Internet streaming service should be treated like cable

July 17, 2015 publisher broadcasters, cable-provider, cable-system, china, copyright, courts, district-judge, internet, judge-ruled, match-feature, meets-the-law, nation, programs, ruling, york

By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that online television service FilmOn X LLC should be treated like a traditional cable system in order to transmit the programs of the nation's broadcasters over the Internet. The ruling, coming as consumer TV-watching habits are increasingly migrating to the Internet, is the first to first to view a streaming service like a cable provider and could have major implications for broadcasters if it is upheld by higher courts.

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Planned Parenthood slams secret video as false portrayal of fetus tissue program

July 15, 2015 admin boston, california, copyright, golden, internet, judge-paul, medical-ethics, record-high, said-the-video, video

The non-profit organization said the video had been heavily edited and recorded by a group that was established to damage its reputation.

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Twitter confirms purported Bloomberg story is false

July 14, 2015 admin bloomberg, internet, news, report, said-on-tuesday, shares-jumped, the-report, tuesday-twitter, twitter, ventura

(Reuters) – A report claiming that Twitter Inc received an offer to be acquired for $31 billion attributed to Bloomberg LP is fake, Twitter and a spokesman for the news and financial data provider said on Tuesday.

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Apple Pay launches in Britain as hold-out Barclays signs up

July 14, 2015 creative apple, britain, francisco, increasing, internet, mobile-payments, news, report, said-on-tuesday, the-flagship, the-increasing, tuesday-twitter, twitter, ventura

Apple introduced its mobile payments service to Britain on Tuesday as Barclays confirmed its participation in the U.S. tech giant's move to capitalize on the increasing number of consumers who are comfortable making tap-and-go purchases

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Website with bogus Twitter report was registered July 10: ICANN

July 14, 2015 publisher assigned-names, false-report, internet, news, registrant, the-increasing, tuesday-twitter, twitter, york

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The web site carrying a false report out Tuesday on a Twitter takeover approach, bloomberg.market, was registered on July 10, according to a domain search on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. According to whois.icann.org, the registrant’s mailing address was listed as a Post Office Box in Panama.

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PlentyOfFish for Match.com owner at $575 million

July 14, 2015 publisher chief-executive, grew-the-site, internet, match-com, million-users, mobile-devices, the-increasing, the-services, vancouver, while-running

IAC/InterActive Corp’s Match Group, which owns Match.com, agreed to buy dating website PlentyOfFish for $575 million to push deeper into the lucrative mobile-based dating business, ahead of its planned public listing. Canada-based PlentyOfFish was launched in 2003 and has over 90 million registered users worldwide, 80 percent of whom access the services on mobile devices, according to its website. The company’s founder and Chief Executive Markus Frind grew the site to 10 million users on his own while running the company out of his Vancouver apartment.

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German newspaper sales stabilize as readers pay online

July 14, 2015 publisher bdzv, chief-executive, europe, federation, german, german-newspaper, internet, match-com, million-users, persuading-more, publishers, while-running, year

FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) – German newspaper revenues stabilized in 2014 after years of decline as publishers compensated for falling advertising sales by persuading more readers to pay for news online. Total revenues fell 0.6 percent to 7.76 billion euros ($8.57 billion) in Europe’s biggest newspaper market, the Federation of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV) said, compared with a 4.4 percent decline in 2013.

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Ex-Maker Studios CEO Zappin sees $5 billion valuation for new venture

July 9, 2015 publisher deal-valuing, digital, digital-media, helps-digital, internet, maker-studios, messy, newest, packaging-code, purchase, talent-manager, viral-content, worth-at-least, youtube, zealot

Two years after his messy departure from Maker Studios, the YouTube network he co-founded, Internet entrepreneur Danny Zappin has big plans for his newest venture, Zealot Networks. Zappin says he expects the digital media company, which announced the purchase of viral content website ViralNova on Thursday, to be worth at least $5 billion in about two years. Zealot, founded in August 2014, helps digital media startups connect with media companies, brands and advertisers.

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Russian parliament approves Internet privacy bill

July 3, 2015 creative algeria, appear-under, best-qualified, chile, council, freedom, german, greece, internet, paris, president, search-engines, state, web-companies

Russia's parliament gave its final approval on Friday to a law that would require Internet search engines to remove users' personal information from their results. The bill, passed by the State Duma lower house in its third reading, seeks to emulate European Union rules on the “right to be forgotten”, under which search engines must take down certain results that appear under a search of a person's name.

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UberPOP halts service in France after clampdown, protests

July 3, 2015 admin fierce-protests, freedom, german, illegal-taxi, internet, state, taxi-drivers, traffic, web-companies

By Mark John PARIS (Reuters) – Uber Technologies will suspend its UberPOP ride-hailing service in France, the U.S. company said on Friday, after it faced sometimes-violent protests and local authorities denounced it as an illegal taxi service. After fierce protests last week by licensed French taxi drivers who argue it threatens their livelihood with unfair competition, France took two executives from California-based Uber into custody and said they will face trial in September