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China aims to boost Internet speeds, cut prices

May 14, 2015 admin country, internet, long-bugbears, match-feature, nokia, revenue-sources, the-companies, will-accelerate

China will accelerate development of its high-speed broadband networks to raise Internet speeds and cut prices, long bugbears in a country where many people still have no access to the web. Telecoms firms should make rapid moves to cut prices and increase urban broadband speeds by around 40 percent, according to a statement issued late on Wednesday by China's State Council, the country's cabinet. China's investment in broadband could benefit global network equipment makers such as Ericsson and Nokia Oyj's Alcatel-Lucent, as well as home-grown players like Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] and ZTE Corp.

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Tencent first quarter revenue beats estimates as video, social ad sales drive gains

May 13, 2015 admin beijing, biggest-social, facebook, global, internet, internet-conference, social-networks, stock-exchange, wanda-group

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest social network and online entertainment firm, posted higher-than-expected first quarter revenue as a drive to sell more advertising on its social networks and entertainment services began to pay off. Tencent's social networks are as ubiquitous in China as Facebook Inc is in many parts of the world, and the company has said it wants to emulate the success of its U.S

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Facebook to let nine news companies publish news to mobile feeds

May 13, 2015 publisher articles, bbc, beijing, facebook, global, internet, internet-conference, news-publishers, phone, smartphone-user, social-networks, stock-exchange, the-articles, wanda-group

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch “Instant Articles” that will let them publish articles directly to the social network's mobile news feeds. Instant Articles will let stories load more than 10 times faster than standard mobile web articles and will include content from publishers such as the New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic, Facebook said in a blog post on its website

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Alibaba has a new CEO, but it’s still Jack’s house

May 8, 2015 admin alibaba-group, apartment, california, daniel-zhang, gestures-during, internet, lawsuit, other-digital, place-video, the-e-commerce, the-eight-year

By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) – When Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's eccentric founder Jack Ma stepped down as CEO two years ago, he declared “the Internet belongs to young people,” and promised that most of the company's leaders born in the 1960s would soon retreat from management. On Thursday, that transition at the e-commerce behemoth appeared complete as Ma trumpeted the appointment of a fresh chief executive, Daniel Zhang, born in 1972, as part of a broader reshuffle.

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U.S. telecom groups, AT&T seek to block new Internet rules

May 1, 2015 publisher agency, alina-selyukh, building-court, data, downloads, federal, general-conduct, internet, net-neutrality, over-the-rules, principal, the-principal

By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. telecom industry groups, alongside AT&T Inc and CenturyLink Inc, called for regulators to block parts of new rules for Internet service providers on Friday, citing “crushing” compliance costs and threats to investment.

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Twitter cuts revenue forecast, shares slump

April 28, 2015 publisher down-as-much, forecast-2015, francisco, hotly-contested, internet, obtain-medical, online-finance, other-services, rate-on-twitter, street, twitter

Twitter Inc reported quarterly revenue that fell short of Wall Street estimates and cut its full-year forecast because of weak demand for its new direct response advertising, sending shares down as much as 24 percent on Tuesday. Twitter forecast 2015 revenue of $2.17 billion to $2.27 billion, down from its earlier forecast of $2.3 billion to $2.35 billion

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China foreign website malfunction drives home Internet woes

April 27, 2015 admin boyfriend, china, internet, its-interest, laptop, local-coffee, million-users, phone, popular-foreign, sellers, shanghai, such-as-vogue, thomson, travel-website, vanity-fair

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Internet users in China were unable to use a number of popular foreign websites on Monday, the latest in a series of challenges businesses and individuals have faced going online in the world's second-largest economy. Social media users first reported on Sunday that they were being sent to software website wpkg.org and travel website ptraveler.com when trying to access news websites like cnn.com, news portal yahoo.co.jp, and games website runescape.com, among others. Reuters reporters in China also experienced similar issues

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Google shares rise after online ad sales drive revenue higher

April 24, 2015 admin after-closing, computer-screen, currency-rates, file, financial, forecasts, from-the-strong, internet, man-typing, quarterly, services-helped, street, toronto

Google Inc reported higher quarterly revenue and profit as rising online ad volume offset a hit from the strong dollar, sending the Internet company's shares higher in after-hours trading. While revenue and profit missed the forecasts of Wall Street analysts, many investors had been bracing for a weaker report, said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. The company has faced challenges in mobile advertising and is running up more expenses as it invests in new businesses.

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BlackBerry introduces security offering for IoT devices

April 21, 2015 creative also-outlined, blackberry, britain, elliptic-curve, growing, internet, launch, level-it-offers, million-smart, new-certificate, photo-during, said-on-tuesday, security, security-level

BlackBerry Ltd said on Tuesday it is launching a new certificate service that will help bring the security level it offers on smartphones to a slew of devices from cars to smart meters. Certicom, a subsidiary of BlackBerry and an industry pioneer in elliptic curve cryptography, announced a new offering that it contends will secure millions of devices, expected to be part of the growing Internet of Things (IoT) sphere. The company said it has already won a contract in Britain to issue certificates for the smart meter initiative there with more than 104 million smart meters and home energy management devices

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U.S. House seen passing cyber threat information bill Wednesday

April 21, 2015 creative britain, committee, government, internet, level-it-offers, make-it-easier, million-smart, photo-during, security-level

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider, and pass, on Wednesday a long-awaited bill that would make it easier for companies to share information about cyber security threats with the government without fear of lawsuits.