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With CEO shakeup, Twitter under pressure to please advertisers

June 15, 2015 creative amid-pressure, francisco, from-investors, interim-head, its-corporate, needed, san, shown-at-its, twitter, zenica

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc's next chief executive officer faces a crucial challenge as the company seeks to appease Wall Street after last week's management shakeup – helping disaffected advertisers connect with users. Twitter's outgoing chief executive, Dick Costolo, resigned abruptly Thursday amid pressure from investors to increase the user base and improve what's known as direct response advertising, the most lucrative type on the microblogging site. Before joining Twitter in 2010, Bain served as president of the Fox Audience Network where he was responsible for monetizing advertising platforms across News Corp's web properties.

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Oculus debuts consumer version of VR headset, partners with Xbox

June 11, 2015 creative california, francisco, gonzalez-rogers, internet, national, oculus, oculus-chief, oculus-rift, san, speaks-during, start-shipping, thursday, unveiling, warsaw

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook Inc, debuted the much anticipated consumer version of its headset on Thursday and announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp's Xbox One gaming console. A prototype of the Oculus Rift has been available to developers since 2013, but Thursday marked the first time anyone had seen the consumer version, which will be available for pre-order later this year and will start shipping in early 2016

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Obama administration asks U.S. top court to decline Google copyright appeal

May 26, 2015 admin case-involves, copyright-parts, european, federal-appeals, lawrence-hurley, obama, oracle, oracle-corp, san, should-extend, supreme-court, Technology, usa, zurich

By Lawrence Hurley and Dan Levine WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday sided against Google Inc and said the U.S. Supreme Court should not hear the company's appeal in a case against Oracle Corp with wide implications for the technology industry, according to a court filing. The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programing language.

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Founder of Facebook’s Oculus hit with lawsuit

May 22, 2015 creative account-showing, electronics, facebook, friday-adult, hawaii-based, international, million-members, newly-elected, san

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The founder of virtual reality glasses maker Oculus VR Inc, acquired by Facebook Inc for $2 billion, has been accused of taking confidential information he learned while working with another company and passing it off as his own, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

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U.S. moves to facilitate social media in Crimea

May 22, 2015 creative account-showing, allows-personal, electronics, exportation, general-license, hawaii-based, internet, platforms-were, san, such-services, united

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday authorized American businesses and individuals to facilitate personal communications over the Internet like social media, instant messaging and photo sharing in Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine last year.

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China to spend $182 billion to boost Internet by end of 2017

May 20, 2015 publisher account-showing, baidu, beijing, exportation, malaysia, san, state-council, year-on-network

China will spend more than $182 billion to boost Internet speeds by the end of 2017, a top government body said, as Beijing moves towards a more service-driven economy to boost growth. The State Council said the government will invest more than 430 billion yuan ($69.3 billion) this year on network construction, with at least another 700 billion yuan ($112.8 billion) spent over the following two years

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Former NSA head Alexander asks agency to review patents

April 24, 2015 publisher government, india, leaving-the-nsa, online-payments, platform-backed, pushing-deeper, san, security, shekhar-sharma

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander has asked the U.S. intelligence agency to review patent filings by his company to make sure that they do not reveal any secrets or misappropriate any government work

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U.S. Homeland Security to set up cyber security office in Silicon Valley

April 21, 2015 admin government, internet, johnson, photo-during, private-sector, relationships, said-on-tuesday, san, secretary, speaks-during, talented, Technology, white

By Bill Rigby SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in the final stages of planning to set up a satellite office in California's Silicon Valley, aiming to build relationships with the technology industry and scout for talent there, the department's secretary said on Tuesday

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EU Google probe encourages investors in Russia competitor Yandex

April 21, 2015 publisher antitrust-probe, employee-works, european-union, johnson, photo-during, relationships, russian-google, san, secretary, speaks-during, works-at-yandex

By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) – The European Union's antitrust probe into Google sparked a big rally in Russian search engine Yandex NV last week, even though the “Russian Google” still faces significant challenges, competitive and otherwise. Yandex has amassed a $6.54 billion market capitalization, mainly by selling advertising against the web browser used on 64 percent of Russian desktop computers. With Russian stocks recovering and the EU looking into whether Google has an unfair competitive advantage, some investors hope Yandex can win more screen space and advertising revenue

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Israeli military networks breached by hackers: researchers

April 18, 2015 creative arabic-speaking, available-tools, israel-defense, israeli, middle-east, researchers, san, the-researchers, trojan, waylon-grange

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hackers have managed to penetrate computer networks associated with the Israeli military in an espionage campaign that skillfully packages existing attack software with trick emails, according to security researchers at Blue Coat Systems Inc. The four-month-old effort, most likely by Arabic-speaking programmers, shows how the Middle East continues to be a hotbed for cyber espionage and how widely the ability to carry off such attacks has spread, the researchers said. Waylon Grange, a researcher with the Blue Coat [PRJCBB.UL] who discovered the campaign, said the vast majority of the hackers' software was cobbled together from widely available tools, such as the remote-access Trojan called Poison Ivy.