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Angolan president demands curbs on social media

December 18, 2015July 27, 2016 creative africa, alastair-sharp, chief-executive, illustration, logo-on-display, man-poses, obama-on-friday, portuguese, president, santos, sarajevo, software-began, waterloo, world

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos called on Friday for a crackdown on social media, heightening concerns about the tolerance of dissent or political opposition in Africa's number two oil producer. In a surprise television address, dos Santos, who has run the former Portuguese colony since 1979, said websites such as Facebook were useful for disseminating information but were being abused to publish “derogatory and morally offensive content”

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Dell acknowledges security hole in new laptops

November 23, 2015 admin attacks, consumers-makes, dell, illustration, make-it-easy, picture-taken, sarajevo, security-hole, such-as-google, the-campaign

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc [DI.UL] said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users’ private data. A pre-installed program on some newly purchased Dell laptops that can only be removed manually by consumers makes them vulnerable to cyber intrusions that may allow hackers to read encrypted messages and redirect browser traffic to spoofs of real websites such as Google or those belonging to a bank, among other attacks.

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Cyber attacks loom as growing corporate credit risk: Moody’s

November 23, 2015 creative computer-screen, credit, make-it-easy, picture-taken, private, ratings-agency, said-on-monday, sarajevo

By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cyber attacks on the private sector are an increasingly important risk in corporate credit analysis, U.S. ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service said on Monday.

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Fitness studios keep clients on track with photos, social media

May 18, 2015 creative california, fitness, friendly-nudge, gregory-chertok, homes-known, nudge-on-their, plane-tracking, rain-shower, sarajevo, sports

Boutique fitness studios are keeping track of clients' progress with methods ranging from videotaping their workouts to measuring their fat, to posting a friendly nudge on their Facebook pages. Gregory Chertok, a sports psychology consultant with the American College of Sports Medicine, said research has shown that even small amounts of social support can produce large and lasting gains in physical activity.

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Thailand worried by blast of anti-migrant vitriol on social media

May 18, 2015 publisher asylum, bangladeshis, california, friendly-nudge, homes-known, myanmar, plane-tracking, rain-shower, rickety-boats, sarajevo, sawitta, sawitta-lefevre, sports, state-john

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand expressed concern on Monday at a wave of anti-migrant vitriol on social media, which the government said underlined why it cannot accept any more of the asylum seekers who have been arriving by boat on its shores.

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Wal-Mart challenges Amazon with unlimited shipping service for $50 per year

May 13, 2015 creative asylum, bangladeshis, homes-known, myanmar, offers-more, products-on-its, rain-shower, sarajevo, sawitta, sports, state-john

Wal-Mart Stores Inc is planning to test a new unlimited online shipping service this summer for $50 per year, a move that may hurt Amazon's annual $99 Prime shipping service. Wal-Mart's service, which will be by invitation only for now, will offer selected products on the company's website to customers within three days or less, company spokesman Ravi Jariwala told Reuters

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Rocket Internet-backed Helpling expands in Asia, Mideast

March 12, 2015 admin also-expanding, country-manager, inside-their, middle, online-retailer, rocket, sarajevo, singapore-based, social, united, united-arab, venture-capital

By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Helpling, an online marketplace for hiring home cleaners backed by Germany's Rocket Internet, is expanding beyond its base in Europe to set up new operations in the Middle East and Asia, aided by the acquisition of a rival Singapore start-up. Berlin-based Helpling said it was acquiring Singapore-based Spickify for an undisclosed sum. Hoe Yeen Teck, Spickify's co-founder and chief executive, will be Singapore country manager of the company, which will operate under the Helpling brand

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Rocket Internet backs rental start-up looking to replace realtors

December 16, 2014 publisher backing-online, britain, european, france, german, italy, market, real-estate, rocket, rocket-internet, said-on-tuesday, sarajevo, spain, the-start-up, venture-capital

By Eric Auchard LONDON (Reuters) – German ecommerce investor Rocket Internet is backing online apartment rental firm Nestpick as the start-up expands into four European countries, aiming to connect landlords with tenants and put real estate agents out of a job. Nestpick said on Tuesday it was expanding into 14 cities in Britain, France, Italy and Spain, seeking to do for medium-term property rentals what AirBnB has done to transform the market for short-stay rentals for holiday and business travelers

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Women feel no safer in Delhi, two years after notorious gang rape

December 16, 2014 publisher backing-online, constables, france, india, infamous, italy, market, men-stationed, past-on-their, real-estate, said-on-tuesday, sarajevo, thomson-reuters, two-policemen

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – On a cold, rainy Sunday night, two policemen in khaki uniforms and fluorescent yellow jackets stand among commuters at a bus shelter in the Indian capital, occasionally stepping out to stop passing buses and climbing on board to conduct inspections. A white police car halts to check in with the men stationed at the bus stop. Some minutes after, two other constables walk past on their night patrol which they say runs from 8 p.m