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Google, Facebook join Red Cross to find thousands missing after Nepal quake

April 27, 2015 admin boyfriend, facebook, families, massachusetts, nepal, news, safety-check, their-friends, thomson, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla and Joseph D’Urso NEW DELHI/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – German development worker Caroline Siebald and her boyfriend Charles Gertler, an American glaciologist, were on a rafting trip in Nepal when the earthquake struck and initially panicked about how to let their families know they were safe. After about 30 attempts, Gertler, 25, managed to get a phone call through to his mother in Massachusetts in the United States, and she registered them as safe on Facebook’s “Safety Check”.

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Conde Nast eyes digital viewers with virtual reality, scripted shows

April 27, 2015 admin boyfriend, conde-nast, entertainment, nepal, news, publisher, such-as-vogue, Technology, their-friends, thomson, thomson-reuters, vanity-fair

By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Privately held Conde Nast may best be known as the publisher of fashion, culture and lifestyle magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ, but it is hoping to draw new consumers and advertisers through the realm of virtual reality. Conde Nast Entertainment (CNE), the publisher's film, television and video division, will unveil two original virtual reality series for the upcoming year at its Tuesday presentation before advertisers at the Newfronts, an annual digital content showcase in New York

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Indian jeweller pulls ‘racist’, ‘slave-child’ ad with Bollywood actress

April 23, 2015 creative 67th, aids, aishwarya, carpet-as-she, child, festival, india, indian, joint-united, said-the-image, screening, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major Indian jewellery chain has withdrawn an advert featuring Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with a dark-skinned boy holding a parasol over her after it was slammed by activists and on social media for being racist and promoting child slavery. Kalyan Jewellers, which employs about 4,000 people across India, said the advertisement featured in a national newspaper on April 17 was intended to present “royalty, timeless beauty and elegance”

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Online store merger prods luxury goods makers toward Internet

April 23, 2015 admin 67th, aishwarya, child, milan, online-fashion, pascale, stroll-past, the-appearance, the-world, thomson-reuters, world

By Astrid Wendlandt and Pascale Denis PARIS (Reuters) – The merger of the world's two biggest online fashion stores, Net-a-Porter (NAP) and Yoox, sends a warning to luxury brands to embrace the Internet with more vim after years of resistance. “It looks like they are scared to try things out.” Sharma said many brands' websites mimicked the appearance of Net-a-Porter's black-and-white portal.

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As Amazon parties on, some large fund managers take their leave

April 23, 2015 admin 67th, been-climbing, cash-branching, greatest-number, online-fashion, own-smartphone, pascale, price-growth, the-appearance, the-world, thomson-reuters, time, woody-allen

The average large-cap fund that holds Amazon has 1.4 percent of its assets in the stock, down 23 percent from this time last year, according to the latest available Lipper data. They include such well-known names as Fidelity Contrafund, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, Touchstone Sands Select Growth fund and the T.

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Facebook revenue growth slows, costs weigh on profit

April 22, 2015 admin 133-percent, cash-branching, instagram, macquarie, online-fashion, own-smartphone, pascale, phone, price-growth, slowest-growth, smartphone-user, spending, spending-nearly, thomson-reuters, zenica

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc posted its slowest growth in quarterly revenue in two years and higher spending on research and development ate into profits. Facebook has warned of heavy investments in 2015 as it steps up efforts to expand a collection of products that include messaging service WhatsApp, photo-sharing service Instagram and virtual reality headset maker Oculus Rift

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Kenya’s transgender warrior: from suicide bid to celebrity: TRFN

April 8, 2015 creative audrey-mbugua, carbon-monoxide, europe, razor-blade, revenue-growth, such-as-europe, thomson-reuters, wrong

By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Audrey Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself. Born a male in Kenya and given the name Andrew, she felt trapped in the wrong body and started dressing in women’s clothes while at university, attracting ridicule and rejection

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Kenya’s transgender warrior: from suicide bid to celebrity

April 8, 2015 creative audrey-mbugua, carbon-monoxide, clothes-while, given-the-name, kenya, pills-or-carbon, razor-blade, reuters, revenue-growth, thomson-reuters

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Kenya’s transgender warrior: from suicide bid to celebrity

April 8, 2015 admin audrey-mbugua, carbon-monoxide, clothes-while, greenback-rose, kenya, pills-or-carbon, reuters, say-whether, seasonally-slow, services-firms, thomson-reuters, wrong

By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Audrey Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself.

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Microsoft, Getty Images settle dispute over online photo tool

April 7, 2015 publisher carbon-monoxide, clothes-while, executive, hood, microsoft-corp, release-the-two, satya-nadella, thomson-reuters

By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – has dropped its lawsuit against Microsoft Corp over alleged “massive” copyright infringement, announcing on Tuesday a plan to amicably bring Getty's photos to Microsoft's Internet search engine and devices.