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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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BlackBerry posts weaker-than-expected results, pledges revenue gain

September 25, 2015September 29, 2015 admin apple, black, blackberry, general-meeting, higher-revenue, offices, revenue-growth, their-offices, waterloo

Smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results on Friday but forecast higher revenue and said it might replace its operating system with Google Inc's Android platform.

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Google mobile Android operating system under U.S. antitrust scanner

September 25, 2015 publisher apple, barcelona, black, congress, general-meeting, mobile, mobile-platform, mobile-world, people-switch, regulator, revenue-growth, said-on-friday, source-familiar, unfairly-uses, waterloo

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Google Inc is using its Android mobile operating system to stifle competition, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The Android mobile platform is a key element in Google's strategy to maintain revenue from online advertising as people switch from Web browser searches to smartphone apps, and action by U.S.

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BlackBerry to buy messaging alerts firm AtHoc to expand software base

July 22, 2015 publisher central, general-meeting, miles, street, their-annual, their-offices, video-sharing, waterloo, yellow

By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd said on Wednesday it is buying privately-held AtHoc, a provider of secure, networked crisis communications, as it moves to broaden its software offering and generate revenue from its BBM messaging service. San Mateo, California-based AtHoc's services are used by a number of top clients including the U.S

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BlackBerry working with Google to secure Android devices

February 25, 2015 admin alibaba, countries, enable-its, european, highly-secure, india, its-revamped, meet-the-needs, nick, officials-said, operation, quality, reach, secure-some, waterloo

BlackBerry Ltd said on Wednesday that it is working with Google Inc to enable its software to manage and secure some of Google's Android devices, a move that builds on BlackBerry's recent partnership with Samsung Electronics Co. In November, BlackBerry announced partnerships with Samsung and other high-profile technology industry players, broadening the reach of its revamped mobile-device management and security platform. BlackBerry said it is offering a “highly secure mobility solution” for Samsung's Android devices

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BlackBerry working with Google to secure Android devices

February 25, 2015 creative alibaba, enable-its, european, gained-traction, highly-secure, microsoft-corp, nick, secure-some, the-operation, waterloo

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British blogger raises awkward questions on Russia’s role in Ukraine

February 25, 2015 admin enable-its, european, higgins, nick, quality, taking-money, thomas-grove, ukraine, waterloo

By Thomas Grove MOSCOW (Reuters) – It was not an unusual evening for war blogger Eliot Higgins. As he was rocking his infant son to sleep in his bedroom in the English city of Leicester, Higgins, who has written in-depth reports on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, was engaging in an online war of words with a pro-Kremlin blogger over Twitter. This time he and his Bellingcat project, funded by fans and supporters, were being accused of taking money from Kiev to produce some of his hardest-hitting work, which has riled pro-Kremlin separatists and those in Moscow who support them

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Open Text profit rises 39 percent on strong cloud services business

January 27, 2015 publisher 53-5-million, cents-per, easing-the-way, its-rapidly, officer-john, percent-rise, speaker-john, threefold-jump, waterloo

(Reuters) – Canadian business-software maker Open Text Corp reported a 39 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by a more than threefold jump in revenue in its rapidly growing cloud services business. Net income attributable to the company rose to $74.3 million, or 60 cents per share in the second quarter ended Dec