| Mon, May 20, 2013 |
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Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle
BOISE, Idaho (AP) , An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site heisted his handle. Leonard Barshack, who in the 1990s founded the Internet email listing service Bigfoot, is suing Twitter and the Sun Valley Co., demanding they return the handle "SunValley."
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| 01:57 PM |
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Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet pioneer that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday is Mayer's boldest move since she left Google 10 months ago to lead Yahoo's latest comeback attempt.
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| 01:34 PM |
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Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
WASHINGTON (AP) , Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. Lawmakers called it a step toward a more expansive biometric system that would use identifiers such as fingerprints to keep track of immigrants and visitors exiting the U.S.
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| 01:23 PM |
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Blackstone group offers to take Pactera private
Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, along with Pactera's CEO and other managers, have offered to take Pactera private in a deal that values the Chinese technology consulting and outsourcing firm at $680.4 million. Shares rose 31 percent Monday. Through Friday's close, before news of the offer, Pactera's stock had lost about two-thirds of its value over the past year.
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| 12:29 PM |
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Seoul: Day 3 of NKorea tests of short-range weapon
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) , North Korea continued firing short-range weapons over its own eastern waters Monday after a weekend of what it called "rocket launching tests" intended to bolster deterrence against enemy attack. South Korean officials were investigating exactly what it was that the North was testing.
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| 12:12 PM |
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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) , Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: JAMES CAAN GOES BACK TO THE 70S They don't make movies like they used to , which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties."
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| 11:57 AM |
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Seamless and GrubHub to combine, no terms revealed
NEW YORK (AP) , Rival online takeout services Seamless North America and GrubHub on Monday announced plans to combine and create a new company covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the U.S. Financial terms were not disclosed and it's unclear what the combined company will be called.
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| 10:40 AM |
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High court uphold FCC power in cell tower disputes
WASHINGTON (AP) , The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cell phone towers. The court voted 6-3 Monday to uphold an appeals court ruling in favor the Federal Communications Commission.
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| 09:18 AM |
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Teen invents 20-second cell phone charger
A California teenager has invented a device that fully charges a cell phone in 20 seconds flat, and leading technology firms, including Google, are turning interested eyes her way. Esha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, Calif., showcased her invention at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix this past week.
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| 08:04 AM |
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AP NewsAlert
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion; to remain separately run.
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| 06:37 AM |
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Yahoo offers to buy Tumblr for $1.1B cash
Yahoo's board of directors approved an offer to buy the ailing Tumblr company for $1.1 billion in cash. Tumblr has yet to agree to the deal, various media reported. But the acquisition could be made official as early as Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Yahoo has scheduled a press conference in New York City, the location of Tumblr headquarters.
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| Sun, May 19, 2013 |
| 11:18 PM |
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SKorea analyzing NKorea's 4 projectile launches
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) , South Korea is analyzing whether projectiles North Korea fired into its eastern waters over the weekend are short-range missiles or a new type of artillery the country may be developing, officials said Monday.
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| Fri, May 17, 2013 |
| 07:35 PM |
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Ex-Groupon CEO working 9 to 5 on business album
NEW YORK (AP) , Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music." Mason said Thursday on his blog that he recently spent a week in Los Angeles and recorded a collection of seven songs called "Hardly Workin'."
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Yahoo CEO to announce 'something special' in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) , Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promising to unveil "something special" Monday in New York as she tries to attract more traffic and advertising to the Internet company. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company gave no further details Friday other than that Mayer will be discussing a product. Reporters are being invited to attend the 5 p.m.
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A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus
NEW YORK (AP) , It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.
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| 02:47 PM |
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Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
LONDON (AP) , A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels.
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| 02:45 PM |
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Congress gets mixed advice on regulating drones
WASHINGTON (AP) , The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it. A future with domestic drones may be inevitable.
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| 02:20 PM |
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Canada trying to lure Silicon Valley tech workers
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) , The Canadian government has launched an aggressive campaign to lure Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated by U.S. visa policies northward, just as Congress wrestles with a long-sought overhaul of America's immigration system.
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| 01:05 PM |
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Bloomberg appoints ex-IBM CEO as privacy adviser
NEW YORK (AP) , Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent adviser on its privacy and data standards.
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| 11:08 AM |
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Tableau Software soars in trading debut
NEW YORK (AP) , Tableau Software shares soared in their trading debut Friday after the company and some of its investors raised about $254.2 million in its initial public offering. Seattle-based Tableau Software Inc. provides software that helps businesses convert data into visual presentations.
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| 11:02 AM |
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'Sonic the Hedgehog' vid games coming to Nintendo
LOS ANGELES (AP) , Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo. Sega says it will exclusively release the next three games starring the popular blue critter on Nintendo platforms. The first title will be called "Sonic Lost World" and is set for release on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS later this year.
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| 09:01 AM |
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'Hatchet hitchhiker' arrested in NJ homicide
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) , The unlikely pair , an itinerant hitchhiker turned Internet celebrity and a lawyer three times his age , met amid the neon lights of Times Square and headed back to a squat brick home on a quiet New Jersey cul-de-sac, authorities say.
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| Thu, May 16, 2013 |
| 11:03 PM |
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Famed 'hatchet hitchhiker' arrested in NJ homicide
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) , A homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker who became an Internet hero earlier this year was arrested Thursday for allegedly beating a New Jersey lawyer to death inside his home. ...
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Sector Snap: Makers of computer networking gear
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Investors snapped up the stocks of companies that make computer networking gear Thursday after industry leader Cisco Systems Inc.'s latest quarterly earnings raised hope that business is picking up after a long stretch of lackluster demand.
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MLB hoping for large replay expansion in 2014
NEW YORK (AP) , Major League Baseball hopes to expand video review by umpires for the 2014 season and says all calls other than balls and strikes could be subject to instant replay. Commissioner Bud Selig and MLB executive vice president Joe Torre say they still can't commit to expanded replay for next year. Torre hopes to have proposals by the August owners' meeting.
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Lawmakers accuse Google of dishonesty over taxes
LONDON (AP) , U.K. lawmakers subjected search giant Google to blistering criticism Thursday, accusing the U.S. Internet company of playing games with Britain's tax rules to avoid paying what it owed.
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| 11:16 AM |
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Apple says App Store hit 50 billion downloads
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) , Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called "Say the Same Thing" by Space Inch.
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INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) , To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some...
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New Zealand's top court takes Kim Dotcom appeal
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) , New Zealand's highest court ruled Thursday that it will hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States. The appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court involves a ruling on evidence and represents one strand of the complex legal case against executives from the file-sharing site.
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| Wed, May 15, 2013 |
| 07:24 PM |
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Google boosts photo offerings to rival Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing more popular.
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