Latest and Breaking Internet News and Top Stories - July 8
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As many as 46% of UK consumers now use mobile devices as their primary tool for purchase decision making, while one in four use mobile devices as their exclusive shopping research tool. So finds the second annual UK Mobile Path-to-Purcha...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc has appointed Katie Stanton its new media chief, placing the former Google executive at the heart of its crucial relationships with Hollywood and the global media industry, a source with knowledge of...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A sophisticated group of hackers believed to be associated with the Chinese government, who for years targeted U.S experts on Asian geopolitical matters, suddenly began breaching computers of experts on Iraq as ...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are using internet and mobile banking for transactions worth nearly 1 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) a day and branch use is falling sharply, according to the British Bankers Association and accountancy firm EY.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Box Inc has raised $150 million in funding from private-equity firm TPG and hedge fund Coatue Management as the fast-growing online storage startup advances toward an initial public offering.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Monday it will be the first U.S. wireless carrier to sell LG Electronics' smartwatch, a wrist watch that connects to Android phones and answers voice commands, and goes on sale on July 11.
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Everyone knows Apple is investing heavily into a new sapphire manufacturing plant, and a new video leaking across the internet could reveal the first product out of Cupertino to take advantage of it. AppleInsider today reported that a ne...
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MADRID (Reuters) - The region of Catalonia, whose beaches on the northeastern coast of Spain draw millions of tourists every year, has fined home rental website Airbnb for marketing short-term room lets, a first in Europe amid a mounting...
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Removals of searches can include other terms along with name, as Information Commissioner's office braces for disputes What is Google deleting under 'right to be forgotten' - and why? The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says...
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Twitter, Vine and Facebook feeds are offering jokes, solidarity and helpful tips for Muslims fasting through the month of Ramadan "Can you please avoid the # during Ramadan? It looks like a waffle." Do you see food, everywhere?...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc is rating Internet service providers' video streaming quality on a new website, the latest development in the fight between broadband providers and content companies over who is to blame for slow streami...
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Zack Brown scrambles to plan slew of 'potato salad activities' after campaign to raise $10 pulls in donations from 1,300 people The pitch was simple: give Zack Brown $10 and he will make potato salad. Thanks to internet donations, Brown ...
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Netflix want someone to tag their content. I'm up for it. Who wouldn't want to spend their lives watching nothing but UK films? I would like this post to act as my formal application for the role of Netflix content tagger. I think it mig...
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French police said Monday they had smashed an illegal Bitcoin trading network, seizing virtual currency worth 200,000 euros ($272,000) in the first such operation in Europe.
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As cloud is more widely adopted and its benefits realised, there is an increased focus on security. Keeping data and infrastructure safe from external threats, and often internal risk, is a key element of any cloud strategy. However, bey...
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UK telco EE has launched a suite of cloud apps designed to help employees at small businesses be more productive. Imaginatively called Business Apps, it provides firms with access to a slew of office, publishing and accounting apps from ...
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In a rare dual interview, Larry Page and Sergey Brin reveal that a young Google could have sold out to Excite, and explain how computers will enable us all to work less When Googles founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sat down for a ra...
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Authorities act against websites that imitate government services Police have swooped on four addresses around the UK, making a string of arrests in a nationally coordinated probe into so-called "copycat websites" which imitate...
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Stephen Hull steps up as sites UK founding editor joins fashion data and insight firm WGSN as global chief content officer Huffington Post UK has lost its founding editor-in-chief, Carla Buzasi, who is returning to the world of fashion i...
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Cloud computing's ascent to mainstream adoption is being fueled by organisations turning existing on-premise technology into Hybrid cloud deployments, according to the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF). A recent CIF survey, which polled 250 sen...
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Le temps fait grise mine et les footballeurs français viennent de regagner l’Hexagone après leur défaite en quart de finale de la Coupe du Monde. Deux raisons de ne pas vraiment ce réjouir en ce début du mois de juillet. Pour autan...
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Netflix and Spotify seek to become the de facto standards in their paid-for video and music streaming services, and this is coming at the expense of profits currently, with Spotify loss making and Netflix loss making outside the USA. So ...
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The iPad is often the first platform for which developers produce apps – but it is substantially more expensive than its competitors
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Ben Smith speaks out on the massive economic and cultural transformation driven by digital In a New York Times column musing on the state of the nation - the American nation of course - Maureen Dowd notes that young people "think of...
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It's a tough world out there for start-ups and SMEs. Increasingly, these businesses have bought into the concept of the subscription revolution. They are either transitioning their businesses from selling products to becoming service pro...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - One team of researchers assessing the risks of electronic cigarettes is counting the puffs taken by volunteer "vapers." Another will comb Facebook for posts on how people are tinkering with e-cigarettes to make the d...
