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China’s ‘Internet police’ open a window on Web censorship

June 1, 2015 admin beijing, campaign, facebook, homework, internet, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, public, shows-icons, street, subject, weibo, well-as-google

The branch of China's police in charge of censoring “illegal and harmful” online information will make its efforts more visible to the public from Monday with the launch of their own social media accounts, the Ministry of Public Security said. The Chinese government aggressively censors the Internet, blocking many sites it deems could challenge the rule of the Communist Party or threaten stability, including popular Western sites like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, as well as Google Inc's main search engine and Gmail service

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Women in photos won’t press charges in Penn State frat case, police say

May 29, 2015 publisher arlington, commit-drug, digital, facebook, fraternity, house, keith-robb, roberta-rampton, said-on-friday, state-college, three-months, victims

By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – None of the women in nude photographs posted on a Facebook page for a now-suspended Penn State fraternity is cooperating with investigators, police said on Friday, frustrating efforts to bring charges against the fraternity’s members. Earlier this week, Pennsylvania State University suspended the school’s Kappa Delta Rho chapter for three years after discovering a private Facebook page that included photos of female students who were undressed, and in some cases, apparently unconscious or sleeping.

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Founder of Facebook’s Oculus hit with lawsuit

May 22, 2015 creative account-showing, electronics, facebook, friday-adult, hawaii-based, international, million-members, newly-elected, san

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The founder of virtual reality glasses maker Oculus VR Inc, acquired by Facebook Inc for $2 billion, has been accused of taking confidential information he learned while working with another company and passing it off as his own, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

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Tencent first quarter revenue beats estimates as video, social ad sales drive gains

May 13, 2015 admin beijing, biggest-social, facebook, global, internet, internet-conference, social-networks, stock-exchange, wanda-group

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest social network and online entertainment firm, posted higher-than-expected first quarter revenue as a drive to sell more advertising on its social networks and entertainment services began to pay off. Tencent's social networks are as ubiquitous in China as Facebook Inc is in many parts of the world, and the company has said it wants to emulate the success of its U.S

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Facebook to let nine news companies publish news to mobile feeds

May 13, 2015 publisher articles, bbc, beijing, facebook, global, internet, internet-conference, news-publishers, phone, smartphone-user, social-networks, stock-exchange, the-articles, wanda-group

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch “Instant Articles” that will let them publish articles directly to the social network's mobile news feeds. Instant Articles will let stories load more than 10 times faster than standard mobile web articles and will include content from publishers such as the New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic, Facebook said in a blog post on its website

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LVMH’s Sephora picks JD.com for China online store, says fakes a concern

May 13, 2015 admin 174-physical, combined-2-53, facebook, global-firm, hennessy, social-networks, wanda-group, wednesday

Global beauty retailer Sephora, part of French luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, launched its first online store in China on shopping platform JD.com Inc, the latest global firm to tap into China’s booming e-commerce market. The cosmetics chain, which has 174 physical stores in mainland China, said on Wednesday it had chosen JD.com partly due to its focus on fighting counterfeit goods, an issue that has plagued China’s online retail market including sector leader Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

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WeChat is Tencent’s ace in China’s online entertainment race

May 12, 2015 admin chinese, combined-2-53, details-on-its, facebook, give-specific, hollywood, million-monthly, music-content, social-networks, tencent, wanda-group

By Paul Carsten and Lisa Richwine BEIJING/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In a multi-billion dollar dogfight with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd for leadership in China's online entertainment market, mobile messaging app WeChat is Tencent Holdings Ltd's trump card. The wildly popular app allows Tencent to channel 500 million monthly active users to its entertainment services, a huge consumer base for subscriptions or marketing – pay dirt for media and advertising partners.

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Canada police investigate possible murder-suicide after Facebook confession

May 8, 2015 creative daughter, facebook, family, from-the-shame, mounted-police, news, randy-janzen, said-on-friday, sister, wife

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Canadian police said on Friday they are investigating several deaths in the Vancouver area that may be a murder-suicide linked to a message on Facebook in which a man appeared to confess to killing his daughter, wife and sister.

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EU, U.S. close to data sharing deal for security cases: sources

May 8, 2015 admin edward-snowden, facebook, from-the-shame, julia-fioretti, man-typing, mounted-police, sister, united, wife

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and the United States are close to completing negotiations on a deal protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes such as terrorism investigations, three people familiar with the matter said. The two sides have been negotiating since 2011 over the so-called “umbrella agreement” that would protect personal data exchanged between police and judicial authorities in the course of investigations, as well as between companies and law enforcement authorities. The protection of personal data in the United States has been a sore point in the EU since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed mass U.S.

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Facebook’s Seattle site leader leaves company

May 7, 2015 creative been-reported, data, facebook, lease-on-space, logo-reflected, new-building, online, over-leadership, seattle, silicon-valley, wednesday

By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) – The leader of Facebook Inc's fast-growing Seattle office left the company last month, a spokeswoman for the online social network told Reuters on Wednesday, a crucial personnel change at Facebook's largest engineering office outside of its Silicon Valley headquarters. Engineering manager Paul Carduner, who took over leadership of the Seattle office about six months ago, was in charge of more than 600 people.