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NFL to be Snapchat’s sports partner for story explorer feature

December 17, 2015July 27, 2016 admin china-kaspersky, dell, exchange, explorer, kaspersky-labs, logo, national, near-screens, photo, spokesman-told, sports-partner, story-explorer, the-side, two-announced

(Reuters) – The National Football League had signed on to be the first sports partner for Snapchat's story explorer feature, an NFL spokesman told Reuters on Thursday. Snapchat, the mobile app where photos, videos and messages disappear in seconds, last month launched Explorer, a curative tool that allows users to flip through clips taken by others on the same subject. The move is part of Snapchat's deepening relationship with NFL

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Brazil court lifts suspension of Facebook’s WhatsApp service

December 17, 2015July 27, 2016 creative angry-exchanges, brazil, china-kaspersky, congress-whats, explorer, lifting, national, near-screens, paulo, photo, photo-shows, services, spokesman-told, story-explorer, the-side

By Jeb Blount and Marcelo Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered the lifting of a 48-hour suspension of the services in Brazil of Facebook Inc's WhatsApp phone-messaging application, overturning an order from a lower court. The interruption of WhatsApp's text message and Internet telephone service caused outrage in Latin America's largest country, where the company estimates it has 100 million personal users, and led to angry exchanges on the floor of Congress

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Yahoo’s NFL debut bodes well for game streaming: media buyers

October 26, 2015 publisher data-released, first-global, game-on-sunday, league, media-buyers, national, nfl, rolle, said-on-monday, striking-future, sunday, the-league, viewers-were, yahoo

The reach of Yahoo Inc's first global live-stream of a National Football League game on Sunday is likely to result in the league striking future deals with online distributors, media buyers said on Monday. An average of 2.36 million viewers were watching at any given time, according to preliminary data released by Yahoo and the NFL.

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Police arrest 15-year-old in Northern Ireland over TalkTalk hack

October 26, 2015 creative british, computer-screen, cyber-attack, game-on-sunday, league, media-buyers, national, northern, page-on-its, the-league, the-theft, theft, viewers-were, yahoo

Police arrested a 15-year-old boy in Northern Ireland on Monday over a cyber attack that may have led to the theft of data from among the 4 million customers of British broadband provider TalkTalk . A ransom demand was received by TalkTalk on Friday. “A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences,” London's Metropolitan Police, whose cyber-crime unit has been investigating the attack, said.

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TalkTalk’s cyber attack piles on the pressure on financial targets

October 26, 2015 creative chief-executive, computer-screen, hit-challenging, league, london, national, poor-reputation, rudest, viewers-were

By Paul Sandle and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – Burdened with a poor reputation for customer service, facing increasingly fierce competition and under pressure to hit challenging financial targets, the cyber attack at TalkTalk could not have come at a worse time for the British telecoms firm. Chief Executive Dido Harding shocked customers last week when she said that the broadband, TV, mobile and fixed line telephony services company had been hacked, potentially putting the private details of its 4 million customers into the hands of criminals. “TalkTalk doesn't go into this in the rudest of financial health, by any means,” Arete analyst Steve Malcolm told Reuters.

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Behind Ben Carson’s rebellious public image, a DC insider is hard at work

October 25, 2015 publisher answer, barry-bennett, carson, client, emily-flitter, national, national-press, party, polls, sometimes-less

By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Ben Carson may be the farthest Republican voters can get from the party's establishment: A retired neurosurgeon with a penchant for inflammatory comments who has never held, much less run, for elected office. While many of his rivals are concentrating on hiring staff and renting offices in key states like New Hampshire and Iowa, Carson is pursuing a more unorthodox campaign, sometimes less visible to the naked eye, that has fueled his rise to the top of the polls.

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China tells U.S. to stop ‘groundless’ hacking accusations

September 11, 2015 admin agency, america, china, cost, cyber-security, european-space, friday, its-own, james, launching-two, must-beef, national, raise-the-cost, said-the-united

China reacted angrily on Friday following a call by America’s top intelligence official for cyber security against China to be stepped up, and said the United States should stop “groundless accusations”. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the United States must beef up cyber security against Chinese hackers targeting a range of U.S. interests to raise the cost to China of engaging in such activities.

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Twitter signs multi-year deal with NFL

August 10, 2015 admin content, deliver-video, from-the-start, national, nfl, past, since-2013, twitter, twitter-twitter, ventura

(Reuters) – The National Football League said it signed a multi-year partnership with microblogging site Twitter Inc to deliver video and other content to NFL fans on a daily basis. Content, including in-game highlights from pre-season through Super Bowl 50, will be distributed across Twitter from the start of the 2015 season, the NFL said in a press release. (http://bit.ly/1TkkSLl) The partnership expands on the NFL's existing partnership with Twitter since 2013, and Twitter users will now have access to more official NFL content than in the past

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Think the world’s getting worse? Think again, says economist

August 10, 2015 publisher data-on-human, national, news-or-listen, nfl, past, since-2013, through-data, twitter, twitter-twitter, ventura

By Joseph D’Urso LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Turn on the news or listen to doom-mongers in politics and the media, and you could be forgiven for thinking the world is a more violent and unequal place than ever, but according to economist Max Roser, we’ve never had it so good in many ways. Roser, based at the University of Oxford, spends his time digging through data on human living standards across countries and decades, and makes jazzy graphs and slides for his website OurWorldInData.org and his 30,000 Twitter followers

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U.S., European authorities investigate possible new leaker: sources

June 24, 2015 admin agency, european, french, jacques, jacques-chirac, leaker-provided, matter, national, national-security, nicolas, nicolas-sarkozy, purportedly-classified, transparency, tuesday

By Mark Hosenball LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. and European security authorities are investigating whether a previously unknown leaker provided sensitive intelligence documents to WikiLeaks about alleged U.S. spying on French politicians, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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