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Clash of Clans maker Supercell doubles profit

March 24, 2015 admin beach, existing-games, finnish, franchises, francisco-based, from-the-court, india, jussi-rosendahl, said-on-tuesday

By Jussi Rosendahl HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish mobile game maker Supercell tripled sales and doubled core profit last year on the back of hit titles Clash of Clans, Hay Day and Boom Beach, the company said on Tuesday. Chief Executive Ilkka Paananen said in the statement that the rapid growth was thanks to users’ increased play of the company’s existing games, which it updates regularly with extended story lines and features. Supercell has managed so far to avoid the fate of San Francisco-based Zynga and Finnish rival Rovio, which have both struggled to extend their franchises beyond initial hugely popular game titles

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Clash of Clans maker Supercell doubles profit

March 24, 2015 admin both-struggled, committee, convicted, devin-nunes, franchises, initial-hugely, introduced-its, japanese, said-on-tuesday, statement, supercell, supreme, the-government

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Moneysupermarket.com founder to sell 6.4 percent stake in firm

March 24, 2015 admin 148-74-million, both-struggled, devin-nunes, franchises, initial-hugely, introduced-its, japanese, million-pounds, moneysupermarket, said-on-tuesday, simon, simon-nixon, stake, supreme

The founder of financial services price comparison firm Moneysupermarket.com intends to sell up to 6.4 percent of the company’s issued share capital, reducing his stake to about 10 percent.

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Moneysupermarket.com founder to sell 6.4 percent stake in firm

March 24, 2015 publisher finnish, franchises, francisco-based, jussi-rosendahl, million-pounds, moneysupermarket, said-on-tuesday, simon, simon-nixon

The founder of financial services price comparison firm Moneysupermarket.com intends to sell up to 6.4 percent of the company’s issued share capital, reducing his stake to about 10 percent. The sale of around 35 million shares in a placing could earn Simon Nixon, who founded the company in 1993, about 100 million pounds ($148.74 million), based on Moneysupermarket’s closing share price of 286 pence on Tuesday.

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Battle for African Internet users stirs freedom fears

March 24, 2015 publisher bharti-airtel, facebook, forefront, franchises, francisco-based, internet, roughly-double, said-on-tuesday, striking-deals, such-as-google, the-forefront, united, united-states, wikipedia

By Joe Brock JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Google and Facebook are at the forefront of a scramble to win over new African Internet users, offering freebies they say give a leg-up to the poor but which critics argue is a plan to lock in customers on a continent of 1 billion people.

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U.S. watchdog chairman defends new broadband regulations

March 3, 2015 creative battle-the-new, chairman, communications, copper, european, internet, japanese, said-on-tuesday, strictest, turn-pledged

By Leila Abboud and Alina Selyukh BARCELONA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New rules to tighten regulation of U.S. broadband providers are not too invasive and are needed to defend consumers’ interests and openness on the internet, the chairman of the U.S

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Cybersecurity company Novetta Solutions up for sale: sources

March 3, 2015 admin 650-million, comes-as-cuts, communications, houlihan, including-debt, matter, morgan-stanley, said-on-tuesday, sale-process, solutions

Novetta Solutions LLC, a provider of software and IT services to the U.S. intelligence community, is exploring a sale which could value it at more than $650 million, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Britain’s Sainsbury’s joins click-and-collect shopping revolution

March 3, 2015 admin britain, houlihan, lidl-british, london, market, morgan-stanley, option, said-on-tuesday, stakes

Sainsbury’s will offer online shoppers the option of picking up orders in store, years after the service was introduced by rivals Tesco and Asda, upping the stakes in Britain's brutally competitive grocery market.

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Hackers infect Forbes.com to spy on visitors: researchers

February 10, 2015 publisher adobe-systems, california, chinese, defense, financial-news, flash, health, microsoft, microsoft-corp, only-identified, purely-domestic, said-on-tuesday, time, unprepared

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – The Forbes.com financial news site was infected by Chinese hackers with spying software that targeted specific visitors, including those at U.S. financial services and defense firms, according to two cybersecurity firms. The hackers infected Forbes.com in November by inserting malware into a Forbes.com “Thought of the Day” widget that appears when any page on Forbes.com is accessed, cybersecurity firms iSight Partners Inc and Invincea Inc said on Tuesday

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Anti-terror police arrest two in Sydney week after siege

December 23, 2014 creative 16-hour-siege, australian, central-city, eight-days, officials-had, said-on-tuesday, siege, sydney, the-aftermath, two-hostages, wednesday

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian counter-terrorism police said on Wednesday they arrested two men in Sydney, eight days after a 16-hour siege in a central city cafe ended with the deaths of two hostages and a gunman with radical Islamist sympathies. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Tuesday that security officials had intercepted a heightened level of “terrorist chatter” in the aftermath of the Sydney cafe siege, but there were no specific threats of attacks. …