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Turkish magazine raided, copies seized for mock Erdogan selfie

September 14, 2015 admin alleged, federal-court, francisco, man-typing, office-banned, ordered-raids, police-raided, president, united

By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police raided a magazine on Monday over a mocked-up “selfie” of a smiling President Tayyip Erdogan with the coffin of a soldier – an allusion to comments that families of soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels could be happy about their martyrdom. An Istanbul prosecutor’s office banned distribution of the latest edition of Nokta magazine and ordered raids on its offices over charges of “insulting the Turkish president” and “making terrorist propaganda”, after the cover was published online, the magazine said in a statement. The cover depicted a grinning Erdogan in shirt-sleeves taking a selfie, in the background a coffin draped in the red Turkish flag being borne along in state by soldiers.

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Alibaba hasn’t hit bottom yet: Barron’s

September 14, 2015 admin alibaba, alleged, article, china, conclusions, federal-court, francisco, internet, office-banned, ordered-raids, police-raided, seen-inside, the-internet, united, worsen-as-china

The reasons the weekly financial newspaper gave for the dour outlook: China's struggling economy, increasing competition in e-commerce and more scrutiny of the company's culture and governance. Alibaba spokesman Bob Christie said the article “contains factual inaccuracies and selective use of information, and the conclusions the reporter draws are misleading.” The company has posted on the internet a letter to Barron's editor complaining about the story.

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Google hires Truecar’s Krafcik to head its driverless car unit

September 14, 2015 creative china, federal-court, internet, its-technical, krafcik, project, said-it-named, seen-inside, united

(Reuters) – Google Inc said it named auto industry veteran John Krafcik as chief executive of its self-driving car project from late September. With the hiring of Krafcik, currently the president of automotive pricing terminal Truecar Inc and a former CEO of Hyundai Motors America, Google is starting to look at the project as a potential and relevant business in the near future. Chris Urmson, who has been head of the self-driving car program since 2009, will continue overseeing the project as its technical lead, the company said in an emailed statement

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EU strikes data-sharing deal with U.S. for security, terrorism cases

September 8, 2015 creative alibaba, alibaba-group, committee, czech, czech-republic, estimates-due, european, european-union, jinjia-village, said-it-now, said-on-tuesday, said-the-data, united, zhejiang

The European Union has struck a deal with the United States on protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes in criminal and terrorism investigations, the bloc's justice chief said on Tuesday. The so-called “umbrella agreement”, following four years of talks between both sides, would protect personal data exchanged between police and judicial authorities and also between companies and law enforcement authorities. European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said the data sharing agreement was a key step to strengthening Europeans' right to privacy.

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U.S. considering sanctions over Chinese cyber theft: Washington Post

August 31, 2015 admin career-market, data-breaches, match-com, media-on-monday, octogenarian, other-sites, showing-binary, united, usa, years-ago

The White House is considering applying sanctions against companies and individuals in China it believes have benefited from Chinese hacking of U.S. trade secrets, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The newspaper, citing several unidentified Obama administration officials, said a final determination on whether to issue the sanctions was expected soon, possibly as early as the next two weeks.

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Facebook must obey German law even if free speech curtailed: minister

August 28, 2015 admin entertainment, facebook, heiko-maas, kirschbaum, management-team, massive-cyber, picture, poster-during, posts-on-its, such-expression, then-it-must, thwart-racist, united

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) – Facebook will have to abide by German laws banning racist sentiment even if it might be allowed in the United States under freedom of speech, Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview with Reuters. Maas, who has accused Facebook of doing too little to thwart racist and hate posts on its social media platform, said that Germany has zero tolerance for such expression and expects the U.S.-based company to be more vigilant.

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Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with ‘powder keg’ of anger

August 27, 2015 publisher global, global-mobile, roanoke, said-on-friday, simon-jessop, the-businesses, united, wednesday

By Gary Robertson MONETA, Va. (Reuters) – Two television journalists were shot to death during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, slain by a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a “powder keg” of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States

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Dead rats anyone? Hollywood gets creative to promote movies

August 26, 2015 admin film, global, global-mobile, pasadena, propulsion, simon-jessop, the-businesses, toured-the-lab, united

Hollywood studios are going to ever more creative lengths to attract attention in a jam-packed entertainment market where social media plays a key role in promoting content. For Matt Damon's October film “The Martian,” in which an astronaut is stranded on Mars, 20th Century Fox Studios hosted a media day last week at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California just to promote a trailer

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Suspect in Virginia TV shooting had history of workplace issues

August 26, 2015 admin brendan, flanagan, florida, letitia, letitia-stein, propulsion, the-businesses, the-shooting, the-slain, united

By Brendan O’Brien and Letitia Stein (Reuters) – The suspected gunman in the shooting deaths of two television journalists in Virginia on Wednesday was a veteran anchorman with a history of workplace grievances who had previously sued a Florida station alleging discrimination because he was black. Vester Flanagan, 41, who went on the air under the name Bryce Williams, was a former employee of WDBJ7 in Virginia, where both of the slain journalists worked.

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