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Apple faces local battles as it prepares global payments push

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By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Apple has made mobile payments look easy, after a decade of mostly failed experiments by banks, telecom operators and retailers to woo consumers away from cards and cash. Apple Pay has taken the United States by storm since its launch in September, and the company has said it already accounts for around $2 out of every $3 spent using “contactless” payments on the three big U.S. card networks

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United Internet 2014 core profit up by a third on new customers

March 25, 2015 publisher contracts-rose, facebook, keynote, number, street, the-previous, united, wednesday

German internet service provider United Internet said on Wednesday its 2014 core profit had risen by more than a third due to record growth of new customers both organically and through acquisitions.

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PayPal to pay $7.7 mln in U.S. Treasury sanctions case

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PayPal, the electronic payments firm, agreed to pay $7.7 million to settle charges by the U.S. Treasury Department that it violated numerous sanctions programs against countries that include Iran, Cuba and Sudan, Treasury said on Wednesday. PayPal, owned by EBay Inc , did not adequately screen its transactions for U.S

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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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Pentagon notifying 100 U.S. troops threatened by Islamic State

March 23, 2015 creative before-the-fcc, commission, district, group, hacking, internet, islamic-state, message-on-its, net-neutrality, new-password, said-on-monday, the-information, twice-rejected, united, united-states

The Pentagon said on Monday it was notifying 100 U.S. troops that a group claiming ties to Islamic State militants had posted their names, addresses and photos on the Internet and was calling for American sympathizers to kill them

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Chinese military denies role in reported U.S. hacking

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China's Defense Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military's involvement. “The relevant criticism that China's military participated in Internet hacking is to play the same old tune, and is totally baseless,” the ministry said in a fax to Reuters in response to a question about the story. It is not clear what the Chinese military would be looking for or what it would gain from Register.com's data

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China Unicom network glitch causes 20-minute Internet outage

March 20, 2015 admin apigee, are-pictured, china, china-unicom, major, manage-their, Technology, united

A glitch in the broadband infrastructure of China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd caused a brief but widespread Internet outage in mainland China on Friday, the company said. China Unicom, in a statement on its Weibo microblogging account, said Internet access was disrupted from 1:25 p.m. to 1:45 p.m

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Paper planes, parents help Indian pupils outsmart state exams

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On Thursday, the Hindustan Times published a photo of dozens of men clambering up the wall of a four-floor test center in Bihar state, perched on window ledges as they folded answer sheets into paper planes flown into classrooms. “Should we shoot them?” asked Prashant Kumar Shahi, Bihar's education minister, addressing a news conference after television news channels aired the incriminating photo and raked up the scandal. Exams held by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) are viewed as make-or-break tests that could transform the lives of millions growing up in poverty.

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Authorities closing in on hackers who stole JPMorgan data: NYT

March 16, 2015 publisher attorney-preet, computer-crimes, fbi, hackers, investigation, law-enforcement, making-it-one, newspaper, sign-outside, suspects, the-newspaper, top-prosecutor, united, united-states

(Reuters) – Federal authorities investigating the data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co are confident that a criminal case will be filed against the hackers in the coming months, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the investigation.

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Rocket Internet-backed Helpling expands in Asia, Mideast

March 12, 2015 admin also-expanding, country-manager, inside-their, middle, online-retailer, rocket, sarajevo, singapore-based, social, united, united-arab, venture-capital

By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Helpling, an online marketplace for hiring home cleaners backed by Germany's Rocket Internet, is expanding beyond its base in Europe to set up new operations in the Middle East and Asia, aided by the acquisition of a rival Singapore start-up. Berlin-based Helpling said it was acquiring Singapore-based Spickify for an undisclosed sum. Hoe Yeen Teck, Spickify's co-founder and chief executive, will be Singapore country manager of the company, which will operate under the Helpling brand