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Google refuses French order to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

July 31, 2015 admin 30th-corrects, data-protection, european, exposing-itself, french, from-the-french, julia-fioretti, million-removal, request-search, ruling, search, search-engine, zurich

(This version of the July 30th corrects story to read “partly” of a political nature, not “mostly” in paragraph 10) By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google Inc is refusing to bow to an order from the French privacy watchdog to scrub search results worldwide when users invoke their “right to be forgotten” online, it said on Thursday, exposing itself to possible fines. The French data protection authority, the CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person's name from all its websites, including Google.com. Google complied with the ruling and has since received more than a quarter of a million removal requests, according to its transparency report

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Google unveils ‘buy’ button, host of new shopping features

July 15, 2015 admin consumers-spend, eagerly-awaited, european, facebook, few-retailers, from-the-user, google-account, user, uses-saved, wednesday, zurich

(Reuters) – Google Inc on Wednesday unveiled a new feature called “Purchases on Google,” which allows shopper to buy items directly from mobile search ads.

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Obama to announce project for more broadband in public housing

July 15, 2015 admin companies, consumers-spend, department, european, from-the-white, google-account, housing, julian-castro, make-it-cheaper, secretary, urban, wednesday, white, white-house, zurich

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Google launches a YouTube built for gamers

June 12, 2015 admin amazon-com, bringing-videos, european, european-engineering, gaming, gaming-service, live-streaming, said-on-friday, single-space, various-titles, zurich

(Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday that it is launching a live streaming gaming service called “YouTube Gaming”, creating a rival to Amazon.com Inc's Twitch service.

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Facebook shareholders shoot down ‘one share, one vote’ proposal

June 11, 2015 publisher class, common-shares, european-engineering, gaming, investors-own, jpg, news, said-on-friday, single-space, zurich

(Reuters) – A proposal to give Facebook Inc's stockholders one vote per share was rejected at the company's annual meeting, according to preliminary results. The stockholder proposal was filed to change Facebook's voting practices. Ordinary investors own Class A common shares, which provide one vote per share, but Facebook's Class B shares are worth 10 votes each.

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Dataminr finance chief departs unexpectedly: sources

June 11, 2015 admin class, common-shares, dataminr, european-engineering, few-months, gaming, investors-own, its-chief, jpg, lauren-tara, news, single-space, tania, york, zurich

By Lauren Tara LaCapra NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dataminr Inc, a technology company that alerts traders, government officials and journalists to important tweets, has lost its chief financial officer. The abrupt departure of Tania Secor, who had been CFO since November 2013, comes a few months after the company raised a third round of funding from high-profile investors, valuing the company at $700 million.

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Swiss investigating Iran nuclear talks spying search house, seize computer

June 11, 2015 publisher city, common-shares, dataminr, few-months, geneva, investors-own, its-chief, kaspersky, lauren-tara, possible-cyber, took-place, york, zurich

Swiss authorities have searched a house in Geneva and seized computer material in connection with a possible cyber attack on nuclear negotiations between Iran and major powers in the city, Switzerland’s attorney-general said on Thursday. A computer virus was used to hack into locations including three luxury hotels that have hosted negotiations between Iran and six world powers, the Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab said on Wednesday

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Obama administration asks U.S. top court to decline Google copyright appeal

May 26, 2015 admin case-involves, copyright-parts, european, federal-appeals, lawrence-hurley, obama, oracle, oracle-corp, san, should-extend, supreme-court, Technology, usa, zurich

By Lawrence Hurley and Dan Levine WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday sided against Google Inc and said the U.S. Supreme Court should not hear the company's appeal in a case against Oracle Corp with wide implications for the technology industry, according to a court filing. The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programing language.

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Silk Road drug site staff member avoids further U.S. prison time

May 26, 2015 creative drug-website, lawrence-hurley, lawyer, oracle, oracle-corp, sentence, should-extend, Technology, thomas-griesa, underground, usa, very-gratifying, york, zurich

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Australian man who moderated the discussion forums on the underground drug website Silk Road was sentenced to time served on Tuesday after already being in custody for 17 months.

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Charter’s $56 billion Time Warner Cable deal to face U.S. scrutiny

May 26, 2015 admin charter, comcast-corp, diane-bartz, lawrence-hurley, lawyer, long-advocated, oracle, sentence, toward-industry, very-gratifying, viewers-shift, warner-cable, york, zurich

By Malathi Nayak and Diane Bartz NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc, seeking to remake the U.S. cable television industry by acquiring larger rival Time Warner Cable Inc for $56 billion, will try to skirt the regulatory obstacles that helped sink Comcast Corp's earlier bid for Time Warner Cable

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