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The Trump backlash: Latino consumers wield new clout

July 11, 2015 creative angeles, billionaire, drug-smugglers, economic, express-their, herbert-lash, nandita-bose, protest-outside, their-economic, york

By Herbert Lash and Nandita Bose NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) – When Donald Trump described Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug smugglers last month, Latinos took to social media to express their outrage and urge businesses to sever ties with the billionaire presidential candidate. In short order, more than 10 organizations canceled their deals with Trump, in what Latino activists are calling an unprecedented recognition of their economic clout

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Exclusive: At White House, 30-day sprint kicks off cyber marathon to stop intrusions

July 11, 2015 creative began-reviewing, cyber-security, economic, federal, from-the-start, herbert-lash, internet-explorer, microsoft, resignation, the-federal

It's not unique to the federal government,” said Tony Scott, who spent 35 years in the private sector running systems at companies such as Microsoft Corp, Walt Disney Co and General Motors Co. Scott was named as the federal CIO in February and knew from the start that stepping up cyber defenses would be a focus

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BlackBerry snags two new domain names as Android chatter heats up

July 10, 2015 creative berry-chief, black, chicago, estranged-local, hacking, over-phones, photo, several-models, will-embrace, zenica

By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd , which has been coy about its ambitions to make a mainstream Android smartphone, fueled more speculation about its plans this week when it scooped up two Android-related domain names. The purchase of the domain names is particularly interesting since BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen has declined to confirm a June Reuters report that said the company was planning an Android phone.

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BlackBerry snags two new domain names as Android chatter heats up

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Harper Lee’s new novel big as ‘Harry Potter’ in Amazon pre-orders

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Go Set a Watchman,” the much-anticipated second novel by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee, is the most pre-ordered print title on Amazon.com since the last book in the “Harry Potter” series, Amazon said on Thursday. The online retailer said the novel, to be published on July 14, 55 years after Lee's classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was already the No. 1 best-selling book on the website.

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Two more Chinese tech companies get buyout offers from CEOs

July 9, 2015 creative amazon-comsince, chief-executive, china, deal-valuing, get-offers, guoqing, latest, said-the-novel, thursday

Chinese video streaming website operator YY Inc and online retailer E-Commerce China DangDang Inc, on Thursday, became the latest in a string of Chinese companies to get offers to be taken private. Chairman Jun Lei and Chief Executive David Li offered to take YY private in a deal valuing it at about $3.69 billion, while E-Commerce China CEO Guoqing Li and Chairwoman Peggy Yu Yu offered $7.812 per ADS for the online book and media retailer.

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Israeli jailed for Madonna album hack

July 9, 2015 creative amazon-comsince, bargain-at-tel, chief-executive, committed-last, deal-valuing, get-offers, israel, latest, madonna, rebel-heart, said-the-novel, talent-manager, thursday

A former contestant in Israel’s version of “American Idol” was jailed for 14 months on Thursday for selling demo tracks he stole from Madonna’s latest album by hacking into the email and cloud accounts of people close to the singer. Under a plea bargain at Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, Adi Lederman confessed to computer trespassing and infringement of privacy and property rights in connection with the offences, committed last year

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Facebook to build new data center in Fort Worth

July 7, 2015 creative announced-plans, data-center, employ-at-least, facebook, global, san, texas, the-global, united, united-states, will-invest, zenica

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc announced plans on Tuesday to build a new data center in Fort Worth, Texas, its fourth in the United States and fifth overall. Facebook will invest at least $500 million in the global data center, a spokesperson said, and will employ at least 40 full-time employees.

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Popemobile online game pokes fun at Paraguay’s potholes

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An online game in which Pope Francis careers through the streets of Asuncion in his “popemobile” dodging potholes is delighting Paraguayans fed up with the capital city’s dilapidated streets.

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South Africa reaps more crops, cuts jobs in twin farm revolution

July 6, 2015 creative autumn-colours, executive-ellen, growing-more, kleiner-perkins, make-money, online-orders, sexual, shows, south, south-africa, spencer

By Ed Stoddard VILJOENSKROON, South Africa (Reuters) – South African farmer Cobus van Coller scans the flashing computer screen in the cab of his harvester. “This shows you if you're going to make money,” he said in a demonstration of “precision” farming — the use of technology to target farm inputs precisely to maximise profit. As a result of these two new methods, which are revolutionising agriculture globally, South Africa is growing more food with less manpower — a trend with profound social and political consequences in the country