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Out of the shadows, China hackers turn cyber gatekeepers

June 28, 2015 creative china, computer-screen, country, nascent-cyber, number, overseas-gaming, rampant-cyber, united-states, zhang-tianqi

By Paul Carsten and Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) – China, long accused by the United States of rampant cyber aggression, may be synonymous with hacking exploits these days, but that doesn't mean every Chinese hacker is out to pilfer and destroy. As Chinese companies grapple with a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks, many hackers are finding it increasingly lucrative to go above board and join the country's nascent cyber security industry

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Facebook staff diversity little changed over past year

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By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc released new diversity data Friday that showed the number of women and minorities has remained little changed over the past year. The number of women increased only 1 percentage point, from 31 percent to 32 percent

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Charter lists consumer benefits to win merger approval

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(Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc formally argued for regulatory approval for its Time Warner Cable Inc and Bright House Networks deals, saying consumers would benefit as Internet services would become cheaper and faster.

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China e-commerce firm JD.com to launch credit-scoring rival to Alibaba’s

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By Paul Carsten and Engen Tham BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China's No. 2 e-commerce firm JD.com Inc is launching a Chinese consumer credit data system as a joint venture with U.S.

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U.S. intelligence chief: China top suspect in hack of U.S. agency: WSJ

June 25, 2015 creative china, computer-screen, difficulty, director, hacking, intrusion, james-clapper, obama, officials-said, showing-binary, singapore, street, time-the-obama

The United States' intelligence chief said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in a hack of a U.S. agency that compromised the personnel records of millions of Americans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The comments from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper marked a departure of sorts for the Obama administration, which has avoided publicly pointing to Beijing, even as officials said privately China likely was behind the attack

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MTV goes looking for likes with its latest revamp

June 25, 2015 creative advance-tech, being-rolled, china, content, director, hashtag, mtv, obama, putting-their, ratings, social-media, the-channel

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – MTV, the channel that revolutionized the music industry by playing artists’ videos on rotation, is reinventing itself again, opening up to its social-media-savvy audience by putting their videos on air. By using the hashtag #MTVBump, viewers can see their content from social media sites Instagram or Vine within two hours of its being posted, during the channel’s break windows.

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U.S. presidential hopeful’s ‘done with Indian-American’ remark prompts Twitter storm

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Louisiana Governor and U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Jindal caused a Twitter storm of jokes and insults in India on Thursday after he said he dislikes being called an Indian-American. Republican Jindal is the first person of Indian origin to join the U.S

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Thailand to teach journalists how to ask inoffensive questions

June 25, 2015 creative ask-questions, china, media, over-the-media, peace, press, prime-minister, rampant-cyber, trafficking, united-states, winthai-suvaree, zhang-tianqi

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Thursday he was not afraid of the press, days before the government is to hold a meeting to teach journalists how to ask questions that won't offend him. Gaffe-prone Prayuth has had a love-hate relationship with the media during the year since he seized power, at one point saying he would probably “just execute” journalists that “did not report the truth”.

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As Amazon, eBay remove Confederate flags, Nazi items on sale

June 25, 2015 creative amazon, analysts-said, ask-questions, bans-the-sale, difficulty, late-afternoon, over-the-media, peace, press, prime-minister, trafficking, united-states, usa

By Mari Saito SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc sharply cut the number of Confederate flag products on their sites a day after vowing to remove them, but in a sign of the difficulty of removing controversial content, Nazi-era memorabilia are listed on both sites. EBay specifically bans their sale while Amazon bans the sale of “products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.” It is difficult to enforce a complete ban on controversial products, analysts said, because of technological hurdles in flagging and pulling down banned items. Amazon, which on Tuesday had listed nearly 30,000 items in a search for “Confederate flag”, had almost nothing for sale with the flag late afternoon Wednesday

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Internet firms should brief U.N. on tackling extremists: experts

June 24, 2015 creative alexander-evans, bans-the-sale, difficulty, ideology, ideology-online, peace, recommendations, social, united-nations

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Key Internet and social media companies should brief a United Nations Security Council sanctions committee on their efforts to stop al Qaeda, Islamic State and other extremist militants spreading their ideology online, U.N. experts said. Alexander Evans, coordinator of the team of experts, said such a briefing could stimulate a conversation among the 15-committee members on whether U.N