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California teacher suspended over social media rant about sex case

January 23, 2015 creative become-targets, classroom, deemed-credible, investigation, patrick-kane, school-official, the-premiere, their-classroom

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles area high school teacher has been suspended over a social media rant in which he said male students who reportedly had sex with two of his female colleagues should have kept their “stupid mouths shut” about the experience, a school official said on Friday. Sean Patrick Kane, an art teacher at South Hills High School in suburban West Covina, asked in a flippant post on Facebook on Sunday what had been “in the heads of the dudes who banged these ladies and then squealed?” “You should have just kept your stupid mouths shut and enjoyed it,” Kane said in the same post, referring to the teenage students at the center of the sex case. The rant got the attention of officials at the West Covina Unified School District, who placed Kane on paid leave on Wednesday as they investigate his actions, district spokeswoman Michelle Van Der Linden said

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Amazon, e-commerce rivals fuel commercial property boom in India

January 23, 2015 creative aditi-shah, amazon, buy-everything, family, logo, property, session-during, snowball-effect, storage, worst-countries

By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Internet retailer Amazon and its fast-growing local rivals are driving a boom in commercial property leasing in India as their storage needs rise, with shoppers in the country going online to buy everything from televisions to groceries. Other estimates indicate office rents in India's tech hub Bengaluru could rise by as much as a fifth in the next six to nine months as e-commerce companies add to demand.

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Google, Viacom win dismissal of children’s web privacy lawsuit

January 21, 2015 creative additional, children, files-known, games-on-its, lawsuit-claimed, picture, played-video, secretly-kept, young-children

The lawsuit claimed that Viacom secretly kept track of children under the age of 13 who streamed videos and played video games on its Nick.com website, and shared what it learned with Google. It said both companies then without permission put text files known as “cookies” into the children's computers, letting them gather additional information that advertisers could use. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of young children who registered to use Nick.com.

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EBay to cut jobs, sell enterprise unit ahead of PayPal split

January 21, 2015 creative additional, california, children, current, games-on-its, icahn-capital, its-enterprise, its-largest, its-payments, marketplace, played-video, said-it-entered, san, the-marketplace

By Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – EBay Inc plans to cut its workforce by 7 percent, or 2,400 jobs, in the current quarter and is exploring a sale or public offering of its enterprise unit as the e-commerce company prepares to split from its payments division, PayPal, this year. The jobs will be cut across the marketplace, payments and enterprise divisions, eBay said on Wednesday in its fourth-quarter earnings report.

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China’s Tencent shuts down 133 WeChat accounts for ‘distorting history’: Xinhua

January 20, 2015 creative accounts-on-its, biggest-social, dublin, europe, including-one, industry-race, internet, internet-czar, key-profit, official, popular-mobile, seen-at-its, the-official, until-at-least, via-cloud-based

Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest social networking firm, has shut down 133 accounts on its hugely popular mobile messaging app for “distorting history”, state media said on Tuesday, citing a government internet authority.

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Twitter buys Indian mobile marketing start-up ZipDial

January 20, 2015 creative accounts-on-its, industry-race, key-profit, mobile-phone, popular-mobile, procter, seen-at-its, the-start-up, until-at-least, via-cloud-based, world

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it will buy Indian mobile phone marketing start-up ZipDial, reportedly for $30 million to $40 million, as the U.S. microblogging service looks to expand in the world's second-biggest mobile market. Bengaluru-based ZipDial gives clients phone numbers for use in marketing campaigns.

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Exclusive: Facebook hiring spree hints at ambitions in virtual reality and beyond

January 18, 2015 creative among-the-key, northeastern, obama, oculus, product, ranks-as-much, san, some-analysts, speaks-during, the-leadership, university, virtual, virtual-reality

By Alexei Oreskovic and Bill Rigby SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Virtual reality goggles, drones and data centers are all driving a hiring spree at Facebook Inc that is set to swell its ranks as much as 14 percent in the near term, according to a review of job listings on the company's website. Oculus Rift, the maker of virtual reality headsets that Facebook acquired in a $2 billion deal last year, is among the key areas slated for growth, with 54 jobs listed on its website, according to a review by Reuters of listings. Among the roles that Facebook needs to fill for the Oculus business are managers to oversee logistics, procurement and global supply chain planning – a sign, some analysts say, that the product is nearing its commercial release

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California ‘revenge porn’ trial gets under way in San Diego

January 16, 2015 creative deputy, federal, governor, internet, obama, permission, president-obama, revenge-porn, san, sprint-corp, usa

By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The trial of a California man accused of running a so-called “revenge porn” website, featuring nude pictures of women often posted by jilted ex-lovers, began in San Diego on Friday in a test of state efforts to clamp down on such sites. Kevin Boellart, 28, was arrested in 2013 shortly after Governor Jerry Brown signed a first-in-the-nation law to target “revenge porn,” defined as the posting of private, explicit photos of others on the Internet to humiliate them. Prosecutors have said Boellart’s site, which is no longer operational, had featured over 10,000 sexually explicit photos, and that he charged women up to $350 each to remove them

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Sprint says Obama net neutrality plan wouldn’t curb investments

January 16, 2015 creative data-throttling, deputy, federal, friday-sprint, known-as-title, office, permission, president-obama, sprint-corp, united-states, white, white-house

By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sprint Corp will keep investing in its networks even if U.S. regulators adopt stricter “net neutrality” rules as long as they are applied with a “light touch,” the company said in a letter to the FCC released on Friday.

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N.Y. Post says Twitter feed was hacked after erratic Tweets

January 16, 2015 creative federal, friday-sprint, madrid, order-directed, public-service, smartphone-over, sprint-corp, united-press, wake, white, white-house

The New York Post said some of its Twitter accounts were hacked on Friday, in the wake of a series of inaccurate posts on the social network relating to the Federal Reserve, Bank of America and U.S. military engagement with China. Similarly peculiar messages appeared on a Twitter account controlled by United Press International.