By Alana Wise and Ginger Gibson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential election campaign took over earlier this year the Twitter and Facebook accounts he had used in his Senate election races, there was almost no-one following him. Now, Sanders' campaign has 1.4 million Facebook likes – more than his rival for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton, who is much better known
Read moreSenior U.S. and Chinese officials concluded four days of meetings on Saturday on cyber security and other issues, ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington later this month, the White House said.
Read moreBy Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States must beef up cyber security against Chinese hackers targeting a broad range of U.S. interests to raise the cost to China of engaging in such activities, America's top intelligence official said on Thursday.
Read more(Reuters) – Cloud storage provider Box Inc reported a better-than-expected rise in quarterly revenue and raised its full-year revenue forecast for the second time as more customers subscribed to its content-sharing platform. Box expects full year revenue of $295 million to $297 million, up from $286 million to $290 million, it said in a statement on Wednesday
Read moreBy Michael Holden and Sara Ledwith BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Birmingham school principal Kamal Hanif recently gave a group of parents a presentation about how extremists use social media to recruit young people. For extremists, he told them, that ignorance is a weapon. “If you're not speaking to your child and being very open with them, they've got no-one to go to.” Hanif is in a good position to know.
Read more(Reuters) – Netflix Inc said it would launch its movie and TV streaming service in South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan early next year. The move is part of the U.S.-based streaming pioneer's global expansion plans
Read moreChinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Tuesday it expected its total value of transactions in the second-quarter to be lower than previously thought, a fresh signal that China's slowdown is taking a bite out of consumer spending.
Read more(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co's studio unit said customers of Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp's video services will get access to the collection on its cloud-based movie storage service from Tuesday. Studios like Disney, which has made blockbuster films like “Frozen” and Marvel's “Guardians of the Galaxy,” have been attempting to steer movie fans towards digital purchases as sales of DVDs decline. Walt Disney Studios added that it would launch the app on video streaming-device maker Roku Inc and Google Inc's Android TV on Sept
Read moreGerman retailer Metro AG will use Alibaba's Tmall Global platform to offer a range of German products online to Chinese consumers, branching out from operating wholesale stores in China into e-commerce.
Read moreALPBACH, Austria (Reuters) – Austria and Germany have agreed to let migrants in Hungary to cross their borders, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said on his Facebook page on Saturday.
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