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United Airlines apologizes to Muslim chaplain for soda incident

June 3, 2015 publisher app-suite, chicago, facebook, gave-the-man, limit-data, media-service, northwestern, post-the-flight, product-manager, tahera-ahmad, united-airlines, york

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – United Airlines apologized on Wednesday to a Muslim chaplain who said she was denied an unopened can of soda on an affiliated U.S. domestic flight by an attendant who said it could be used as a weapon. United launched an investigation after Northwestern University associate chaplain Tahera Ahmad complained about the incident last week aboard a flight from Chicago to Washington that was operated by Shuttle America for United.

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Irish broadcaster allowed to report speech accusing billionaire

June 2, 2015 publisher chairman, court-ruled, digicel-chairman, encinitas, james-quarles, modernize-its, padraic-halpin, rooftop, taking-steps, tuesday, very-important, year

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland's state broadcaster aired a lawmaker’s speech accusing a billionaire of obtaining sweetheart bank loans, after a court ruled on Tuesday that the right to report on parliament trumped a court order to muzzle potentially libelous allegations. Billionaire press baron Denis O'Brien says accusations of financial wrongdoing against him contain falsehoods. RTE appealed on Tuesday for the right to report Murphy's speech, and won the backing of Judge Donald Binchy

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Muslim woman says she faced discrimination on United-linked flight

June 1, 2015 publisher airline, beverage-policy, chicago, cnn, facebook, incident, muslim, northwestern, passengers, post-the-flight, shuttle-america, subject, tahera-ahmad

(Reuters) – A social media campaign gained strength on Monday for a Muslim chaplain at Northwestern University who said she was denied an unopened can of soda on a United Airlines-affiliated carrier after a flight attendant told her it could be used as a weapon. Referring to the incident last week, Tahera Ahmad said in a Facebook post the flight attendant had discriminated against her and that she was the subject of anti-Islamic hatred by other passengers on the flight from Chicago to Washington. Bob Birge, a spokesman for Republic Airways Holdings, which operated the Shuttle America flight on behalf of United, told cable news channel CNN on Monday that the airline’s beverage policy does not prohibit serving unopened cans to passengers.

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With ads, FINRA hopes BrokerCheck becomes go-to site, like Yelp

June 1, 2015 publisher airline, beverage-policy, campaign, chicago, diners-or-angie, facebook, financial, homework, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, post-the-flight, promote-its, street, subject

With a new ad campaign, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority hopes its BrokerCheck website will become a customer’s first stop, like Yelp for diners or Angie’s List for home owners, before they invest with a financial adviser. The Wall Street watchdog, known as FINRA, launched the campaign Monday with 15-second commercials depicting people making big decisions without doing their homework, in a bid to promote its years-old website that provides free information about brokers’ employment history, credentials and customer complaints.

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Silk Road website creator gets life term for drug plot

May 30, 2015 publisher 200-million, behind-the-silk, certain-period, enabled-more, forrest, manhattan, memorial, prevent-attacks, representatives, ulbricht, undated-handout, usa, york

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the Silk Road underground website was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin. Ross Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan after a federal jury in February found him guilty of charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laundering

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Women in photos won’t press charges in Penn State frat case, police say

May 29, 2015 publisher arlington, commit-drug, digital, facebook, fraternity, house, keith-robb, roberta-rampton, said-on-friday, state-college, three-months, victims

By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – None of the women in nude photographs posted on a Facebook page for a now-suspended Penn State fraternity is cooperating with investigators, police said on Friday, frustrating efforts to bring charges against the fraternity’s members. Earlier this week, Pennsylvania State University suspended the school’s Kappa Delta Rho chapter for three years after discovering a private Facebook page that included photos of female students who were undressed, and in some cases, apparently unconscious or sleeping.

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Periscope, media companies talking about anti-piracy tech

May 28, 2015 publisher address-piracy, alibaba-group, discussing-how, internet, jennifer-saba, periscope, phone-directly, saudi-arabia, their-demands, york

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Jennifer Saba RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) – Live streaming-video app Periscope and media companies are discussing how to address piracy on the new service, but Periscope says technological fixes many programmers want are difficult to do in real time.

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Charter-Time Warner Cable deal could spawn an online video service

May 27, 2015 publisher beijing, charter, columbus, global-mobile, headquarters, internet, top-shareholder

By Malathi Nayak NEW YORK (Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc executives are exploring whether to launch an online video service as part of its combination with larger rival Time Warner Cable Inc, in what would be an unprecedented move in the cable industry. The $56 billion takeover announced on Tuesday would make Charter the No.

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Pakistan seeks FBI help to investigate firm accused of faking diplomas

May 27, 2015 publisher axact, enabled-more, federal-bureau, help-create, international, investigation, karachi, pakistani, software-firm

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has asked U.S. authorities to help it investigate Axact, a software firm accused of earning millions of dollars from the international sale of bogus university degrees online, officials said on Wednesday.

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Hootsuite says could go public sooner after Shopify IPO success

May 21, 2015 publisher alastair-sharp, executive-said, investor, launch-bolsters, manage-social, public-offering, shares-rose, shopify

By Euan Rocha and Alastair Sharp VANCOUVER/TORONTO (Reuters) – The successful initial public offering of Shopify could prompt Hootsuite, another promising Canadian tech startup, to tap public markets sooner rather than later, its chief executive said on Thursday. Ottawa-based Shopify’s shares rose as much as 69 percent in the e-commerce software maker’s U.S. debut on Thursday, giving it a $2 billion-plus valuation.