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Dating site Topface says paid hacker to not sell stolen data

January 30, 2015 publisher cooperation, country, field, hacker, intelligence, largest-dating, make-preventive, news-conference, popular-hedge, price-should, prime-minister, reward, wilmington

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Topface, one of the world’s largest dating websites, said it has paid a hacker an undisclosed sum to stop trying to sell about 20 million email addresses stolen from the Russian company. Topface Chief Executive Dmitry Filatov said the company located the hacker, who had published ads to sell the data but had not actually sold them. “We have paid him an award for finding a vulnerability and agreed on further cooperation in the field of data security,” Filatov said in an email on Friday, declining to disclose the size of the reward.

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Opposition blogger may have ‘outed’ Putin’s daughter

January 30, 2015 publisher facebook, family, league-entered, michael-martina, president, putin-navalny, russian, san, sberbank, scientific, spotlight, village, vladimir-putin

By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of Vladimir Putin's main opponents may have broken a taboo by publishing what he says is the pseudonym used by one the Russian president's daughters to stay out of the spotlight. Putin has made his and his family's private life little less than a state secret, keeping his rarely-photographed daughters Yekaterina, 28, and Maria, 29, out of sight and managing his divorce with the minimum fuss.

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Open Text profit rises 39 percent on strong cloud services business

January 27, 2015 publisher 53-5-million, cents-per, easing-the-way, its-rapidly, officer-john, percent-rise, speaker-john, threefold-jump, waterloo

(Reuters) – Canadian business-software maker Open Text Corp reported a 39 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by a more than threefold jump in revenue in its rapidly growing cloud services business. Net income attributable to the company rose to $74.3 million, or 60 cents per share in the second quarter ended Dec

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Facebook’s Oculus forms in-house virtual-reality film studio

January 26, 2015 publisher festival, in-house-studio, international, oculus, park, story-studio, sundance-film, the-animation

By Piya Sinha-Roy PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – Facebook Inc's Oculus VR is getting into movies with an in-house studio dedicated to making virtual-reality films and will show its first short movie at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, the company said. Tapping talent from both Pixar, the animation studio behind computer graphics imagery (CGI) films including “Toy Story” and “Monsters Inc,” and the video gaming world, Oculus' Story Studio will develop film content for virtual reality and advise other filmmakers seeking to try the technology

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IBM dismisses Forbes report of massive layoffs

January 26, 2015 publisher cebit, computer-fair, festival, international, oculus, pictured-behind, robert-cringely, silicon-valley, story-studio, Technology, the-animation, told-investors

(Reuters) – IBM dismissed on Monday a Forbes magazine report claiming the technology firm is preparing to cut about 26 percent of its workforce. A report last Thursday on Forbes' website by pseudonymous Silicon Valley technology gossip columnist Robert Cringely said IBM planned to lay off 26 percent of its global workforce, or as many as 112,000 employees. This equates to several thousand people, a small fraction of what's been reported.” Last week, Chief Financial Officer Martin Schroeter told investors on IBM's fourth-quarter earnings conference call that the company was taking restructuring charges of around $580 million, but he did not specify the number of jobs affected

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U.S. airline flights land in Atlanta after bomb threats

January 25, 2015 publisher airline-flights, airport, atlanta, bomb-on-one, cranie-threats, deemed-credible, delta, delta-twitter, destination, fighter-planes, international, north, oregon, planting-bombs

Bomb threats against two U.S. airline flights on Saturday prompted North American air defense fighter planes to scramble to accompany them to their destination in Atlanta, an airport spokesman said. The planes landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, no bombs were found aboard either and the Atlanta airport has returned to normal operations, said airport spokesman Reese McCranie

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Group says ‘American Sniper’ film spurs threats against Muslims

January 24, 2015 publisher become-targets, bradley, clint, cranie-threats, deemed-credible, delta, investigation, oregon, the-premiere

By Mark Guarino CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Arab-American civil rights organization has asked “American Sniper” director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film about a Navy marksman.

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Soccer-County block Hungary on Facebook after flood of posts

January 23, 2015 publisher august-county, bajner, football-club, hungarian, hungary, ipswich-town, messages, notts-county, other-users, page-received, the-24-year-old

League One (third tier) team Notts County have blocked Hungary from their Facebook page after it was swamped by a flood of comments about new striker Balint Bajner. The club signed the 24-year-old Hungarian on Tuesday from second tier side Ipswich Town whose own page was inundated with “No Bajner, no party!” posts when he was dropped in August

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Apollo to pay more on Presidio amid reputational, credit questions

January 23, 2015 publisher apollo, august-county, beverly-hills, caesars, during-the-2014, football-club, high-leverage, presidio, private-equity, session-during, the-24-year-old

By Lisa Lee, Mike Stone and Mariana Santibanez NEW YORK (Reuters) – (This story filed on January 22, 2015 has been refiled to clarify proposed creditor terms of the Caesars bankruptcy and related quotation) The term debt financing backing Apollo Global Management LLC's [APOLO.UL] buyout of information technology services provider Presidio Inc is facing pushback from loan investors wary of an unpopular sponsor, the deal's high leverage and issues related to the credit itself. To entice investors wary of Presidio's lack of hard assets, high leverage and business model, lead arranger Credit Suisse this week made some adjustments to the credit, sources said

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Saudis on Twitter deny rumors King Abdullah dead

January 22, 2015 publisher abdullah, being-reported, deemed-credible, from-the-truth, golden, hospital-since, saudi-arabia, the-premiere, their-classroom, virtual-private

A Saudi journalist and a member of the royal family denied rumors on Thursday that King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, in hospital since December suffering from pneumonia, had died, according to messages on social media. King Abdullah, who took power in 2005 after the death of his half-brother King Fahd, is thought to be 91, although official accounts are unclear. “All that is being reported about King Abdullah's death is far from the truth,” Ibrahem al-Rawsa, identified as a journalist at state-run Saudi Press Agency, wrote on his Twitter account