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Rocket Internet backs rental start-up looking to replace realtors

December 16, 2014 publisher backing-online, britain, european, france, german, italy, market, real-estate, rocket, rocket-internet, said-on-tuesday, sarajevo, spain, the-start-up, venture-capital

By Eric Auchard LONDON (Reuters) – German ecommerce investor Rocket Internet is backing online apartment rental firm Nestpick as the start-up expands into four European countries, aiming to connect landlords with tenants and put real estate agents out of a job. Nestpick said on Tuesday it was expanding into 14 cities in Britain, France, Italy and Spain, seeking to do for medium-term property rentals what AirBnB has done to transform the market for short-stay rentals for holiday and business travelers

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Women feel no safer in Delhi, two years after notorious gang rape

December 16, 2014 publisher backing-online, constables, france, india, infamous, italy, market, men-stationed, past-on-their, real-estate, said-on-tuesday, sarajevo, thomson-reuters, two-policemen

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – On a cold, rainy Sunday night, two policemen in khaki uniforms and fluorescent yellow jackets stand among commuters at a bus shelter in the Indian capital, occasionally stepping out to stop passing buses and climbing on board to conduct inspections. A white police car halts to check in with the men stationed at the bus stop. Some minutes after, two other constables walk past on their night patrol which they say runs from 8 p.m

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Online ventures target global Muslim consumer market

December 16, 2014 publisher are-content, constables, india, internet, islam, said-on-tuesday, the-growing, two-policemen, world

By Bernardo Vizcaino (Reuters) – From travel guides to shopping portals, new Internet ventures aim to capitalize on the growing “Muslim lifestyle” market, which is expanding beyond food to include areas such as tourism, fashion and credit cards. Excluding food, where “halal” dietary restrictions must be followed, most of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims are content to buy the bulk of their goods and services from conventional suppliers. ..

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Irish tax on online gambling faces further delay

December 14, 2014 publisher country, customers-based, dublin, finance, finance-minister, first-announced, further-delayed, office, online-or-over, paddy-power, such-as-paddy, telephone

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland's stalled plan to tax online gambling will be further delayed into 2015, the country's finance minister said, offering bookmakers such as Paddy Power a longer grace period before the charge is levied. Ireland first announced plans to bring online operators into the tax net in 2011 by seeking to extend a one percent tax on bets placed in shops to wagers made online or over the telephone from customers based in Ireland. …

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Hackers vs. James Bond: ‘SPECTRE’ script stolen in Sony attack

December 13, 2014 publisher early-version, finance, finance-minister, first-announced, further-delayed, james-bond, sony, stage-during

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Early villains have emerged in the next James Bond film “SPECTRE”: hackers who stole a version of the screenplay as part of a devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures.

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Alleged UK hacking of Belgian telecoms firm was far-reaching-reports

December 13, 2014 publisher belgium, broke-late, carried-out, european-union, finance-minister, further-delayed, james-bond, networks-first, saturday-news, went-undetected

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hacking of computers at Belgian telecoms firm Belgacom, alleged to have been carried out by a British spy agency, was more far-reaching than previously thought and went undetected for more than two years, according to reports published on Saturday. News of the intrusion into Belgacom's networks first broke late last year when Belgium asked Britain, its NATO and European Union partner, to respond to allegations that its intelligence service was responsible

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Exclusive: Iran hackers may target U.S. energy, defense firms, FBI warns

December 13, 2014 publisher berlin, cyber-security, federal-bureau, include-defense, investigation

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned U.S. businesses to be on the alert for a sophisticated Iranian hacking operation whose targets include defense contractors, energy firms and educational institutions, according to a confidential agency document. The operation is the same as one flagged last week by cyber security firm Cylance Inc as targeting critical infrastructure organizations worldwide, cyber security experts said.

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Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results

December 12, 2014 publisher arrest-at-home, berlin, cylance, engine-on-its, friends, microsoft, microsoft-corp, most-foreign, picture, quickly-find, san, tool-on-monday, zenica

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has stopped including results from Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine on its social networking site. The move, confirmed by a company spokesperson, comes as Facebook has revamped its own search offerings, introducing a tool on Monday that allows users to quickly find past comments and other information posted by their friends on Facebook

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Indian retailers hobble online as e-commerce firms race ahead

November 17, 2014 publisher debit, debit-cards, future, future-group, green-button, indian, inside-their, nivedita, online-retailer, post-on-its, snapcash, snapchat, sort-out

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) – The head of Future Group, one of India's largest and most established retailers, admits he can't keep up with web sites like Snapdeal and Flipkart when it comes to spending money to entice shoppers to buy online. Private investors have poured $2.

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Mali tries to trace over 200 contacts in second Ebola wave

November 14, 2014 publisher been-at-least, confirmed-its, initial-batch, more-suspected, mosque-before, protective-gear, said-on-friday, their-21-day, trace-at-least, workers-put

BAMAKO/GENEVA (Reuters) – Mali is trying to trace at least 200 contacts linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims in an effort to control its second Ebola outbreak, health officials said on Friday. An initial batch of contacts linked to a 2-year-old from Guinea who died of Ebola last month were close to the end of their 21-day quarantine period when Mali confirmed its second case this week.