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Iran arrests cartoonist as crackdown on free expression goes on

November 17, 2015 publisher cartoons, heidari, his-cartoons, his-lawyer, said-on-tuesday, saleh-nikbakht, sent-him, tehran, the-lawyer, tuesday

Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges. Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to Tehran’s Evin prison, his lawyer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran. The authorities had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had,” the lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, said.

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Britain to develop offensive cyber capability, Osborne says

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CHELTENHAM, England (Reuters) – British spies are developing an offensive cyber capability to fight Islamist militants, hackers, criminals and hostile powers who threaten British interests, Chancellor George Osborne said on Tuesday. “We need to establish deterrents in cyber space. We need to not just defend ourselves against attacks but rather to dissuade people and states from targeting us in the first place,” Osborne said

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Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel stops taking money in NY

November 14, 2015 publisher accounts, after-the-state, board-inside, daily, daily-fantasy, players, said-on-friday, schneiderman, sports-market, state, stopped-taking, suzanne-barlyn, taking-money, york

By Liana B. Baker and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel said on Friday it stopped taking new deposits in New York after the state's attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent cease and desist letters this week to daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, demanding that they stop taking money from players in the state.

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Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel stops taking money in New York

November 13, 2015 publisher accounts, attorney, daily, friday, new-deposits, players, rule-the-games, said-on-friday, schneiderman, sports-market, state, stopped-taking, taking-money

By Liana B. Baker and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel said on Friday it stopped taking new deposits in New York after the state’s attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent cease and desist letters this week to daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, demanding that they stop taking money from players in the state

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FanDuel stops taking new deposits in New York

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NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel said it has stopped taking new deposits in New York after the state’s attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings cease and desist letters earlier this week, demanding that they stop taking money from players in the state. Both companies filed lawsuits in New York state court earlier on Friday to contest the order

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U.S. veteran rescued on Veterans’ Day after 4 days in Oregon woods

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A U.S. Army veteran who drank from puddles to survive while lost for four days in the Oregon woods was found on Veteran's Day thanks to a hunter who heard his cries for help, and a rescuer who read about his plight online, authorities said.

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Microsoft to offer cloud services from Germany

November 11, 2015 publisher activision, cloud-offerings, crucial, earlier, editing, european, european-union, events, gamescom, microsoft-corp, office-building, online, sold-on-its, videogame

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was opening data centers in Germany, partnering with Deutsche Telekom AG, to offer European users cloud data storage.

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Missouri campus police hold suspect for threats to shoot blacks

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(Reuters) – A suspect was in custody on Wednesday for making online threats to shoot black students at the University of Missouri following racial protests that prompted the school's president and chancellor to step down this week, campus police said. The announcement followed a post on the social media app Yik Yak on Tuesday, tagged for the college town Columbia. The posting read: “I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.” In a campus-wide alert early on Wednesday police said they had apprehended the suspect who posted threats on Yik Yak and other social media.

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Telus profit, revenue rise; eyes cost cuts as wireless slows

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By Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) – Telus Corp , one of Canada's three big telecoms providers, reported a 4.2 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Thursday as wireless growth slowed and it eyed cost savings.

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Messaging software firm Slack plans mass-media push to boost growth

November 3, 2015 publisher acquire-paid, are-switching, auchard, china, europe, generate-growth, group, local-coffee, more-on-singles, pile-on-mass, pretty-high, stewart, year

By Eric Auchard DUBLIN (Reuters) – Slack, the group messaging platform valued at nearly $3 billion, plans to accelerate its growth by spending some of its $250 million cash pile on mass-market advertising, founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield said. “We are switching from trying to keep up with growth to trying to generate growth,” Butterfield said in an interview at Web Summit, Europe’s biggest conference for start-ups