angela-moon Archives - Elite Sites

Trump Tower website has outage after Anonymous’ anti-Trump rant

December 11, 2015May 15, 2017 creative angela-moon, anonymous, cities-the-tech, hour-on-friday, people-affected, social, the-companies, usa

By Angela Moon and Eleanor Whalley NEW YORK (Reuters) – The website for Trump Towers, Donald Trump's glitzy signature skyscraper in Manhattan, went offline for at least an hour on Friday after activist hacking group Anonymous denounced the real-estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner for his anti-Muslim comments. The website for the 68-story Trump Towers (trumptowerny.com), often used for his presidential campaign, was down after a tweet from an account associated with the anonymous hacking collective that said: “Trump Towers NY site taken down as statement against racism and hatred.www.trumptowerny.com/(what you see is cloudflare offline backup)” Earlier this week, a handle claiming to be “Anonymous Operations” posted a video on YouTube with the message: “The more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims, you can be sure that ISIS will be putting that on their social media campaign.” The post added, “Donald Trump think twice before you speak anything.

News Posts

Trump’s call to ban Muslims draws fire on social media

December 8, 2015 creative angela-moon, data-provided, donald-trump, dustin-volz, express-their, its-virtual, militant-group, muslims, proposal, social-media, stop-allowing, twitter, united-states, website-more

By Angela Moon and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) – Republican presidential contender Donald Trump’s demand that the U.S. stop allowing Muslims into the United States lit up social media on Tuesday, as critics of the proposal around the world took to Twitter and Facebook to express their outrage. Outside of the United States, there were about 4.2 negative mentions for every positive one on social media regarding Trump, according to data provided by Zoomph, an analytics platform that tracks and aggregates social media mentions

News Posts

AT&T CEO hints at launching mobile video streaming service

December 8, 2015 publisher angela-moon, chief-executive, content-bundle, its-virtual, proposal, smaller-screen, stephenson, wireless

AT&T Inc Chief Executive Randall Stephenson on Tuesday hinted at launching a mobile video streaming service as early as January to target price-conscious U.S. viewers who don't currently have pay-TV subscriptions. AT&T is interested in putting together a content bundle that can be viewed on a smaller screen, or to a single screen in a home that's not set-top box-driven, Stephenson said

News Posts

Batman adversary Harley Quinn tops 2015 Halloween costume search

October 30, 2015 creative amazon-local, america, angela-moon, halloween, harley, lehar-maan, make-purchases, man-looking, margot-robbie, robbie-as-quinn, search, suicide-squad

By Angela Moon and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) – America's most popular Halloween costume this year could be Batman adversary Harley Quinn from the DC Comics series, according to Google. Quinn's stock is rising thanks in part to keen anticipation of the 2016 film “Suicide Squad,” which will star Australian actor Margot Robbie as Quinn along with Jared Leto and Will Smith. “Harley Quinn” was the most-searched term in relation to Halloween costumes across the United States, according to Google's Frightgeist, a tool that tracks top queries on the search engine

News Posts

SXSW restores talks on gaming harassment once canceled over threats

October 30, 2015 creative angela-moon, day-long-summit, halloween, industry-held, man-looking, margot-robbie, said-on-friday, search, suicide-squad, tech, tech-meeting

By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The South by Southwest tech meeting said on Friday it made a mistake when it canceled sessions on video gaming culture, including one on harassment, after facing criticism of dodging its duty by dropping talks on an issue engulfing gaming culture. The organizers of South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, a major annual meeting of the tech industry held in Austin, Texas, said they have now added a day-long summit on the topic and expanded the reach and participation of its originally planned sessions. “By canceling two sessions we sent an unintended message that SXSW not only tolerates online harassment but condones it, and for that we are truly sorry,” Hugh Forrest, the SXSW Interactive director, said in a blog post.

News Posts

Nokia beats estimates and returns cash, Alcatel deal on track

October 29, 2015 publisher also-reported, angela-moon, chinese, halloween, jussi-rosendahl, leila-abboud, margot-robbie, nokia, offset-weaker, said-on-friday, suicide-squad, sweden, vault-the-new

By Jussi Rosendahl and Leila Abboud HELSINKI/PARIS (Reuters) – Finnish network equipment maker Nokia reported stronger-than-expected quarterly profits as growth in China offset weaker demand in other key markets, and said it would return money to shareholders after acquiring Alcatel-Lucent . The tie-up will vault the new company into a stronger position to compete with Sweden's Ericsson and low-cost Chinese player Huawei [HWT.UL], in a market for telecom network gear where little growth and tough competition are pressing down prices

News Posts

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins EU’s Sakharov rights prize

October 29, 2015 creative angela-moon, including-its, international, margot-robbie, offset-weaker, robin-emmott, sweden, the-kingdom

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime, was awarded the European Union's prize for human rights and freedom of thought on Thursday. Badawi received the first of his 50 lashes in January, prompting strong criticism in Western countries of the kingdom's human rights record, including its restrictive laws on political and religious expression and the status of Saudi women. This month in London, he was given the International Writer of Courage award and was co-recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize

News Posts

Trump leads on social media ahead of Republican debate

October 28, 2015 creative angela-moon, before-helping, chicago, china, primary-opinion, robin-paxton, strong-dollar, their-squad

By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ben Carson may be ahead of Donald Trump in the most recent national Republican presidential primary opinion poll but the celebrity billionaire is still the winner on social media. In the run up to Wednesday night's third debate for Republican candidates, Trump has averaged a score of 7.3 on Thomson Reuters social media sentiment analysis index in the six weeks since the previous debate. Carson, meanwhile, has averaged negative 3

News Posts

Twitter sentiment on pope sours over meeting with gay marriage opponent

October 2, 2015 publisher angela-moon, before-moving, county-clerk, markets-closed, meeting, negative-tweets, search-page, sour-on-social, spell-the-word, the-college, thomson-reuters, united, york

By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sentiment toward Pope Francis turned sour on social media over his meeting with a Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses, data compiled by Thomson Reuters showed. The ratio of positive versus negative tweets on the pope had been about 2.6 to 1 on average during and shortly after his Sept