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India police detain man said to be behind pro-Islamic State Twitter posts

December 13, 2014 admin arrest-at-home, base, berlin, britain, channel-four, cyber-security, cylance, identified-him, islamic, nidhi-verma, one-flagged, same-as-one, sanjeev-miglani, shami-witness, the-violent

By Sanjeev Miglani and Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police on Saturday arrested a company executive suspected of operating a pro-Islamic State Twitter account that pumped out a stream of updates on the violent group’s military campaign from his base in Bengaluru. Mehdi Masroor Biswas’s arrest at home came days after Britain’s Channel Four identified him as the man behind “Shami Witness”, the Twitter handle followed by thousands of people including most foreign fighters for the Islamic State.

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Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results

December 12, 2014 creative arrest-at-home, britain, cyber-security, cylance, engine-on-its, increasing, islamic, microsoft, one-flagged, picture, sanjeev-miglani, tool-on-monday

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. The decision may reflect the increasing importance that Facebook sees in Web search technology, a market dominated by rival Google Inc

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All calm amid political storm at ‘Interview’ premiere

December 12, 2014 admin angeles, arrest-at-home, britain, cyber-security, cylance, engine-on-its, film, franco, north, rogen, stars-seth, tool-on-monday

By Piya Sinha-Roy Los Angeles (Reuters) – All was calm on Thursday at the Los Angeles premiere of Sony Pictures' parody film “The Interview”, which had been in the spotlight for sparking tension with North Korea and potentially prompting a major cyber hack on the company. Stars Seth Rogen and James Franco posed on a small red carpet restricted to photographers as Sony reined in media access after the film made headlines following a devastating security breach that leaked films, data and emails. ..

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Mega retailers battle to survive as e-commerce booms in China

December 12, 2014 admin alibaba, angeles, are-struggling, biggest-retail, britain, china, film, franco, home-appliance, north, rogen, stars-seth, suning

By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) – It took China's biggest retail chain Suning all last year to generate sales of about $17 billion. Last month, e-commerce giant Alibaba saw sales worth more than half that amount pass through its Tmall website in just one day. Big retailers like Suning Commerce Group Co Ltd and foreign rivals Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Best Buy Co Inc are struggling to attract customers to their traditional stores in China, where online shopping is booming

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China’s internet TV sites in $1 billion battle for foreign shows

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By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – China's big internet-TV companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign TV shows and films in a battle to attract users and advertisers, but risk bumping up against regulators protecting the domestic TV and film industry.

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U.S. to auction 50,000 bitcoins seized in Silk Road case

November 17, 2014 creative attract-users, britain, during-the-2013, online-auction, picture-taken, prosecution, raid-on-silk, snapchat, taiyuan, the-prosecution, united, united-states, will-continue

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S.

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SurveyMonkey targets professional customers in Britain

November 11, 2014 publisher alibaba-group, bringing-its, britain, entire-catalog, europe-launched, feedback-on-new, hangzhou, model-on-monday, new-products, reported-more, retail, strong-panel, united-states

By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – SurveyMonkey, an internet company that enables people to poll friends, colleagues and customers, is bringing its professional polling service to Britain, marking its first foray for the product in Europe. Launched a couple of years ago in the United States, SurveyMonkey Audience has a 4.5 million strong panel ready to answer questions. It is used by companies to get feedback on new products or on ads