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Microsoft, Amazon video to join Disney’s cloud movie service

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(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co's studio unit said customers of Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp's video services will get access to the collection on its cloud-based movie storage service from Tuesday. Studios like Disney, which has made blockbuster films like “Frozen” and Marvel's “Guardians of the Galaxy,” have been attempting to steer movie fans towards digital purchases as sales of DVDs decline. Walt Disney Studios added that it would launch the app on video streaming-device maker Roku Inc and Google Inc's Android TV on Sept

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To regulate or not to regulate? EU to launch study on Uber

August 28, 2015 admin europe, european, francisco-based, friday-since, julia-fioretti, madrid, paris, reserved-lane, said-on-friday, smartphone-over

By Julia Fioretti , Brussels (Reuters) – – The European Commission will launch a study in September of the ride-hailing app Uber in an effort to settle legal disputes that have pitched the U.S.

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Google refuses French order to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

July 31, 2015 admin 30th-corrects, data-protection, european, exposing-itself, french, from-the-french, julia-fioretti, million-removal, request-search, ruling, search, search-engine, zurich

(This version of the July 30th corrects story to read “partly” of a political nature, not “mostly” in paragraph 10) By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google Inc is refusing to bow to an order from the French privacy watchdog to scrub search results worldwide when users invoke their “right to be forgotten” online, it said on Thursday, exposing itself to possible fines. The French data protection authority, the CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person's name from all its websites, including Google.com. Google complied with the ruling and has since received more than a quarter of a million removal requests, according to its transparency report

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Google unveils ‘buy’ button, host of new shopping features

July 15, 2015 admin consumers-spend, eagerly-awaited, european, facebook, few-retailers, from-the-user, google-account, user, uses-saved, wednesday, zurich

(Reuters) – Google Inc on Wednesday unveiled a new feature called “Purchases on Google,” which allows shopper to buy items directly from mobile search ads.

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Obama to announce project for more broadband in public housing

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U.S., European authorities investigate possible new leaker: sources

June 24, 2015 admin agency, european, french, jacques, jacques-chirac, leaker-provided, matter, national, national-security, nicolas, nicolas-sarkozy, purportedly-classified, transparency, tuesday

By Mark Hosenball LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. and European security authorities are investigating whether a previously unknown leaker provided sensitive intelligence documents to WikiLeaks about alleged U.S. spying on French politicians, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Computer error a possible cause of Poland airline outage: prosecutors

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Polish prosecutors are looking into whether the outage which grounded dozens of jets operated by Polish airline Lot at Warsaw’s main airport on Sunday may have been caused by a computer system error, a spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The prosecutor’s spokesman said computer error was one of the versions being examined

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Google launches a YouTube built for gamers

June 12, 2015 admin amazon-com, bringing-videos, european, european-engineering, gaming, gaming-service, live-streaming, said-on-friday, single-space, various-titles, zurich

(Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday that it is launching a live streaming gaming service called “YouTube Gaming”, creating a rival to Amazon.com Inc's Twitch service.

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Obama administration asks U.S. top court to decline Google copyright appeal

May 26, 2015 admin case-involves, copyright-parts, european, federal-appeals, lawrence-hurley, obama, oracle, oracle-corp, san, should-extend, supreme-court, Technology, usa, zurich

By Lawrence Hurley and Dan Levine WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday sided against Google Inc and said the U.S. Supreme Court should not hear the company's appeal in a case against Oracle Corp with wide implications for the technology industry, according to a court filing. The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programing language.

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Facebook ‘tramples European privacy law’: Belgian watchdog

May 15, 2015 creative blistering, consent, european, former-french, illustration, install-privacy, network-or-not, news, nicolas-sarkozy, questions, sarkozy, social, state, their-consent

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium's privacy watchdog accused Facebook on Friday of trampling on European privacy laws by tracking people online without their consent and dodging questions from national regulators. The Privacy Protection Commission (CPVP/CBPL), which is working with German, Dutch, French and Spanish counterparts, launched the blistering attack after trying to find out more about the U.S. social media giant's practices