Australia’s stunning dismissal for 60 runs on day one of the fourth Ashes test prompted incredulous headlines in local newspapers on Friday along with calls for the citizenship to be stripped from the entire team. “What a disgrace,” was a front-page headline on Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, above a picture of embattled Australia captain Michael Clarke
Read more(Reuters) – Vanderbilt University’s football team apologized for tweeting on Thursday “we don’t need your permission,” a phrase that raised concerns about its attitude toward sexual assault two years after four former players were first accused of rape. The full tweet, which has since been removed from the team’s Twitter account, read: “We are relentless, tough and intelligent and …” above a graphic that read, “We don’t need your permission.” “We apologize for today’s tweet.
Read more(Reuters) – Spanish travel technology company Amadeus said it would buy Navitaire, a subsidiary of Accenture Plc , for $830 million, to focus mainly on digital services for airline passengers. Amadeus said it expects the deal, which is projected to close in the fourth quarter, will have a minimal impact on its financial performance this year.
Read moreBy Mari Saito SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – PayPal Inc said it would buy digital money transfer provider Xoom Corp for $890 million as it muscles into a growing international remittance market and expand in countries like Mexico, India and China ahead of a spinoff from eBay Inc . The offer price of $25 per share in cash represents a premium of about 21 percent to Xoom's Wednesday closing price of $20.70. Xoom shares surged on the announcement and were trading around the offer price in extended trading
Read moreBy Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A woman with amnesia who has been undergoing cancer treatments since she was found semiconscious in Southern California has turned to social media and law enforcement as she struggles to rekindle memory of her own identity and any family she may have. “The amnesia I have is called retro amnesia, and doctors have said they have seen this before with the kind of antibodies from the volleyball-sized tumor that was on my ovary,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “I have been getting chemotherapy treatments, and have lost all of my hair ..
Read moreBy Soham Chatterjee (Reuters) – Cybersecurity company FireEye Inc forecast quarterly revenue largely below average analyst expectation as customers increasingly shifted to subscription-based products, away from on-premise equipment that brought in revenue upfront. FireEye shares were down 22 percent in after-market trading. The company said it expects revenue of $135 million-$147 million for the fourth quarter ending December.
Read moreBy Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A senior EU official criticized a series of public meetings held in Europe by Google on a landmark court ruling on the “right to be forgotten”, saying the meetings were part of lobbying efforts against EU data protection rules. Paul Nemitz, a director in the European Commission’s justice department, made his comments at Google’s Brussels meeting, the last in the series of meetings aimed at helping the world’s most popular Internet search engine implement the judgment
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