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Google, Viacom win dismissal of children’s web privacy lawsuit

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The lawsuit claimed that Viacom secretly kept track of children under the age of 13 who streamed videos and played video games on its Nick.com website, and shared what it learned with Google. It said both companies then without permission put text files known as “cookies” into the children's computers, letting them gather additional information that advertisers could use. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of young children who registered to use Nick.com.

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EBay to cut jobs, sell enterprise unit ahead of PayPal split

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By Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – EBay Inc plans to cut its workforce by 7 percent, or 2,400 jobs, in the current quarter and is exploring a sale or public offering of its enterprise unit as the e-commerce company prepares to split from its payments division, PayPal, this year. The jobs will be cut across the marketplace, payments and enterprise divisions, eBay said on Wednesday in its fourth-quarter earnings report.

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Republicans face uphill battle on net neutrality bill

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By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats on the Senate and House commerce committees on Wednesday signaled no interest in rushing to adopt “net neutrality” legislation before the Federal Communications Commission sets new Internet traffic rules next month.

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Accused Silk Road operator maintained journal about website: U.S

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By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused operator of the online black marketplace Silk Road had a digital journal on his laptop detailing the development of the website and predicting it would become a “phenomenon,” jurors heard on Wednesday. Prosecutors showed jurors in Manhattan federal court journal entry excerpts dated in 2010 and 2011 found on a laptop seized when the FBI arrested Ross Ulbricht, who authorities say operated the website where drugs and other illicit goods could be bought with bitcoins. “Silk Road is going to become a phenomenon and at least one person will tell me about it, unknowing that I was its creator,” a 2010 journal entry on Ulbricht's laptop said.