Alphabet’s Google announces deal with Indonesian telecoms on Web access
By Deborah M. Todd MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif
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Google book-scanning project legal, says U.S. appeals court
By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue
Read moreRussia’s MTS teams up with Google to promote mobile Internet
Russia's biggest mobile phone operator MTS said on Friday it had teamed up with Google Inc to help grow the use of mobile Internet and will get a share of the search site's advertising revenues in Russia. Under a strategic agreement, MTS will feature Google's voice search in its ad campaigns and retail stores, and a relevant application will be pre-installed on the main screen of Google's Android-based smartphones sold in the MTS retail chain.
Read moreInvestors still in the dark as cyber threat grows
By Simon Jessop and Ross Kerber LONDON/BOSTON (Reuters) – Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging the companies in which they invest, with a lack of clarity from the businesses themselves compounding the problem.
Read moreVirginia TV journalists killed by suspect with ‘powder keg’ of anger
By Gary Robertson MONETA, Va. (Reuters) – Two television journalists were shot to death during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, slain by a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a “powder keg” of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States
Read moreDead rats anyone? Hollywood gets creative to promote movies
Hollywood studios are going to ever more creative lengths to attract attention in a jam-packed entertainment market where social media plays a key role in promoting content. For Matt Damon's October film “The Martian,” in which an astronaut is stranded on Mars, 20th Century Fox Studios hosted a media day last week at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California just to promote a trailer
Read moreChina’s Tencent invests $50 million in Canada’s Kik Interactive
China's Tencent Holdings Ltd has taken a $50 million stake in Kik Interactive, an investment that values the Canadian mobile messaging company at more than $1 billion, Kik said on Wednesday. Kik, a Waterloo, Ontario-based company whose chat platform is popular with U.S
Read moreNielsen to measure digital ads in partnership with Tencent
Nielsen NV announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with Tencent Holdings Ltd to measure its digital audience in a move that could direct more ad dollars from companies in the United States to China's biggest social network.
Read moreCharter-Time Warner Cable deal could spawn an online video service
By Malathi Nayak NEW YORK (Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc executives are exploring whether to launch an online video service as part of its combination with larger rival Time Warner Cable Inc, in what would be an unprecedented move in the cable industry. The $56 billion takeover announced on Tuesday would make Charter the No.
Read moreNSA chief urges ‘safe’ Internet under equivalent of Law of the Sea
By Eric Auchard and David Mardiste TALLINN (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency chief called on Wednesday for an “open, reliable and safe” Internet governed by international rules akin to the Law of the Sea, while deflecting critics who say NSA spying has undermined public trust in the cyberworld.
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