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China says Indian prime minister to visit next week

May 5, 2015 creative china, chinese, embrace, india, indian-prime, international, meeting, ministry, paris, president, recent-history, their-meeting, united-states

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, his first trip to India's northern neighbor since being elected last year. Modi will be in China from May 14-16, the ministry said in a brief statement. China and India have growing commercial links and deep historical ties, but their recent history has been overshadowed by suspicion and the two have yet to sort out a festering border dispute.

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Facebook’s Oculus forms in-house virtual-reality film studio

January 26, 2015 publisher festival, in-house-studio, international, oculus, park, story-studio, sundance-film, the-animation

By Piya Sinha-Roy PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – Facebook Inc's Oculus VR is getting into movies with an in-house studio dedicated to making virtual-reality films and will show its first short movie at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, the company said. Tapping talent from both Pixar, the animation studio behind computer graphics imagery (CGI) films including “Toy Story” and “Monsters Inc,” and the video gaming world, Oculus' Story Studio will develop film content for virtual reality and advise other filmmakers seeking to try the technology

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IBM dismisses Forbes report of massive layoffs

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(Reuters) – IBM dismissed on Monday a Forbes magazine report claiming the technology firm is preparing to cut about 26 percent of its workforce. A report last Thursday on Forbes' website by pseudonymous Silicon Valley technology gossip columnist Robert Cringely said IBM planned to lay off 26 percent of its global workforce, or as many as 112,000 employees. This equates to several thousand people, a small fraction of what's been reported.” Last week, Chief Financial Officer Martin Schroeter told investors on IBM's fourth-quarter earnings conference call that the company was taking restructuring charges of around $580 million, but he did not specify the number of jobs affected

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U.S. airline flights land in Atlanta after bomb threats

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Bomb threats against two U.S. airline flights on Saturday prompted North American air defense fighter planes to scramble to accompany them to their destination in Atlanta, an airport spokesman said. The planes landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, no bombs were found aboard either and the Atlanta airport has returned to normal operations, said airport spokesman Reese McCranie

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FBI says Sony hackers ‘got sloppy,’ posted from North Korea addresses

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By Emily Flitter and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday that hackers behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment provided key clues to their identity by sometimes posting material from IP addresses used exclusively by the North Korean government. The hackers, who called themselves “Guardians of Peace,” sometimes “got sloppy” and failed to use proxy servers that would hide their identity, Comey said at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York.

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Sony unveils web-based TV service PlayStation Vue

November 13, 2014 creative access-live, are-reflected, international, launched-during, makes-the-past, network, new-cloud-based, outside-its, past, past-three, tokyo

(Reuters) – Sony Network Entertainment International LLC, a unit of Sony Corp of America, unveiled a new cloud-based TV service, PlayStation Vue, expected to be commercially launched during the first quarter of 2015. The web-based television service allows users to access live TV and on-demand content without a cable or satellite service, the company said. The service offers catch-up and on-demand TV.

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WellPoint email glitch puts colonoscopy test in the subject line

November 13, 2014 creative are-reflected, caroline-humer, international, launched-during, network, past, san, the-subject, the-technology, tokyo, york

By Caroline Humer and Christina Farr NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Some WellPoint Inc customers got a surprise in their inbox this week: emails meant to remind them to get a specific preventative screening such as a colonoscopy or mammogram mistakenly included personal and health information in the subject line. WellPoint declined to say how many customers received the emails or the cause of the technology issue.

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AT&T to pause fiber spending on net neutrality uncertainty

November 13, 2014 publisher are-reflected, commission, companies-more, international, internet, like-public, obama, president, stephenson

By Marina Lopes WASHINGTON (Reuters) – AT&T Inc on Wednesday raised pressure on the U.S. telecommunications regulator's work on new “net neutrality” rules, saying it would stop investing in high-speed Internet connections in 100 cities until the Web rules were settled. The statement from AT&T Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson is the first move by an Internet service provider in response to President Barack Obama's unexpected call on the Federal Communications Commission on Monday to regulate these companies more like public utilities.

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Facebook launches Ebola charity donation button

November 6, 2014 publisher 100-terminals, dollars, donate-directly, feeds-facebook, international, medical-corps, million-payment, news, recent-breach, retailer, said-on-its, social-media, such-as-guinea, ventura

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said users would now have option to donate directly to various Ebola relief charities through a button at the top of their News Feeds. Facebook users can donate to three charities – International Medical Corps, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Save the Children – starting today, the company said on its website on Thursday. The social media company is also donating 100 terminals to provide internet and voice-calling access for aid workers to Ebola-hit areas such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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China to clean up ‘harmful’ web videos; sites pledge to manage online comments

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s major web portals have signed a commitment to “self-manage” comments on their websites, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.