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Irish actress Saoirse Ronan – still a tongue-twister for Hollywood

December 10, 2015 publisher after-hearing, billingsgate, golden-globe, london, ronan, saoirse-ronan, televised, while-singing

(Reuters) – Irish actress Saoirse Ronan expressed delight that no-one stumbled over her name when she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award on Wednesday. On Thursday, Ronan was also nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in Irish immigrant drama “Brooklyn” but Hollywood veteran Dennis Quaid fumbled her first name, calling her “Sheesha” while making the televised announcement. Entertainment website Moviefone.com called Quaid “the John Travolta of 2106 Golden Globe Pronounciations” likening his slip to Travolta's introduction of “Wicked” singer Idina Menzel as “Adele Dazeem” at the 2014 Oscars ceremony.

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UK police make fifth arrest in TalkTalk hack inquiry

November 25, 2015 creative attack, cell-phone, computer-screen, investigations, london, matloff-goler, music-rights, page-on-its, parental-leave, party-claiming, police-said, said-on-oct, shows-details, united, youth

An 18-year-old youth from Wales who was detained on Tuesday in the fifth arrest connected to a cyber attack on telecoms company TalkTalk was bailed on Wednesday pending further investigations, police said in a statement. Police searched an address in the town of Llanelli on Tuesday and took the youth into custody on suspicion of blackmail. TalkTalk said on Oct

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Britain to develop offensive cyber capability, Osborne says

November 17, 2015 publisher are-building, cheltenham, dissuade-people, gchq, george-osborne, heidari, london, said-on-tuesday, saleh-nikbakht

CHELTENHAM, England (Reuters) – British spies are developing an offensive cyber capability to fight Islamist militants, hackers, criminals and hostile powers who threaten British interests, Chancellor George Osborne said on Tuesday. “We need to establish deterrents in cyber space. We need to not just defend ourselves against attacks but rather to dissuade people and states from targeting us in the first place,” Osborne said

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British police make fourth arrest in TalkTalk cyber attack

November 3, 2015 admin acquire-paid, address, auchard, bank-details, berlin, cyber-attack, fourth-arrest, london, pretty-high, private, private-details, provider-said, said-it-had, stewart, tuesday-talk

British police have made a fourth arrest in connection with a cyber attack on telecoms company TalkTalk (TALK.L) in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked. A 16-year-old boy from Norwich in eastern England was in custody and his address was being searched, London police said in a statement on Tuesday. TalkTalk shocked customers last month when the broadband, TV, mobile and fixed-line service provider said it had been hacked, potentially putting the private details of its 4 million customers into the hands of criminals

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U.S. and UK to test financial cyber-security later this month

November 2, 2015 admin attack-on-their, brussels, global-trends, its-regulators, london, minister-david, responses, said-on-monday, sarah-young, take-break, their-financial, their-responses, travel, united-states

The United States and Britain will test later this month how its regulators would respond if their financial sectors suffered a major cyber-attack or broader IT problems, a British official said on Monday. The test, for which no date has yet been set, will focus on how regulators for the world's two biggest financial centers in New York and London communicate in an emergency, a spokesman for British government cyber-security body CERT-UK said.

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Optimal Payments says investigating data breach allegations

October 29, 2015 publisher breaches-had, british, brussels, data, global-trends, london, optimal, the-allegations, the-data, the-public, their-responses

(Reuters) – British mobile payments company Optimal Payments Plc said it was investigating allegations that personal data belonging to some of its customers had been compromised and was available in the public domain. The company said the allegations were that the data breaches had occurred at two of its units in 2012 or earlier.

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TalkTalk’s cyber attack piles on the pressure on financial targets

October 26, 2015 creative chief-executive, computer-screen, hit-challenging, league, london, national, poor-reputation, rudest, viewers-were

By Paul Sandle and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – Burdened with a poor reputation for customer service, facing increasingly fierce competition and under pressure to hit challenging financial targets, the cyber attack at TalkTalk could not have come at a worse time for the British telecoms firm. Chief Executive Dido Harding shocked customers last week when she said that the broadband, TV, mobile and fixed line telephony services company had been hacked, potentially putting the private details of its 4 million customers into the hands of criminals. “TalkTalk doesn't go into this in the rudest of financial health, by any means,” Arete analyst Steve Malcolm told Reuters.

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Aldi raises pressure on UK grocers with online foray

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 admin 2014-operating, contained-horse, europe, headache, london, major-grocers, matthew-barnes, most-exciting, prepared-meals, selling-wine, two-frozen

By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – The British arm of German discount supermarket Aldi will launch an online operation next year, marking its first foray into e-commerce in Europe and giving the UK's major grocers yet another headache to contend with in a brutally competitive market. Privately owned Aldi [ALDIEI.UL], which posted a 4 percent dip in 2014 operating profit on Monday, showing even discounters can't engage in a price war and emerge unscathed, said it will begin selling wine by the case online in the first quarter of next year.

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Millennials still easily influenced by traditional ads: study

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 admin advertising, contained-horse, entertainment, formats-tracked, highest, london, mobile, rely-on-their, take-action, two-frozen

Millennials may rely on their mobile devices and laptops for the bulk of their entertainment and content, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t easily influenced by advertisements in more traditional formats, according to a new study by Nielsen Holdings.

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Net-A-Porter founder leaves abruptly ahead of merger

September 3, 2015 admin 153-09-million, autumn, collections, italy, julie-gordon, london, online-fashion, planned-merger, school, silvia-aloisi, stephen-harper, the-completion, the-issues, under-fire, yoox-regarded

By Astrid Wendlandt and Silvia Aloisi PARIS/MILAN (Reuters) – Natalie Massenet, founder and executive chairman of online fashion group Net-A-Porter, said on Thursday it was the right time to leave after she resigned abruptly ahead of the completion of a planned merger with Italy's Yoox. Regarded as the fashion visionary of the soon-to-be-combined business, she was to become its executive chairman and oversee editorial content, one of Net-A-Porter's main strengths

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