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Massachusetts to ban fantasy sports for people under 21

November 19, 2015 creative attorney, college-sports, draft, over-the-past, picture-taken, ratings-agency, schneiderman, scrutiny-over, under-the-age, york

Massachusetts would prohibit people under the age of 21 from playing paid fantasy sports games under a proposed set of regulations for the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry laid out on Thursday by state Attorney General Maura Healey. The proposals would also ban fantasy competitions based on college sports, prohibit promotions of paid fantasy sports on high school and college campuses and bar professional athletes, agents and others connected to pro sports from taking part in paid fantasy contests related to their sports. The fantasy sports business, led by DraftKings and FanDuel, has drawn increasing regulatory scrutiny over the past few weeks with state regulatory officials debating whether the paid daily games are gambling.

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Booking.com targets China, U.S. growth: CEO

October 9, 2015 creative booking-com, bookings-going, china, darren-huston, dotcom-wipeout, europe, grow-double, industry, online-hotel, online-travel, over-the-past, priceline, priceline-group, through-its

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – After its rapid ride to dominance in online travel in Europe over the past decade, Booking.com is seeking to expand in China and the U.S., its CEO said in an interview. Darren Huston, who heads both Booking.com and its U.S. parent company Priceline Group, said Booking.com is targeting a 20 percent increase in bookings going through its website in the third quarter and still has years of growth ahead.

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Lyft, Uber poach key Twitter engineers, managers amid turmoil

September 4, 2015 creative austrian, borders, employees-look, hungary, lead-at-uber, office, over-the-past, raffi-krikorian, tech-recruiters, the-office, their-countries

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Ride services Lyft and Uber have poached dozens of key Twitter Inc employees over the past year, including top engineering managers, to help personalize their apps.

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Video gamers win millions of dollars in Seattle championship

August 9, 2015 publisher geniuses, grand-finals, over-the-past, past, seattle, tech, usa, virtual-punches

By Curtis Skinner SEATTLE (Reuters) – Teams of video gamers playing characters ranging from wizards to monsters exchanged virtual punches, fireballs and lightning strikes over the past six days, battling at the main event of the Dota 2 International 2015 tournament in Seattle. Now in its fifth year and playing to a sold-out crowd in the 17,000-seat Key Arena, the International has grown every year in size, popularity and possible winnings for players. Video games have long been a moneymaker for the tech sector, forecast to generate some $111 billion in revenue this year by consultants Gartner Inc.

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Dixons Carphone says cyber attack may have exposed customers’ data

August 8, 2015 publisher been-exposed, carphone-warehouse, cyber-attack, dixons-carphone, grand-finals, mobile, mobile-phone, over-the-past, past, said-the-attack, the-electrical

The personal data of up to 2.4 million customers of Dixons Carphone may have been exposed in a cyber attack, the electrical goods and mobile phone retailer said on Saturday. The group, which trades as Carphone Warehouse, Currys and PC World in the UK and Ireland, said the attack had been carried out on a division that operates the websites OneStopPhoneShop.com, e2save.com and Mobiles.co.uk . The division also provides services to iD Mobile, TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile, and to some Carphone Warehouse customers.

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Video gamers compete for millions of dollars in Seattle championship

August 8, 2015 admin curtis-skinner, dixons-carphone, full-time-job, grand-finals, international, mobile, over-the-past, past, said-the-attack, several-years, sold-out-crowd

By Curtis Skinner SEATTLE (Reuters) – Teams of video gamers playing characters ranging from wizards to monsters have exchanged virtual punches, fireballs and lightning strikes over the past five days as they battle at the Dota 2 International tournament in Seattle. Now in its fifth year and playing to a sold-out crowd in the 17,000-seat Key Arena, the International has grown every year in size, popularity and possible winnings for players. Video games have long been a moneymaker for the tech sector, forecast to generate some $111 billion in revenue this year by consultants Gartner Inc

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Questions rage on social media over death of black woman in Texas jail

July 17, 2015 creative bland-on-july, fired-as-police, houston, jail-northwest, national-outcry, over-the-past, sheriff, texas, violence-toward, waller-county

The death of Sandra Bland on July 13 in a Waller County jail northwest of Houston comes amid a national outcry over police violence toward minorities, sparked by high-profile killings of unarmed black men over the past year. The Houston Chronicle newspaper reported that several dozen people gathered at the jail in protest on Friday, while others questioned her death on social media and left instructions to friends, family and the media should they die after an arrest. Some also took issue with Sheriff Glenn Smith, who the Chronicle reported was fired as police chief of Hempstead, Texas, in 2008 after allegations arose of police misconduct toward African-Americans there.

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Facebook staff diversity little changed over past year

June 26, 2015 creative francisco, illustration, its-corporate, linkedin, over-the-past, remained-little, social, social-network, the-number, yasmeen

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc released new diversity data Friday that showed the number of women and minorities has remained little changed over the past year. The number of women increased only 1 percentage point, from 31 percent to 32 percent

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Charter lists consumer benefits to win merger approval

June 26, 2015 creative bright-house, business-rather, federal, floor, francisco, illustration, internet, its-corporate, over-the-past, remained-little, social-network, stock-exchange, the-number, warner

(Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc formally argued for regulatory approval for its Time Warner Cable Inc and Bright House Networks deals, saying consumers would benefit as Internet services would become cheaper and faster.

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Fidelity cuts Google stake by nearly a third amid shift to cheaper searches

March 2, 2015 creative 107-billion, contrafund, facebook, fidelity, firm-continued, immoral-content, investigation, leila-abboud, mobile, net-assets, over-the-past

(Reuters) – One of Google Inc's largest investors has cut its exposure to the company by nearly a third over the past several months amid worries about a shift to cheaper searches on mobile phones.

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