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Twitter signs multi-year deal with NFL

August 10, 2015 admin content, deliver-video, from-the-start, national, nfl, past, since-2013, twitter, twitter-twitter, ventura

(Reuters) – The National Football League said it signed a multi-year partnership with microblogging site Twitter Inc to deliver video and other content to NFL fans on a daily basis. Content, including in-game highlights from pre-season through Super Bowl 50, will be distributed across Twitter from the start of the 2015 season, the NFL said in a press release. (http://bit.ly/1TkkSLl) The partnership expands on the NFL's existing partnership with Twitter since 2013, and Twitter users will now have access to more official NFL content than in the past

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Think the world’s getting worse? Think again, says economist

August 10, 2015 publisher data-on-human, national, news-or-listen, nfl, past, since-2013, through-data, twitter, twitter-twitter, ventura

By Joseph D’Urso LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Turn on the news or listen to doom-mongers in politics and the media, and you could be forgiven for thinking the world is a more violent and unequal place than ever, but according to economist Max Roser, we’ve never had it so good in many ways. Roser, based at the University of Oxford, spends his time digging through data on human living standards across countries and decades, and makes jazzy graphs and slides for his website OurWorldInData.org and his 30,000 Twitter followers

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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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State actor suspected in cyber intrusion on U.S. military email

August 6, 2015 publisher cited-unnamed, cyber-attack, foreign-state, likely-linked, nfl, now-believe, officials-said, offline-since, past, since-2013, through-data, twitter-twitter, ventura

The unclassified email network at the U.S. military’s Joint Staff has been offline since late July after what investigators now believe was a sophisticated cyber attack likely linked to a foreign state, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

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U.S. Senate delays vote on cyber security bill to September

August 5, 2015 publisher after-lawmakers, cyber-attack, lawmakers-had, likely-linked, nuclear, past, the-government, through-data, ventura

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IBM says cloud business enjoying ‘breakthrough year’

December 17, 2014 admin announce-their, cloud-data, cnn, data-following, north, number, past, petah, premiere, the-number, theater-during, world

By Eric Auchard LONDON (Reuters) – IBM aims to expand the number of data centers it offers clients around the world by 25 percent to meet fast-rising demand for internet-based services, after what a company executive said has been a “breakthrough year” in 2014 for its cloud computing business. IBM has quadrupled the number of cloud data facilities it offers around the world to 49 in the past 18 months, responding in part to laws requiring the local retention of data following revelations over U.S. government Web surveillance as well as increased corporate compliance rules

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IBM says cloud business enjoying ‘breakthrough year’

December 17, 2014 publisher cloud-data, cyber-attack, film, laws-requiring, past, petah, petah-tikva, seen-outside, united

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U.S. startup sues France’s Orange over social calling app

December 17, 2014 creative claims-were, cyber-attack, french, group, past, petah, petah-tikva, reinforces, seen-outside, telesocial, totally-lacking, united

(Reuters) – French telecom group Orange SA confirmed on Wednesday that it has been sued in California by San Francisco-based startup Telesocial in an intellectual property case, but said that the startup’s claims were unfounded.

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