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BlackBerry Priv wins plaudits, but price tag questioned

November 6, 2015 creative annual, black, friday, from-the-google, general-meeting, google-play, help-it-rebuild, offices, phone, pictured-at-its, san, space, their-offices, unveils-their

By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd launched its first Android-based device on Friday, with the future of the company's hardware business riding on a slick smartphone called Priv that boasts an impressive array of features and a hefty price tag. The company is betting the Priv's large curved screen, full array of Android apps from the Google Play store and blend of productivity and security features will help it rebuild its share of the smartphone market, which has slid to under one percent. With hacking and data theft issues becoming a bigger concern these days, BlackBerry expects keen interest in its pre-loaded DTEK feature that alerts users every time any app attempts to access data, or turn on the phone's microphone or camera

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China consumers to spend more in November 11 ‘Singles Day’ shopping spree: Nielsen

November 4, 2015 creative biggest, china, internet, laptop, local-coffee, more-on-singles, nielsen, percent-planned, phone, results, singles, year

Most online consumers in China will spend more during the Nov. 11 “Singles' Day” shopping promotion this year than they did last year, according to the results of a survey by consultancy Nielsen Holdings made available to Reuters on Wednesday. In a survey of more than 1,000 internet users in China this month, 56 percent said that they would spend more on Singles Day this year compared to 2014

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Facebook to let nine news companies publish news to mobile feeds

May 13, 2015 publisher articles, bbc, beijing, facebook, global, internet, internet-conference, news-publishers, phone, smartphone-user, social-networks, stock-exchange, the-articles, wanda-group

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch “Instant Articles” that will let them publish articles directly to the social network's mobile news feeds. Instant Articles will let stories load more than 10 times faster than standard mobile web articles and will include content from publishers such as the New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic, Facebook said in a blog post on its website

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China foreign website malfunction drives home Internet woes

April 27, 2015 admin boyfriend, china, internet, its-interest, laptop, local-coffee, million-users, phone, popular-foreign, sellers, shanghai, such-as-vogue, thomson, travel-website, vanity-fair

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Internet users in China were unable to use a number of popular foreign websites on Monday, the latest in a series of challenges businesses and individuals have faced going online in the world's second-largest economy. Social media users first reported on Sunday that they were being sent to software website wpkg.org and travel website ptraveler.com when trying to access news websites like cnn.com, news portal yahoo.co.jp, and games website runescape.com, among others. Reuters reporters in China also experienced similar issues

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Facebook revenue growth slows, costs weigh on profit

April 22, 2015 admin 133-percent, cash-branching, instagram, macquarie, online-fashion, own-smartphone, pascale, phone, price-growth, slowest-growth, smartphone-user, spending, spending-nearly, thomson-reuters, zenica

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc posted its slowest growth in quarterly revenue in two years and higher spending on research and development ate into profits. Facebook has warned of heavy investments in 2015 as it steps up efforts to expand a collection of products that include messaging service WhatsApp, photo-sharing service Instagram and virtual reality headset maker Oculus Rift

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India’s top court upholds free speech on the Internet

March 24, 2015 admin country, facebook, free-speech, india, internet, largest-growth, phone, photo, smartphone-user, supreme, supreme-court, Technology, verdict-hailed

By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India's top court struck down a law on Tuesday that gave authorities powers to jail people for offensive online posts, a verdict hailed as a victory for free speech in the world's largest growth market for the Internet. Section 66A of the country's Information and Technology (IT) Act was challenged in the Supreme Court by law students, bloggers, writers and rights groups following arrests across the country for statements posted on social media sites