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Twitter announces layoffs as CEO Dorsey looks to revive growth

October 13, 2015 creative 100-employees, biggest, feel-strongly, floor, our-workforce, picture-shows, rose-as-much, twitter, while-remaining, workforce

The layoffs, primarily in the company's engineering and product functions, come a week after Dorsey took over as permanent CEO. Shares of Twitter, which had about 4,100 employees globally as of June 30, rose as much as 6.7 percent to $30.68 on Tuesday. “We feel strongly that engineering will move much faster with a smaller and nimbler team, while remaining the biggest percentage of our workforce,” Dorsey said in a letter to employees

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Top choice blocked for U.N. digital privacy investigator post

July 3, 2015 admin after-activist, algeria, aptop-computer, best-qualified, chile, code-on-man, council, german, greece, human, miles, picture-shows, position

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The Estonian picked as the U.N.'s first digital privacy investigator was blocked on Friday by the German president of the Human Rights Council after activist groups said she would not be a strong enough critic of U.S. surveillance. Katrin Nyman-Metcalf was the candidate ranked first by a “consultative group” of five ambassadors – from Poland, Chile, Greece, Algeria and chaired by Saudi Arabia

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Canada government websites taken down in cyber attack

June 17, 2015 creative binary-code, cabinet, code-on-man, general-website, government, intelligence, man-holding, picture-shows, treasury, twitter

Several Canadian government websites and servers were taken down in a cyber attack on Wednesday, the government said, with the hacking group Anonymous taking responsibility in what it said was retaliation for a new anti-terrorism law passed by Canada's lawmakers. The general website for government services, canada.ca, as well as the site of Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), were among those affected.

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Twitter launches video streaming app Periscope

March 26, 2015 admin amazon, become-hugely, first-reported, meerkat-meerkat, negotiations, periscope, picture-shows, relies-heavily, silicon-valley, sound-ventures, strong-presence, twitter, valuation, video-streaming

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc launched a video streaming app called Periscope on Thursday, just days after reports that it had blocked a rival app called Meerkat. Meerkat relies heavily on Twitter and has become hugely popular in the month since its launch.

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Uber says reviewing Japan city service after transport ministry ban

March 4, 2015 admin business-model, fukuoka, hidetaka-sakai, including-using, japanese, logo, picture, picture-shows, reviewing-its, service-app, smartphone-next, southern, technologies, transport, transportation

Uber Technologies Inc is reviewing its ride sharing service in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka after the transport ministry said it had banned the pilot project, citing potential legal concerns.

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Uber looks to pick up another $1 billion in equity: FT

November 8, 2014 creative chief-executive, improperly-kept, logo, menlo-ventures, officer-logan, patrick-banks, picture-shows, raise-at-least, silicon-valley, street

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Germany, Brazil push the U.N. to be tougher on digital spying

November 6, 2014 creative are-pushing, citing-people, louisiana, mobile-gaming, personal-data, picture-shows, recent-breach, san, the-face, united, united-nations, words, york

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Germany and Brazil are pushing the United Nations to be tougher on spying by beefing up an earlier U.N. resolution raising concerns that mass surveillance, interception of digital communications and personal data collection could harm human rights. In a follow up to a U.N.