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Google book-scanning project legal, says U.S. appeals court

October 16, 2015 publisher authors, authors-guild, chief-executive, circuit-court, ensure-everyday, global, global-mobile, massive-effort, prince, public-service, staples-center, steve-ballmer, united

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue

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Uber ordered to shut down South Carolina operations for now

January 16, 2015 publisher francisco-based, friday-sprint, madrid, order-directed, public-service, smartphone-over, sprint-corp, united, white, white-house

(Reuters) – Ride-sharing company Uber has been ordered by South Carolina regulators to cease operations in the state while it remains in the process of seeking permission to legally do business there. The San Francisco-based company, valued at about $40 billion in its latest fundraising, has touched a raw nerve in many parts of the United States and other countries by threatening to open up often tightly controlled and licensed taxicab markets.

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N.Y. Post says Twitter feed was hacked after erratic Tweets

January 16, 2015 creative federal, friday-sprint, madrid, order-directed, public-service, smartphone-over, sprint-corp, united-press, wake, white, white-house

The New York Post said some of its Twitter accounts were hacked on Friday, in the wake of a series of inaccurate posts on the social network relating to the Federal Reserve, Bank of America and U.S. military engagement with China. Similarly peculiar messages appeared on a Twitter account controlled by United Press International.