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Batman adversary Harley Quinn tops 2015 Halloween costume search

October 30, 2015 creative amazon-local, america, angela-moon, halloween, harley, lehar-maan, make-purchases, man-looking, margot-robbie, robbie-as-quinn, search, suicide-squad

By Angela Moon and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) – America's most popular Halloween costume this year could be Batman adversary Harley Quinn from the DC Comics series, according to Google. Quinn's stock is rising thanks in part to keen anticipation of the 2016 film “Suicide Squad,” which will star Australian actor Margot Robbie as Quinn along with Jared Leto and Will Smith. “Harley Quinn” was the most-searched term in relation to Halloween costumes across the United States, according to Google's Frightgeist, a tool that tracks top queries on the search engine

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SXSW restores talks on gaming harassment once canceled over threats

October 30, 2015 creative angela-moon, day-long-summit, halloween, industry-held, man-looking, margot-robbie, said-on-friday, search, suicide-squad, tech, tech-meeting

By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The South by Southwest tech meeting said on Friday it made a mistake when it canceled sessions on video gaming culture, including one on harassment, after facing criticism of dodging its duty by dropping talks on an issue engulfing gaming culture. The organizers of South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, a major annual meeting of the tech industry held in Austin, Texas, said they have now added a day-long summit on the topic and expanded the reach and participation of its originally planned sessions. “By canceling two sessions we sent an unintended message that SXSW not only tolerates online harassment but condones it, and for that we are truly sorry,” Hugh Forrest, the SXSW Interactive director, said in a blog post.

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Russia’s MTS teams up with Google to promote mobile Internet

August 28, 2015 publisher global, global-mobile, google-the-cost, internet-conference, phone-operator, said-on-friday, search, search-services, will-feature

Russia's biggest mobile phone operator MTS said on Friday it had teamed up with Google Inc to help grow the use of mobile Internet and will get a share of the search site's advertising revenues in Russia. Under a strategic agreement, MTS will feature Google's voice search in its ad campaigns and retail stores, and a relevant application will be pre-installed on the main screen of Google's Android-based smartphones sold in the MTS retail chain.

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Google refuses French order to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

July 31, 2015 admin 30th-corrects, data-protection, european, exposing-itself, french, from-the-french, julia-fioretti, million-removal, request-search, ruling, search, search-engine, zurich

(This version of the July 30th corrects story to read “partly” of a political nature, not “mostly” in paragraph 10) By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google Inc is refusing to bow to an order from the French privacy watchdog to scrub search results worldwide when users invoke their “right to be forgotten” online, it said on Thursday, exposing itself to possible fines. The French data protection authority, the CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person's name from all its websites, including Google.com. Google complied with the ruling and has since received more than a quarter of a million removal requests, according to its transparency report

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Britain should turn to middle-aged mums to be spies of the future: report

March 5, 2015 publisher burberry, business, committee, downing-street, intelligence, london, prince-alwaleed, search, security, snapchat, target-websites, threats-facing, westminster

Britain's security agencies should look to recruit more middle-aged women and mothers to be new spies and should target websites popular with parents to find them, an influential committee of lawmakers said on Thursday. The Intelligence and Security Committee, which oversees the work of Britain's three spy agencies, said it was crucial there was more diversity if the security services were to be able to address the threats facing the country.

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Alien abduction? Stolen by Russia? MH370 theories keep coming

March 5, 2015 admin alien-abduction, amazon, business, disappearance, family-members, flight, indian-ocean, london, malaysia, remains-unknown, search, target-websites, threats-facing, were-the-same

By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) – A year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown – fuelling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

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Google wins dismissal of U.S. lawsuit over Android app limits

February 20, 2015 publisher default, forcing-handset, higher-because, illegally, illegally-drove, make-the-search, microsoft-corp, real-estate, samsung, samsung-galaxy, screen, search, search-engine, such-as-samsung, such-as-youtube

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Google Inc of harming smartphone buyers by forcing handset makers that use its Android operating system to make the search engine company's own applications the default option. Consumers claimed that Google required companies such as Samsung Electronics Co to favor Google apps such as YouTube on Android-powered phones, and restrict rival apps such as Microsoft Corp's Bing. They said this illegally drove smartphone prices higher because rivals could not compete for the “prime screen real estate” that Google's apps enjoyed

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Google’s YouTube to launch subscription music service in ‘few months’

February 20, 2015 creative ad-free-version, bosnian, code, higher-because, illegally, music, samsung, search, service-called

(Reuters) – (This story corrects headline and first sentence to show that paid subscription service is for music, not broader service; changes source to Google, not CNBC; removes reference to YouTube exploring a paid, ad-free version of its service in Feb.18 story) Google Inc is set to launch its paid monthly subscription service called YouTube Music Key in a few months, Robert Kyncl, the online video service's head of content and business operations, said at the Code/Media conference. …