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Moneysupermarket founder cancels 6.4 percent stake sale

March 25, 2015 publisher 268-5-pence, internet, million-shares, shows-icons, simon-nixon, social-media, source-had, twitter

The founder of British price comparison company Moneysupermarket.com, Simon Nixon, on Wednesday scrapped a plan to sell a stake of up to 6.4 percent in the company, less than a day after announcing it. A source had earlier told Reuters that Nixon was reducing offer to 4 percent of the company’s share capital — 22 million shares — from the 35 million shares previously targeted, with a price range of between 268 pence and 270 pence. News of the cancellation sent shares in Moneysupermarket down 6.3 percent to 268.5 pence by 0850 GMT.

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Rifts within India’s movie censor panel spill into the open

March 12, 2015 publisher agency, angeles, ashoke-pandit, central-board, certification, congress, diffuse-threats, pauses-while, regal, sign-outside, social-media

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) – A prominent member of India's government censors took to social media on Thursday to rail against its chairman, exposing rifts within a censorship panel that has thwarted the theatrical release of films such as Hollywood hit “Fifty Shades of Grey”. Ashoke Pandit, a Bollywood film-maker, accused censor chief Pahlaj Nihalani of treating India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) like his personal fiefdom.

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More data from South Korea nuclear power operator leaked

March 12, 2015 creative angeles, congress, countries, diffuse-threats, korea-electric, korea-hydro, other-countries, pauses-while, sign-outside, social-media, thursday

A hacker believed to be behind cyber attacks on South Korea’s sole nuclear power plant operator released more files on Thursday, but a company official said the data was not believed to have been newly stolen but from previous hacking. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, part of state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp, said in December its computer systems had been hacked but only non-critical data had been stolen and operations were not at risk

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Social media flurry around blizzard: gripes, jokes and romance

January 27, 2015 creative although-some, included-mashup, internet, kelso2utd-wrote, laila-kearney, mayor-bill, motto, northeast, percent-rise, social-media, statue, threefold-jump

By Laila Kearney and Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fear, disappointment and even romantic thoughts about the Northeast’s blizzard of 2015 powered a social media storm that raged on the Internet on Tuesday. The avalanche picking up speed on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook included mashup photos that replaced the Statue of Liberty’s torch with a snow shovel and outfitted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a king’s fur cape and sword with the motto “Winter is Coming” from the “Game of Thrones” television show. Two of the most popular Twitter hashtags were #Snowmageddon2015 and #Snowpocalypse, although some felt #Blizzfizz was more appropriate.

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New York cop ‘assassin’ telegraphed intentions on Instagram

December 21, 2014 publisher account, brooklyn, execution, instagram, ismaaiyl, messages-went, parked-squad, police-officers, san, social-media, the-account, two-officers, wake

By Edwin Chan SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Popular photo-sharing service Instagram on Saturday took down the account of the man said to be behind the “assassination” of two New York City police officers, after the 28-year-old gunman’s veiled threats and provocative messages went viral in the wake of the execution-style shootings. Posted just hours before Ismaaiyl Brinsley allegedly walked up to two officers in a parked squad car in Brooklyn and shot them dead, the dark messages again cast a spotlight on the role of social media in spotting and revealing public threats of violence.

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North Korea denies hacking Sony, U.S. stands by its assertion

December 21, 2014 admin account, brooklyn, messages-went, police-officers, premiere, social-media, sony, theater-during, two-officers, usa

By Jack Kim and Steve Holland SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea said on Saturday U.S. accusations that it was involved in a cyberattack on Sony Pictures were “groundless slander,” and that it wanted a joint investigation into the incident with the United States

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U.S. says consulting UK, Australia, New Zealand on North Korea hack response

December 21, 2014 admin also-consulting, countries, cyberattack, messages-went, north-korea, official-told, pictures, social-media, south-korea, two-officers, usa

By Julia Edwards Honolulu (Reuters) – The Obama administration is consulting the UK, Australia and New Zealand, among other countries in hopes of organizing an international response to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures that it has pinned on North Korea, an administration official told Reuters on Saturday. The U.S

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Facebook launches Ebola charity donation button

November 6, 2014 publisher 100-terminals, dollars, donate-directly, feeds-facebook, international, medical-corps, million-payment, news, recent-breach, retailer, said-on-its, social-media, such-as-guinea, ventura

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said users would now have option to donate directly to various Ebola relief charities through a button at the top of their News Feeds. Facebook users can donate to three charities – International Medical Corps, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Save the Children – starting today, the company said on its website on Thursday. The social media company is also donating 100 terminals to provide internet and voice-calling access for aid workers to Ebola-hit areas such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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China to clean up ‘harmful’ web videos; sites pledge to manage online comments

November 6, 2014 creative donate-directly, feeds-facebook, international, legal-rights, million-payment, news, news-agency, pledge, recent-breach, retailer, said-on-its, social-media, such-as-guinea, the-national, topic

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s major web portals have signed a commitment to “self-manage” comments on their websites, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.