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Digital Ally shares rise in wake of South Carolina shooting

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Shares of digital video and surveillance technology firm Digital Ally rose on Wednesday in heavier-than-average trading, after a white police officer was caught on video fatally shooting a 50-year-old black man in South Carolina. While the recording of the South Carolina shooting was captured by a bystander on an unspecified device, many view the body cameras made by Digital Video as a means of increasing law-enforcement accountability. The company also received heavy interest last year in the aftermath of the fatal shooting by a police officer of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.

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Apple faces local battles as it prepares global payments push

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By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Apple has made mobile payments look easy, after a decade of mostly failed experiments by banks, telecom operators and retailers to woo consumers away from cards and cash. Apple Pay has taken the United States by storm since its launch in September, and the company has said it already accounts for around $2 out of every $3 spent using “contactless” payments on the three big U.S. card networks

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PGA Tour making digital reach-out to younger audience

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By Larry Fine AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Golf fans surfing PGA Tour’s websites and apps can now score rewards points in the golf organization’s efforts to reach younger audiences and fantasy game players, a tour executive said Wednesday. More than one million daily visitors to the tour’s various platforms will be accumulating PGA Tour mPoints in conjunction with SessionM in a loyalty program launched this week. “Every month millions of people come to PGA Tour.com to follow all the tournament stuff,” Scott Gutterman, vice president of digital operations for the PGA Tour, told Reuters under a shady tree at Augusta National.

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Anti-terror police arrest two in Sydney week after siege

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian counter-terrorism police said on Wednesday they arrested two men in Sydney, eight days after a 16-hour siege in a central city cafe ended with the deaths of two hostages and a gunman with radical Islamist sympathies. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Tuesday that security officials had intercepted a heightened level of “terrorist chatter” in the aftermath of the Sydney cafe siege, but there were no specific threats of attacks. …

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First test results for new Mexican broadband network due January

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico expects to receive first reports next month from field tests that will lay the groundwork for a new national mobile broadband network, the Communications and Transport Ministry said on Tuesday.