China’s Huawei leads international patent filings: WIPO

By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] became the world's No. 1 applicant for international patents in 2014, a United Nations agency said Thursday, underscoring the innovative strides made by Chinese technology companies. Huawei was followed by San Diego-based chipmaker Qualcomm Inc while Huawei's crosstown rival ZTE Corp, which was the world's leading applicant in 2012, took third place in its number of filings, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Indonesia’s Lippo continues e-commerce push with payment service

By Eveline Danubrata and Charlotte Greenfield JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group plans to launch payment, chat and other online services early next year as it continues expanding in the nascent e-commerce industry of the world’s fourth-most populous country, a senior executive told Reuters.

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Target agrees to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit from data breach

Target Corp has agreed to pay $10 million in a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit related to a huge 2013 data breach that consumers say compromised their personal financial information, court documents show.

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