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Think the world’s getting worse? Think again, says economist

August 10, 2015 publisher data-on-human, national, news-or-listen, nfl, past, since-2013, through-data, twitter, twitter-twitter, ventura

By Joseph D’Urso LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Turn on the news or listen to doom-mongers in politics and the media, and you could be forgiven for thinking the world is a more violent and unequal place than ever, but according to economist Max Roser, we’ve never had it so good in many ways. Roser, based at the University of Oxford, spends his time digging through data on human living standards across countries and decades, and makes jazzy graphs and slides for his website OurWorldInData.org and his 30,000 Twitter followers

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Twitter considers board shakeup, may include exit of Costolo: Bloomberg

August 8, 2015 admin allen, annual, bloomberg, changes-may, chief-executive, citing-people, costolo, exit, former-twitter, matter, twitter, valley

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc's board is weighing a shakeup that could involve the exit of former Chief Executive Dick Costolo, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The changes may be announced when the company names a permanent CEO, Bloomberg said. Twitter declined to comment.

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Trump dominates social media amid Republican presidential debate

August 7, 2015 publisher commander, companies, debate, elite-military, estate-mogul, islamic, though-perhaps, twitter

Real estate mogul Donald Trump won viewers' attention during the Republican U.S. presidential debate, though perhaps not the debate itself, as the other candidates looked to build their own name recognition.

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Twitter confirms purported Bloomberg story is false

July 14, 2015 admin bloomberg, internet, news, report, said-on-tuesday, shares-jumped, the-report, tuesday-twitter, twitter, ventura

(Reuters) – A report claiming that Twitter Inc received an offer to be acquired for $31 billion attributed to Bloomberg LP is fake, Twitter and a spokesman for the news and financial data provider said on Tuesday.

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Apple Pay launches in Britain as hold-out Barclays signs up

July 14, 2015 creative apple, britain, francisco, increasing, internet, mobile-payments, news, report, said-on-tuesday, the-flagship, the-increasing, tuesday-twitter, twitter, ventura

Apple introduced its mobile payments service to Britain on Tuesday as Barclays confirmed its participation in the U.S. tech giant's move to capitalize on the increasing number of consumers who are comfortable making tap-and-go purchases

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Website with bogus Twitter report was registered July 10: ICANN

July 14, 2015 publisher assigned-names, false-report, internet, news, registrant, the-increasing, tuesday-twitter, twitter, york

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The web site carrying a false report out Tuesday on a Twitter takeover approach, bloomberg.market, was registered on July 10, according to a domain search on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. According to whois.icann.org, the registrant’s mailing address was listed as a Post Office Box in Panama.

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Yahoo’s Alex Stamos says to join Facebook as chief security officer

June 25, 2015 publisher china, difficulty, director, his-profiles, obama, officials-said, profiles, ramses-martinez, singapore, street, twitter, will-join, yahoo-as-chief, zenica

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc's Alex Stamos will join Facebook Inc as chief security officer from Monday, he said in a Facebook post on Wednesday. Stamos, who joined Yahoo as chief information security officer last year, also updated his profiles on Twitter and LinkedIn

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Saudi Arabia warns citizens against sharing ‘faked’ documents after Wikileaks release

June 21, 2015 creative arabia, citizens-not, directly-deny, documents, friday, ministry, ministry-on-its, news-agency, saturday, saudi, saudi-arabia, twitter, urged-its, were-under

Saudi Arabia on Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute “documents that might be faked” in an apparent response to WikiLeaks’ publication on Friday of more than 60,000 documents it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communications. The statement, made by the Foreign Ministry on its Twitter account, did not directly deny the documents’ authenticity

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Traders bet on Twitter near-term gains as takeover chatter persists

June 18, 2015 admin alibaba, alibaba-group, china, cyber-breach, down-as-twitter, move-failed, stem-the-weeks, twitter, typically-goes, weeks, york

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dick Costolo's decision to step down as Twitter Inc's chief executive last week failed to stem the weeks-long slide in the company's shares, but options traders appear to be betting on a near-term rebound. The stock has shed more than a third of its value since Twitter reported first-quarter results in April

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Canada government websites taken down in cyber attack

June 17, 2015 creative binary-code, cabinet, code-on-man, general-website, government, intelligence, man-holding, picture-shows, treasury, twitter

Several Canadian government websites and servers were taken down in a cyber attack on Wednesday, the government said, with the hacking group Anonymous taking responsibility in what it said was retaliation for a new anti-terrorism law passed by Canada's lawmakers. The general website for government services, canada.ca, as well as the site of Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), were among those affected.