Sunday, May 26th, 2013

Technology

Russia's leading social network banned by "mistake"

By Douglas Busvine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pre...
May 24, 2013, 1:46 pm
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Google eyes Waze as Facebook circles hot Web maps property

By Sarah McBride and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks to buy Waze, an Israeli mapping start-up that has held discussions with several large technology c...
May 24, 2013, 9:07 am

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Dish adds Scotiabank to finance Sprint deal -sources

By Nicola Leske
(Reuters) - Dish Network Corp has added Canada's Scotiabank to the four banks it had already lined up to finance its $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, according ...
May 24, 2013, 7:04 am

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Hulu video site auction attracts four bidders - sources

By Ronald Grover
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former News Corp president Peter Chernin and private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media have placed bids for Hulu, two people with knowledge o...
May 24, 2013, 6:35 am
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Angie's List eyes 'year of transition' as cashflow turns positive

By Chandni Doulatramani and Supantha Mukherjee
(Reuters) - Angie's List Inc expects cashflow to turn positive this year as it spends less on acquiring new paid customers ...
May 24, 2013, 6:05 am
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Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case

By Nate Raymond
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In an unusual move before a trial, a federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence that Ap...
May 24, 2013, 5:54 am

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Amazon expands Kindle tablet sale to 170 countries

NEW YORK (AFP) - Online retail titan Amazon announced Thursday it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to "over 170 countries and territories around the world," and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries.
May 24, 2013, 5:34 am
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ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a pat...
May 24, 2013, 5:26 am

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Google faces new federal antitrust probe: source

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some adv...
May 24, 2013, 4:45 am

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Pandora reports higher revenue on mobile advertising

By Jennifer Saba
(Reuters) - Pandora Media Inc said first-quarter revenue grew 58 percent to $128.5 million on the strength of mobile advertising and new subscribers to the online strea...
May 24, 2013, 4:16 am
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Yahoo! buys startup specialising in online games

Yahoo! continued its shopping spree with the acquisition of a startup that powers games played on mobile devices, consoles or PCs.
May 24, 2013, 1:49 am

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EU pledges 5 billion euros funding for electronics research

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is pledging 5 billion euros ($6.5 billion) to boost research on semiconductors and other electronics items used in everything from smartphones to cars, in a bid...
May 24, 2013, 12:40 am
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Google team captures Galapagos Island beauty for maps

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google has followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin to gather images of the beauty and biological diversity of the Galapagos Islands for the Internet titan's online maps.
May 24, 2013, 12:40 am

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Samsung sells more than 10m Galaxy S4 smartphones

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Thursday its latest flagship Galaxy S4 had become its fastest selling smartphone to date, topping 10 million units globally less than a month after its debut.
May 24, 2013, 12:20 am

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