Brands pull YouTube ads over images of children: paper

LONDON (Reuters) - Lidl, Cadbury maker Mondelez, Diageo and other big companies have pulled advertising from YouTube after the Times newspaper found the video sharing site was showing clips of scantily clad children alongside the ads of major brands. A 3D-printed YouTube icon is seen in front of a d...

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Black Friday deals lure few early U.S. shoppers, many buy online

CHICAGO/GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Early-morning crowds were light on Black Friday, the start of the U.S. holiday shopping season, as more people picked up deals online and the traditional rush was split by stores opening the night before. Women shop at a Macy's department store in Roosevelt Fiel...

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Name+DOB+SSN=FAFSA Data Gold Mine

KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful of static details about a person that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground, such as name, date of birth, and Social Security Number. Perhaps the most eye-ope...

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Name+DOB+SSN=FAFSA Data Gold Mine

KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful of static details about a person that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground, such as name, date of birth, and Social Security Number. Perhaps the most eye-ope...

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Uber, Yandex ride services can merge in Russia, regulator FAS rules

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Uber [UBER.UL] and Yandex’s ride-sharing businesses can merge in Russia, anti-monopoly regulator FAS ruled on Friday, but stipulated that the combined company not bar drivers from working for competitors. FILE PHOTO: A taxi with the logo of Russian online taxi service Yandex...

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Danish supermarkets Bilka, Fotex hit by Black Friday cyber attacks

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish supermarket chains Bilka and Fotex said their websites had been taken down by cyber attacks at the launch of their Black Friday sales campaigns. The websites were hit by “malicious cyber-connection” attacks, an advanced form of a Distributed Denial of Servic...

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Uber to partner with Mahindra to pilot electric vehicles in India

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ride-hailing firm Uber will partner with automaker Mahindra and Mahindra to pilot electric vehicles on its platform in India, the two companies said on Friday, at a time when the government is pushing to have all new vehicles electrified by 2030. FILE PHOTO - The Uber logo is seen...

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Danish supermarkets Bilka, Fotex hit by Black Friday cyber attacks: media

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish supermarket chains Bilka and Fotex were hit by cyber attacks early Friday, taking down their websites at the launch their Black Friday campaigns, local media reported. The websites were hit by “cyber-connection” attacks, media reported, citing the owner of b...

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Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial bans high-interest loan products

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd affiliate Ant Financial has banned consumer loans with annual interest rates above 24 percent from its Alipay platform, a move which comes as China’s government increases scrutiny of lightly regulated online lending. FILE PHOTO - A logo of Ant Fi...

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Uber to partner with Mahindra for electric vehicles in India

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies will partner with automaker Mahindra and Mahindra to add electric vehicles on its platform in India, the two companies said in a statement on Friday. FILE PHOTO - The Uber logo is seen on a screen in Singapore August 4, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Whit...

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U.S. online sales surge, shoppers throng stores on Thanksgiving evening

(Reuters) - U.S. shoppers had splurged more than $1.52 billion online by Thanksgiving evening, and more bargain hunters turned up at stores this year after two weak holiday seasons as retailers opened their doors early on the eve of Black Friday. A customer loads her shopping cart during the Black F...

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Virtual reality boom brings giant robots, cyberpunk castles to China

GUIYANG, China (Reuters) - Giant robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of one of China’s poorest provinces. A view of the Oriental Science Fiction Valley theme park at sunset, in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China Novemb...

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EU privacy regulators to discuss Uber hack next week

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union privacy regulators will discuss ride-hailing app Uber’s [UBER.UL] massive data breach cover-up next week and could create a task-force to coordinate investigations. FILE PHOTO: The Uber logo is seen on mobile telephone in London, Britain, September 25, 2017....

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U.S. judge orders Uber customer to arbitrate price-fixing claims

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Uber can force an unhappy Connecticut customer’s price-fixing case against the ride-service company into arbitration, after the customer said the proposed class action belonged in court because he never agreed to arbitrate. FILE PHOTO: A man arrives...

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EU lawmakers back exports control on spying technology

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers overwhelmingly backed plans on Thursday to control exports of devices to intercept mobile phone calls, hack computers or circumvent passwords that could be used by foreign states to suppress political opponents or activists. A hooded man holds a laptop computer as b...

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Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

MILAN (Reuters) - Workers at Amazon’s main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt one of the year’s busiest shopping days. A view of the new Amazon log...

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Russia says Google down-ranking Sputnik, RT would be censorship

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that moves by Alphabet Inc’s Google to place articles from Russian news outlets Sputnik and Russia Today lower in search results would amount to censorship. The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in this picture illustrat...

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Workers at Amazon's main Italian site to hold first strike on Black Friday

MILAN (Reuters) - Workers at Amazon’s (AMZN.O) main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, threatening to disrupt one of the busiest shopping days of the year. FILE PHOTO - Amazon.com's logo is seen at Amazon Japan's office building in Tok...

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Lyft raises another $500 million in additional round of funding

(Reuters) - Uber rival Lyft Inc is raising an additional $500 million in funding, according to a U.S. share authorization document filed in Delaware news website Axios said. (bit.ly/2BhebbU) The additional funding round, led by Alphabet Inc’s CapitalG, is an extension of the $1 billion round a...

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Flat profit gives Angry Birds maker's shares the blues

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO.HE) fell short of market expectations for quarterly sales and profit on Thursday, sparking a near 20 percent fall in the Finnish firm’s shares. An employee works inside an office of Rovio, the company which created the video gam...

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