Mondelez to create more apps, online videos in advertising shift

The logo of Mondelez International is pictured at the company's building in Zurich November 14, 2012. Reuters/Michael Buholzer Oreo cookie maker Mondelez International Inc's "Twist, Lick, Dunk" mobile application has been such a success that the snack company plans to roll out similar games in a mov...

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China's President Xi pledges more support for technology firms

Chinese President Xi Jinping goes down the stage after a speach on the opening ceremony of CICA, at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on 28 April, 2016. Reuters/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool China's President Xi Jinping has vowed to increase government support for technology companies, state media rep...

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Bangladesh panel finds possible insider role in central bank cyber theft

The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in a brazen theft of $81 million from its account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank in February, the head of a government...

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India's trade minister: discussing Apple's request for FDI rules waiver

India's commerce and industry minister on Monday said she was in talks with the finance ministry on Apple Inc's foreign direct investment proposal that seeks a waiver from the country's local sourcing rules. Nirmala Sitharaman's comments came days after the finance ministry asked the iPhone maker to...

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Data analysis from Paris raid on Google will take months, possibly years: prosecutor

Analysis of data seized by investigators in last week's raid of Google's (GOOGL.O) Paris headquarters could possibly take years, French financial prosecutor Eliane Houlette said on Sunday. Dozens of French police raided Google's offices on Tuesday, escalating an investigation over suspected tax evas...

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French finance minister rules out Google tax deal, more firms could be targeted

A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris, France December 6, 2011. Reuters/Jacques Brinon/Pool/File Photo France will "go all the way" to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases ...

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China to open e-commerce, other sectors to foreign investment: newspaper

China will lift restrictions to investments by foreign firms in a range of service industry sectors, including e-commerce, logistics, accounting and auditing, the China Securities News quoted commerce minister Gao Hucheng as saying. Gao said China would also promote the orderly opening of other serv...

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Gawker privacy lawsuit evolves into battle of tech billionaires

Billionaire media owner Pierre Omidyar is backing news and entertainment web site Gawker Media in its lawsuit against wrestler Hulk Hogan, adding a new twist to a case pitting technology money against press freedom. Omidyar, owner of The Intercept publisher First Look Media, is asking other media ou...

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'Replica' bottle from 'flipping' video fetches over $15,000 on eBay

A plastic water bottle touted as a replica of the one in a "bottle-flipping" video that went viral has fetched a closing bid of more than $15,000 on internet auction platform eBay. Videos posted to social media on Tuesday showed North Carolina teenager Mike Senatore flipping a partially full bottle ...

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Facebook expands ads on third-party apps, websites to beyond users

A man reads a newspaper at the reception area of Facebook's new office in Mumbai, India May 27, 2016. Reuters/Shailesh Andrade Facebook Inc said its customers' ads would now be visible on third-party apps and websites to everyone who has ever visited its website, and not just to users logged into it...

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India's Tata Group enters e-commerce market with apparel, electronics website

India's biggest conglomerate Tata Group launched an e-commerce venture on Friday, as it seeks to cash in on rising purchasing power in a market dominated by deep-pocketed international retailers and startups backed by global tech investors. The group said it developed its Tata Cliq website over a ye...

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German robot maker Kuka's CEO welcomes Midea bid

Products of Midea are seen at a shop in Beijing, China, May 18, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon The chief executive of German industrial robot maker Kuka (KU2G.DE) said on Friday he welcomed an impending 4.5 billion- euro ($5 billion) takeover bid from Chinese home appliance maker Midea (000333.SZ). "T...

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Push for encryption law falters despite Apple case spotlight

A worker checks an iPhone in a repair store in New York, February 17, 2016. Reuters/Eduardo Munoz After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies a "back door" to encrypted communicat...

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Chinese users criticize Microsoft's push for Windows 10 upgrade: Xinhua

A computer screen shows features of the Windows 10 operating system at the Microsoft store at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York July 29, 2015. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Chinese users of Microsoft products are criticizing the software company's push to get them to mandatorily upgrade their Win...

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Exclusive: Verizon turns to former Yahoo bankers for bid - sources

A Yahoo logo is pictured in front of a building in Rolle, 30 km (19 miles) east of Geneva, December 12, 2012. Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File photo Verizon Communications Inc is working on its bid for Yahoo Inc's core assets with an investment bank which was, as recently as last year, one of the U.S. i...

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Alphabet's Google beats Oracle in U.S. Android trial

A woman holds her smart phone which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration taken February 24, 2016. Reuters/Eric Gaillard/Illustration/File Photo A U.S. jury handed Alphabet's Google a major victory on Thursday in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Oracle Corp, saying the ...

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Two Twitter senior execs to leave in latest management shuffle

A 3D-printed logo for Twitter is seen in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 26, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Twitter Inc said senior executives Jana Messerschmidt and Nathan Hubbard are planning to leave the company in its latest management shuffle. Messerschmidt...

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Finnish government criticizes Microsoft for job cuts, 'broken promises'

General view of Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. Reuters/Charles Platiau/Files The Finnish government on Thursday criticized Microsoft Corp for its latest job cuts in the Nordic country, saying it had failed to keep promises made two year...

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Symantec says SWIFT malware linked to attack in Philippines

The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo The malware that was used to steal $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank has been linked to another cyber attack, this time on a bank in the Philippines, cyber security comp...

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Microsoft, Facebook to jointly build transatlantic subsea cable

A Microsoft logo is seen on an office building in New York City in this July 28, 2015 file photo. Reuters/Mike Segar/Files - RTSFWF8 Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc have agreed to jointly build a subsea cable across the Atlantic Ocean to meet growing demand for high-speed cloud and online services. ...

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EU governments agree new roaming rules for Netflix, Amazon

The Netflix logo is shown in this illustration photograph in Encinitas, California October 14, 2014. Reuters/Mike Blake/File Photo - RTX2B4O8 European subscribers to online video streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Video and Sky will be able to access the services when visiting other countries w...

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Amazon to deliver fresh food in Berlin soon: Manager Magazin

A parcel travels along a conveyer belt at Amazon's new distribution center in Brieselang, near Berlin November 28, 2013. Reuters/Tobias Schwarz Amazon plans to start deliveries of fresh food in Berlin in coming months, a magazine reported on Thursday, as the ecommerce giant extends its foray into gr...

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South Africa's Standard Bank taking action after ATM heist in Japan

Customers queue to draw money from an ATM outside a branch of South Africa's Standard Bank in Cape Town, March 15, 2016. Reuters/Mike Hutchings South Africa's Standard Bank is taking action after criminals in Japan stole millions of dollars from automatic teller machines using fake credit cards from...

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Snapchat raises $1.81 billion in new funding round

An image of the Snapchat logo created with Post-it notes is seen in the windows of Havas Worldwide at 200 Hudson Street in lower Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 18, 2016, where advertising agencies and other companies have started what is being called a ''Post-it note war''... Reuters/Mike Segar Mess...

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Exclusive: New York financial regulator gearing up to probe online lenders - source

United States one dollar bills are seen on a light table at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington November 14, 2014. Reuters/Gary Cameron/File Photo New York state's financial regulator, which recently launched a probe into LendingClub Corp, is preparing to look into the activities at o...

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Brazilian companies rank worst among major economies on cyber security: report

A hand is silhouetted in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Companies based in Brazil scored “significantly poorer” in aggregate on a variety of cyber security indicators than those based in other major world eco...

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China's Lenovo swings to full-year loss on M&A costs

A Lenovo logo is seen at the computer in Kiev, Ukraine April 21, 2016. Reuters/Gleb Garanich China's Lenovo Group Ltd on Thursday reported its first loss in six years, with earnings pulled down by acquisition and restructuring costs as well as weak sales of smartphones and personal computers (PCs). ...

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EU states approve plans to coordinate key mobile spectrum

The European flag flies outside of the La Canada shopping centre in Marbella, southern Spain January 23, 2013. Reuters/Jon Nazca EU member states approved plans on Thursday to coordinate the roll-out of a key spectrum across the 28-nation bloc to provide faster mobile broadband speeds and improve ac...

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Automakers, tech companies decide to make deals, not war

A driver displays Uber and Lyft ride sharing signs in his car windscreen in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 23, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Files A flurry of deals between big automakers and ride hailing and transportation startups is rewriting the playbook in the contest to control the future ...

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Exclusive: In Ecuador cyber heist, thieves moved $9 million to 23 Hong Kong firms

A branch of the Banco del Austro is seen in Quito, Ecuador, May 17, 2016. Reuters/Guillermo Granja Cyber thieves who stole $12 million from an Ecuadorian bank in 2015 routed the funds through 23 companies registered in Hong Kong, some of them with no clear business activity, according to previously ...

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