Game on: Nintendo eyes expansion into film business

Movies like "Mario Kart" and "The Legend of Zelda" could soon be coming to a theater near you. Nintendo Co Ltd is in talks with several global production companies about expanding its video content business, including making movies, said Tatsumi Kimishima, president of the Japanese videogame maker. ...

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Didi Chuxing planning New York IPO in 2017: Bloomberg

Ride hailing app Didi Chuxing is preparing for an initial public offering in New York, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. China-based Didi, a rival to Uber Technologies Inc, is targeting a listing as soon as next year, Bloomberg said on Monday. The timing will depend on how ...

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Amazon to launch new private-labels in coming weeks: WSJ

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo Amazon.com Inc will launch new lines of its private-label brands in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The ne...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg to meet conservatives on political bias flap

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam/Files Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet this week with prominent conservatives in the media, a spokesman said on Sunday, to address allegat...

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Google faces record 3 billion euro EU antitrust fine: Telegraph

The new Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters/Stephen Lam Google faces a record antitrust fine of around 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) from the European Commission in the coming weeks, British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph said. The ...

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Facebook, Twitter, Youtube face hate speech complaints in France

Three French anti-racism associations said on Sunday they would file legal complaints against social networks Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and Google's Youtube (GOOGL.O) for failing to remove "hateful" content posted on their platforms. French law requires websites to take down racist, homophob...

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Can Buffett-backed bid unlock Yahoo growth where others failed?

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, prepares to speak at the Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Summit in Washington October 13, 2015. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Warren Buffett struck media gold with a 2012 investment in debt-laden Media General Inc. Now the famed investor ma...

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New York Fed defends fund transfer after Bangladesh heist

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman/File Photo The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is standing by its procedures for wiring funds after facing scrutiny in the wake of the $81 million cyber heist at the Bangladesh central...

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Exclusive: Warren Buffett backs Gilbert's Yahoo bid - sources

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks at the Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Summit in Washington October 13, 2015. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chairman Warren Buffett is backing a consortium vying for Yahoo Inc's internet assets that includes Quicken Loans...

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Anti-Counterfeiting group suspends Alibaba's membership

A logo of Alibaba Group is pictured at its headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, October 14, 2015. Reuters/Stringer/File photo An anti-counterfeiting group said on Friday it was suspending Alibaba Group Holding Inc's membership following concerns raised by some of its member companies....

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Apple, Chinese rideshare deal heats up race for tech-smart cars

Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) $1 billion investment in Chinese ride sharing company Didi Chuxing intensifies a race to acquire technology, talent and market access in a rapidly evolving global personal transportation market. Apple's investment comes as auto and technology industry executives and investo...

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Digital currency firm co-founder gets 10 years in prison in U.S. case

A co-founder of Liberty Reserve, which operated a widely-used digital currency, was sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday after agreeing to help authorities prosecute his ex-partner for helping cyber criminals launder hundreds of millions of dollars. Vladamir Kats, 44, was sentenced by U.S. Dis...

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Weather Channel to launch app for its Local Now service: CEO

The Weather Channel plans to introduce a mobile phone app for its recently launched online local news service Local Now in a bid to expand its viewership, Chief Executive Dave Shull told Reuters in an interview. The independent TV network, which brings weather coverage from blizzards to tornadoes to...

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Silicon Valley venture capitalists raise more money, give less away

The Alphabet Inc. campus, also known as Googleplex, is shown in this aerial photo in Mountain View, California, United States on April 6, 2016. Reuters/Noah Berger/File photo Venture capitalists are raising money at the fastest rate in a decade, raking in about $13 billion in the first quarter of 20...

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Facebook launches investigation into report of political bias

Facebook's logo is seen through a magnifier in front of a displayed PC motherboard, in this illustration taken April 11, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook Inc, the social networking powerhouse, is conducting a full investigation into allegations of political bias, Chairman and Chief Exe...

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Polish group seeks to help the blind with free smart glasses

A Polish non-profit organization is hoping to help the blind and visually impaired with plans to make and give away what it says will be the world's first free smart glasses. Parsee has developed a prototype of the battery-powered glasses which have a 3D printed frame, internet protocol camera and e...

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EU member states agree roaming for Netflix

Consumers will be able to access their online subscriptions for services like Netflix (NFLX.O), Sky (SKYB.L) and Canal+ (IPO-CANALFRA.PA) when they travel across the European Union under proposals tentatively agreed by member states on Friday. The law was presented by the EU executive, the European ...

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Germany says Russia probably behind cyber attack on Bundestag

A man walks inside the the Paul-Loebe-Haus parliamentary building of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2016. Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch Russian intelligence agencies were probably responsible for a massive cyber attack on Germany's lower house of parliament last year...

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Personal data of Chinese elites purportedly leaked on Twitter

A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files The purported personal details of numerous Chinese business moguls and politically-connected elite have been posted to an anonymous Twitter account, an embarrassing leak for ...

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Bangladesh Bank heist similar to Sony hack; second bank hit by malware

The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo Investigators probing the cyber heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank connected it on Friday to the hack at Sony Corp's film studio in 2014, while global financia...

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