British retailers start online sales early
LONDON (Reuters) – British retailers have brought forward their Christmas clearance sales online in the hope that shoppers will log on to buy bargains and offset lackluster spending in stores. Marks...
View ArticleNetflix suffers Christmas Eve outage, points to Amazon
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An outage at one of Amazon‘s web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc.’s streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas day, a spokesman...
View ArticleNetflix blames Amazon for Christmas Eve outage
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An outage at one of Amazon‘s web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc‘s streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas Day, a spokesman for...
View ArticleTajikistan blocks scores of websites as election looms
DUSHANBE (Reuters) – Tajikistan blocked access to more than 100 websites on Tuesday, in what a government source said was a dress rehearsal for a crackdown on online dissent before next year’s election...
View ArticleHunger strike pressures Canada PM, aboriginal protests spread
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian aboriginal chief in the third week of a hunger strike is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to “open his heart” and meet with native leaders angered by his policies as...
View ArticleChina tightens Internet controls, legalizes post deletion
BEIJING (Reuters) – China unveiled tighter Internet controls on Friday, legalizing the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to contain “illegal” information and requiring service providers to...
View ArticleNumber of e-book readers increasing in United States: survey
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The popularity of electronic books is increasing in the United States, with nearly one-quarter of American bibliophiles reading e-books, according to a survey released on Thursday....
View ArticleZynga carries out planned games shutdown, including “Petville”
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Social games publisher Zynga Inc confirmed on Monday that it has carried out 11 of the planned shutdowns of 13 game titles, with “Petville” being the latest game on which it...
View ArticleBan on demanding Facebook passwords among new 2013 state laws
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers’ password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to...
View ArticleJudge rejects part of Apple App Store suit vs Amazon
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted Amazon.Com Inc‘s bid to end part of Apple Inc‘s lawsuit over Amazon‘s use of the term “APP STORE,” ruling that Apple cannot bring a false...
View ArticleOlympics, elections and horsing around in odd 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – Presidential preening, golden Olympic gaffes, a royal windfall for a skydiving British queen on her diamond jubilee and the endless end of days marked the odd stories in 2012 which...
View ArticleChina shuts website of leading reformist magazine
BEIJING (Reuters) – China shut the website of a leading pro-reform magazine on Friday, apparently because it ran an article calling for political reform and constitutional government, sensitive topics...
View ArticleCricketer Herath alive and bowling despite death rumors
SYDNEY (Reuters) – As Mark Twain might have said, rumors of the death of Sri Lankan spinner Rangana Herath which spread like wildfire across social media late on Friday proved to be greatly...
View ArticleCanada meets key aboriginal demand amid blockades
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada‘s prime minister will meet with native leaders next week to discuss social and economic issues, an olive branch to an angry aboriginal movement that has blockaded rail lines...
View ArticleKuwaiti gets two years for insulting emir on Twitter
KUWAIT (Reuters) – A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to two years in prison for insulting the country’s ruler on Twitter, a lawyer following the case said, as the Gulf Arab state cracks down on criticism...
View ArticleKuwait sentences second man to jail for insulting emir: lawyer
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to two years in prison on Monday for insulting the country’s ruler on Twitter, his lawyer said, the second person to be jailed for the offence in as...
View ArticleU.S. Franciscan friars go digital, accept prayer requests via text
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The largest group of Franciscan friars in the United States is offering the faithful a new way to pray in the digital age by accepting prayer requests via text messages. The Friars...
View ArticleTarget to match some rivals’ online prices year-round
(Reuters) – Target Corp said on Tuesday it will match on a year-round basis the prices found on the websites of key rivals Amazon.com Inc, Best Buy Co Inc, Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Toys R Us, its latest...
View ArticleCanadian natives could block development, chief warns
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian native leader said on Thursday that anger among the country’s aboriginals is such that they could block resource development and bring the economy “to its knees” unless...
View ArticleSkype founder browses globe for next tech earner
LONDON (Reuters) – Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of internet phone service Skype, believes the next hot tech business will just as likely spring from Istanbul or Sao Paolo as from Silicon Valley or the...
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