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Moves to limit contractor access to secrets meets resistanceBy Mark Hosenball and Andrea Shalal-Esa (Reuters) - Industry executives and some corners of the U.S. intelligence community are pushing back against possible legislative moves to curb contractors' access to classified information. Following leaks by former Nationa... ...Read More »Netflix to bring video streaming service to The Netherlands(Reuters) - Netflix Inc will launch its TV and movie streaming service in The Netherlands later this year, expanding its reach further into Europe, the company said on Tuesday. Netflix boasts 29.2 million streaming subscribers in the United States and 7.1 million in international markets, ... ...Read More »Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnetBy Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide.... ...Read More » |
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Moves to limit contractor access to secrets meets resistanceBy Mark Hosenball and Andrea Shalal-Esa (Reuters) - Industry executives and some corners of the U.S. intelligence community are pushing back against possible legislative moves to curb contractors' access to classified information. Following leaks by former Nationa... ...Read More »Exclusive - Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisersBy Jennifer Saba (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are sma... ...Read More »GE moves into 'Industrial Internet' service with Amazon(Reuters) - General Electric Co joined forces with Amazon Web Services on Tuesday to make a wide range of data on products, including jet engines and gas turbines, available online so they can be analyzed. GE said Amazon Inc is the first online cloud service on which it will start creati... ...Read More »Yahoo says it had as many as 13,000 data requests(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said U.S. law enforcement agencies made between 12,000 and 13,000 requests for data in the last six months, the latest in a series of disclosures by technology companies since intelligence leaks showed the extent of government data gathering efforts. The company said ... ...Read More »Analysis: European cloud computing firms see silver lining in PRISM scandalBy Leila Abboud and Paul Sandle PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - France has its Sovereign Cloud project while across the Rhine data firms have created the label Cloud Services: Made in Germany, all trying to reassure big companies that their information is stored away from the prying eyes of U... ...Read More »China asks U.S. to explain Internet surveillanceBEIJING (Reuters) - China made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programs to the international community. Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by ... ...Read More »Saudi Arabia plans to block WhatsApp within weeks: reportDUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to block Internet-based communication tool WhatsApp within weeks if the U.S.-based firm fails to comply with requirements set by the kingdom's telecom regulator, local newspapers reported this week. This month the Communications and Information Tech... ...Read More »Web companies begin releasing surveillance information after U.S. dealBy Joseph Menn and Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory for the companies as they struggle with the fallout from di... ...Read More » |
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