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  • Twitter beefs up security with two-step login Twitter beefs up security with two-step login

    NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...

  • Hong Kong shares slide to 4-week low on China growth concerns

    Fri May 24, 2013 5:09am EDT * HSI -0.2 pct, H-shares -0.2 pct, CSI300 +0.6 pct * Hong Kong shares extended losses to lowest in almost a month * China shares posted fourth-straight weekly gain * China property weak on fears of China's slowdown By Yimou Lee HONG KONG, May 24 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares extended losses to fall to their lowest in almost a month on Friday with the property ...

  • UPDATE 1-Russias top social network blacklisted by regulator

    Fri May 24, 2013 2:20am EDT * Top online social network put on black list * Network has been used to organise anti-Putin rallies MOSCOW May 24 (Reuters) - Russia's top online social network was banned on Friday from distributing content across the country, raising concerns of a clampdown on a forum used by President Vladimir Putin's opponents to organise protests. The ban on VKontakte ...

  • Dwell Media Hires New Head of Digital from Yahoo

    Dwell Media, the San Francisco based publisher of modern design bible Dwell, has hired Brandon Huff as its new evp of digital media to lead a new e-commerce push. Huff, who most recently was Yahoo's vp of commerce, will be in charge of overseeing all aspects of Dwell's digital agenda, from content distribution to design to the holy grail of magazine ...

  • Rapture-Palooza Star Anna Kendrick Is Addicted to Reddit

    Reddit . I spend a lot of time there, probably more than I should, but it’s definitely one of the first things that I check in the morning. That’s how I found out about the theater shooting in Aurora because someone who worked there had posted about it. It’s amazing-that site gets information faster than ...


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The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

While Louis Malle is often associated with the French New Wave, largely because of the young age at which he made his first feature (he was in his early 20s) and the time period when he started making films (the late 1950s), he was always just outside that movement. Unlike Truffaut, G ... ...

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  • Google mapping Waze takeover says report

    Google is considering a bid for the mobile mapping and navigation company, Bloomberg reports. Could this be a play to keep Facebook out of its ...

  • UPDATE 1-Google like Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1 bln-report

    Thu May 23, 2013 9:44pm EDT * Waze seeks more than $1 bln, multiple parties interested-Bloomberg * Maps and navigation services a key asset for tech firms * Apple not part of discussions - Bloomberg May 23 (Reuters) - Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc, Bloomberg news reported, citing people ...

  • Hulu buyout heats up with four reported bidders

    (Credit: Hulu) Those companies looking to get a piece of the Hulu pie had until this week to put in their first round of bids for the video streaming service. And, it appears that so far four companies have gone in for a slice. Former News Corp president Peter Chernin, private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media (which is headed the former interim Yahoo CEO by Ross Levinsohn), satellite ...

  • UPDATE 2-Google faces new federal antitrust probe -source

    Thu May 23, 2013 8:53pm EDT * Regulators in early stages of probe on how Google handles some ad sales -source * Inquiry focuses on tools acquired with purchase of DoubleClick -source WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc , the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some ...

  • Two-factor authentication What you need to know

    Twitter just got it. Apple recently got it, too. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have had it for a while. But why's two-factor authentication important, and will it keep you ...

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