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  • Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians

    Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

  • Hackers target important Saudi websites Hackers target important Saudi websites

    The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

  • Microsoft calls for mandatory patent ownership data

    , has in recent years become a supporter of software patents and their licensing. However the firm said that the present system in which firms do not have to reveal what patents they own is flawed, and it is supporting the End Anonymous Patents Act. The End Anonymous Patents Act has been introduced by US Representative Ted Deutch and would require all patents to have ownership data attached to ...

  • Wordpress founder says users are flocking from Tumblr following Yahoo buyout

    , claiming that bloggers are flocking to his website following the expensive buyout. Matt Mullenweng, the creator of Wordpress has apparently already seen a backlash following Yahoo's Tumblr acqusition, and doesn't seem to mind talking about it. According to Mullenweng, the number of imports from Tumblr to Wordpress climbed to over 72,000 per hour over the weekend, a huge spike from ...

  • Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer promises not to screw up Tumblr

    Christopher Williams - 20 May 2013 Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer has promised not to "screw up" Tumblr, the blogging network she has acquired for ...


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Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring is one of Yasujiro Ozus most direct and powerful shomin-geki, or modern family dramas. Shomin-geki was the genre in which Ozu excelled, and the second half of his cinematic career is defined largely by the poignant, sympathetic, and utterly transcendent wa ... ...

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  • Where online shopping is killing retail

    recent report by McKinsey & Co. shows that e-commerce sales in China reached an estimated $190 billion last year, almost equaling the U.S. market as largest in the world. China's online retail industry is expected to grow to at least $420 billion by 2020-which would total more than the U.S., Japanese, U.K., German, and French markets combined. China will overtake the U.S. for the top ...

  • The IPO market is backfor enterprise tech

    FORTUNE --- If you hadn't heard of Tableau Softwarebefore its glamorous debut on the public market last Friday, you're not alone. The Seattle-based company ...

  • An Apple bear calls a bottom

    "It is probably the most common technical analysis pattern in trading," he explains. "An Inverse Head and Shoulders pattern is an extremely bullish reversal pattern, it occurs when a stock forms a bottom by printing a series of 3 lows. What's important about this pattern is volume. Volume must be heavy on the lowest low, because that signals a wash out and exhaustion in ...

  • We wont screw it up Yahoo buys Tumblr social network for $1.1billion

    The statement from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer begins with a promise "not to screw it up", whilst assuring users that David Karp will remain CEO and that Yahoo! will "operate Tumblr independently".The deal went through for $1.1 billion in cash, a sum justified by Tumblr's impressive numbers as one of the world's fastest growing social-media networks.The platform has ...

  • Sprint buys Handmark OneLouder to boost ad service

    (Credit: Maggie Reardon/CNET) Sprint Nextel has acquired Handmark and its unit OneLouder Apps to boost its Pinsight Media+ advertising ...

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