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  • Google breach may have led to sensitive data leaks

    Chinese hackers were blamed for breaking into Google's servers in 2010; now, U.S. officials say these cyberattacks may have led to the release of secret government ...

  • UPDATE 1-Sprint gets waiver from Softbank permitting discussions with Dish

    Mon May 20, 2013 9:02pm EDT May 20 (Reuters) - Wireless service provider Sprint Nextel Corp received a waiver from SoftBank Corp on various provisions of their merger agreement permitting it to engage in discussions with Dish Network Corp. Satellite TV service Dish made a $25.5 billion counter bid last month for Sprint against SoftBank's October agreement to pay $20.1 billion for 70 percent ...

  • Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school

    Francis Howell senior shortstop Zac Perkins broke two school records in the Vikings' Class 5 District 8 championship win against Holt last ...

  • Yahoo reboots Flickr offers 1 terabyte of storage

    Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City's Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes _ enough to store more than 500,000 images ...

  • How Apple sidestepped U.S. taxes The Senates version

    "The hearing will examine how Apple Inc., a U.S. multinational corporation, has used a variety of offshore structures, arrangements, and transactions to shift billions of dollars in profits away from the United States and into Ireland, where Apple has negotiated a special corporate tax rate of less than two percent. One of Apple's more unusual tactics has been to establish and direct ...


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Chicago 10 [DVD]

Chicago 10 [DVD]

Give due credit to Brett Morgen: He has taken an already well-trodden piece of recent American history and not only made it vibrant and new, but also painfully, strikingly relevant. Chicago 10, a bravura documentary-cum-polemic about the circus trial of eight (later seven) defendants ... ...

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  • Apple set for DC tax fight

    Apple executives are set to defend the company's tax practices and call for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill Tuesday amid harsh criticism following a Senate ...

  • Dish eyes LightSquareds Spectrum for $2 billion - Bloomberg

    (Reuters) - U.S. satellite company Dish Network Corp has offered to buy bankrupt broadband company LightSquared Inc's radio frequencies for $2 billion, Bloomberg said, quoting people familiar with the ...

  • Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centers

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centers in the ...

  • Flickrs new $499.99 per year Doublr service explained

    (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Yahoo on Monday increased the amount of storage Flickr users get by 70-fold, and at the same time quietly introduced a new pro tier that costs users 20 times as much as the one it replaces. That ...

  • Flickrs free terabyte not big enough

    languish with a fresh coat of paint and a free terabyte of space. Too bad today's photo-sharer has found a home elsewhere and is already accustomed to free. Monday at a press event in New York, Yahoo announced major changes ...

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