Friday's Top 50 Internet News & Stories
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Company wants to deploy 'Prime Air' to deliver packages in 30 minutes or less using small unmanned aircrafts flying at 50mph Amazon.com Inc is seeking permission from US regulators to test its delivery drones near Seattle, as part of a r...
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Scientists are dismissive of the hype surrounding the Epoc device, yet advocates claim it can enable completely paralysed people to communicate with their loved ones. Does it give sufferers false hope? Loredana Paglialonga leans across h...
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Burberry this week said that digital outperformed in every region to help deliver it a 17% rise in retail sales. Shoppers spent £370m at Burberry in the first quarter of its financial year, to June 30, while like-for-like sales rose by 1...
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SuperGroup this week reported online sales up by more than a quarter in its latest financial year, despite a slowing in visitors that came as customers moved to mobile. The multichannel fashion retailer said it had responded by rolling ...
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Made.com is bringing digital product information into its Notting Hill showroom using new omnichannel technology. Shoppers can now use a handheld device using new CloudTags technology to view all the product information on items that are...
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(AP)—Newly declassified documents show the Obama administration knew in advance the British government would oversee destruction of a newspaper's hard drives containing leaked documents.
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The way we shop has changed radically over the past few years. The rise of mobile shopping and a new generation of digitally savvy consumers is now the norm, with shoppers demanding the very best deals and brand experiences from retailer...
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Helpful tips that allow you to get the most from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn Continue reading...
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In today’s InternetRetailing newsletter, we’re struck by the outsized results that retailers get when they successfully join up their sales channels. Thus, Burberry this week reported 17% in its retail sales. Its customers, i...
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Amazon on Thursday launched an online service for collaborating on work projects in a challenge to tech titan Google.
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See the star do a human hamster wheel with Jimmy Fallon and watch how to put on trousers hands-free in our web clip rundown We start this week with former Bond girl Halle Berry creating a human hamster wheel with chatshow host Jimmy Fall...
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When a buyer with a two-week history complained about an iPhone being stolen in the post, eBay decided against the seller without conducting a proper investigation I work for a company that has an eBay account with top-rated seller (TRS)...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc services were once again being disrupted in China on Friday after a brief respite on Thursday, users and an anti-censorship group reported, continuing more than a month of severe disruption.
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David Drummond, chief legal officer of internet search firm, says adjusting to EU rule on removing content is 'work in progress' Google has acknowledged that it "incorrectly" removed links to several Guardian articles last mont...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government sued Amazon.com on Thursday for allowing children to collectively run up millions of dollars in purchases on the credit cards of their unsuspecting parents while playing mobile apps like "Tap Zo...
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Officials say company has not done enough to prevent children from making millions of dollars over unauthorised purchases The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon over charges that the company has not done enough to prevent children ...
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News of attempt to target people who had applied for security clearances comes as John Kerry attends Sino-American summit Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks housing the personal information of all federal US government empl...
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Details of the emergency surveillance legislation Miliband's letter to Labour MPs explaining why Labour backs the bill Lunchtime summary, including highlights from the Cameron/Clegg press conference Afternoon summary 5.00pm BST Kenny Mac...
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Lexi Alexander has called out the industry for 'bullshit' claims about the cost of piracy, and says Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde should be released from prison Hollywood director Lexi Alexander has criticised the Motion Picture Associa...
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Tour de France excitement combined with good weather got cycling sales off to a good start, both online and off, in the first quarter of Halfords’ financial year. The automotive-to-cycling equipment multichannel retailer said ecommerce s...
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Worried about your boss prying into your personal business, poking around in aspects of your life you'd rather keep between friends and family - even as you share more of it on social media?
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has seen a surge in cases of irregular access to government computer systems and cyberattacks on operators of critical social infrastructure, and Tokyo is considering ways to respond, a top official said on Thursday.
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The implications of the 'right to be forgotten' are becoming clear, but new data protection regulation could prove more far reaching It is two months since the European Court of Justice's ruling that Google is a data processor under EU l...
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The beleaguered CBC could do worse than look to the BBC's now-shelved plans for a publicly funded online archive of the nation's collective cultural memory The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) occupies a cherished place in the bos...
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The reviews site has complained about a proposed settlement in the European investigation over Google's search dominance Yelp has become the latest company to publicly join a complaint to European regulators over the way Google chooses t...
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National Crime Agency leads campaign to knock out Shakespearian malware that infected at least 30,000 PCs The UKs National Crime Agency has led a global campaign to knock out the Shylock malware, which infected at least 30,000 Windows PC...
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IBM will invest $3bn (£1.75bn) over the next five years in the research and development of chip technology to meet cloud needs
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Silent Circle, a company known for mobile apps designed to thwart government surveillance, is introducing a fixed price, secrecy-cloaking service on Thursday that lets customers make and receive private phone calls.
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Politicians have calculated it is better to back new powers for security services than risk being depicted as a friend to terrorists Who wants to be on the side of "criminals, terrorists and paedophiles"? David Cameron and Nick...
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John Kerry has condemned computer espionage at meetings in Beijing amid new reports of Chinese hacking of US offices US secretary of state John Kerry condemned Chinese cyber-espionage in unusually strong terms while wrapping up a series ...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Users in China were able to access online services for Google Inc on Thursday, after more than a month of severe disruption that almost completely blocked people from using features such as its search, maps and e-mail...
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In 1729, when he was 23 years old, Benjamin Franklin authored a pamphlet titled "A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency." The revolutionary idea he advocated? Paper money printed and controlled by the Colonies...
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Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups
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Facebook chief executive warns that expanding internet access is about cheaper data plans, not just smartphones Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has suggested that cheaper mobile data, rather than just cheaper smartphones, will b...
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Mothercare has appointed internet retailing veteran Mark Newton-Jones as its chief executive. The appointment, which starts from July 17, follows Newton-Jones’ four-month interim stint in the role leading the maternity-to-nursery-e...
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Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's top court upheld on Thursday a ruling that Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica must pay a 152 million euro fine imposed by the European Commission for the abuse of its dominant position in the S...
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Mobile device privacy firm Silent Circle expands its hybrid encrypted Out-Circle Calling, quelling users' snooping fears and cutting roaming costs
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Secure comms firm promises 'beautiful disruption' with its new Silent Phone calling plans, but will businesses agree? Secure communications firm Silent Circle is taking on Skype and mobile operators alike by adding private, encrypted int...
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NYT reports that hackers accessed networks of department that houses personal information for all federal employees Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the US office of personnel management earlier this year with the inte...
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Move has been prompted by a judicial review claim in the high court that current practice is unlawful Controversial emergency laws will be introduced into the Commons next Monday to reinforce the powers of security services to require in...
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An Indian answer to Craigslist is drawing millions of monthly visitors to its website, exchanging everything from used iPads to cows, in a country where second-hand goods have traditionally been sniffed at.
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The BBC said Wednesday it will launch a new social media service in Thailand to offer people another source of information at a time when the junta has imposed widespread censorship over domestic media.
