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  • Google spending $7mn to fight child pornography Google spending $7mn to fight child pornography

    LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. ...

  • Yahoo follows Facebook and Microsoft in publishing US govt sought snoop data

    Internet corporation Yahoo has followed the league of technological companies in publishing reports about 'snoop data' requests made by the US government. According to the Guardian, Yahoo has revealed that it had received 12,000-13,000 requests, inclusive of criminal, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and other requests by the government between 1 December 2012 and 31 May ...

  • General Motors recalls 231000 SUVs over fire risk

    US General Motors Co. is set to recall about 231,000 older SUVs over fire risks and has urged owners to park them outside garages until they are repaired, a media report said. The Detroit-based automaker agreed to recall 193,000 2006-2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Buick Rainier, SAAB 9-7x, Isuzu Ascender and 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT and GMC Envoy XL in the US, reported ...

  • Baffled Liverpool to tell Suarez to stop Madrid pronouncements and make transfer request

    Fed up with their controversial striker Luis Suarez's almost daily public pronouncements on his future, Liverpool is reportedly set to lay down the law and demand that Suarez put in an official transfer request if he remains determined to leave for Real Madrid. The Uruguay international, currently playing in the Confederations Cup in Brazil, has turned what promises to be this summer's biggest ...

  • U.S. Automakers Are On A Roll But Hiring Is Slow And Steady

    A worker installs parts on a Chrysler SUV engine at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. Plants in the U.S. are now operating above 90 percent capacity, but automakers are wary of adding large numbers of new ...


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Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

On paper at least, Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven looks like a powder keg lobbed into a burning building. Considering the current global sociopolitical context, making a film about the 12th-century war between Christians and Muslims for control of Jerusalem would seem a ... ...

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  • Metals Stocks Gold extends losses as Bernanke update nears

    LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures fell Wednesday, remaining near one-month lows as the market braced for possible indication by the U.S. Federal Reserve that it will pull back the pace of monetary ...

  • Qihoos Stock Rise Lifts CEO Zhou Hongyi Into Ranks Of Chinas Internet Billionaires

    A big run-up in the price of U.S.-traded shares in Internet security products provider Qihoo 360 Technology has lifted the company's CEO into the ranks of China's Internet billionaires. Zhou's 17.7% stake in Qihoo was worth just over $1 billion at the close of trading on Tuesday, even though the stock slid 0.8% from Monday, according to company shareholding figures. Zhou's ...

  • Fab.com Raises $150M At $1B Valuation Led By Tencent

    Fab.com has raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation in new financing led by China Internet giant Tencent. The valuation of the Series D financing was about $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal. Fab also plans to close additional financing in the round that will bring the round to a total of about $250 million, this source said. New York City-based Fab has raised more ...

  • Andrew Rekvin On Renewables The Limits Of Information And The Dangerous Middle

    , performed by Seattle Opera and Seattle Opera's Youth Chorus. The evening was emceed by environmental journalist Usha McFarling . The program focused on climate change and more importantly, how we can better understand the scientific data on how the Earth's climate is changing. And the data points to a dire environmental outlook. The U.N. has identified energy and food as the two ...

  • G-8 Nations Take On Tax Evasion Tax Havens And More

    The G-8 nations agree: tax evasion is bad and hurts everyone. More inter-nation cooperation is needed. But exactly what is legitimate and what isn't aren't so clear. These days it seems ...

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