So the rumours were true! Yahoo is buying the blogging website Tumblr, founded six years ago by David Karp in his bedroom in his mother's apartment in New York.
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United States - 19/05/2013
Someone who bought a Powerball ticket at a Publix supermarket in Florida is $590.5 million richer today - less $200 million or so in taxes (exact amount not yet known) .
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United States - 19/05/2013
Yahoo is said to be in talks to buy Tumblr , a service that hosts 108 million blogs, for a sum north of $1 billion.
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United States - 18/05/2013
Google has announced it is teaming up with NASA to launch a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab to look at how quantum computing could be developed to create artificial intelligence after buying a commercial quantum computer from Canadian-based D... Read more
United States - 16/05/2013
Fury is growing in the US over the Obama Justice Department's sweeping seizure of Associated Press phone records in a so-called war...
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Skechers has lost a $40m legal battle in the US after the sportswear firm made a series of unfounded claims in relation to its $80 ‘toning’ shoes; specifically that wearing the trainers would aid weight loss and strengthen muscles.
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United States - 16/05/2013
IN what is seen as an attempt to pacify journalists over the secret swoop by the Department of Justice on AP phones, the Obama administration yesterday set out to revive legislation that would provide greater protections to reporters from... Read more
United States - 15/05/2013
Yahoo may have jumped too soon last year in selling half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group .
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United States - 15/05/2013
Next Generation Snacks has launched a new range of health snacks entitled “Smooch” with the packaging design created by Biles Inc.
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United States - 15/05/2013
A video showing what appears to be 10,000 iPhones falling like dominoes has went viral since its upload on April 17.
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United States - 20/04/2013
A restaurateur couple whose bumbling attempts to remain in business forced Gordon Ramsay to throw in the towel on American TV have become the subject of internet ridicule after they took to Facebook to plead their side of the tale.
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United States - 15/05/2013
Blackberry yesterday unveiled a lower-cost phone aimed at consumers in emerging markets.
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United States - 14/05/2013
British-born producer Mark Burnett, "the king of reality TV," ( Survivor and The Apprentice ) is said to have offered Sarah Palin a major syndicated TV talk show - and she has turned it down.
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United States - 14/05/2013
The US Justice Department is today at the centre of a storm following revelations from the Associated Press that it secretly collected two months of telephone records of its reporters and editors.
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United States - 14/05/2013
It was a horrific Monday in Boston, with the Marathon bombing compared - despite the obvious difference in scale - with 9/11 in New York...
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The US Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the agency's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organisations gather... Read more
United States - 14/05/2013
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has lost two of his major financial backers for his Fwd.US project, which is pushing for immigration reform in the US, after it bankrolled adverts in the home states of a number of Senators who support the campaign,... Read more
United States - 12/05/2013
Students from Humboldt State University have created a map of racism and homophobia in America after analysing 150,000 tweets containing hate words sent between June 2012-April 2013.
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United States - 11/05/2013
Beyoncé - blonde or brunette? The choice is yours - but the viewers have already made theirs. And it seems the blonde allure of Marilyn Monroe is still exercising its pull.
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United States - 11/05/2013
Paying people to watch ads! That's the concept Sharon Peyer and husband Andrew Prihodko introduced in Massachusetts last month with...
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Coca-Cola is making the most of summer! The brand has enlisted more than 200 partners for its "Open for Summer" campaign - the most ever - and about the same as last year's Olympics push.
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United States - 10/05/2013
Candace Bushnell, author of the Sex and the City series, has fallen victim to a hacker after the first 50 pages of her new novel, along with a host of emails, were leaked online by a hacker named Guccifer.
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United States - 09/05/2013
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