Google on Thursday announced the latest figures for its Transparency Report, showing the steady increase in government requests for its users’ data has continued through 2012. This is the seventh time the company is releasing new numbers to show the public how often governments requests it to remove content from its services. During the first…
SHARE THIS Print Email More sharing RedditStumbleUponDelicious Tourist raped on minibus in Rio, police sayBy Shasta Darlington, CNNApril 2, 2013 -- Updated 0002 GMT (0802 HKT)STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: U.S. State Dept official says rape victim was female U.S. citizen A foreign tourist is kidnapped, raped and robbed on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro, police say…
SHARE THIS Print Email More sharing RedditStumbleUponDelicious North Korea readying rockets to aim at U.S. targets, state media saysBy CNN StaffMarch 28, 2013 -- Updated 2234 GMT (0634 HKT)(CNN) -- North Korea's leader has signed off on a plan to prepare rockets to be on standby for firing at U.S. targets, including the U.S. mainland…
SHARE THIS Print Email More sharing RedditStumbleUponDelicious U.N. sending 'offensive' brigade to Democratic Republic of CongoBy CNN StaffMarch 28, 2013 -- Updated 2237 GMT (0637 HKT)(CNN) -- The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday to deploy about 3,100 peacekeepers to a restive region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. announced.The…
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) (ots) - Crytek GmbH today announced a new partnership with game publisher Level Up! that will bring their free-to-play FPS, Warface, to players in Brazil. Brazil's leading distributor of online games, Level Up! have been delivering exciting online experiences to players for over a decade, with millions of gamers enjoying the…
Brazilian entrepreneur extraordinaire Marco Vanossi has released GeoPapyrus, a new iPhone app that uses augmented reality (AR) to attach content like links, photos and video to real-world objects. At its core, GeoPapyrus is an AR tagger and reader. You start the app in a surface detection view that locks on to rectangular objects in the…
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - White smoke poured from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday and the bells of St. Peter's Basilica pealed, signaling that cardinals had chosen a new pope to lead the troubled Roman Catholic Church after only five ballots.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Red-robed cardinals retreated behind the heavy wooden doors of the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday at the start of a conclave that will elect a new pope to tackle the strife and scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church.
STORY HIGHLIGHTSUsain Bolt and Jessica Ennis win main prizes at the 2013 Laureus World Sports Awards Jamaica's Bolt repeated his Beijing Olympic triple success at London 2012 Britain's Ennis clinched the heptathlon gold medal at her home Games U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps and Dominican hurdler Felix Sanchez also honored (CNN) -- Usain Bolt and Jessica…
Startupi, a site covering the Brazilian startup scene, has raised a $300,000 seed round of its own. The team was pitched to me as the “TechCrunch of Brazil,” and in fact it has attracted the backing of Roi Carthy, who covers Israeli startups for TechCrunch. (Carthy invested through his firm Initial Capital, which backs early-stage…
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