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Microsoft says disrupts cybercrime rings with roots in Kuwait, Algeria
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp launched what it hopes will be the most successful private effort to date to crack down on cyber crime by moving to disrupt communications channels between hackers and infected PCs.
Google, Detroit diverge on road map for self-driving cars
SAN FRANCISCO/DETROIT (Reuters) - In 2012, a small team of Google Inc engineers and business staffers met with several of the world's largest car makers, to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars.
Google to shut down social networking service Orkut in September
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut, which was launched ten years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Web's most popular businesses.
U.S. top court rejects Google bid to drop Street View privacy case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Google Inc's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of violating federal wiretap law when it accidentally collected emails and other personal data while building its popular Street View program.
Exclusive: Facebook scores record 1 billion interactions for World Cup
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - With 1 billion posts, likes and comments in just the first half of the World Cup, the soccer tournament is already the most talked-about event in Facebook Inc's decade-long history, data obtained by Reuters showed.
EU's Almunia says could probe Google's YouTube dominance
LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's antitrust chief said on Monday he could investigate Google's YouTube if he saw any attempt by the company to abuse its dominant position in online video searching.
Hon Hai buys a stake in SK C&C; shares hit multi-year highs
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Hon Hai Precision, the world's biggest electronics component maker, said on Monday it had bought a 4.9 percent stake in South Korean IT services firm SK C&C for 381 billion won ($376.59 million).
Sony says only "natural disaster" could keep TVs in red this year
TOKYO (Reuters) - Only a "natural disaster" could keep Sony Corp's TV division from returning to profit this year, the head of the newly independent business said on Monday, after a decade in the red and repeated missed promises of a turnaround.
Look ma, no hands - Swedish start-up launches touchless selfie app
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Selfie fans, your life just got a little easier. A Swedish tech start-up has launched an app for Apple devices that lets people take photos of themselves without having to touch their screens.
Why secular stagnation is wrong: Kemp
LONDON (Reuters) - "Equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists," Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned gloomily in September 1932. "Our industrial plant is built; the problem just now is whether under existing conditions it is not overbuilt."
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