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Attacks on Georgian Blogger Shut Down Twitter, Facebook

Attacks on Georgian Blogger Shut Down Twitter, Facebook
Google Blogger user Cyxymu has some powerful enemies. Cyxymu lives in Georgia (his screen name is the name of a town...
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Moscow Soccer Fans Clash with Police

Source: Humanitarian News

Following Saturday's scoreless soccer game that catapulted Moscow's CSKA club to its fourth Russian Premier League title, the team's fans clashed with riot troops in downtown Moscow. Police detained 140 people [ru], later releasing all but two. ...
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Yahoo Board Has Approved A $1.1 Billion Cash Deal For Tumblr, WSJ Reports

Source: TechCrunch

Yahoo has been snapping up companies at a rapid pace this year, with what seems like new acquisitions every week over the past few months. One of the more high-profile purchases was the Summly buy, which brought the news summarization st ...
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DirecTV Consider to Acquire Hulu
DirecTV Consider to Acquire Hulu
DirecTV, the second largest satellite provider in the United States is vacillating over a decision. Should it or should it not buy Hulu? And furthermore ought it to wholly or partially acquire the online site that lends access to television programs?
 
Microsoft plans to update Xbox 360 Dashboard UI for 2013
Microsoft plans to update Xbox 360 Dashboard UI for 2013
Who hasn’t heard of the Xbox phenomenon that has swept the world by storm in recent years. The Xbox 360 Dashboard is being updated for the year 2013. As for the new Xbox it will be launched close to the middle of May.
 
Yahoo to Buy Tumblr and Update Flickr
Yahoo to Buy Tumblr and Update Flickr
The CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer has decided to buy the social micro-blogging site known as Tumblr. She also plans on updating Flickr for her company’s sake. Both these transactions are rumored to take place in an event set for Monday.
 

David Karp's Dilemma

Source: TechCrunch

As the Tumblr/Yahoo deal continues to be negotiated by press, and the world gears up for whatever is being announced Monday morning, Tumblr founder David Karp is probably having a very interesting weekend. It’s likely, in be ...
Full article at: TechCrunch  More like this  15 hours ago

Bogus Lawsuit Plus Threats To Those Who Write About It Leads To Epic Response

Source: Techdirt

Reader Jason sent over a blog post that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, following the story through a variety of twists and turns. The key player in the story is Jonathan Monsarrat, who among other things founded the ...
Full article at: Techdirt  More like this  2 days ago, 12:32pm CDT

Ramzan Kadyrov threatens to shut down his Instagram account

Source: Foreign Policy | Passport

According to Radio Free Europe, the threat comes after Kadyrov posted a photograph of himself standing next to Bekkhan Ibragimov, a Chechen who everyone thought was serving jail time for his part in the 2010 killing of a Russian soccer fan. In the pho ...
Full article at: Foreign Policy | Passport  More like this  2 days ago, 10:40am CDT

Power Grab Trumps Nanotechnology in Putin’s Russia

Source: Bloomberg.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s changing attitude toward two giant government-led high-tech projects sends a troubling message about his third term in office: Maintaining power is more important than mo ...
Full article at: Bloomberg.com  More like this  2 days ago, 5:20pm CDT

Accused U.S. Spy's Tools Get a Laugh from Russians

Source: HeraldOnline.com

Two wigs, one blond, one dark. Three pairs of glasses. Two knives. Two envelopes containing 500 euro notes. One flashlight. One can of mace. One compass. One paper map of Moscow. One ancient Nokia phone. One letter in Russian, addressed “Dear friend.” ...
Full article at: HeraldOnline.com  More like this  2 days ago, 5:00pm CDT

Duma Orders Probe Into Comparison of Red Army Units and SS

Source: RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian parliament has ordered an inquiry into comments by Leonid Gozman in which the former leader of a once prominent liberal political party equated Red Army counterintelligence units to th ...
Full article at: RIA Novosti  More like this  3 days ago, 8:49am CDT



 

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