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Firefox brushes off advertisers, plows ahead with ‘Do Not Track’
Anyone looking to search the web without being tracked by advertisers will soon be able to use Mozilla’s Firefox browser without worries. The Washington Post reports that Mozilla is moving ahead with plans to implement a “Do Not Track” system that will let users opt out of the most common types of tracking that advertisers use. Advertisers are predictably unhappy with Mozilla’s decision, of course, but the Post says that Mozilla executives are confident about “the growing sophistication of tools they are building to limit the placement of cookies in users’ browsers” such as their plan to “add limits on cookies placed by sites users intentionally visit, such as Facebook, to prevent tracking when users sign off and go to
Firefox brushes off advertisers, plows ahead with ‘Do Not Track’
Sony to consider Third Point’s proposal: Sony CEO Hirai
TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai said on Thursday that the electronics firm's board will consider hedge fund Third Point's suggestion to spin-off the electronics company's profitable entertainment arm. Hirai made the comments at an annual shareholders' meeting in Tokyo. Hirai said it was important for Sony to revitalize its electronics division as well as to continue growth of its entertainment and financial businesses, which have steadily contributed profits to the overall group. (Reporting by Mari Saito; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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Dotcom ‘in tears’ after Megaupload files deleted
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was “in tears” after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site.
Dotcom ‘in tears’ after Megaupload files deleted
Rocket’s Lazada gets $100 million in bid to be Southeast Asia’s Amazon
By Jeremy Wagstaff (Reuters) – Lazada, the Southeast Asian online retail company founded by Germany’s Rocket Internet Gmbh, has secured another $100 million from investors in its bid to lift the region from its status as an e-commerce backwater. While online shopping is big in Europe, the United States and even in China, where it is likely to account for 6 percent of all retail business this year, Southeast Asians still prefer to do 99 percent of their shopping offline, the company estimates. …
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Rocket’s Lazada gets $100 million in bid to be Southeast Asia’s Amazon
Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians
TOKYO (AP) — On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion.
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Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians
