Netdragon Acquires Jumpstart to Expand Its Online Communities

8 years ago0312 NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited, a global leader in building internet communities, is pleased to announce that it successfully acquired JumpStart, a Los Angeles based provider of educational products which specialize in creative and educational games for K-12 children.  Dr. Simon Leung, Vice Chairman and Executive...

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Convergence of Blockchain With Emerging Technologies Set to Disrupt the Healthcare Industry By 2025

8 years ago0300 Data interoperability, insurance fraud management, drug supply chain provenance, and identity management applications offer growth opportunities, finds Frost & Sullivan's Transformational Health team. In the next five to 10 years, a blockchain ecosystem with healthcare-focused use cases involving health data exchanges, smart...

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Denied U.S. Visas, All-Girl Afghan Robotics Team to Watch Their Creation Compete Via Skype

8 years ago0357 Two Afghan girls refused visas to the United States for a robot-building competition said on Tuesday they were mystified by the decision, as the contest's organizers said teams from Iran and Sudan as well as a de facto Syrian team had gained visas. The unusual story of the Afghan all-girl team of robotics students emerged as the...

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Police Seize Servers of Ukrainian Software Firm After Cyber Attack

8 years ago0370 Ukrainian police on Tuesday seized the servers of an accounting software firm suspected of spreading a malware virus which crippled computer systems at major companies around the world last week, a senior police official said. The head of Ukraine's Cyber Police, Serhiy Demedyuk, told Reuters the servers of M.E.Doc - Ukraine's most...

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China's Bloggers, Filmmakers Feel Chill of Internet Crackdown

8 years ago0306 China's latest maneuver in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers, bloggers, media and educators who fear their sites could be shut down as Beijing tightens control. Over the last month, Chinese regulators have closed celebrity gossip websites, restricted what video people can...

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Networks Look Online to Attract Young Viewers Back to TV

8 years ago0339 Discovery Communications Inc and Time Warner Inc's Turner are taking the unusual step of streaming full episodes of new shows online or on apps before they air on TV to attract younger viewers in the face of slipping ratings. Premium channels like CBS Corp's Showtime have done this for years to entice new subscribers, but cable...

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Family Firm In Ukraine Says It Was Not Responsible for Cyber Attack

8 years ago0338 Ukrainian company Intellect Service was not responsible for last week's international cyber attack that brought down the computer systems of several major companies, the father and daughter team told Reuters on Monday. Cyber security investigators are still trying to establish who was behind the attack. But Ukrainian officials and...

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Facebook Fights U.S. Gag Order That It Says Chills Free Speech

8 years ago0369 Facebook Inc (FB.O) is challenging a gag order from a U.S. court that is preventing the company from talking about three government search warrants that it said pose a threat to freedom of speech, according to court documents. Facebook said it wants to notify three users about the search warrants seeking their communications and...

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Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff to Keynote Salesforce Trailhead Live Tokyo on July 4

8 years ago0358 Salesforce, the global CRM leader, announced today that the company's chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will keynote Salesforce Trailhead Live Tokyo on July 4, 2017. Shinichi Koide, the chairman, president, and CEO of Salesforce Japan, will join Benioff onstage. Customers and partners will also participate in the keynote. It will begin at...

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Samsung Electronics to Launch Refurbished Note 7 Phones In South Korea From July 7

8 years ago0442 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Sunday it will start selling a refurbished version of the recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in South Korea on July 7, using batteries different from those that caused some handsets to catch fire last year. Samsung said in a statement it will offer 400,000 phones, dubbed the Galaxy Note 7...

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Yelp’s Six-Year Grudge Against Google

8 years ago0285 Yelp's lobbying team operates out of a shared office space in Washington, D.C. The company wants U.S. regulators to condemn Google's behavior. Yelp has long had a problem with how the search engine favors its own results. Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive of Yelp, the local search and reviewing site, would like this...

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Facebook Changes Algorithm to Curb 'Tiny Group' of Spammers

8 years ago0330 Facebook Inc said on Friday it was changing the computer algorithm behind its News Feed to limit the reach of people known to frequently blast out links to clickbait stories, sensationalist websites and misinformation. The move is another step by the world's largest social network to weed out spam, a battle Facebook has fought for...

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