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le 21 May 2012
SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo Inc for $7.1 billion, in a deal that moves the [...] Read more
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le 21 May 2012
Pakistan restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over "blasphemous" posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. [...] Read more
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le 21 May 2012
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for several hours because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top [...] Read more
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le 21 May 2012
HONG KONG - Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has agreed to sell half of its 40 per cent stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion. [...] Read more
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le 20 May 2012
(Reuters) - The Nasdaq is planning to revamp its systems for handling stock offerings after acknowledging that technology problems had affected trading in millions of newly issued Facebook shares [...] Read more
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le 20 May 2012
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le 20 May 2012
Authorities in Pakistan blocked access to Twitter on Sunday, over mention of a contest held in 2010 asking people to draw images of the Prophet Muham̷ [...] Read more
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le 20 May 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different [...] Read more
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le 20 May 2012
Mom-to-be Kristin Cavallari celebrated the impending arrival of her baby boy at a bash with her friends on Saturday. The 25-year-old former "Hills" reality star (who is engaged to Chicago Bears [...] Read more
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le 20 May 2012
If you haven't already heard Matisyahu 's song " One Day " then it's probably worth giving it a listen before viewing the above video. If you have (or just went and did so) then you know that [...] Read more
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