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(Reuters) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Chairman Jack Ma said he doesn’t think consumption will decline in China as the economy slows, terming such concerns an “overreaction.” “We predict that over 50 percent of China’s consumption will be conducted online within 10 years, and that means massive potential for the e‑commerce market,” Ma said in a letter to shareholders. (http://bit.ly/1LnRAqt) (Reporting by Kshitiz Goliya in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
Computer hackers in China, South Korea and Germany tried to attack Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email server after she left the U.S. State Department in February 2013, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. “It was not immediately clear whether the attempted intrusions into Clinton’s server were serious espionage threats or the sort of nuisance attacks that hit computer servers the world over,” the AP said, citing a congressional
By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Julia Fioretti SAN FRANCISCO/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. businesses from online coupon company RetailMeNot Inc to security software company Symantec Corp said a European change to rules governing transatlantic personal data transfers would hurt U.S. companies and called for a quick fix. An EU court on Tuesday struck down a deal to let U.S. and European companies easily transfer personal data between continents, leaving some U.S. companies
Considering she’s already a certified red carpet pro, it’s hard to believe that Bella Thorne is only turning 18. And truthfully, there’s no better way to ring in her big day…
Remember Stagefright, the Android vulnerability that affected nearly a billion phones running Android versions from 2.2 to 5.1? Well, you may have heard that it’s back – and it’s even nastier than before. Where the first version of the vulnerability could be accessed via an MMS message, Stagefright 2.0 can travel via specially adapted and apparently innocuous MP3/MP4 files – and those files can be stored inside apps, so just
You’re unlikely to meet anyone more brutally honest than Karl Pilkington – or better travelled. After Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant sent him around the world for An Idiot Abroad, the comedy figure is now globetrotting on his own terms in The Moaning of Life, and he’s actually… enjoying it? We got an early preview of the new season, which kicks off October 13 on Sky 1. The good news
Bill Gross sued Pacific Investment Management Co. and parent Allianz SE for “hundreds of millions of dollars,” claiming he was wrongfully pushed out as the bond giant’s chief investment officer by a “cabal” …
The year isn’t over yet but T. Boone Pickens says his prediction for $70 oil by year end isn’t looking good. Here’s why.
Volkswagen’s top U.S. executive apologized Thursday as the emissions-rigging scandal engulfing the world’s largest automaker deepened and members of Congress said the company violated the public’s trust. …
Even if stocks can continue reclaiming more lost ground, they would be hard-pressed to stretch back toward their heights without some important improvement in credit markets.
