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Facebook's Sandberg speaks at husband's memorial

Many of the tech world’s top executives filled a 1,700-seat auditorium at Stanford University to commemorate David Goldberg, chief executive of SurveyMonkey. “We had 11 truly joyful years of the deepest love, happiest marriage, and truest partnership that I could imagine,” Sandberg posted on Facebook. On their way out, guests were offered Minnesota Vikings baseball caps as a reminder of the Minneapolis-born Goldberg’s lighthearted nature and love of sports, according

Sky? Skype? EU court backs Murdoch over Microsoft in name battle

In a clash of corporate titans over naming rights in a fast-changing industry, Microsoft and its Skype phone service came out on the losing side of an EU court battle on Tuesday with Rupert Murdoch’s television business Sky. Judges at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg upheld a complaint that the British broadcaster lodged a decade ago with the EU trademark authority in which it said the

China drone maker DJI wins backing from Silicon Valley investor

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd has secured one of its largest investments yet from a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early backer of Internet pioneers such as Facebook Inc, Etsy Inc and Dropbox. The Shenzhen-based company, a global leader in selling commercial and recreational drones, said on Wednesday that Palo Alto, California-based Accel Partners had agreed to invest

EU to review behavior of web giants in digital market overhaul

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will conduct a comprehensive review this year of the role of web giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to decide whether it should regulate them more tightly, it said on Wednesday. The review, which had been expected, is part of a Digital Single Market Strategy unveiled by Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip on Wednesday. A wide-ranging policy paper, it lays out