UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, US: Civil liberty groups and privacy campaigners reacted with outrage on Thursday, 6 June 2013, to a report that the US intelligence community, under President Barack Obama, is pursuing the wide-scale monitoring of millions of Americans' cell phone records.
7 Jun 2013 10:18UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, US: Google captured more than half of the US$8.8bn spent on mobile Internet advertising worldwide last year and is expected to boost its share in 2013, market watchers say.
18 Jun 2013 06:50FRANCE

LYON, FRANCE: Euronews, one of the leading international news channels in Europe, has concluded an agreement with GLWiZ, international WebTV provider, to connect with Persian-speaking (Farsi) communities all over the world.
18 Jun 2013 06:45UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, USA: Google captured more than half of the US$8.8bn spent on mobile internet advertising worldwide last year and is expected to boost its share in 2013, a market watcher said on Thursday (13 June).
14 Jun 2013 07:17UNITED STATES

SAN FRANCISCO,USA: Yahoo! has bought GhostBird - a startup that makes picture-taking applications for iPhones - to enhance its Flickr photo service.
14 Jun 2013 08:54UNITED STATES

NEW YORK, US: New York Festivals International Radio Awards honouring "The World's Best Radio Programs & Promos," will host the 2013 New York Festivals International Radio Awards Gala on 17 June.
13 Jun 2013 10:29UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, USA: At least 92% of music festival goers are more likely to take a smartphone to an event than cash or and identity document, but many fail to guard against loss or theft, an industry survey released on Wednesday (12 June) showed.
13 Jun 2013 09:15UNITED STATES
NEW YORK, US: News Corp shareholders have approved a plan to split the Rupert Murdoch-led conglomerate into two independent firms, one focusing on entertainment and the other on newspaper operations.
13 Jun 2013 10:36UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, USA: The Obama administration said this week it would comply with a judge's order to allow women and girls of any age to purchase emergency contraception, ending its efforts to restrict the drug's availability.
12 Jun 2013 10:42UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, USA: The US Senate approved a sweeping, nearly US$1trn farm bill that sets out agriculture policy for the next five years, including expansion of crop insurance and reduction of food stamps.
12 Jun 2013 11:02UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, US: A solid majority of Americans support the US government's programs tracking telephone records to try to uncover terror, a Washington Post-Pew Research Centre poll found Monday.
12 Jun 2013 08:55UNITED STATES

CHICAGO, USA: A French electric car share programme has set its sights on the home of one of the top US racing events, Indianapolis.
12 Jun 2013 09:22UNITED STATES
FORT MEADE, US: US Army Private Bradley Manning's defence team sought Monday to cast doubt on some of the charges he faces for passing hundreds of thousands of secret government files to WikiLeaks.
12 Jun 2013 09:00UNITED STATES

NEW YORK, US: Lay's snackers' come up with the next great Lay's potato chip flavour.
11 Jun 2013 11:39UNITED STATES

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Apple on Monday (10 June) unveiled its hotly anticipated iTunes Radio Service as it announced a dramatic overhaul of the touch-screen interface for its popular smartphones and tablets.
11 Jun 2013 12:59