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Luxury firm Mulberry signals exit of creative chief

Agence France-PresseJune 10, 2013 10:38

British luxury handbag maker Mulberry on Monday announced the departure of its creative director Emma Hill, confirming media speculation. "Mulberry confirms that Emma has informed the company that she wishes to leave after a very successful period at Mulberry during which she has built a strong and talented creative team working for her," the group said in a statement. "The main SS14 (Spring/Summer 2014) collection has been completed and Emma continues to work in the business finalising the London Fashion Week collection which will be launched on 15 September 2013.

Smartphone life shakes up website world

Agence France-PresseJune 9, 2013 20:38

Internet giants from Google and Facebook to Yahoo and Zynga are scrambling to adapt to an online world where people reach for smartphones or tablets instead of traditional computers. Social games pioneer Zynga, which rose to stardom making titles played at Facebook's website, is cutting nearly a fifth of its staff as part of a move to focus on titles for mobile gadgets. After taking over as chief executive at Yahoo last year, former Google executive Marissa Mayer laid out a turn-around strategy that made a priority of tailoring offerings to smartphones and tablets.

Kakao Talk messenger races ahead with 95 mln users

Yonhap News AgencyJune 9, 2013 21:30

SEOUL, June 10 (Yonhap) -- Kakao Corp., the developer of the popular Kakao Talk mobile messenger service, said Monday the number of its messenger users has topped the 95 million mark. Kakao Talk, launched in March 2010, is a free messenger application that runs on the Android and iOS operating systems. Kakao has seen its messenger service users surge as a growing number of smartphone users rushed to the free service. Industry watchers expect the user base to top 100 million this month on the back of popularity in East Asian nations such as Indonesia and Vietnam.

Kakao Talk messenger races ahead with 95 mln users

Yonhap News AgencyJune 9, 2013 21:30

Google to buy Israeli GPS app Waze for $1 bln

Agence France-PresseJune 9, 2013 15:43

Google is in talks on a deal worth at least $1 billion to buy the Israel-based GPS mobile navigation app Waze, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Haaretz newspaper said on its website that the two companies had agreed terms and were about to sign for a price "exceeding $1 billion". Business daily Globes said the purchase price was $1.3 billion. Neither report identified its sources. "We don't comment on rumour and speculation," a Google spokesman told AFP about the Israeli media reports.

Apple radio service may come on Monday

Agence France-PresseJune 9, 2013 04:41

Apple, aiming to overcome recent missteps and keep its cutting-edge reputation, is expected to unveil a streaming music service along with fresh hardware and software at an annual conference on Monday. Speculation that Apple will provide developers with a look at an online radio service heightened Friday with reports that the California company had inked a content deal with Sony Music.

Google, Facebook CEOs downplay ties to PRISM program as companies perform linguistic tango

The Canadian PressJune 7, 2013 22:22

SAN FRANCISCO - Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency unfettered access to email and other personal information transmitted on various online services.

Google, Facebook condemn online spying

Agence France-PresseJune 7, 2013 22:20

Google chief Larry Page and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg condemned online spying Friday and called for governments to be more revealing about snooping on the Internet. "We understand that the US and other governments need to take action to protect their citizens' safety -- including sometimes by using surveillance," Google chief and co-founder Larry Page said in a blog post. "But the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish."

Like profit-driven companies, US government mining Big Data to dig deeper into people's lives

The Canadian PressJune 7, 2013 04:26

SAN FRANCISCO - With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon Communications and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed.

Facebook denies providing government 'direct access' to servers

Thomson ReutersJune 6, 2013 21:21

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said Thursday it does not provide any government agency with "direct access" to its servers, denying a central element of a Washington Post report. The Post reported on Thursday that the U.S. National Security Agency and the FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies" through a highly classified program known as PRISM, extracting audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs.