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Tokyo : Over 12,000 aftershocks were felt in the coastal areas of Japan since a powerful earthquake struck the region in March 2011, the Meteorological Agency said.   Quakes that are considered aftershocks of the magnitude 9.0 temblor are becoming less frequent but their frequency is...

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New York :  Nearly 49 percent American smartphone users have either broken or lost their devices summing up to almost 230,685,172 broken or lost mobile phones, a study by the US-based Verizon and KRC Research said.   About 43 percent of the people have damaged the device by...

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New York : US technology giant Apple has launched customer support on micro-blogging website Twitter to answer your queries about its wide range of products.   Although Apple has Twitter accounts for specific products like Beats 1, Apple Music and iTunes, it has avoided a central...

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Washington : Seven out of eight Indian-American candidates, who ran for local elections in Lexington city in the US state of Kentucky on Tuesday, have won.   With this, now their are a total of 12 Indian-Americans elected members of the Lexington Town Meeting, India New England News...

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Nay Pyi Taw : Myanmar's Earthquake Committee on Thursday has continued monitoring a possible tsunami wave in its coastal areas after Indonesia was hit by a 7.9-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday.   Myanmar's Meteorology and Hydrology Department said it is working closely with its...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 March 2016
The US regulator is awarding more than $700,000, to a whistleblower who conducted a detailed analysis that led to a successful SEC enforcement action against NYSE    Eric Hunsader, a vocal critic of high-frequency traders, had said the Securities and Exchange Commission is...

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Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday scored two of the first three Super Tuesday contests   Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday scored two of the first three Super Tuesday contests, garnering an early advantage over Bernie Sanders, who won his home state of Vermont, according to...

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It's a win for Apple, which is being pressured by federal law enforcement agents to help it break into iPhones in at least 13 instances across the country   A federal magistrate-judge in New York city has ruled that the government can't force Apple to hack an iPhone to investigate a...

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IANS 25 February 2016
Hyderabad : Prime Minister of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth has undergone cataract and glaucoma surgery at a private hospital in Hyderabad.   The 84-year-old has completely recovered and will be flying back early next week, said doctors at Maxivision Super Speciality Eye...

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Julia Angwin (ProPublica) 25 February 2016
The government has never been allowed to create a “backdoor” to encrypted devices. Now, it’s trying to force Apple to build one   The FBI's much-discussed request to Apple can seem innocuous: Help us extract six weeks of encrypted data from the locked iPhone of Syed Farook, an...

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IANS 24 February 2016
Havana : The US Treasury Department has fined a French firm for doing business in US equipment with Cuba in violation of the United State trade embargo against the Caribbean island nation.   CGG Services, a company specialising in geophysical services, was slapped with a fine of...

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IANS 23 February 2016
Jakarta : Indonesia has sunk 30 impounded foreign and local boats in its campaign against illegal fishing in its waters.   Among the 30 scuttled empty vessels, 11 were identified from Vietnam, eight from Malaysia, seven from the Philippines and three from Indonesia, Xinhua news agency...

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IANS 20 February 2016
Washington : The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday announced that it selected Christine Lagarde to serve as its leader for a second five-year term.   Lagarde, the sole candidate nominated for the post of the IMF chief, will start the second term from June 5.   The...

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Vatsal Srivastava (IANS) 18 February 2016
Recall that the median forecast was for three Fed rate hikes in 2016 only two months ago   Global financial markets have started to price in a global recession since the beginning of 2016. The Fed raised rates for the first time in almost a decade but the price action has been...

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IANS 18 February 2016
Washington : Google's Indian-American chief executive Sundar Pichai sided with rival Apple in its battle over a court order to help the FBI access information on the encrypted iPhone used by a Pakistani-American shooter in San Bernardino.   Pichai Wedenesday directed followers to...

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IANS 16 February 2016
Perth : A West Australian mining firm has found a record breaking 404-carat diamond believed worth over $14 million.   According to reports on Tuesday, the Lucapa Diamond Company, based in Perth but operating in the African nation of Angola, found the 404-carat diamond at its Lulo...

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IANS 16 February 2016
Moscow : At least one person was killed and 39 were reported trapped after a powerful gas explosion triggered the collapse of a five-storey residential building in Russia's Yaroslavl city early Tuesday.   Preliminary information showed that about 10 flats on the first to fifth floors...

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IANS 11 February 2016
New York : A sequential decline in its monthly active users (MAUs) base triggered a sharp fall for Twitter shares in the after-hours trade, as the company announced its fourth quarter results on Wednesday.   The micro-blogging site reported 305 million monthly active users for the...

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IANS 10 February 2016
London : In another setback to Facebook in Europe, the French data protection authority has ordered the social networking giant to stop sending user data to the US and comply with the European data protection law.   According to a report in technology website Tech Crunch, Facebook has...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 10 February 2016
The charity has its worst fundraising year since at least 2000   The American Red Cross ran a deficit of $159 million last fiscal year, battered by a steep drop in fundraising and its struggling blood banking division, according to newly released financial statements.   Former...

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