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Alphabet profit sends shares up; overtakes Apple in value
Alphabet Inc easily beat Wall Street's quarterly profit forecasts on Feb. 1, helped by strong mobile advertising sales, sending the shares of Google's parent higher in after-hours trading to surpass Apple Inc as the most valuable U.S. company.
Personal data safety
Unfortunately, we are again face-to-face with a bill written with an étatist mindset. The bill on protection of personal data provides a legal assurance for the state's intervention in this field instead of providing privacy for individuals.
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Trending on Twitter: Should Greek islanders get the Nobel Prize for compassion shown to refugees?
The Avaaz petition calling for signatures so that Greek islanders can receive a Nobel Prize for their handling of the Greek crisis has gathered more than 630,000 signatures from around the world since it was started in November and is trending on Twitter in Greece with the hashtag #nobel_se_ellines
Serbian Opposition Hunts For Votes On the Net
Facing tough challenges in the forthcoming early elections, including poor media exposure and lack of funds, the opposition parties are turning to the Internet in a quest for voters.
Bojan Klacar, director of the Center for Free Elections and Democracy, CESID, told BIRN that no party can avoid social media now, although television remains the most influential media.
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Kosovo Alleged ISIS Hacker Appears in US Court
Ardit Ferizi was detained in Malaysia last October for allegedly hacking into a computer database and passing information about US security staff to Islamic State radicals.
Ferizi was extradited from Malaysia and appeared on Wednesday in a US court in Virginia facing terrorism charges. If found guilty, Ferizi could face 35 years in prison.
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Facebook quarterly profit doubles as user ranks grow
Facebook quarterly profit more than doubled as its ranks swelled during the past year to a mammoth user base of nearly 1.6 billion, it said Jan. 27.
End of an era? Apple warns iPhone sales to fall for first time
Apple raised the specter of the end of a technological era after reporting Jan. 26 the slowest growth sales ever of its market-leading, life-changing iPhone and warning it expects worse to come.
Photojournalists satisfied with lawmakers' decision
Photojournalists welcomed on Tuesday the Serbian parliament's decision to reject the draft interpretation of the law on copyright and related rights.
The draft said that copyright protection cannot extend to "routinely produced photographs appearing and taken over in electronic form, regardless of whether it is the author's original creation."
Photographers against copyright law draft
Representatives of several associations of photographers called on MPs Monday not to pass the draft interpretation of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights.
It considers electronic photographs to be “the result of mechanical actions, of routine, physical actions” that should not covered by copyright protection.
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Top Twitter executives to leave company, CEO Dorsey tweets
Four senior Twitter executives are leaving the media company, CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted late Jan. 24 night, the biggest leadership changes since Dorsey returned as chief executive as he struggles to revive the company's growth.