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Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday, but amid the celebrations, the “B-word” — Bollywood — remains controversial. The French film festival has rolled out the red carpet for Indian cinema this year, with events including a gala dinner and ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
Urawa Reds supporters will demand nothing less than three points from this weekend’s J. League clash with Kashiwa Reysol, but after swapping the comfort of hometown team Sanfrecce Hiroshima for the bear pit of Saitama, defender Ryota Moriwaki wouldn’t have it any other way. ...
Lean and focused would be a good way to characterize the recently launched lineups from Japan’s three top cellphone carriers.
Relatively mundane city management issues, from parking to water use, are going high-tech as cities seek to use analytics and ...
U.S. teenagers are sharing more information about themselves on social-media sites, but taking steps to protect their privacy online, a ...
Microsoft unveils the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment.
Reinvigorated technology player Yahoo on Monday unveiled a dusted-off design of its Flickr photo platform only hours after the company’s dramatic acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, maintaining her ambition was to make Flickr “awesome again,” said the new site will ...
The billion-dollar deal for Tumblr has stirred talk on the next big acquisition target in the sector, with cash-rich tech giants looking for the next potential star. Yahoo’s blockbuster deal for the popular blogging platform comes amid a battle for eyeballs on the Internet ...
Yahoo has concluded that Tumblr, the social blogging service, is worth a whopping $1.1 billion. Will the bet prove a good one? The answer depends on whether the combined company can turn its many millions of users into a interlocking set of services that ...
Tumblr lovers were quick to express outrage in trademark sassy posts Monday after news that Yahoo is buying the blogging platform in a $1.1 billion deal. Reaction was swift as the youthful user base of Tumblr put the California company on notice that they ...
Chinese hackers who breached Google's servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years' worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials.
Yahoo Inc.’s board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr Inc., a service that hosts 108 million blogs, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter. Tumblr will continue to operate as an independent business and a deal was ...
LinkedIn and Facebook celebrated the anniversaries of their IPOs just a few days apart this week. But their experiences as publicly traded companies couldn’t be more different. LinkedIn Corp. promotes its service as a stepping stone to a more enriching career. As it turns ...
Google Inc. has unveiled a streaming music service, called All Access, that blends songs users have uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks for a $10 monthly fee. The service puts the Internet goliath in competition with popular paid subscription plans ...
Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S. Web companies. That is not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit that believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market ...
Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday. The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint from an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder, identified only ...
Samsung Electronics says it had successfully tested super-fast fifth-generation wireless technology that would eventually allow users to download an entire movie in one second.