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Fab.com Raises $150M At $1B Valuation Led By Tencent

Online design retailer Fab.com has raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation in new financing led by China Internet giant Tencent.
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For banks in cyber heist, how to get their money back?

Because the sums were large and such attacks are relatively new, the two Middle East banks hit in a
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Andrew Rekvin On Renewables, The Limits Of Information And The Dangerous Middle

The Seattle Science Festival 2013 ended on Saturday with it's closing night program, Our 11th Hour: Straight Talk on Climate Change from People Who Know with world-leading experts on climate change: Dr. Kevin Trenberth, Dr. Richard Alley and New York Times journalist Andrew Revkin, followed by a 30-minute opera on environmental stewardship, Heron and the Salmon Girl, performed by Seattle Opera and Seattle Opera's Youth Chorus. The evening was emceed by environmental journalist Usha McFarling. The program focused on climate change and more importantly, how we can better understand the scientific data on how the Earth's climate is changing. And the data points to a dire environmental outlook. The U.N. has identified energy and food as the two biggest things leading to future sustainability that must be solved, according to Richard Alley. "A lot of the food problem is energy," Alley said in an interview before the event's main program. He said that in the U.S., out of 2,000 calorie diet, we use over 200,000 calories a day to power ourselves. What we generate internally from food is less than one percent of what we use externally. And of all these other issues, getting the energy issue in control would be the biggest step of the many steps that need to be taken . Alley added, "The question is how can we generate the good that we're getting from the energy now without changing the climate in the long term."
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You Know What's Cool? 1 Million Advertisers On Facebook

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Facebook just hit 1 million advertisers, a milestone signaling that it has become a mainstream advertising channel for small and medium-sized businesses. OK, so maybe cool isn't the right word, but it's hard to resist a good line from The Social Network movie. The social network announced the figure in a
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Dmitry Itskov Wants To Live Forever. (He Wants You To Live Forever, Too.)

At the Global Future 2045 conference (GF2045) in New York City on June 15-16, 2013, emcee Philippe van Nedervelde said, "It used to be that the only sure things are death and taxes. Soon, it will just be taxes. And if we get to live and prosper forever, perhaps even taxes will one day go the way of the Dodo too." His statement was met with laughter.
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Tweet Becomes An 'Official Word' In Latest Oxford English Dictionary Update

For all the talk of multi-million dollar valuations, one to one interactions, and a steadfast refusal to speculate about a flotation, Twitter finally has something that could impress even the most technophobic grandparent. 'Tweet' is now an official word, and is included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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You Know What's Cool? 1 Million Advertisers On Facebook

Facebook just hit 1 million advertisers, a milestone signaling that it has become a mainstream advertising channel for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Sounds That Are The Most Disruptive To Sleep

What’s keeping you up at night? Harvard astrophysics grad student Jon Bittner surveyed over 100 respondents for apartment-sharing site SplitWise.com to determine the primary offenders--and financial costs--of nocturnal disturbances.
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Minister hails 'web porn' progress

Ministers say agreements reached with internet firms will lead to a "fundamental change" in how images of child abuse are dealt with online.
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Yahoo reveals US data requests

Yahoo is the latest firm to reveal the extent of US government snooping on its users following Prism leaks.
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China retakes supercomputer crown

A China-based supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest, offering nearly double the processing speeds of the US's most powerful system.
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Google beams internet from balloons

Google is launching an experiment to beam the internet to remote areas of the world from near space balloons.
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Scrabble app changes anger players

Online Scrabble players are angered by changes made to a mobile version of Scrabble since its takeover by EA
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OXFORD/IBLS: Global E-Business Law and Taxation

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Complexity of E-Commerce Taxation (Part One)

The Internet has created a world without borders. Given that consumers can purchase goods and services from anywhere in the world, policing sales taxes from one jurisdiction to another would be very costly and cumbersome, as well as threaten e-commerce growth, which could have serious economic ramifications on local and global economies. [More...]
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by Martha L. Arias, Attorney at Law; IBLS Editor

The European Union’s Success on the Harmonization of Intellectual Property Laws

The European Union unified the European countries' economic, trade and legal systems. The four freedoms of movement: goods, services, people, and capital require that also the law is unified. Many years after, adjustments are still underway, particularly legislative adjustments, but it is fair to say that the European Union has a harmonized its intellectual property law system. How the European Union is doing regarding intellectual property rights? What are the European Union laws that unified protection of intellectual property in Europe? The answer to these questions is essential for the success of a single market. This article mentions some of the major intellectual property laws in the European Union. [More...]
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by Martha L. Arias, Attorney at Law; IBLS Editor

How Domain Name Registrars are Regulated

Not many people stop their hectic daily activities to think about how domain names are managed, or who regulates and assures preservation of our domain names. Registrars are the organizations that manage the reservation of domain names. Registrars are accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry. Registrars are paramount to the Internet world because they maintain and preserve our valuable domain names, which could be our company's name or even our own personal name. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers- ICANN- regulates domain name registrars through a compliance program. This article explains ICANN"s compliance program. [More...]
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by Jonathan Segraves, EA

Unfunded Mandate: The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Disabled Access Credit

In 1990, in an effort to address the societal marginalization faced by individuals with disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) was passed and signed into law. Among its many features, the ADA prohibits many public and private entities from intentionally discriminating against the disabled, and also requires that they take the affirmative steps of removing certain barriers, both physical and intangible, to the full integration of the disabled into the fabric of our daily life. [More...]
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Digital Health Meets Moneyball: Biomarkers And The 'Quantified Athlete'

Most of us have heard about the quantified self--the personification of the digital health revolution.
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INTERNATIONAL: E-Commerce and Tax Law Journal

IBLS is pleased to announce its newest law publication: E-Commerce and Tax Law Journal. The Law Journal is
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Google Reviews More Prominent With Official Knowledge Graph Update

Google officially announced some big changes to a Google Local Search feature with its new "Carousel" of local results at the top of the search page. These results show above advertisements in a large banner (see image to right) and are quite prominent. This change has been coming for a while, however, its roll-out signals a range of opportunities for business owners and marketing executives.
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OXFORD/IBLS: Global E-Business Law and Taxation

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Coca-Cola Leveraging Social To Drive Leadership in Social Media Marketing

Gone are the days when companies like Coca-Cola could rest on their laurels and rely on their global brand image to capture market share.  As Noreen O’Leary cites in her Adweek Article “How the World’s Most Iconic Brand Was Saved From Itself”, Coke ‘recognized the dire need to get back into the cultural conversation in order to become relevant and modern’ and appeal to a new generation. Through dramatic projects such as Coca-Cola.TV, Coca-Cola.FM and live-streaming music events, Coca-Cola has shown the world how revolutionary they can be and how this type of marketing evokes emotional, long-lasting customer engagement.
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Huge 'holograms' created for doctors

Two junior doctors develop giant 3D animations of human body parts to make medics' lectures more memorable.
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Huawei unveils 'slimmest' smartphone

Huawei unveils the world's slimmest smartphone saying the handset will work "miracles" for its brand.
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Sharp brings giant 90in TV to Europe

Sharp puts a record-sized TV on sale in Europe, but its 1080p resolution means owners will need a relatively large room to be able to watch it.
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Google to tackle child abuse images

Google has announced a plan to do more to tackle online images depicting the sexual abuse of children.
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Zimbabwe hackers hit ANC website

Opponents of President Robert Mugabe target the website of South Africa's governing ANC, accusing it of backing Zimbabwe's leader.
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For banks in cyber heist, how to get their money back?

Because the sums were large and such attacks are relatively new, the two Middle East banks hit in a
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INTERNATIONAL: E-Commerce and Tax Law Journal

IBLS is pleased to announce its newest law publication: E-Commerce and Tax Law Journal. The Law Journal is
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