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    Mexico to extradite drug boss El Chapo to US

    A report photograph of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman in Mexico. picture: Reuters Mexico city: Mexico approved the extradition of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the usa on Friday after receiving guarantees he could no longer face the death penalty, and the kinkgpin’s legal professionals vowed to block the move. Juan Pablo […]

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    Uber Settles magnificence movement fit With US Drivers

    Uber has agreed to pay up to $one hundred million (kind of Rs. 666 crores) to settle two class movementfits filed by means of drivers who said they have been employees entitled to benefits, rather thanunbiased contractors. The suits challenged a pillar of the business version of the pioneer of the so-referred to as gig […]

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    Isro Says Chandrayaan II Will Be Indigenous, Take Minor Help From US

    Opting to go solo in its ambitious Chandrayaan II project, India has decided not to take Russia on board and keep the mission completely indigenous with “minor” help from the US. Isro chairman A S Kiran Kumar said Chandrayaan II, having an indigenously built Lander and Rover, will be launched by December 2017 or first […]

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    For Google, India to be bigger market than US by next year: Pichai

    Sundar Pichai, global chief executive at Goggle, the giant search engine, believes India will become a bigger marketfor the company than the US sometime in the middle of 2016. In an interaction with half a dozen journalists here on Wednesday, he said it was not only with regard to the use of Android-based phones that […]

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    Apple Said to Have Hired a Corporate Security Officer Amid Legal Battle With the US

    Apple Inc, amid a pitched battle with the US government over law enforcement’s desire to crack into iPhones, has hired a new security executive to oversee its corporate digital defences, people familiar with the matter said. Apple appointed George Stathakopoulos, formerly vice president of information security at Amazonand before that Microsoft Corp’s general manager of […]

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    Toshiba Says Cooperating With US on ‘Accounting Problem’

    Toshiba’s American units are cooperating with US authorities over alleged accounting irregularities, the embattled firm said Friday, a day after its shares tumbled on a report it was under investigation. The company has been roiled by a profit-padding scandal, in which high-handed bosses for years systematically pushed their subordinates to cover-up weak financial figures. Toshiba, […]

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    US to Blame Iran for 2013 Cyber-Attack on New York Dam: Report

    The Obama administration is planning to publicly blame Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyber-attack against a small dam in New York state, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against the hackers, two of the sources said, and a public announcement could come as soon as next […]

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    Internet Address Gatekeeper Icann Approves Plan to Break From US

    The gatekeeper of Internet addresses on Thursday approved a plan to break from US oversight, shifting those symbolic functions to the broader global online community. The plan, which now heads to the US government for approval, aims to maintain Internet governance under a “multi-stakeholder” model which avoids control of the online ecosystem by any single […]

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    China’s ZTE Says Suppliers Need to Apply for US Export Licence

    Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp said on Wednesday its suppliers must seek licences to provide materials, in line with newly imposed US restrictions on the company. The news, confirming a Reuters report on Tuesday, comes a day after the US Commerce Department slapped export restrictions on ZTE for alleged Iran sanctions violations, a move […]

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    US Police Say Criminals Like Apple’s iPhone Because of Encryption

    Some criminals have switched to new iPhones as their “device of choice” to commit wrongdoing due to strong encryption Apple Inc has placed on their products, three law enforcement groups said in a court filing. The groups told a judge overseeing Apple’s battle with the US Department of Justice on Thursday that, among other things, […]

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    US Appeals Ruling on Accessing Data in New York iPhone Case

    Calling a New York judge’s ruling “an unprecedented limitation” on judicial authority, the Justice Department asked a Brooklyn federal court on Monday to reverse a decision that said Apple Inc. wasn’t required to pry open a locked iPhone. The government’s 45-page brief comes a week after US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein issued his decision in […]