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Microsoft offers patent troll defense for cloud customers

Companies new to the cloud are vulnerable to non-practicing entities, which do not make any products themselves but use their arsenal of broad technology patents to sue other firms in order to extract royalties or a cash settlement. The new offering could appeal to companies new to the cloud arena, needing a service such as Microsoft's Azure to store their data or…

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Harry Potter spinoff helps Time Warner top estimates

The New York-based media company, which is set to become part of AT&T Inc in an $85.4 billion deal, reported an 11.5-percent rise in quarterly revenue and said the merger remained on track to close later this year. U.S. President Donald Trump opposed AT&T's bid for Time Warner during his election campaign. AT&T, which has also said it expects the deal to be approved, is looking …

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Exclusive: White House eying executive order targeting ‘conflict minerals’ rule – sources

By Sarah N. Lynch and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is planning to issue an executive order targeting a controversial Dodd-Frank rule that requires companies to disclose whether their products contain “conflict minerals” from a war-torn part of Africa, according to sources familiar with the administration's thinking. The plan for the executive order comes on the heels of another order issued by the White House last week that takes aim more broadly at the

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Taiwan says set to order Uber to exit market

By Faith Hung and Yimou Lee TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Taiwan's Investment Commission said on Wednesday it is set to order Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] to exit the domestic market, saying the global ride-hailing giant misrepresented its business as an internet-based information technology platform rather than a transportation

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Paramount stake sale could hamper deal for Viacom: National Amusements

(Reuters) – Sumner Redstone's privately held movie theater company said on Friday it opposes the sale of a minority stake in Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures, because such a transaction could hurt the chances of a deal involving all of Viacom.

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Takata settles Florida air bag injury lawsuit

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for a Florida woman who was left a quadriplegic after a Takata air bag inflator deployed in a 2014 crash said Friday they had settled a lawsuit against the Japanese company. The settlement was confirmed

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Facebook’s CEO and wife to give 99 percent of shares to couple’s foundation

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Mark Zuckerberg will put 99 percent of his Facebook Inc shares, currently worth about $45 billion, into a new philanthropy project focusing on human potential and equality, he and his wife said Tuesday in a letter to their newborn daughter. The plan, which was posted on the…

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