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Hackers post account info of 4.6 million Snapchat users: report

(Reuters) – Pc hackers posted on-line usernames and partial telephone numbers of four.6 million customers of cell photo-sharing provider Snapchat, media studies stated on Wednesday. A website online referred to as SnapchatDB.info made the information on hand for obtain, in step with tech news website online TechCrunch. In a observation […]

 
 

AllThingsD editors launch "Re/code" venture with NBCUniversal backing

By means of Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Veteran technology journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher have unveiled “Re/code,” a technology information website and conference business to succeed AllThingsD which they based and built into a leading tech media model inside News Corp. Mossberg and Swisher, who agreed in […]

 
 

Marketing efforts to uninsured youth ramp up

Marketing efforts to uninsured youth ramp up

MIAMI (AP) — The so-referred to as "younger invincibles" are so important to the success of the Affordable Care Act that supporters and detractors are spending hundreds of thousands to succeed in them with racy ads, social media campaigns and celebrity endorsements. The president is even (gasp) asking their moms […]

 
 

AP sources: Smith reaches deal to coach Tampa Bay

AP sources: Smith reaches deal to coach Tampa Bay

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former Chicago Bears teach Lovie Smith is set to tackle the challenge of rebuilding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

 
 

Syrian Electronic Army says hacked into Skype’s social media accounts

Syrian Electronic Army says hacked into Skype’s social media accounts

By means of Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit score on Wednesday for hacking into the social media accounts of Web calling provider Skype. The group also posted the contact data of Steve Ballmer, […]

 
 

Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate

Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Barack Obama's new well being care law by using blocking a requirement that some faith-affiliated firms provide health insurance that includes birth control.

 
 

‘Like a Napa Valley wine tour’: Pot tourism ready to light up in Colorado

‘Like a Napa Valley wine tour’: Pot tourism ready to light up in Colorado

As Colorado becomes the first state in the nation to permit leisure marijuana sales starting Jan. 1, a budding pool of "potrepreneurs" have high hopes for an inflow of out-of-city pot tourists.

 
 

The Year in 2013 Media, As Told Through GIFs

The Year in 2013 Media, As Told Through GIFs

  We’ve counted down 2013′s largest media feuds, saddest hoaxes, most recoil-worthy moments, most up to date messes, and you picked the absolute best and worst of media. There’s only one retrospective left: The Yr in Media, as instructed via animated GIFs. And in the event you like what you […]

 
 

New Year’s Eve forecast: where revelers will have to bundle up

New 12 months’s Eve revelers will face radically different climate conditions relying on the place they plan to birthday celebration on the closing night of 2013 with conditions starting from balmy to bone chilling. Revelers in New York’s Instances Square for the most important of the New 12 months’s Eve […]

 
 

U.S. consumer mood brightens, but home price gains slow

U.S. consumer mood brightens, but home price gains slow

Via Steven C. Johnson NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. consumers’ temper more suitable as 2013 drew to a close, with many optimistic about their future job possibilities, whereas home costs rose again in October, although the % of positive aspects slowed. The info releases provided extra evidence of energy in […]

 
 

Air clearing after smoky rail crash in North Dakota town

With the aid of Alicia Underlee Nelson CASSELTON, North Dakota (Reuters) – Exams of air over a small North Dakota town shrouded in smoke from a fiery oil train crash exhibit that the pollution degree is shedding and residents who were evacuated may be capable of go residence soon, authorities […]

 
 

Terminally Ill Student Gets Death Threats from Animal Rights Activists for Praising Animal Testing

Terminally Ill Student Gets Death Threats from Animal Rights Activists for Praising Animal Testing

25-yr-previous Caterina Simonsen suffers from a number of uncommon genetic pulmonary illnesses and has basically been a “human guinea pig” for various therapies for the prior few years. Luckily, she has survived much longer than she expected, and on Facebook she expressed her gratitude for clinical analysis like animal checking […]

 
 

Small improvement for Schumacher after 2nd surgery

Small improvement for Schumacher after 2nd surgery

GRENOBLE, France (AP) — Michael Schumacher underwent a 2d surgical operation after a brain scan confirmed small, “stunning” indicators of growth, but grim docs mentioned Tuesday they could provide no insight into the prognosis for the Formula One champion.  

 
 

Wall St. rises; S&P 500 set for best year since 1997

Wall St. rises; S&P 500 set for best year since 1997

By way of Curtis Skinner NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. shares advanced modestly on Tuesday, boosted by a fantastic shopper self assurance reading, maintaining the S&P 500 on track for its very best yr considering that 1997 and the Dow on % to record its absolute best efficiency in view […]

 
 

Bombs across Baghdad kill at least 15, clashes continue in Anbar: sources

Bombs exploded throughout the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at the least 15 people, police and medical sources mentioned, a day after police broke up a Sunni Muslim protest camp in a western province. No group right away claimed responsibility for any of Tuesday’s attacks however al Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate, […]