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Twitter SAN FRANCISCO, United States of America - Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday, May 23, it plans to cut 27,000 jobs, or 8% of its global workforce, by 2014 in a major restructuring effort for the computer giant.The world's biggest personal computer maker said the move was part of "a multi-year productivity initiative designed to simplify business processes, advance innovation and deliver better results for customers, employees and shareholders."The restructuring is expected to generate annualized savings...
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LOS ANGELES, United States of America (UPDATED) - A Filipina former nanny of Sharon Stone is suing the US film star for wrongful dismissal and harassment, including by allegedly making derogatory remarks about her ethnicity and religion.But the star's publicist slammed the lawsuit as "absurd," claiming the ex-nanny was simply trying to "cash in" on Stone.In legal papers filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday,...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - France and Germany crossed swords Wednesday, May 23, over how to spur growth in the debt-stricken eurozone at an EU summit tinged by plunging markets and the euro hitting a near two-year low."We have to act straight away for growth," French President Francois Hollande insisted amid deepening worries over Greece's eurozone future and Spain's troubled banks. "Otherwise there will still be doubt on the markets.""We have no time to waste," the freshly elected Socialist leader stressed...
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PINOY HEARTBREAK. Global sentiment favored Filipino-Mexican Jessica Sanchez but the American Idol for Season 11 is Phillip Phillips MANILA, Philippines - If we go by total social media sentiment, Jessica appeared to be in the lead.So why did Phillip Phillips win the Season 11 of American Idol?A study which analyzed the geolocation of tweets concerning the popular show showed that while Jessica led...
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MANILA, Philippines - The American Idol finals night has come and gone. Both finalists delivered performances that had the judges evenly split with the performances. What did Rappler see online?Online sentiment has returned in favor of Jessica Sanchez. At least 90 minutes before the finals, Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips were tied in online sentiment. Our final tracker for this year’s American...
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YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel overseas next week for the first time in more than two decades to attend an economic forum in Bangkok, her party said Thursday.The former political prisoner's plan to leave her homeland for the first time since 1988 is the latest sign of dramatic political change sweeping through the country, where decades of outright military rule ended last year."She will go to the World Economic Forum (on East Asia) in Thailand,"...
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DAVAO CITY, Philippines - Amid the power shortage in Mindanao, a wholly owned unit of Aboitiz Power Corp has announced its plans to construct two run-of-river hydroelectric power plants in Kitaotao, Bukidnon. Hedcor Inc vice president for business department Gregorio Jabonillo said the plants will have a combined generation capacity of 28.2 megawatts.Jabonillo explained that the facilities would harness the water running from Sita River and Simod River to run its turbines for power generation.He...
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On a good day, the intricate marriage of commerce and technology is stimulating. With the innovations that we are seeing today, we are able to do business with more people, in a greater number of countries, and in less amount of time that we used to need a few decades ago.For an emerging economy like the Philippines, these gifts are most welcome. Technology and commerce must serve the needs and hopes...
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LONDON, United Kingdom - Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honor of addressing Britain's parliament on June 21 during her landmark first trip abroad in more than two decades, it was announced Wednesday.The 66-year-old opposition leader spent much of the last two decades locked up in her Yangon home by Myanmar's former junta.However, the democracy icon has now been issued with a passport and is able to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years.Prime Minister David Cameron last...
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MANILA, Philippines - Diversifying conglomerate San Miguel Corp. is aiming to increase target sales for all units more than 60% this year, after its president and chief operating officer Ramon S. Ang said its US$20 billion (est PhP860 billion) revenue target will be achieved by end of this year.“We are ahead to achieve the $20 billion sales. We believe that we may even hit $20 billion revenues per year. We have set internally another target but I will not say how much,” Ang told reporters on May...
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LONDON, United Kingdom - The UN Security Council has failed to match the courage shown by protesters around the world and is increasingly "unfit for purpose," Amnesty International said in its annual report Thursday, May 24.The rights group called for the signing of a strong treaty on the global arms trade when the United Nations meets on the issue in July, saying it would be an acid test for world leaders to place rights over profits.Amnesty highlighted the failure to end the bloodshed in Syria...
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WASHINGTON, United States of America - The US State Department said that Pakistan had no basis to hold or charge a surgeon who was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for helping in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.A tribal court in Khyber, a lawless district and extremist hotbed, convicted surgeon Shakeel Afridi of treason after he agreed to collect DNA for US intelligence to verify the presence of the most-wanted Al-Qaeda leader.State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland recalled that both...
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BINAY PARTYMATES. Zambales Rep Mitos Magsaysay and Cebu Gov Gwen Garcia will be the new partymates of Vice President Jejomar Binay MANILA, Philippines – Two politicians identified with former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo are joining Vice President Jejomar Binay’s political party.Zambales Rep Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay and Cebu Gov Gwen Garcia are joining Binay’s Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas...
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92 VESSELS? Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei denies China has 92 vessels in Scarborough Shoal. File photo from China Foreign MinistryMANILA, Philippines – China insisted it only has 20 fishing vessels in the disputed Scarborough Shoal after the Philippine government protested the supposed presence of up to 92 Chinese vessels in the area.In a press briefing Wednesday, May 23, Chinese...
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DEFYING DOCTORS. Chief Justice Renato Corona will return to the Senate Friday, defying doctors' orders. File photo by Joseph Vidal/PRIB/Senate Pool MANILA, Philippines – Chief Justice Renato Corona will attend the impeachment trial Friday, May 25, lead defense counsel Serafin Cuevas told reporters.Corona will attend the trial in defiance of his doctors' medical advice, Cuevas said, according to reports...
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MANILA, Philippines - Young singer Jessica Sanchez did not win this year's American Idol, but her "killer duet" with Tony Award-winning actress Jennifer Holliday will likely be one of the most viewed clips from this season of the hit contest.On Thursday, May 4, no one held back. It was pure divahood as they went back and forth, with their huge voices in full display as they sang And I Am Telling...
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THE IDOLS. American Idol Season 11 finalists Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez.MANILA, Philippines - The Americans have spoken (or voted). Phillip Phillips is their new Idol. But Jessica Sanchez, who has Filipino and Latino roots, is the world's idol, according to netizens who took to social media to express awe of the 16-year-old's power vocals. On May 24, Phillips, the dreamy white-guy-with-guitar...
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ELEVENTH "IDOL." Winner Phillip Phillips performs onstage during Fox's "American Idol 2012" results show at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on May 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Mark Davis/Getty Images/AFPMANILA, Philippines - America has voted: Phillip Phillips is this season's "American Idol."Host Ryan Seacrest announced the winner at the end of a two-hour, star-studded season finale for American...
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MANILA, Philippines - In the battle for one of the remaining available 3G frequencies, two of the largest conglomerates in the country are up against the other. Ramon Ang, the president of diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp., declared on Wednesday, May 23, that they, too, will bid for the 3G frequency originally assigned to Connectivity Unlimited Resource Enterprises Inc. (CURE) and which the Ayala-led Globe Telecom desperately wants."We will bid to win," Ang told reporters. He said the 10-megahertz...
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16 May 2012 Last updated at 13:19 Images from the patents show different versions of the technology Search giant Google has patented the design of its augmented-reality glasses, known as Project Glass.Three patents for a "wearable display device" with characteristics of the much-talked about futuristic glasses were submitted last autumn.The patents reference such functions as displaying data in...
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16 May 2012 Last updated at 13:42 Teenage girls are coming under increasing pressure to text and email sexually explicit pictures of themselves, a report suggests.The report, commissioned by the NSPCC, suggests the demands come from peers rather than from adults or strangers.So-called sexting, the sending or receiving of sexual images by text or email, is thought to affect more than a third of under-18s.More...
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15 May 2012 Last updated at 14:45 Pornography filters come as standard on many mobile phones Pornography filters on mobile phones are "censoring" normal web content, according to the Open Rights Group.Its report found that 60 websites were incorrectly blocked by mobile filters designed to prevent children viewing adult content.The affected sites included political commentaries, personal blogs and...
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16 May 2012 Last updated at 16:32 Only six people on board will be allowed to make calls at once Passengers flying with Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone calls using their personal mobile devices.Only six people will be allowed to talk at once, and phones will still have to be turned off at take-off and landing.By the end of 2012, the service could...
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16 May 2012 Last updated at 08:13 GMT Sorkin (right) previously wrote The Social Network, about Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is to write the script for Sony Pictures' upcoming biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.The film is based on Walter Isaacson's authorised biography and is unconnected to another proposed screen biopic, to which Ashton Kutcher has been linked.West...
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By Jasmine ColemanNewsbeat reporter Gamers have discovered a bug in the eagerly anticipated Diablo III which they say throws them out of the system.It comes after servers crashed under the weight of players trying to log in online after the game's release on Monday night (14 May).There were so many complaints #error37 was trending on Twitter.The game's developer Blizzard Entertainment has said...
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16 May 2012 Last updated at 02:41 GMT Michael Clendenin from RedTech Advisors in Shanghai says Facebook may not be able to pose a serious challenge to sites like Weibo in ChinaSina Corp, China's largest internet portal and media website, has swung to a loss in the first three months of the year.Its first quarter net loss was $13.7m (£8.6m) compared with a profit of $15m in the same period last year.The...
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15 May 2012 Last updated at 21:10 GMT By Leo Kelion Technology reporter, BBC News The US government plans to install nearly 19,000 of Nvidia's new GPUs into its Titan supercomputer later this year Chip maker Nvidia has revealed details of a new graphics processing unit (GPU) which it says will create the world's most powerful computer.Thousands of the firm's Tesla K20 modules will be fitted to an...
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16 May 2012 Last updated at 09:06 GMT The success of the new models is being considered as key to HTC's fortunes Shares of Taiwan's HTC have fallen after US customs officials held up shipments of its new smartphones.In December, HTC was found guilty of infringing a patent held by Apple and there is a ban on the sale of any HTC phones in the US that use technology involving that patent.HTC said that...
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17 May 2012 Last updated at 00:07 By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News The UK government has a vast portfolio of services available online, such as this Directgov portal Ahead of a nationwide deadline over regulating the use of cookies, the BBC has learned that the "majority" of the UK government's own websites will fail to comply in time.All UK sites have been given until 26 May to make sure...
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