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By Hyunjoo Jin and Miyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy Harman International Industries in an $8 billion deal, marking a major push into the auto electronics market and the biggest overseas acquisition ever by a South Korean company. The transaction highlights Samsung's efforts to break into the high-barrier automotive industry where it has little track record and also marks a strategic shift for the electronics company, which has previously shunned big acquisitions. Читать дальше...

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Facebook has repeatedly insisted that the fake news stories which spread across its social network during the presidential election did not impact the results.

Mark Zuckerberg recently went so far as to say the idea that fake news on Facebook "influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea."

Now a new report from Gizmodo claims the company chose not to take steps to suppress fake news earlier this year because it would have "disproportionately impacted... Читать дальше...

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President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday made good on his promise to shake up Washington by selecting one of the most controversial figures in recent memory to serve as his top political aide.

Steve Bannon, the 62-year-old former CEO of Trump's campaign, will serve as the future president's chief strategist, a job similar to the post formerly occupied by operatives like Karl Rove and Valerie Jarrett.

But unlike Rove and Jarrett, longtime party operatives with deep political ties... Читать дальше...

The #Next4Years campaign was co-founded by Liza Darwin to answer the sense of “uncertainty and disappointment” Clover Letter readers felt after Trump’s election.

The #Next4Years campaign was co-founded by Liza Darwin to answer the sense of “uncertainty and disappointment” Clover Letter readers felt after Trump’s election.

Video footage from the rebel-held eastern Aleppo neighborhood of Shaar shows the damage following repeated bombing by the Syrian government and its allies. Photo: Aleppo Media Center

The IFP wants to know why the KZN treasury has taken no action over a R28 million jazz festival for which it paid, but which never took place.

A 42-year-old runner dressed as Elvis won the Las Vegas Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. Michael Wardian of Arlington, Virginia, finished in 2 hours, 38 minutes and 4 seconds late Sunday in ...

Facebook executives were briefed on an update that identified fake news, but it was never released, The Verge reports.

Entrepreneur and media mogul, Gary Vaynerchuk says most advice is terrible...find out why on "Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis" Worst Advice

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Kelly Clarkson is the latest star to join Tyler Oakley on his The Tyler Oakley Show, which is streaming online now, and she has revealed a little detail about her second pregnancy announcement. “By the way, I wasn’t supposed to,” Kelly admitted, about getting in trouble for announcing that she was pregnant at her Piece [...]

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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Mayor Edwin M. Lee and Jeff Kositsky, Director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) announced today the City’s plan to end chronic homelessness for veterans in San Francisco. 
 
“No one who has served our country should be homeless in our City and these 75 new units will bring us one step closer to eradicating this situation,” said Mayor Lee. “Over the last two years we have housed over 700 chronically homeless vets and we are committed to continuing this work. Читать дальше...

England interim coach Gareth Southgate describes Tuesday's friendly at Wembley with 2010 World Cup winners Spain as a "really exciting challenge".

If you want a pair of Snap's awesome picture-taking glasses, you'll have to go to great lengths. How great? Really great. The post My Insane Adventure to Buy Snap's New Spectacles appeared first on WIRED.

Remember when TDE CEO Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, promised to deliver six TDE projects in 2016? So far, he has been making good on his word...

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A student who was awarded R6.8 million in damages after an attack by a man who was out on bail, was stabbed 22 times by her rapist.

A Houston man has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and one of its police officers, who the man said violated his constitutional rights after slamming his head into a jail cell wall, causing permanent injury.
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A trio of quick-thinking women snapped pictures of subway creeps in October, police said earlier this month.

Police have opened an inquest docket into the death of a 15-year-old KZN teen who was found with a gunshot wound to her stomach.

Former Sars officials say the so-called ‘rogue unit’ was the cheapest law enforcement entity among all anti-fraud units within the taxman.

Proposed changes to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act could see the introduction of “parental leave” which would allow a male or female parents 10 days’ leave on the birth or adoption of a child.