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Business News Jeff Bezos rolls up another $437m, lights Amazon's cigar with it Another lossmaking quarter despite sales of over $20bn Facebook, IBM, court future chinese elite Zuckerberg and Rometty join advisory baord of top business school Whisper. Explain this 'questionable' behavior – senior US senator Jay Rockefeller demands briefing with not-so-anonymous app maker Satya Nadella wanted cloud, mobile first – Microsoft gives him Windows, Office first New areas show growth, but still only 13% of the profit pie Hello, Ello. Still no ads and no features to sell. What do? Bag $5.5m Did you LOL at Ello? Now see who's laughing ... all the way to the bank France to draft blacklist banning alleged piracy websites – what could POSSIBLY go wrong? La censure! Le bord mince de la cale de fromage, mes amis! DOUBLE BONK: Testy fanbois catch Apple Pay picking pockets Users wail as tapcash transactions are duplicated Zuckerberg bombshell: Man married to Chinese woman speaks Chinese in China Oh stop the world, we want to get off Mobe-free Nokia STORMS back into profit after ditching WinPho Sales up for all divisions. Having fun, Microsoft? Want to own .app, .blog or .pet? Best sell a third of yourself for $100m on London Stock Exchange Registry Afilias preps float ahead of gTLD auction battle Microsoft EU warns: If you have ties to the US, Feds can get your data European corps can't afford to get complacent while American Big Biz battles Uncle Sam Newly-private BMC gets cloud/social/mainframe (!) religion Warning: Disruption ahead. Once the new products emerge. NBN Co reports fibre traction and Telstra action FTTP services breach the not-very-magical 200,000 barrier In the next four weeks, 100 people will decide the future of the web While America tucks into Thanksgiving turkey, the world will be taking over the net Privacy complaints skyrocketed in 2013-14, says Pilgrim DoI set Oz government record for privacy fumbling Channel News Consumers start feeling the love as Chromebook sales surge Samsung, Acer, HP take three quarters of Google-based market Data Centre News Upstart brags about cheaper-than-Amazon private cold data cloud Storiant man asks you to check out their racks Amazon's AWS opens data center in Germany – just as we said Scalability away from Uncle Sam, in theory Web Developers: Autumnal webinars throw light on the Cloud Promo Special guests for special webinars Hey, Joe. Give EMC the gun and SHOOT IT DOWN - before someone else messes 'round town Comment You built it up; tear it down while you still can There's a lot more to backup than you thought Which kind will you choose? Flash! Ah-ahh: Storage in 2014 Join us in the Reg Studios on 27 November Xen says its security policies might be buggier than its software Users didn't know if they were allowed to patch bug behind world cloud reboot NIST to hypervisor admins: Pro-tip, secure your systems Hypervisor security draft open for comment Hardware News Apple: We're still GREAT pals with GT and we'd LOVE to team up again But give us back our $439m Google Glassholes are UNDATEABLE – HP exec You need an emotional connection, says touchy-feely MD... We can do that Speaking in Tech: Too fat for MARS! Podcast And Sarah HATES Doctor Who Vulture trails claw across Lenovo's touchy N20p Chromebook Review The Googlebook you can fondle Chipmaker FTDI bricking counterfeit kit USB-serial imitators whacked by driver update Forget the $2499 5K iMac – today we reveal Apple's most expensive computer to date Pic Unbelievable specs, too Security policy and EU data protection regulation The new EU data protection regime: time for the board to wake up and invest. Download here > Networks News The future health of the internet comes down to ONE simple question… Analysis Can ICANN be forced to agree to oversight of its decisions? Security News Moscow, Beijing poised to sign deal on joint cyber security ops Russian, Chinese security projects on the horizon Adobe spies on readers: EVERY DRM page turn leaked to base over SSL Spot the difference from last time Ad-borne Cryptowall ransomware is set to claim FRESH VICTIMS Cybercrooks slurping hundreds of thousands from innocent marks, say securo-bods Quick PHP patch beats slow research reveal Simple solution to remote code execution Software News HEY! GET A ROOM, yells Facebook as it discovers IRC, slaps it in an app Party like it's 1999 Entity Framework goes 'code first' as Microsoft pulls visual design tool Visual Studio database diagramming's out the window Ubuntu 14.10 tries pulling a Steve Ballmer on cloudy offerings Oi, Windows, centOS and openSUSE – behave, we're all friends here Lollipop unwrapped: Chromium WebView will update via Google Play Faster updates, and more Google control for Android Science News LONG ARM of the SAUR: Brachially gifted dino bone conundrum solved Deinocheirus mirificus was a bit of a knuckle dragger Are there sounds on Mars? NASA launches audio athenaeum Space scientists capture creepy Kepler chorus, Saturn storms Boffins who stare at goats: I do believe they’re SHRINKING Alpine chamois being squashed by global warming Security policy and EU data protection regulation The new EU data protection regime: time for the board to wake up and invest. Download here >

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