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South Korea's 'webtoon' culture fast becoming international rage
The genre is a growing cultural force in South Korea, supported by an ultra-fast Internet and smartphone-crazy populace, and fuelled by a small army of young, creative, tech-savvy graphic artists.
Amazon pulls Nazi-themed ads from NYC subway after facing flak
A furious backlash has prompted Amazon to pull ads for a television show that featured the Nazi German eagle and Imperial Japan's rising sun on the New York subway.
Vodafone users can now choose their own numeric combination for mobile numbers
Vodafone India launched a facility allowing customers in Delhi and NCR to choose the numeric combination of their choice in the mobile numbers.
Police detain man swinging samurai sword at NYC Apple store
Authorities say a man has been taken into custody after swinging a samurai sword inside an Apple store in Manhattan.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to take two months of paternity leave
Facebook allows its US employees to take up to four months of paid maternity or paternity leave, which can be used all at once or throughout the first year of their child's life.
Flowers to bloom in space for the first time this New Year
It is the first time that a flowering crop experiment will be grown on the orbiting laboratory.
US ski resorts explore possibility of offering guests 'drone zones' for ultimate selfies
At US resorts, Cape Productions is expected to charge between $100 and $200 for a photo shoot that includes three runs.
US counterintelligence chief 'sceptical' about China's curb on espionage
US counterintelligence chief Bill Evanina said he had seen 'no indication' from the US private sector 'that anything has changed' in the extent of Chinese espionage on the United States.
Android, iOS capture 98% of smartphone sales worldwide; Samsung still leads Apple
Samsung was still the leading brand for smartphone sales worldwide between July and September, with 83.5 million sold compared with 46 million for Apple.
California rules hindering Google's dream of driverless cars for public
Delay is not what Google had in mind when it pushed the 2012 legislation that made California one of the few states officially to authorize self-driving cars.
Apple to open its first solar-powered retail store in Singapore
Solar energy developer Sunseap Group said in a statement that it will provide the store with renewable energy by harnessing its systems set up across 800 of the city's rooftops from January next year.
Your tweets could reveal a lot about you
People tend to tweet about the situations they experience.
Relatives search for missing, grief pours out on social media after Paris attacks
Profile pictures were changed en masse, some showing the blue, white and red stripes of the French tricolour flag across their personal photos, or a roughly painted peace symbol doctored to resemble the Eiffel Tower.
'Apple is open': Tim Cook reminds employees after racist behaviour by store manager
In his company-wide email, Cook says the incident 'doesn’t represent our values' and it is 'not a message we would ever want to deliver to a customer or hear ourselves.'
Surge in government requests for user data: Facebook
The government often requests basic subscriber information, IP addresses or account content, including people's posts online.
China's search giant Baidu launches Hindi version of its Android app store
According to the Internet search provider, the previous version of MoboMarket already had over 4.5 million monthly active users in India and has a content library of over 500,000 apps and games.