The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens
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Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
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Sean Callagy will be appearing on the Laura Smith Show on Saturday, September 12th! Our good friend Chuck Lunden from Bederson LLP will also be with us. Sean and Chuck will be discussing the financial “must knows” about marital AND business divorce.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
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By Foo Yun Chee
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Getty Images [GETTY.UL] has become the latest company to take its grievances with Google to EU antitrust regulators as it accused the world’s most popular Internet search engine of favoring its own images service at the expense of rivals.
The complaint comes as the European Commission waits for Google to respond to charges of abusing its market power in a dozen EU countries since 2007 by distorting search results to favor its shopping service.
The renowned photojournalism archive said its troubles with Google started in early 2013.
“Web search results that link directly to the Getty Images website are placed low in the search results, frequently, and remarkably, not on the first page of results,” the company said on its website.
“This means Google is benefiting from the use of Getty Images content, used to generate results within Google Image Search, without sending the image searchers to the Getty Images website or other competing image search engines.”
Google spokesman Al Verney declined to comment.
Commission spokesman Ricardo Cardoso said Getty has been granted interested third party status, allowing the company to ask for a summary of antitrust charges against the Google.
The 19 critics, acknowledged as complainants by the EU enforcer, in contrast get a non-confidential, more detailed copy of the document.
CEPIC, a European association of picture industries and photo libraries, has also complained about Google diverting traffic from its members’ sites to its own services.
Google can be fined up to 10 percent of its revenues, or as much as $6.6 billion, if found guilty of breaching EU antitrust rules.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee, editing by William Hardy)
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(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc’s Alex Stamos will join Facebook Inc as chief security officer, he said on Wednesday.
Stamos, who joined Yahoo as chief information security officer last year, said he would start at the world’s largest social media network next Monday.
Stamos announced his move in a post on Facebook and also updated his profiles on Twitter and LinkedIn.
In a LinkedIn account summary, Stamos describes himself as a “security executive who is passionate about building an Internet that is safe and trustworthy for everyday users.”
Stamos will replace Joe Sullivan who left Facebook in April to join Uber Technologies Inc.
Facebook and Yahoo could not be reached for comment outside regular business hours.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)
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(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N> is in talks with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a probe by the agency on whether the bank inappropriately advised its private-banking clients toward its own investment products, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
A settlement may come as early as this summer and could include a fine, the size of which was not known, WSJ said, citing people familiar with the matter.
JPMorgan Chase & Co disclosed in May that it received subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission over how it sells its mutual funds.
Other government authorities and a self-regulatory organization, apart from the SEC, have also sought information about the bank’s use of proprietary products in its wealth-management business, JPMorgan said in a regulatory filing last month.
Representatives at JPMorgan and the Securities and Exchange Commission were unavailable for comment outside regular business hours.
(Reporting by Zara Mascarenhas in Bengaluru; Editing by Diane Craft)
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“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” –Norman Vincent Peale
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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” –Steve Jobs
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” –Benjamin Franklin
(Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc <CHTR.O> formally argued for regulatory approval for its Time Warner Cable Inc <TWC.N> andBright House Networks deals, saying consumers would benefit as Internet services would become cheaper and faster.
Charter said in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) on Thursday that it would not block or suppress Internet traffic or prioritize content for a fee and that its broadband services would cost less than the current offerings of Time Warner (TWC) and Bright House.
In its first official argument in support of the deals, Charter also said the new company would not harm online video services providers as its success would depend on the broadband business rather than on video services.
Charter would invest at least $2.5 billion in commercial areas and deploy over 300,000 out-of-home WiFi access points, according to the filing.
The company had in May announced its offer to buy bigger rival TWC for $56 billion, prompting a statement from the FCC that the deal would be reviewed to determine whether it was in the public interest.
Charter had said in March it would buy Bright House Networks for $10.4 billion to expand its cable network.
The proposed deals mark a huge step towards industry consolidation, long advocated by cable pioneer John Malone, Charter’s biggest shareholder, as the new company would control a big swath of the cable and Internet markets.
The FCC’s concerns over risk to competition and innovation had made Comcast Corp <CMCSA.O> abandon a $45 billion acquisition of TWC in April.
Charter’s takeover agreement with TWC includes a pledge to pay Time Warner Cable a $2-billion breakup fee if the deal falls through.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The leader of an organization calledBlackShades was sentenced to 4-3/4 years in a U.S. prison on Tuesday for distributing software that authorities say was used to hack into half a million computers worldwide.
Alex Yucel, a 25-year-old Swede, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan after pleading guilty in February to distribution of malicious software.
“The message must go forth that this is a serious crime worthy of a serious punishment,” Castel said.
Prosecutors had sought up to 7-1/2 years in prison for Yucel, who was arrested in November 2013 in Moldova and later extradited to theUnited States.
His case was announced in May 2014 after a sweep by U.S. and European authorities that resulted in about 100 people being arrested in connection with BlackShades.
Prosecutors said that Yucel ran the BlackShades organization under the alias “marjinz” and acted as its primary software engineer.
The organization’s flagship product was the “BlackShades Remote Access Tool,” which gave hackers remote control of other people’s computers and allowed them to record keystrokes, steal passwords and gain access to personal files.
The software, which could be bought for $40, was used in some cases to take over computers’ cameras to spy on their owners or to freeze people’s computers in exchange for a ransom, prosecutors said.
BlackShades had more than 6,000 customer accounts in more than 100 countries and generated at least $350,000 in revenue by selling the software from September 2010 to April 2014, prosecutors said.
Yucel, appearing in court on Tuesday in blue jail clothing, offered his “heartfelt apology” and urged the judge to be lenient in imposing sentence.
“I deeply regret starting this whole project, which obviously went out of control,” he said.
The investigation grew out of a separate FBI sting in which authorities created a fake website to ensnare criminals seeking to buy and sell credit card numbers.
Among those charged was Michael Hogue, an Arizona resident who turned out to be the co-creator of BlackShades’ software and agreed to cooperate authorities as part of a plea deal. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 24.
The case is U.S. v. Yucel, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 13-cr-00834.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Richard Chang and Andrew Hay)
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