Merlin, the independent label master rights licensing agency that refers to itself as the fifth major, has reached a global licensing deal with YouTube. Terms of the deal were not released, but the deal points have been published to its members, which have to opt in to be included under the agree... Read more...
The Dutch government is to “basically [...] exclude” U.S. cloud providers from government IT contracts amid concerns of the reach of the Patriot Act in Europe. To prevent sensitive citizen data from being compromised by U.S. authorities, the move to bar U.S. companies from providing cloud-bas... Read more...
The whereabouts of a remote Amazonian tribe who appeared in remarkable footage earlier this year aiming bows and arrows at a plane flying over their jungle homes was unknown Monday after government officials sent to protect them were forced to abandon their post and flee from armed drug traffickers.... Read more...
Between the transposing of the EU Data Protection Directive in 1998 and the terrorist attacks in New York in September 2001, trade relations between the United States and the European Union were mutual, bilateral and safe. The arrangement between the U.S. and the EU — for which both contine... Read more...
Flying cars may be part of your reality sooner than you think. Through a project named myCopter, the European Union is investing €4.2 million (US$6.2m) to research the potential of Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) for Europe’s most crowded cities. The idea is for myCopter to attempt to solve ... Read more...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly bec... Read more...
Many parents worry, no doubt, about the effect video games have on their children. We list the ten most common problems recently investigated by researchers from 2006-present. An increase in emotional disorder symptoms An increase in and behavioral disorder symptoms Declines in verbal memo... Read more...
Christine Lagarde can count on at least one thing Wednesday during her first news conference as chief of the International Monetary Fund: few softball questions. The former French finance minister is under pressure on many fronts. Lagarde must convince the developing world that her IMF will be a ... Read more...
Children in Haiti are being sold for as little as 76 pence each (pennies) by traffickers taking advantage of the chaos from last year's earthquake, new figures from Unicef show. Some youngsters are ending up in the care of well meaning but ignorant European families, while others are being forced... Read more...