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Today's Reuters Technology News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Amazon unveils new hiring spree ahead of Obama visit Apple's Mansfield no longer in exec team, moves to special projects India's Wipro shares rally on dollar revenue guidance Twitter faces calls in Britain to get tough on online abuse Software experts attack cars, to release code as hackers meet Factbox: Hacking talks that got axed Publicis CEO sees EPS boost from Omnicom deal Russian web search firm Yandex's co-founder dies

Amazon unveils new hiring spree ahead of Obama visit  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 09:03 PM PDT By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc unveiled a new hiring spree on Monday ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to one of the Internet retailer's giant distribution warehouses this week. Amazon said it is looking to fill more than 5,000 new full-time jobs at 17 of its fulfillment centers across the United States. That's roughly a 25 percent increase in full-time fulfillment center staff, which currently number more than 20,000 in the country. ... Full Story	Top
Apple's Mansfield no longer in exec team, moves to special projects  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 08:59 PM PDT (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Sunday it will shift Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of technologies, out of its executive team to work on special projects. Mansfield, who has led the development of a number of Apple devices including the popular MacBook Air laptop, had at one stage announced his plan to retire last year as head of hardware engineering but stayed on to lead Apple's semiconductor and wireless teams. Mansfield is the latest addition to Chief Executive Tim Cook's "special projects" team. ... Full Story	Top
India's Wipro shares rally on dollar revenue guidance  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 08:57 PM PDT MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Wipro Ltd shares surged as much as 5.9 percent on Monday, after the software services exporter issued dollar revenue guidance that was above estimates. Wipro said on Friday it expects revenue from IT services business for the current quarter that ends September 30 to range between $1.62 billion and $1.65 billion, a sequential increase of 2 percent to 3.9 percent. Most analysts were expecting the company to say sales in the current quarter would rise 1-3 percent. Wipro does not give an annual forecast. ... Full Story	Top
Twitter faces calls in Britain to get tough on online abuse  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 07:35 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter, the social media site, is under pressure in Britain to make it easier for Internet users to report abuse after more than 30,000 people petitioned it over the case of a feminist campaigner who says she was repeatedly threatened with rape. Caroline Criado-Perez helped lobby the Bank of England to make a woman, 19th century novelist Jane Austen, the new face on the country's 10 pound note, to defuse criticism that women were under-represented on the currency. ... Full Story	Top
Software experts attack cars, to release code as hackers meet  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 06:08 AM PDT By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Car hacking is not a new field, but its secrets have long been closely guarded. That is about to change, thanks to two well-known computer software hackers who got bored finding bugs in software from Microsoft and Apple. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek say they will publish detailed blueprints of techniques for attacking critical systems in the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape in a 100-page white paper, following several months of research they conducted with a grant from the U.S. government. ... Full Story	Top
Factbox: Hacking talks that got axed  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 06:08 AM PDT By Jim Finkle (Reuters) - Hacking experts and product manufacturers have sometimes been at odds over whether the disclosure of security vulnerabilities is helpful, or harmful, to the public interest. Lawsuits, or even the threat of legal action, have resulted in the cancellation of some hacking presentations in recent years. ... Full Story	Top
Publicis CEO sees EPS boost from Omnicom deal  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 05:51 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The merger of Publicis and Omnicom will boost adjusted earnings per share, and the new group will maintain its BBB+ credit rating, the head of the French ad group told a news conference on Sunday. Maurice Levy added that he did not expect resistance to the deal from the French government. "We don't expect that the French government will have anything else other than great support," Levy said. (Reporting by Leila Abboud; Editing by James Regan) Full Story	Top
Russian web search firm Yandex's co-founder dies  Sunday, Jul 28, 2013 03:18 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - The co-founder and chief technology officer of Russia's market-leading internet search engine company Yandex has died after treatment for cancer, the Nasdaq-listed company said on Sunday. Ilya Segalovich, aged 48, founded Yandex in 1997 with Arkady Volozh, the company's chief executive officer. He passed away on Saturday after falling into a coma and being taken off of life support by doctors, Volozh said in a statement on the company's blog. ... Full Story	Top

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