Title: Facing Death, Most U.S. Doctors Would Decline Extraordinary Measures
Category: Health News
Created: 5/28/2014 5:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/29/2014 12:00:00 AM
With the string of mobile messaging exits recently (in particular Facebook’s huge $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp), Kik seems to be the only leading chat app — with 140 million registered users — that has remained independent. A recent Distimo report pointed out that Kik is competing on an equal footing for the number one spot in the US market. It is little wonder that many are betting on a Kik exit soon. However, Kik founder and CEO Ted Livingston has penned a post saying he is “choosing not to sell” — which hints that Kik probably has had suitors that got rejected. He…
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UPDATE: Google has made the online form publicly available. In the form, Google tells applicants that it will assess each individual request as it seeks to balance privacy rights with the public’s right to know. When evaluating your request, we will look at whether the results include outdated information about you, as well as whether there’s a public interest in the information—for example, information about financial scams, professional malpractice, criminal convictions, or public conduct of government officials. We understand from a source that successfully-removed links will only be dropped from search results displayed on EU-specific versions of Google, but can still…
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled earlier this month that individuals should have the right to remove outdated information about themselves from search engine results. In an interview with Google co-founder Larry Page, the Financial Times reports that Google will introduce a mechanism on Friday, which is later today, that lets European internet users ask it to remove links which they think are outdated and damaging. A separate FT story detailed this will come in the form of an online form, an easy way through which users can submit their requests. Google is also said to plan to…
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Advertising on TV is passé – now Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is taking to targeting online video viewers instead. The company announced that it will start placing advertisements from merchants on both its shopping platforms, Taobao and Tmall, within online videos on a handful of video sites, as it seeks to capture audiences who are increasingly consuming content on their mobile devices and PCs. The online video sites that Alibaba has tied up with include top site Youku Tudou, which is often viewed as a Chinese version of YouTube. It comes after Alibaba sunk $1.2 billion into it last month. Starting next month, Taobao…
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