Technology Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)
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PARIS (AP) , Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for running afoul of national laws against hate speech, the organization said. The decision came a day after Twitter bowed to German law and blocked an account of a banned neo-Nazi group there.
WASHINGTON (AP) , It's been 43 months since the last deadly airline crash in the United States, the longest period without a fatal domestic accident since commercial aviation expanded after World War II.
NEW YORK (AP) , Funding for startups declined 12 percent in the July-September period as venture capitalists spent less money on fewer deals, according to a new report. Companies in the early stages of funding saw declines as investors stayed cautious and life sciences funding remained lackluster.
WASHINGTON (AP) , Freezing human eggs can be successful in treating infertility , but guidelines issued Friday still urge caution for women hoping to pause a ticking biological clock. Egg freezing had long been labeled experimental, but the American Society for Reproductive Medicine declared that's no longer the case.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) , Yahoo Inc. said it will close its South Korean web portal and an Internet advertising business, cutting its losses in a market where it has struggled for over a decade. Yahoo's South Korea unit said Friday its Seoul office with over 200 employees will be shut by the end of this year.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , As far as unpleasant surprises go, Google hit Wall Street with a double whammy Thursday. The Internet search leader that prides itself on organizing the world's information lost control of its own data when a contractor released its third-quarter earnings report more than three hours before the numbers were supposed to come out.