Apple iOS 9 Ad-Blocking Explained (And Why It’s a Bad Move) | Eric Griffith | PCMag.com

It wasn’t actually announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but now it’s everywhere: Apple plans to introduce an ad-blocking feature to the Safari mobile browser for iOS9.   HTML MODULE 4010 This is one of those moves that seems like, and perhaps is, a boon for users who are sick of slow-loading Web pages…

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A blow for mobile advertising: The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads » Nieman Journalism Lab

It didn’t get a mention in Apple’s big keynote announcements Monday — which already had plenty of interest to publishers — but deep within Apple’s developer documentation lies perhaps the most important item of all to the news industry. Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9. Adblocking — running a piece of software…

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Who Blew Up China’s Stock Bubble? – Bloomberg Business

In China, the invisible hand of the market sometimes needs help from the iron fist of the state. That’s certainly true after a meltdown vaporized $3.5 trillion in the value of shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. President Xi Jinping’s government isn’t being subtle in its campaign to reflate the bubble it had a big…

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First Sighting of Drachma in the Wild, Via Credit-Card Mystery – Bloomberg Business

Ladies and gentlemen, behold the first sighting of the new Greek drachma:   Between June 28 and July 4 at a Hilton hotel in Athens, transactions on a Bloomberg reporter’s Visa credit card issued by Citigroup Inc. were posted as being carried out in “Drachma EQ.” The inexplicable notation — bear in mind, the euro remains Greece’s…

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Nearly 25% of Chinese stocks have stopped trading – Jul. 7, 2015

The turmoil in China’s stock market is so bad that some companies are calling it quits. Over 700 Chinese companies have halted trading to “self preserve,” according to the state media. That means about a quarter of the companies listed on China’s two big exchanges — the Shanghai and Shenzhen — are no longer trading….

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Computer programmer’s triumph over Goldman Sachs highlights America’s outdated legal system – Quartz

A New York judge on Monday threw out charges accusing a former computer programmer of stealing code from Goldman Sachs, bringing a six-year battle toward a close and highlighting how America’s legal system has failed to keep up with the rapid changes of the digital age. In the end, the protracted trial of Sergey Aleynikov,…

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How Uber Took Over Portland: Release the Lobbyists! – Bloomberg Business

Charlie Hales, the mayor of Portland, Ore., was running a zoning hearing last December when he missed a call on his cell from David Plouffe, the campaign mastermind behind Barack Obama’s ascent. Although Hales had never met him, Plouffe left a voice mail that had an air of charming familiarity, reminiscing about the 2008 rally…

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