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• Violence against women and girls: shifting culture | Editorial May 24, 2013
  It is increasingly questionable whether government policy is keeping pace with the growing dangers to women and childrenThis week we have learned the following: the police still make catastrophic mistakes in the protection of women at risk of domestic violence; that children everywhere have access to pornography, and that this is influencing behaviour in dan […]
• Is 'binge-watching' the best way to view TV shows? | Poll May 24, 2013
  Netflix's unorthodox release of an entire TV series at once has helped popularize marathon sessions of watching. Do you prefer your shows in one sitting?     […]
• Yahoo 'makes offer' for Hulu as bidding war escalates May 24, 2013
  Reports link tech giant to online video service which is also coveted by Time Warner, William Morris and moreThe online video service Hulu is at the centre of a frenzied bidding war, according to US media reports, with the tech giant Yahoo rumoured to have made an offer for the second time in its history.With the ink is barely dry on its $1.1bn deal to buy t […]
• Google advertising under investigation in US May 24, 2013
  US federal trade commission looking into allegations that company's DoubleClick has illegally promoted Google productsThe US federal trade commission is investigating whether Google's DoubleClick advertising subsidiary has illegally pushed customers to buy its other products, the Guardian has established.The regulator is understood to be looking at […]
• Gawker's bid to give $200,000 to Canadian drug dealers hits slight snag May 24, 2013
  The owners of video allegedly showing Toronto's mayor smoking crack go missing in the middle of crowdfunding campaignThe effort by news site Gawker to bust Toronto mayor Rob Ford for allegedly smoking crack is crack journalism work. Toronto is Canada's biggest city. Canada has a $680bn trade relationship with the United States. We can't have t […]