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Survey: One screen isn’t enough for watching TV

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American television viewers are increasingly finding that one screen won’t do: almost all have a second-screen device and 87 percent use it while watching shows, a survey said Tuesday. The NPD survey said multitasking consumers are splitting their attention between televisions and their laptops, tablets, smartphones, and other devices. But…

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Report: Half of all food is thrown away

A man does his shopping in a supermarket in Saint-Sebastien-sur-Loire, western France on December 27, 2012. (AFP)

Up to half of all the food produced in the world — two billion tonnes of it — is thrown away, according to a report published on Thursday. The waste is caused by poor infrastructure and storage facilities in the developing world, and “buy-one-get-one-free” offers, and the fussiness of consumers…

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Americans more pessimistic about economy in May

Pedestrians carry shopping bags as they walk along Broadway in April 2012 in New York City. Americans became slightly more pessimistic about the economy in May, a survey showed Tuesday, with consumers saying their opinion of the current situation and expectations of the future had weakened. (AFP Photo/Justin Sullivan)

Americans became slightly more pessimistic about the economy in May, a survey showed Tuesday, with consumers saying their opinion of the current situation and expectations of the future had weakened. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index declined from 68.7 in April to 64.9 in May. “Consumers were less…

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Yahoo! promises to implement do-not-track provisions on its ad networks

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Yahoo! on Thursday said that it will soon add a tool to its websites that allows visitors to signal that they don’t want their online activity tracked for ad targeting or other ends. The California-based Internet pioneer promised to deploy a “Do Not Track solution” across its global network, including…

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U.S. regulators call for tighter online privacy rules

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called for Internet users to be given an easy-to-use “Do Not Track” feature in a report released on Monday backing tighter online privacy laws. The FTC voted three-to-one to put its seal on recommendations for businesses and US legislators to better protect people’s privacy in “an era…

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