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"The Federal Trade Commission has sued Wyndham Worldwide Corp and three of its subsidiaries over alleged data security failures that led to three data breaches at Wyndham Hotels in less than two years."

"Conservative martial arts icon Chuck Norris has criticized gay rights campaigners for trying to overturn a ban that bars homosexual members taking part in the Boy Scouts of America youth organization. "

"Liberty Media Corp won a $950 million jury verdict Monday against French media company Vivendi Universal S.A. in a lawsuit stemming from a 2002 sale of USA Networks."

"Moral panics created by the media news press release backed by interest groups and pressure groups are always looking to create an impact on the social and political institutions. In the instances such as drug taking, the hippie movement, pro-development lobbies and animal rights, the participants generated heated debate in the society as well as brought about legal and institutional reforms. However in some cases, the long lasting impact of the paid press release distribution reportage was neither felt nor seen. Eg. The introduction of Spinning Jenny or starting point of industrialization when machines were considered a bad omen or evil did not last long."

"Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber latest release ,'Believe', has topped UK album chart, outselling British singer Cheryl Cole's 'A Million Lights' by 3,000 copies."

"Walt Disney Pictures 'The Avengers' crossed the $600 million portal of domestic box office greatness, becoming only the third film after 'Titanic' and 'Avatar' to do so. "

"Since the advent of Online Press Release Distribution via Internet, the information dissemination has become a lot easier than it use to happen before. The audience for the press release has turned global with the writer has to be conscious of writing a universal copy for getting a feedback from far and wide."

"Sony and Panasonic are planning a strategic cooperation to make OLED (organic light emitting diode) television sets in order to meet the challenge of Korean rivals Samsung and LG Electronics. "

"A city in southwest China has temporarily stopped work at a Sichuan copper alloy project and said that it will punish organizers of a two-day protest if they do not give themselves up. The protests by tens of thousands of residents of Shifang had turned violent. "

"The political leaders of European countries will be approaching the European Central Bank this week to get help for reinforcing gains after their moves to calm markets and accelerate the integration of the euro bloc."

"Manufacturing activity in most of Asia slowed down according to economic data released on Monday, except in Indonesia that showed enough resilience to be able to withstand tough overseas conditions. More central bank easing is expected in order to boost economic growth. "

"Brent crude plunged towards $96 a barrel on Monday mainly because of weak factory data from top energy consumer China that spurred caution. Brent crude dropped $1.45 to $96.35 a barrel while US crude went down $1 to trade at $83.96."

"Cielo, Brazil's largest card payment processor, will buy for Merchant e-Solutions, a US provider of card payment processing solutions for $670 million. "

"Technology distributor Ingram Micro Inc has agreed to buy wireless device distributor BrightPoint Inc for about $650 million in cash in order to expand in new growth areas due to the dwindling sales of personal computers. "

"German industrial gas producer Linde AG announced Sunday that it will acquire Lincare Holdings Inc, a Florida-based provider of oxygen and respiratory therapy services to patients in the home, for $4.6 billion, to take advantage of the potential growth rate of 6 to 9 percent annually in the home care market."

"The US Postal Service will be building its second green roof in order to improve the environment. An 11,300 square foot green roof will be built atop the Colvin-Elmwood Post Office. The money for building the green roof will come through an innovative sustainability partnership with Onondaga County, NY."

"Rapper/actor Common won the the 2012 Centric Award on the red carpet outside the Shrine Auditorium. American hip-hop artist and actor, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr, better known by his stage name Common has won the 2012 BET Centric Award."

"A takeover bid of A$1.7 billion ($1.74 billion) by a virtually unknown UK-based private equity fund for acquiring David Jones, Australia's second largest department store chain, has been withdrawn. After surging 15 percent, its shares slipped back 8.5 percent. "

"There has been a failure of contract talks between the New York utility and its unionized workers, in the midst of extremely high temperatures in the New York area. People are suffering due to multiple and frequent outages."

"France said that it will need to cut its economic growth forecasts for this year and next, pointing towards the need for greater austerity than what Socialist President François Hollande had promised."