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Gap, H&M, Sephora and Others Unwrap New Social Gifting Service in the U.S.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 29 at 9:01 pm PT

More than 25 major retailers, including the Gap, H&M, Sephora, Brooklyn Industries and others, are working with a small Swedish company named Wrapp to roll-out a social gifting service in the U.S.

Spotify’s Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same

Kara Swisher in News on March 30 at 5:00 am PT

The fix-it guy for the popular music service takes his tools over to the personal social network.

Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 20 at 1:58 pm PT

Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.

Wrapp to Open Up Its New Group-Gifting Service in the U.S.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 27, 2011 at 4:48 pm PT

You’ve heard of group buying, where large masses of people commit to buying something at a discounted price. Here comes a company pitching the idea of group gifting.

Voices

Julian Assange Denied Bail After Arrest

Jeanne Whalen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 7, 2010 at 8:20 am PT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied bail at a court hearing following his arrest in the U.K. early Tuesday on an international warrant related to sexual-assault allegations in Sweden.

News Byte

WikiLeaks Leaves Amazon, Returns to Sweden

Beth Callaghan in News on December 1, 2010 at 1:12 pm PT

WikiLeaks has left its U.S. host, Amazon Web Services, and moved its operations back to Sweden. The whistleblowing site had left Bahnhof, its Swedish host, and sought refuge with Amazon after Sunday’s leak of U.S. State Department documents left it besieged by almost constant DDOS attacks. The site reported another DDOS attack early yesterday, and was down earlier today. Neither WikiLeaks nor Amazon has officially commented on their relationship or why it ended.

IPad Debuts in 11 More Countries

John Paczkowski in Mobile on November 30, 2010 at 7:56 am PT

This week is a big one for international iPad launches. By its end, the device will have debuted in 11 new countries: Poland, Taiwan, Denmark, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Malaysia, Finland and South Korea.

News Byte

Swedish Court Issues Arrest Warrant For WikiLeaks' Assange In Rape Case

Beth Callaghan in News on November 18, 2010 at 3:55 pm PT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces charges of rape and sexual molestation in Sweden, is the subject of an international search, after a Swedish court issued an arrest warrant today. Assange has yet to be questioned as part of the investigation, although he denies all of the charges. According to his lawyer, Bjoern Hurtig, “We haven’t been able to settle on a date for the interrogation and apparently the prosecutor ran out of patience.”

News Byte

iPhone 4 Hits 17 More Countries Friday

John Paczkowski in News on July 26, 2010 at 5:05 am PT

The iPhone 4’s international roll-out begins in earnest this week. Come Friday, July 30, the device will go on sale in 17 more countries–Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Left off the roll-out roll call, much to the dismay of its citizens, is South Korea, where regulatory issues are reportedly slowing things down. By September, the iPhone 4 should be in stores in 87 countries, making its global roll-out Apple’s fastest ever.

Google’s Grab of the Week: Android Video Chat-Maker Global IP Solutions

Peter Kafka in Media on May 18, 2010 at 5:08 am PT

It has been nearly three weeks since Google bought a company. You didn’t think it was done buying, did you? So here’s Global IP Solutions, which specializes in Internet voice and video chat. Google plans to buy the publicly traded company, which began life in Sweden and now hails from San Francisco, for $68 million.