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BELGRADE - Reports on Yahoo scanning all customers' emails for information at the request of US intelligence agencies are false, a Yahoo statement obtained by Sputnik on Wednesday said.

Yahoo Inc. last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. 

Yahoo Inc said on Sept. 22 that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to be the world's biggest known cyber breach by far. 

Greek products such as olive oil and wine could have a significant presence in the electronic platform of Alibaba Group, the managing director of Alibaba for Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece said on Wednesday.

Yahoo has begun shutting down some of its digital magazines as the struggling online pioneer's latest reorganization plan.

China's Internet users - already by far the world's most numerous - rose to nearly 700 million in 2015, authorities said on Jan. 22, more than twice the population of the United States.

Beijing imposes strict controls on online content, while e-commerce is a vital part of its efforts to transform the economy into one driven more by consumer demand.

U.S. President Barack Obama took time off at an Asia-Pacific summit on Nov. 18 for an unusual task - putting questions to Chinese internet billionaire Jack Ma and a young Filipina entrepreneur on government-business ties in a panel discussion.

Chinese Internet users spent billions of dollars in the planet's biggest online shopping splurge Nov. 11, as "Singles Day" hit new heights, despite slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy.

Chinese Internet giant Alibaba is to pay 28.3 billion yuan ($4.6 billion) for a near-20 percent stake in consumer electronics retailer Suning, the two companies said in a statement August 10.

One of Croatia's biggest companies, Agrokor, a specialist in food production and sales, is launching a regional online shopping network towards the end of 2015 or at beginning of 2016.

Functioning along the lines of the well-known Chinese sales online platform Alibaba, A007 will start first in Croatia and then spread to the rest of the region.