#SSU #TECHNEWS Google says it has received 18,304 requests from Britons asking it to remove information about their past under the EUs right to be forgotten legislation. The submissions came from more than 6,000 people who asked the search engine to erase links to more than 60,000 websites. Altogether just over 145,000 requests have been made to Google by people across Europe wanting to improve their reputations. That is an average of 1,000 a day since last May when the process began. The controversial right to be forgotten law covers the 28 countries in the EU, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. ----------- The worlds first Apple computer, widely acknowledged as heralding the personal computer revolution, is to be sold at auction by Bonhams, New York. The beautifully intact machine built in a garage in 1976 is expected to raise between $300,000 to $500,000 at auction in New York. The Apple-1 was one of 50 machines hand-built for the ByteShop by Apple pioneer Steve Wozniak in the summer of 1976 in the garage of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The model for sale was secured from the family of John Anderson, an Apple Mac enthusiast who acquired it in 1980 and kept it in perfect condition in a glass cabinet from 1989. ----------- One of the largest banks in France will today unveil plans to let its customers - and those of other banks - send money through Twitter. Groupe BPCE will be the first banking group to offer individuals a payment solution where they can transfer money with a simple Tweet, according to CEO Jean-Yves Forel. It is understood that Twitter has not been involved in creating the service, which was built by Group BPCEs S-Money subsidiary, which has also built mobile and SMS payment systems. But Olivier Gonzalez, CEO of Twitter France, said: We warmly welcome this innovation developed by Groupe BPCE and the service it provides to Twitter users in France by integrating its S-Money service into a live, public, conversational dimension characteristic of Twitter. Twitter is experimenting with its own payment system, known as Twitter Buy, which allows customers to buy products straight from the social media platform. Burberry has signed up.
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