Twitter's Translation Tool and Other News You Need to Know

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Twitter's Translation Tool and Other News You Need to Know

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. It’s not just PRISM -- according to the French newspaper Le Monde, France also reportedly runs a secret intelligence-gathering operation that collects and stores information on its citizens. European commissioners predict United States-based Internet services like Google and Amazon could suffer business losses as firms in the EU start looking for safer, more secure replacements. Finally, Twitter released a tool to translate tweets in order to help with the spread of international news.

Check out the video above for more on these stories.

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