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By Olivia Williams PUBLISHED: 16:09 EST, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 17:19 EST, 19 April 2013 Both Microsoft and Google revealed soaring profits after adapting their businesses to meet the rise of mobile and tablet devices. Google's profit climbed to £2.19 billion while Microsoft made £3.93 billion. Google's profit was up 16 per cent from a year ago thanks to its internet business softening the effect of a sharp decline in its Motorola mobile phone division. Hits and misses:  Microsoft's Windows 8 system met a lukewarm reception, left, but the Google Glass, right, is hotly-anticipated to do be a big seller when it comes out later this year


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Microsoft no longer relies on a new PC to make money from software.

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Beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff was not 'sold' to the Islamic State by Syrian rebels, the White House said on Tuesday. 'Based on the information that has been provided to me, I don't believe that is accurate,' White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters during his daily briefing. 'That information does not match the information that I’m currently aware of,' Earnest claimed, according to the Washington Examiner. The Obama administration official's statements contradict a claim made Monday night by Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi. Barfi told CNN's Anderson Cooper that 'sources on the ground' had confirmed Sotloff was kidnapped at the Syrian border and sold to ISIS for as much as $50,000.
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ISIS, and Sotloff was later apprehended at a fake check point.

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(CNN) -- A famous South Korean rock singer is just hours away from swimming into the diplomatic row over a small group of rocky islets in the East Sea, or the Sea of Japan. Kim Jang-hoon is among dozens of amateur athletes who left the eastern port of Uljin Monday, bound for Dokdo, a largely uninhabited set of volcanic islands claimed by both South Korea and Japan, known by Tokyo as Takeshima. The group's 55-hour, 230-kilometer relay swim is expected to end Wednesday, on the 67th anniversary of Korea's independence from Japanese colonial rule. Before jumping into the water, singer Kim Jang-Hoon told reporters: "I will never make such a comment as 'Dokdo is our territory' when I arrive there. It's meaningless to do so because they are undeniably our territory," according to the Yonhap news agency.
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Korea website on the islands, Dokdo has a population of three and amid the craggy rocks sit a lighthouse, lodge, helicopter landing pad, and a police station manned by South Korean officers.