AOL chief technology officer resigns
New York: AOL chief technology officer Maureen Govern, has resigned from the company. She was in charge of the division responsible for accidentally releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet users. John McKinley, AOL's former CTO, will take over on an interim basis. Govern joined the company last September.

AOL apologized on August 7 for releasing information onto the Web of about 20 million keyword searches from about 658,000 anonymous users over a three-month period. Disclosing the data was against company policy, AOL said at the time.

The release of data drew angry responses from privacy advocates, who called for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to review the company's customer data retention practices. Collecting and sharing Internet user data for any purpose is under close scrutiny by privacy watchdogs. A researcher in AOL's technology research department and the employee's supervisor have also left the company in the wake of the disclosure, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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98 pc of workers of Escondida Union reject BHP Offer
Peru: Striking Chilean workers at Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine have rejected BHP Billiton's latest contract offer. Union members said they are willing to continue negotiating with the company.

Melbourne-based BHP, the world's biggest mining company, is offering more pay and higher bonuses to workers who walked out two weeks ago and shut production at Escondida. The price of copper, used in wires and pipes, climbed 2.3 percent in London and has more than doubled in the past year as consumption soared in China, prompting unions to seek a larger share of mining companies' profits.
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