LONDON (Reuters) - British sales of tablet computers are booming, Europe's second-biggest electricals retailer Dixons said, underpinning profit growth and offsetting weak markets in debt-squeezed southern Europe.

PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection watchdog ordered Google on Thursday to change its privacy policy or face fines, leading a Europe-wide push to get the Internet giant to clarify its intentions and methods for collecting user data.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A co-founder of file-sharing website Pirate Bay was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday after being found guilty of hacking into computers at a company that manages data for the Swedish tax authority, the court said.