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How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Global Taxes — Apple, the world's most profitable technology company, doesn't design iPhones here. It doesn't run AppleCare customer service from this city. And it doesn't manufacture MacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby. Yet, with a handful of employees …
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| Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
Exclusive: Google releases FCC report on Street View probe — Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into the data it collected and stored from millions of unknowing households across the nation while operating specially equipped cars for its Street View service.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: The $1.2 Billion Inside Story of How Demand Media Almost Went Private Last Week (And Then Didn't) — According to sources close to the situation, Demand Media was deep into discussions with a private equity firm to complete a deal that would have taken the online content company private, for almost double its current value.| J.B. / Fusible.com: |
Google finally launches Cube, play your way through a cubic Google Maps world — Back in January, Google released a teaser video for a Google maps-based game that was set to be released in February. But February, came and went and the game wasn't released.
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Apple and Samsung CEOs to meet on May 21 and 22 for settlement talks in San Francisco court — On April 17, I already reported on the fact that Apple and Samsung agreed, under soft pressure from Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California …
| James Trew / Engadget: |
Woz: Windows Phone is ‘beautiful,’ Android ‘no contest,’ still loves iPhone, ask again tomorrow — When Steve Wozniak talks mobile, people love to listen. Last time we checked in, he was lauding some of Android's finer points, and now he's raining praise on Windows Phone.| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
42Floors' PDA: The War For Talent Among Startups Needs A New Approach. Here's Why — Startups do the darndest things. As you may or may not have seen, Y Combinator startup 42Floors made a bold and fairly unprecedented move today — as hiring goes, in any case.| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
The FBI Workaround For Private Companies To Share Information With Law Enforcement Without CISPA — The NCFTA “functions as a conduit between private industry and law enforcement.” (Art from the site) — A debate is currently raging in Washington, D.C. and various politically-engaged spots … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Samsung denies staging “Wake Up” anti-Apple flashmob — Samsung has denied any involvement with the “Wake Up” flashmob staged outside an Apple Store in Australia, despite suggestions that it was an escalation of the company's anti-iPhone campaign. Reported earlier this week …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
YouTube For Google TV Gets Recommendations, Smoother Playback And A +1 Button — Google TV, the company's first serious foray into the living room, hasn't exactly set the world on fire. That doesn't mean Google has given up, though. Far from it. While there hasn't been much news … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey Talks Square, Twitter, And Instagram-Facebook With Charlie Rose — Twitter co-founder, and Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose yesterday to talk about the two companies he's developed as well as Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram and the “digital revolution.”
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| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
China plans national, unified CPU architecture — According to reports from various industry sources, the Chinese government has begun the process of picking a national computer chip instruction set architecture (ISA). This ISA would have to be used for any projects backed with government money …
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