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Amazon faces tough questions over UK tax
— Exclusive: Guardian investigation shows key role of British-based staff in pushing tax rulebook to its limits — MPs are ready to haul Amazon back to parliament to answer new questions about its tax status in Britain after a Guardian investigation's …
| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Hewlett-Packard faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders over Autonomy deal
— HP accused of ignoring evidence on ‘vastly overvalued’ acquisition while Autonomy founder denies financial impropriety — Hewlett-Packard tried to pull out of its $11bn (£7bn) takeover of British software firm Autonomy …
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Tech City - believe the hype?
— Technology clusters in areas such as Cambridge, Newcastle and Brighton may have a better case for getting exposure - and cash — Since the Coalition came to power in May 2010, the Tech City initiative has had significant money, PR and industry support thrown behind it.
| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Millions of users deserting Facebook
— Facebook's dominance in the social media world has come under threat from newer services such as Instagram and Path — Facebook has lost millions of users per month in its biggest markets, independent data suggests, as alternative social networks attract …
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Amazon v the Amazon: internet retailer in domain name battle
— Brazil and Peru governments say company should not profit from an address that refers to an important geographical area — When you see the word “Amazon”, what's the first thing that springs to mind - the world's biggest forest …
| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
BBC ports iPlayer Radio app to Android and says it's ‘even better’ than on iOS
— App enables radio listeners to stream stations live, as well as accessing podcasts and on-demand shows. — When the BBC launched its iPlayer Radio app for iOS in October 2012, it promised that “Android will come soon”.
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns
— PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns — Microsoft faces a slide into irrelevance …
| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Online music licensing revenues pass radio for first time
— Google Play and Xbox licensing agreements help digital revenues jump 32.2% in 2012, from £39.1m to £51.7m — British songwriters, including acts such as Ed Sheeran and Calvin Harris, netted a record total of £51.7m …
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Surprise! Google chairman Eric Schmidt uses.. a BlackBerry
— He likes the keyboard - even though Android alternatives are available. Schmidt also spoke on whether Android and ChromeOS will merge: ‘not for a long time’ — Who's the person you'd least expect to discover is a BlackBerry user?
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BlackBerry software ruled not safe enough for essential government work
— Computer Experts Security Group rejects BB10 software in new Z10 handset, dealing blow to Canadian firm in key market — BlackBerry's new BB10 software has been rejected by the British government as not secure enough …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).