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Senate investigators: Apple avoided $44 billion in taxes
— Senate investigators accuse Apple of wiring together a complicated system to shield billions of dollars in international profits from both U.S. and foreign tax collectors. — A report released ahead of Apple CEO Tim Cook's inaugural …
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Apple target of Senate hearing on offshore taxes
— Tech firm Apple is the target of a Senate hearing next week investigating offshore tax practices. — Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to testify at the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation's hearing Tuesday, POLITICO has learned.
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Mark Zuckerberg immigration group's status: Looking for footing
— Even the man who transformed social media can get into a messaging mess. — The immigration reform group that will be Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's entry into politics was supposed to launch as early as next week with a lot of fanfare …
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Reuters' Matthew Keys indicted for conspiring with hacker group ‘Anonymous’
— Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, has been charged in an indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group “Anonymous” to hack into a Tribune Company website, the Justice Department announced today.
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Washington talks cybersecurity after Chinese attacks
— Washington is grappling again with the prying eyes of Chinese hackers. — A string of computer breaches at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other media organizations have drawn a frustrated response …
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House puts Spotify on mute
— Spotify apparently hit a wrong note with the House's Internet overlords, who recently blocked the chamber's Web users from listening to the famed music-streaming service. — While Spotify isn't a peer-to-peer program along the lines of Napster …
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How Google beat the feds
— Google escaped from a nearly two-year federal antitrust probe with only a few scratches by proving that the best defense is a good offense. — Instead of ignoring Washington — as rival Microsoft did before its costly monopolization trial in the 1990s …
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EU's tougher Google deal derails FTC agreement
— European regulators appear headed toward a dramatically different conclusion to their antitrust probe of Google than their American counterparts — a binding agreement that could cost the search company dearly if violated.
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Google to tweak practices to end search probe
— Federal regulators may end a two-year antitrust probe of Google's search business by letting the company make voluntary changes, such as limiting use of restaurant and travel reviews from other websites and letting search ad campaigns …
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