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Conor Humphries / Reuters:
Ireland says not to blame for Apple's low tax rate  —  (Reuters) - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments after the U.S. Senate said the company paid little or nothing on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish subsidiaries.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's tax strategy portrayed by Senate subcommittee as a unique ‘absurdity’  —  In opening remarks of a hearing Tuesday morning, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations accused Apple of being the mastermind of elaborate tax evasion practices that are unique to the iPhone maker.
More: 9to5Mac and CNET
Tony Romm / Politico:
Senate investigators: Apple avoided $44 billion in taxes
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The One-Person Product  —  In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies.  That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he'd had for a while.
Markus Spiering / Flickr Blog:
A better, brighter Flickr  —  In the beginning, Flickr innovated the way people share and discover photos.  Today, we are shifting the photo-sharing landscape again.  We're releasing a Flickr that's more spectacular, much bigger, and one you can take anywhere.  —  Biggr.  A free terabyte of space
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage  —  The new Flickr is live.  —  Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC.  But announcements coming out of this event aren't related …
Bruce Upbin / Forbes:
IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon  —  IBM's question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé.  First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist.
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Customers not as happy with iPhone as they were last year  —  The American Customer Satisfaction Index shows Apple remains on top, but it's declining while Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are rising.  —  The iPhone 5  —  More customers are satisfied with Apple's phones than any other handsets …
Donna Tam / CNET:
NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400  —  An administrative law judge decides that a man leasing a condo broke New York's laws after he rented out part of his home on Airbnb.  —  New York officials have determined that a man who rented out part of his apartment on Airbnb …
Giles Tremlett / Guardian:
The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’  —  Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox  —  The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van with its German numberplates outside Bar Javis …
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
You are your data: The scary future of the quantified self movement  —  Few if any consumers who fell behind on their credit card payments in the early 2000s thought that half a decade later employers would use their credit score to determine their job worthiness.
Rich Trenholm / CNET UK:
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active leak-proof S4 now leaked on video … If yesterday's pictures of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active have whet your appetite, then eyes down for the first leaked video of the waterproof Samsung Galaxy S4.  Whet!  Get it?  'Cos it's waterproof!  Oh forget it.
Wall Street Journal:
Hazards of the Buzzy Startup in Light of Tumblr Buy  —  Yahoo's Purchase of Tumblr Puts Spotlight on Highfliers Like Pinterest, Quora With Little Revenue  —  Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr Inc. is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site, which fetched a rich price despite its meager revenue.
Melissa Grey / Engadget:
Microsoft launches The Music Room, an interactive TV series on Xbox Live  —  A day ahead of its hotly anticipated Xbox event, Microsoft has announced a new interactive TV series entitled The Music Room, exclusively on Xbox Live.  As a part of Microsoft's drive to beef up Xbox's entertainment content …
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Fab Raising At Least $250 Million  —  The billion-dollar startup club may soon get a new member.  —  Online design retailer Fab Inc. is in advanced talks to raise $250 million to $300 million in venture capital in a deal that would value the fast-growing but unprofitable company at $1 billion …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Think your Skype messages get end-to-end encryption?  Think again  —  If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again.  The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed.
Paul Miller / The Verge:
Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now  —  We test every Google Glass app so you don't have to  —  Google Glass isn't ready for prime time.  Even Google knows this, which is why it hasn't shipped to the masses yet.  Instead, Google floated a few units to “Explorers,” …
Reuters:
Sprint receives SoftBank waiver to consider Dish offer  —  (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said its Japanese suitor SoftBank Corp granted it a waiver allowing it to consider a $25.5 billion rival bid by Dish Network Corp, as pressure mounts on SoftBank to sweeten its offer for the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier.

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay on after the WBD acquisition closes; Thompson's current deal extends into 2027

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney plans a TV restructuring that is expected to result in more layoffs and consolidation of divisions as it pivots from linear TV toward streaming

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A US judge dismisses Penske Media's lawsuit against Google over traffic and revenue loss due to AI Overviews since Google never promised any traffic to Penske

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