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European Commission rules that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B, or around $14.5B, to Apple; Ireland must now recover unpaid taxes from Apple — The European Commission has concluded that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13 billion to Apple.
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| Tim Cook / Apple: |
Apple: EU's claim that Ireland gave Apple a special tax deal “has no basis in fact or in law” and will be harmful for investment and job creation in Europe — Thirty-six years ago, long before introducing iPhone, iPod or even the Mac, Steve Jobs established Apple's first operations in Europe.
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Google opening Waze-based carpooling service previously in testing to all SF-area Waze users this fall; current pilot charges riders at most 54¢/mile — Alphabet's carpooling program in San Francisco offers rides at cheaper rates — Google is moving onto Uber Technologies Inc.'s turf …
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Thanks:@larrychiang| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Sources: this year's Google-branded Android phones will not use “Nexus” name, will feature additional software and a tweaked interface atop “vanilla” Android — The ‘Nexus’ brand is going away, but the biggest deal here is the large change in software experience that will accompany the new branding.| Fortune: |
Sources: Nest's platform team to become part of Google to create a unified IoT platform led by Hiroshi Lockheimer, currently SVP of Android — Alphabet subsidiary Nest Labs, maker of Internet-connected thermostats and smoke detectors, is undergoing yet another restructuring, Fortune has learned.| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Sonos speakers will integrate with Amazon's Alexa next year and will let Spotify's app control audio starting this October — Wireless speaker system maker Sonos announced two software partnerships today with Spotify and Amazon. The Spotify integration allows users to control … | Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
San Francisco-based WrkRiot goes offline amid allegations it lied about back pay by giving employees PDFs of fake wire transfers, which ex-CTO corroborates — Penny Kim, a marketing professional with a one-month career at a Silicon Valley startup, shared a detailed account of one of the ugliest startup stories we've ever heard.
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Thanks:@mattrosoff| Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal: |
Nearly half of the trustees of CIA's In-Q-Tel have financial conflict of interest with a firm funded by In-Q-Tel; trustee-connected firms funded on 17 occasions — In-Q-Tel provides only limited information about its investments, and some of its trustees have ties to funded companies
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter expands Amplify Publisher program to individual video creators in the US, giving them 70% of ad revenue; the deal does not require content exclusives — Twitter's 70/30 revenue split is better than YouTube's deal. — Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Fullscreen
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Researchers say version 2.92 of third-party BitTorrrent client Transmission, offered for a day for download from Transmission, was infected with OS X malware — Just five months after Transmission was infected with the first “ransomware” ever found on the Mac, the popular BitTorrent client …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Cisco buys container-as-a-service platform startup ContainerX, its first acquisition in the container market — The deal marks Cisco's first acquisition in the burgeoning container market. — Cisco on Tuesday said it plans to acquire ContainerX, an early-stage startup that develops virtual container technology for data centers.
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Intel launches “Kaby Lake” 7th-generation CPUs with improved support for 4K video — New 7th-generation Core CPUs have a lot in common with the 6th generation. — Intel's tick-tock model may be dead, but the PC industry still demands new hardware every year.
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PlayStation Now streaming service that lets you play legacy titles on Windows PCs launches today with promo price of $100/year, less than half normal price — You don't need a PlayStation to play PlayStation games anymore: Sony's Playstation Now subscription-based game streaming service is now out for PC … | Tanya Dua / Digiday: |
Ex-Facebook trending news curator: business side influenced editorial, challenging journalism ethics; the news algorithm needs major improvements — Barely two days after changes to its Trending Topics section, a fake article about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly began trending on Facebook … Sponsor Posts
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