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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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| BBC: |
Apple and Irish government say they will appeal EU tax ruling — Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple in back taxes, the European Commission has ruled. — After a three-year investigation, it has concluded that the US firm's tax benefits are illegal.
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| Bloomberg: |
EU says there was “no factual or economic justification” for Ireland's tax deal with Apple — EU says Irish deal slashed iPhone maker's taxes from 2003-2014 — Ireland has vowed to appeal tax decision in European courts — Apple Inc. was ordered to repay a record 13 billion euros …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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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.
| Fortune: |
Uber hires Target's CMO Jeff Jones as president, overseeing global marketing, customer service, and operations — Uber, the global ride-hailing giant whose reputation has see-sawed at times from brash to boorish, has plucked an image maker from a leading U.S. retailer to be one of its top executives.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The FCC will not appeal ruling by the Sixth Circuit that allows states to impose laws restricting the growth of municipal broadband — Cities seeking to expand broadband could still appeal judges' decision, though. — The Federal Communications Commission has decided not to appeal …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snapchat releases a new web tool for making custom geofilters — Snapchat has let you create custom geofilters for events since February, but until now you've needed image editing software to make one. Today the company rolled out a tool for creating on-demand geofilters on the web …
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| 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 … | Gina Hall / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
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