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European Commission orders Amazon to pay back about €250M in taxes to Luxembourg, saying it had been given “sweetheart” tax advantage since 2003 — - Amazon has been ordered to pay €250 million (£221 million, $294 million) by the European Commission over its taxes.
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European Commission says it's taking Ireland to court for failing to collect €13B from Apple in back taxes identified in Aug. 2016, says no money has been paid — The European Commission, the EU's competition watchdog, is taking Ireland to court for failing to collect billions of euros …
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Verizon says Yahoo breach in 2013 affected all of its 3B users, up from initially reported 1B users — Company disclosed late last year that 2013 hack exposed private information of over 1 billion users — A massive data breach at Yahoo AABA 1.95% in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed …
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Sources: Uber board will add 6 new seats, approves resolution for Uber to go public by 2019; Benchmark conditionally agrees to drop its lawsuit against Kalanick — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's board of directors voted on Tuesday for governance changes that reshape the balance of power …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Uber board voted to proceed with SoftBank talks, moves ahead with some governance changes; source says shareholder super-voting rights were removed — Uber's board of directors today failed to approve governance changes that would have formally prevented former CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Alex Kipman / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft says developers can access Mixed Reality SteamVR preview and Halo: Recruit and other VR games are coming October 17 — Update 10/3/17, 7 p.m. PT: A recording of our event from today is now available to watch on demand. — Mixed reality will unleash the creativity of every person and every organization on the planet.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Alphabet's DeepMind launches new Ethics and Society research unit to help technologists put ethics into practice, brings in advisers from academia and charity — Firm brings in advisers from academia and charity sector to ‘help technologists put ethics into practice’ in bid to help society cope with artificial intelligence
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What to expect from Google's October 4 event: Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones, Home Mini and Max speakers, Daydream VR headset refresh, 2-in-1 Pixelbook laptop — Even though it feels like we're still processing all of Apple's latest devices and announcements, it's time to switch gears … | Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
Profile of Giphy, which has 300M DAUs sharing 2B+ GIFs per day, major media partnerships in place, and hopes to shake up internet advertising — With 300 million daily users and every major media company as a partner, Giphy's got a feeling it can shake up the internet advertising business.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Evan Spiegel says Snap has sold about 150K Spectacles so far — - Snap CEO Spiegel spoke to author Walter Isaacson at Vanity Fair's fourth annual New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills, California. — Spiegel's comments on Tuesday indicated that Spectacles unit sales are now higher …
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| Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Amazon launches its Echo speakers with Alexa by invitation in India, will begin shipping in the week of October 30 — Amazon said on Wednesday it is bringing Alexa as well as Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Plus smart speakers to India, its fastest growing marketplace …
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HP updates Spectre 13 laptop with quad-core eighth-generation Intel processors, slimmer bezels, touchscreen, and 4K display; starting at $1,299.99 on October 29 — The x360 is getting some tweaks, too — The Spectre 13 was already HP's flashiest laptop, and today HP is unveiling …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app devs that complements Firebase Realtime Database — Google today launched a new database service for Firebase, its platform for app developers. The new Firestore database complements the existing Firebase Realtime Database and indeed …
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Facebook should have a searchable database of all ads and ramp up authenticity requirements for all buyers, not just for those self-reporting as political — Fifteen years on, this paragraph from a Bill Gates' memo is a bit cringe-inducing: … Equivocating computer viruses …
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