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Paradise Papers: Apple sought a secret shift to new tax haven of Jersey, after crackdown by European regulators of its Irish tax arrangement — The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
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| Apple: |
Apple says no operations or investments moved from Ireland after 2015 corporate restructuring, changes in Ireland's tax laws did not reduce its tax payments — Apple believes every company has a responsibility to pay its taxes, and as the largest taxpayer in the world, Apple pays every dollar it owes in every country around the world.
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Broadcom offers $105B in cash and stock to buy Qualcomm for $70/share, a 28% premium to Qualcomm's closing price on Thursday — Broadcom is proposing to buy Qualcomm for $70 per share in a cash and stock deal valued at $130 billion, Bloomberg News reports.
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Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @ahess247, @technology, @benbajarin, @m_delamerced, @tonyromm, and @thestalwart
| James Bridle: |
A look at how YouTube is being used to share traumatizing content to young children automatically and at scale — As someone who grew up on the internet, I credit it as one of the most important influences on who I am today. I had a computer with internet access in my bedroom from the age of 13.
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New York Times, CNET, musictechpolicy.com, and The A.V. Club
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel and AMD team up to co-design an Intel Core processor with custom AMD Radeon graphics, to bring top-tier games to thin and light notebook PCs — Absolutely incredible! Intel will ship a chip powered by AMD's Radeon graphics next year to bring top-tier, AAA games to the thin-and-light notebook market.
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Intel Newsroom, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, NASDAQ.com, MacRumors, Inquirer, The Register, On MSFT, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Lowyat.NET, SemiAccurate, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Hardware, The Next Web, The Tech Report, Windows Central, CNET, BetaNews, Business Insider, The Next Platform, AnandTech, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Neowin, Laptop Mag, Silicon Valley Business …, ZDNet, The Verge, Engadget, VentureBeat, Liliputing, Seeking Alpha, CNBC, and CNBC
| Salvador Rodriguez / Reuters: |
Will.i.am's tech startup I.am+ announces it has raised $117M, has created a voice assistant for customer service — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - I.am+, the tech startup founded by pop star and entrepreneur will.i.am, has raised $117 million in venture funding, the company told Reuters on Monday … | DisplayMate: |
DisplayMate: iPhone X display has the best color accuracy of “any display we have ever tested”, top full screen brightness of OLED-equipped phones at 634 nits — Dr. Raymond M. Soneira President, DisplayMate Technologies Corporation Copyright © 1990-2017 by DisplayMate Technologies Corporation.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, ZDNet, BGR, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Apple News aus Cupertino, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @vijayshekhar
| Nan Boden / Google: |
Google announces strategic partnership with Salesforce, will better integrate G Suite with Salesforce's CRM software — Today, we announce a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership with Salesforce that spans Google Cloud and Google Analytics. The partnership will enable smarter, more collaborative experiences for our customers.
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 11.2 will let developers offer introductory pricing for auto-renewable subscriptions in the App Store — Apple is introducing a new App Store pricing feature for developers starting with iOS 11.2. Apps that use auto-renewable subscription pricing will soon be able to offer special introductory pricing for new customers.
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MacRumors, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Neowin, and PhoneDog.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Russian Twitter accounts posing as Americans began to support Trump in June 2015, weeks after he announced campaign and earlier than previously known — In three months after Mr. Trump announced his candidacy, tweets from Russian accounts offered far more praise for the businessman than criticism
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The Hill and Engadget
Tweets: @patrickw, @propublica, @eorden, @markmaremont, @amy_siskind, @congressmanraja, and @dabeard
| Arpan Varghese / Reuters: |
Consortium of energy firms, including BP and Shell, will make a blockchain-based platform for trading energy commodities, slated to be operational by end of '18 — (Reuters) - A consortium including energy companies BP and Royal Dutch Shell will develop a blockchain-based digital platform … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Internal email: Lyft COO Rex Tibbens to step down, as company prepares to go public next year — Rex Tibbens is stepping down as chief operating officer of Lyft by year-end, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Tibbens, who joined the ride-hail company in 2015 after four years at Amazon … Sponsor Posts
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