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Twitter seeks developers and acquisitions
October 23rd, 2014
Twitter is trying to grow beyond its main messaging app and use acquisitions to become a mobile platform capable of competing with its larger rivals Google, Apple and Facebook. The company will unveil a suite of tools for app ...
Ireland to abolish controversial ‘double Irish’ tax arrangement
October 15th, 2014
Ireland has officially announced the phased abolition of its controversial “double Irish” tax scheme that has enabled multinationals such as Apple to dramatically cut down their tax bills. The arrangement, which has drawn the wrath of the US Senate ...
French bank turns to Twitter for money transfers
October 14th, 2014
One of France’s largest banks,Groupe BPCE, launched a service on Tuesday to allow its customers to transfer money to other people via tweets on social network Twitter Inc. (TWTR.N). Groupe BPCE , France’s second largest bank by customers, is an ...
Google Provides Details on ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests
October 10th, 2014
Google said that it had removed more links in Europe to content on Facebook from its search results than from any other website. Facebook, and Google’s own services, are among the websites to be most affected by Europe’s so-called ...
Twitter sues U.S. Government over user’s data reporting
October 8th, 2014
The social media giant wants to loosen restrictions on what it is allowed to tell users about government information requests. Twitter filed a lawsuit against the United States government on Tuesday, seeking to ease restrictions on public disclosures of ...
Yahoo ‘set to invest millions’ in Snapchat
October 6th, 2014
Yahoo is close to investing millions of dollars in mobile messaging service Snapchat, which may value the start-up at about $10bn (£6.2bn), reports say. Snapchat allows users to send images and videos that “disappear” seconds after being viewed. The ...
Tax Tactics Threaten Public Funds
October 2nd, 2014
When the European Commission charged this week that Ireland’s sweetheart tax treatment of Apple amounted to an illegal corporate subsidy, the company said that it had done nothing wrong. Corporate tax strategies intended to minimize global taxes, by hook ...
Yahoo must take essential decision once again
September 26th, 2014
Yahoo, more than any other investor, should have benefited from the public market debut last week of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. The company sold Alibaba shares worth $6 billion after taxes, and its remaining stake is valued at ...
Investors are sizing up the value of Alibaba IPO
September 11th, 2014
he New York debut of Alibaba shares later this month will likely place the company among the 10 most valuable technology firms traded in the U.S. Whether China’s No. 1 e-commerce firm lands in the top five will depend ...
Jack Ma, ‘capital-lite’ model impress at Alibaba’s Boston IPO event
September 10th, 2014
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has two major things going for it as it prepares for an initial public offering that could raise more than $21 billion: founder Jack Ma and a “capital-lite” business model. While corporate governance remains a ...