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Alibaba in Talks to Invest in Snapchat
July 31st, 2014
Snapchat Inc. has held preliminary talks with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. to raise a new round of financing that could value the mobile-messaging startup at about $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The ...
Apple and IBM in Broad Software Deal for Businesses
July 16th, 2014
Apple is moving up to business class. And its seatmate will be IBM. In a deal that could deepen Apple’s sales to corporations and strengthen IBM’s position in business software, the two companies announced a wide-ranging partnership intended to ...
Alibaba’s Behemoth IPO Making Few Ripples in Washington
July 11th, 2014
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA)’s proposal for what could be the largest initial stock offering in U.S. history is sailing through Washington with few bumps. While a federal commission has warned that the offering by the world’s biggest Internet ...
ACCA welcomes new ECB measures
June 10th, 2014
The European Central Bank (ECB) has unveiled a package supporting lending to the real economy in the Eurozone, a move strongly welcomed by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) The ECB measures entail proposals to conduct targeted longer-term ...
Xiaomi’s Phones Have Conquered China. Now It’s Aiming for the Rest of the World
June 6th, 2014
On May 15, behind the curving, imperial facade of the China National Convention Center in Beijing, a veteran technology executive named Lei Jun walks onstage before a thousand raucous fans and members of the media. It’s a familiar scene ...
Tax owed on full sale price where taxpayer won’t provide cost basis information
May 6th, 2014
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a deficiency notice of more than $5 million against a taxpayer who reported adjusted gross income of $22,921 and taxable income of $13,221 on his late-filed 2006 return (Hoang, No. 13-14398 (11th ...
“Killer B” anti-abuse regulations are on the way
April 29th, 2014
Recognizing that taxpayers are exploiting the rules in ways it had not intended, the IRS on Friday announced that it will amend the existing regulations on cross-border reverse triangular reorganizations, popularly known as “Killer B” transactions (Notice 2014-32). Killer ...