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Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay and Apple avoided £1BILLION of UK tax
January 27th, 2016
A Mirror investigation has revealed the UK is missing out on huge sums as multinational firms are based in tax havens Five of the world’s biggest tech companies avoided paying £1 BILLION in UK tax last year, the Mirror ...
Facebook class action lawsuits to go ahead
December 30th, 2015
Two US class action lawsuits against Facebook by shareholders alleging it hid growth concerns ahead of its 2012 public listing can now go ahead. A federal judge certified the legal proceedings, Reuters reports, saying investors who claim they lost ...
India puts brakes on Facebook’s Free Basics scheme
December 28th, 2015
Facebook‘s effort to provide Indians with free access to a limited number of internet services has run into trouble. India’s telecoms regulator has asked the mobile network that partnered with the US firm to put their Free Basics offer ...
Facebook to replace work email at RBS
November 27th, 2015
The Royal Bank of Scotland is making Facebook at Work available to more than 100,000 employees RBS is the largest client to trial the service with over 500 employees currently using it at work every day Facebook at Work has ...
Belgian court orders Facebook to stop tracking non-members
November 11th, 2015
Judge threatens social network with fines of €250,000 a day over ‘datr’ cookie, which records visits to many websites whether or not user has Facebook account A Belgian court on Monday gave Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking internet users who ...
Facebook tops General Electric in market value
November 6th, 2015
Facebook surpassed General Electric, which traces its history back to Thomas Edison and the first light bulb, in market value Thursday as the U.S. economy sheds the last of its industrial influence and moves firmly into a digital age decades in ...
Facebook’s transfer of European Union users’ data to the United States – Court ordered investigation
October 22nd, 2015
Irish court orders investigation of Facebook data transfers to US Ireland’s High Court on Tuesday (20 October) ordered an investigation into Facebook’s transfer of European Union users’ data to the United States, to make sure personal privacy was properly ...
Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax despite £35m staff bonuses
October 12th, 2015
Social networking firm paid average of £210,000 to staff in Britain, but overall loss in UK of £28.5m meant very little corporation tax was due Staff at Facebook’s UK arm took home an average of more than £210,000 last ...
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Payment Service Across The U.S.
July 1st, 2015
Today Facebook announced that a new payment feature is now available for Facebook Messenger users in the U.S. Now you can make person-to-person payments by adding your debit card through Facebook Messenger in just a few taps. The money ...
Facebook Challenges Bitcoin? Payment Icon Added To Desktop Users
June 25th, 2015
Facebook has continued unveiling its Facebook payments platform, adding the desktop option on Wednesday for many users. CCN reported in March how the social media website had introduced payments on its messenger application, and it seems that today it has rolled ...