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Amazon enters tech's architecture wars with 'plant-rich' building
Not one to be outdone, Amazon.com has become the latest tech giant to reveal plans for new, outlandish headquarters. The online retailer wants to literally bring the "Amazon" to downtown Seattle with a building that features three glass-dome,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Sony Corp., Architecture
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Pay your taxes, Europe warns multinationals
LONDON — European leaders fired a warning shot in the battle against multinational companies that exploit loopholes or set up complicated schemes to minimize their tax bills, calling for collective action to thwart such practices. Britain,...
Tags: Germany, E-Commerce Industry, G8, United Kingdom, Sales
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Amazon launches project to monetize fan fiction: Kindle Worlds
Amazon has a plan to monetize fan fiction: It's called Kindle Worlds. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a new scheme in which writers of fan fiction can self-publish and sell that writing with the sanction of the original copyright holder. The idea is that...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Authors, Stephenie Meyer, Entertainment, Metal
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'Star Trek Into Darkness' finishes first. Yahoo buys Tumblr.
After the coffee. Before going through two weeks' worth of mail. The Skinny: Well, I didn't win the Powerball lottery, which means I'll be heading back to the office today after a long trip to New York. Ask me around Thursday if it's good to be home....
Tags: Star Trek into Darkness (movie), Iron Man 3 (movie), Lotteries, Kenneth Turan, Ethan Coen
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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: Stephen King, Book, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon Kindle, Jeff Bezos
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Barefoot Books breaks up with Amazon
Barefoot Books is a small house based in Cambridge, Mass., that publishes children’s book. As of this week, you can call it “The Mouse that Roared.” The people who run Barefoot Books are frustrated with the business practices of...Tags: FAO Schwarz, Book, Arts and Culture, Amazon Kindle, Literature
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European leaders take on corporate tax avoidance
LONDON -- European leaders gathered in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss how to clamp down on multinational companies that exploit loopholes or set up complex accounting schemes to lower their tax bills. Taking on an issue that has also become...
Tags: European Union, G8, Starbucks Corp., France, David Cameron
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'Zombieland' writer announces the series is dead at Amazon
Amazon hasn't yet announced which of the 14 pilots it released last month will be getting series orders, but there's already been one confirmed casualty: "Zombieland." Co-creator and co-writer Rhett Reese, who also co-wrote the hit film the pilot was...
Tags: Zombieland (movie), Emma Stone, TNT (tv network), Bill Murray, Entertainment
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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter
For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Consumer Goods Industries, Advertising, Big Brother (tv program), Netflix Inc.
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Networks send SOS to Michael J. Fox, Robin Williams and other stars
If viewers are losing interest in broadcast TV, what can lure them back? Executives hope they have an answer: stars. Lifting the curtain on their 2013-14 schedules at the "upfronts" in New York this week, the networks behaved like smartphone-...
Tags: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv program), Leslie Moonves, Carnegie Hall, Netflix Inc., Parkinson's Disease
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All hail our smart TV masters, but not just yet
After many false starts, television is becoming an interactive medium. In a sense, it's always been one — even two channels require a choice. Long accustomed to the illusion that the screen is a window through which we are sometimes directly...
Tags: Media Industry, Television, Entertainment, Netflix Inc., Marketing
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Jaron Lanier takes a hard look at the wired world
Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley insider whose primary occupation has been to imagine, think and ask...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Skype, Mexico City, Music, Music Industry
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