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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, David Cameron, E-Commerce Industry, Amazon.com Inc., Republic of Ireland
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Yahoo seeks turnaround with $1.1-billion deal to buy Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Forrester Research Incorporated, Culture, Business Enterprises
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Restraint is the new red in China
BEIJING — Exports of elegant Swiss watches to China have plunged. Sales of Mercedes-Benz and other premium sedans are slowing. And high-end restaurants, coming off their worst Chinese New Year festival in years, are starting to change their menus to...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, National Government, Trips and Vacations, Chinese Restaurants, Personal Service
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State dairymen seek bigger share of whey windfall
SACRAMENTO — California dairy farmers and cheese processors are fighting again over milk prices. It's not Grade A, homogenized, pasteurized milk that's at issue in the state Capitol. Rather, agriculture lobbyists are focused on the price of whey,...
Tags: Business, Food Industry, Politics, Al Capone, Lobbying
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Stock market rises back into record territory
The stock market marched back into record territory as investors seized on the latest encouraging news about the economy. On Tuesday, it was a report on the health of small businesses. Small business owners were slightly more optimistic in April,...
Tags: Weather Reports, Bank of America Corp., Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Japan, Weather
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Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]
In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Northern Mariana Islands, Genetic Engineering, Trade Dispute, George Washington
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Razor-sharp ad ideas
This story starts at a point in time that most observers predicted it would end. The year was 2002. The Internet party was long over. Pets.com and other high-flying digital darlings were defunct. It was the dark days for the few survivors of the dot-com...
Tags: Authors, Tesco plc, Book, Consumer Goods Industries, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Female tech entrepreneurs flourish in L.A.
It seemed like a typical dinner party for the well-heeled set: eight women, some dressed in stilettos and skinny jeans, gabbing over glasses of wine and endive spears with goat cheese at a lavish Hollywood Hills home. But amid the Kate Middleton...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Pet Services, Arts and Culture, E-Commerce Industry, Startups
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BBB looks to regain trust with relaunch of Southland branch
The Better Business Bureau wants you to know that it's cleaned up its act in Los Angeles. The organization reached out to me this week to say that a new operation is up and running after the old BBB of the Southland was expelled in March after years...
Tags: Consumer Issue, Dining and Drinking, Trips and Vacations, Hamas, Travel
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Ford to add 2,000 jobs at Missouri plant to meet truck, van demand
Ford Motor Co. will add 2,000 jobs at a factory near Kansas City, Mo., to meet surging demand for pickup trucks and to build a new van. Helped by a rebound in housing and construction, trucks have become the hottest segment of the U.S. auto industry so...
Tags: General Motors Corp., Vehicles, Automotive Equipment, Business, Services and Shopping
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U.S. auto manufacturers score biggest April since 2007
DETROIT — Ford, GM, Chrysler and Nissan all reported double-digit U.S. sales increases last month, signaling the best April for car and truck sales in six years. A rebound in pickup truck sales led the way, especially for the Detroit automakers....
Tags: Chrysler Group LLC, Kelley Blue Book LLC, Money and Monetary Policy, Manufacturing and Engineering, Small Businesses
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Two Prop. 13 defenders decry abuse of loophole by corporations
Two prominent defenders of Proposition 13 spoke out on Tuesday against "gimmicks" used by some companies to avoid paying additional property taxes when buying real estate in California. Responding to a Los Angeles Times story that ran Sunday, the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Real Estate Buyers, Real Estate, Justice System, Taxation
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