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Lawmakers grill Apple execs over tax strategy
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook was supposed to face a hostile Capitol Hill crowd but instead he wielded the company's popularity like a shield to deflect some of the most aggressive questioning over the company's...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Rand Paul, Tim Cook, U.S. Congress, John McCain
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Apple skirts U.S. taxes, panel finds
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc., one of the most successful and valuable companies on the planet, will be tested Tuesday when Chief Executive Tim Cook testifies about the company's controversial tax practices before a hostile Senate subcommittee. Should...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Tim Cook, U.S. Congress, John McCain, Companies and Corporations
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Report: Apple avoided billions in U.S. taxes on foreign income
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in foreign income over the past four years,...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Tim Cook, Companies and Corporations, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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Apple CEO Tim Cook strongly defends tax policy at Senate hearing
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook strongly defended the company's tax practices Tuesday at a Senate hearing highlighting the technology giant's use of Irish subsidiaries to shelter billions of dollars in income from U.S. taxes....
Tags: Tim Cook, Rand Paul, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Justice System
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Apple in the hot seat: Expect tough questioning at tax hearing
WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook and other company officials will be in a legendary hot seat Tuesday as they try to defend the company's tax practices -- in front of Sen. Carl Levin. The veteran Michigan Democrat chairs the Senate's...
Tags: Tim Cook, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, John McCain, Abusive Behavior
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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: Big Brother (tv program), Science and Technology, Pandora Media, Inc., Personal Data Collection, Consumer Goods Industries
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Google Play marks subscription music service for internet giant
Google Inc. upended the Internet with its search engine. It launched its own email service, made roads and highways easier to navigate, developed the world's most popular operating system for mobile devices and took a shot at Apple Inc.'s iTunes with...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Pandora Media, Inc., Science and Technology, Music Industry, Apple iTunes
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On eve of Google developers conference, company 'hot again'
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Even though its ubiquitous Internet search engine practically mints money, Google Inc. was widely seen as a company whose best days were behind it. It was written off as the next Microsoft Corp. — a staid high-tech...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Media Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, The TCW Group, Inc., Antitrust Issues
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Bieber vs. Beethoven; a new twist on battle rap
Comedian Lloyd Ahlquist steps onto the stage, girded for battle. Wearing the uniform of a Soviet officer, with medals dripping from his chest, he channels dictator Joseph Stalin and prepares to deliver a rhyming smackdown on Russia's mad monk, Grigori...
Tags: Justin Bieber, Back to the Future (movie), Music Industry, Apple iTunes, Taylor Swift
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The war for mobile messaging is on
SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the building entrance or on the office door. Unlike...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Media Industry, Travel Alerts, Telecommunication Service, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Silicon Valley is beginning to see 'delight' in a new light
PALO ALTO — Ask Joshua Reeves about his online payroll service, and the last thing he'll want to discuss are its features and algorithms and software code and all that other cold jargon that usually comes pouring out of the mouths of Silicon...
Tags: Media Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science and Technology, Human Interest, Yahoo! Inc.
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Dow continues to sizzle, topping 15,000 for the first time
NEW YORK — Another day, another milestone on Wall Street. The red-hot Dow Jones industrial average barreled past 15,000 to close Tuesday at its highest point in history. It marked the 16th record close for the blue-chip index this year and...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, ING Group, Financial Markets, Labor Markets, Central Bank
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