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First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 46 mins ago - 1 reports

Quoted: on Apple and offshoring profit to avoid taxes

“I think it’s important to make clear the admiration we have for Apple, the incredible changes Apple has caused in our lives. However… Apple is one of the biggest tax avoiders in America.”— Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., during a Senate subcommittee hearing ... [Published SiliconValley.com - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Apple Inc, Taxes, John McCain, Mercury

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Marissa Mayer getting in the Tumblr spirit

No one can say Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer doesn’t have a sense of humor.She and her top aides have acknowledged that the giant Internet portal has lost a lot of cred with younger Internet users in recent years. So when Mayer announced Monday that Yahoo ... [Published SiliconValley.com - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Marissa Mayer, Tumblr Inc, Brandon Bailey, David Karp, Yahoo! Inc

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Top Twitter moments from the Billboard Music Awards

Twitter lit up Sunday night as musicians and fans flooded the social media site to pontificate and crack jokes about the Billboard Music Awards. From Madonna slurring her words, fueling rumors that the pop diva was drunk, to an unexpected round of booing ... [Published SiliconValley.com - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Twitter, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, San Francisco (United States), Social Media

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Mr. Cook goes to Washington: Apple CEO to talk taxes and offshoring

Apple CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to testify Tuesday morning at a Senate hearing about offshore taxes. He will propose a “dramatic simplification” of tax laws to help bring more corporate profit back to the United States, according to the Washington Post. Apple ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Tim Cook, Apple Inc, Taxes, Mercury, Braeburn Capital

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Google Inc

Whistleblower emerges amid Google?s U.K. tax woes

A report published by the Sunday Times sheds light on the tone of British lawmakers’ grilling of Google over taxes last week: A former Google executive has turned whistleblower, showing the newspaper evidence he says proves that “what Google is doing ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Taxes, Whistle-Blower

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Tumblr Inc

Quoted: Tumblr CEO talks ?awesome? Yahoo deal

— David Karp, Tumblr CEO, on Yahoo’s $1.1 billion purchase of the popular blogging site, which was confirmed this morning. The all-cash deal keeps the company in New York, and Karp said everything from the team to the “roadmap” is staying the same. In ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Tumblr Inc, Yahoo! Inc, David Karp

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Yahoo! Inc

Yahoo board reportedly OKs$1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr

SUNNYVALE -- Yahoo's (YHOO) board of directors has reportedly approved the $1.1 billion purchase of the popular blogging site Tumblr, in what amounts to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's boldest move yet in her efforts to revitalize the struggling Internet g ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Tumblr Inc, Yahoo! Inc, Marissa Mayer, David Karp

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Ericsson Silicon Valley?s Maya Strelar-Migotti?s Six ways to fire up innovation in big enterprises

As the head of IP and broadband development for Ericsson in Silicon Valley, Maya Strelar-Migotti wrestles with a problem that you hear many leaders of huge, global companies worry about all the time: Now that we’re gigantic and hidebound, how do we keep ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 19 2013]

Entities: Maya Strelar-Migotti, Invention, LM Ericsson Telephone Co, Silicon Valley

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Wolverton: Backing up may be hard to do, but I'm giving it another try

For many people, backing up their computers is like getting exercise or eating more vegetables: They know it's the right thing to do, but they just can't seem to get around to it.I know, because I'm like that.After buying a new computer last year, I never ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Bandwidth, Mozy, iTunes Match, Google Inc, Disaster

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Yahoo in talks to buy Tumblr?

Update: Yahoo said late Friday that it’s planning a press event Monday afternoon in New York City, although it would not say if the event is related to the Tumblr rumors.Multiple reports across the Interweb today are suggesting that Yahoo is in serious ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Tumblr Inc, Yahoo! Inc, Marissa Mayer, Brandon Bailey

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Google I/Oh? about your privacy?

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: We trade our privacy for convenience — and some are more comfortable with that than others. The day after Google’s I/O developers conference where it unveiled many a new or enhanced offering, here’s some of ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Google Talk, Safeway Inc

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Watch out, Union Square. Here comes Apple!

Apparently unhappy with having simply a jaw-dropping store almost dead-center in the heart of downtown San Francisco, Apple now wants to relocate three blocks north to be totally dead-center.According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Apple plans to open ... [Published SiliconValley.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: San Francisco (United States), David Chiu, Market

Quotes

...-- and in some cases staying ahead of -- its major platform rivals," Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey told Bloomberg News on Wednesday. "To see such a large company attack so many fronts with such agility is rare and, evidently for the market, inspires confidence."

Google stock hits $900 for first time, market cap surpasses $300 billion [Published SiliconValley.com - May 15 2013]

"The first question is: 'What stunt will they play this year?' " Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said in a blog post this week. "Last year's parachuting on the Moscone Center was pretty special."

Google announces streaming-music service to rival Pandora, Spotify [Published SiliconValley.com - May 15 2013]

...I have to admit I had a little skepticism at first. I called a highly respected plumber, who told me, "Those meters don't usually lie. This guy has a leak."

Herhold: 68 gallons to flush a toilet? [Published SiliconValley.com - May 13 2013]

"Which side is a 'chief privacy officer' suppose to be on?" Landry wrote. "The side of the people helping them protect their privacy? Or the side of the corporations wanting easier access to people's private information?"

Twitter's Nicole Wong, in line for Obama privacy post, praised for First Amendment chops [Published SiliconValley.com - May 08 2013]

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