Coffee giant Starbucks has refused to comment on plans to tackle tax avoidance agreed by G8 leaders in Northern Ireland yesterday (June 18). Many have found Starbucks' UK tax strategy hard to swallow A spokeswoman for the firm ...
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Despite the bitter patent battles in courts around the world, South Korean giant Samsung is to provide its arch nemesis Apple with screens for its next-gen iPads. Industry insiders told ETnews that Samsung Display will supply Apple with ...
Intel this year plans to sell a set-top box and Internet-based streaming media service that will bundle TV channels for subscribers, but its plans will likely face hurdles from the 800-pound gorillas of the streaming media market. In ...
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William Hague has branded allegations that the UK government's electronic surveillance centre, GCHQ, has been asking the US National Security Agency for data on UK citizens "nonsense" in comments made before a promised explanation later ...
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GCHQ is reported to have generated 197 intelligence reports from the National Security Agency UK foreign secretary William Hague has denied claims that the intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) violated the law ...
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Tesco continues to struggle across Europe, with like-for-like sales excluding petrol down 5.5% as “tough economic conditions, challenging competitors and over-dependence upon out-of-favour hypermarkets” take their toll. ...
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Booths, the 160-year-old North-West-based supermarket chain, is abolishing paper receipts for holders of its new Booths Card and instead will store them in their personal accounts online. The receipts can be accessed online and via web ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has stated his firm would pay more taxes if future changes to British tax law required it to do so. Schmidt also told BBC Radio 4 that he is "perplexed" by the ongoing corporate tax debate, which includes ...
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The judgment in the Twitter libel case between Lord McAlpine and Sally Bercow has been published, with the judge explaining fully his reasoning for finding against Bercow. The House of Commons' Speaker's wife Bercow had tweeted "Why is ...
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BSkyB was been warned by the BBC that it could soon be facing charges to carry BBC television signals across its networks, after retransmission fee talks between the two companies broke down. Currently, BSkyB charges the BBC and other ...
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Perception of ERP needs to change if more organisations are going to adopt the technology. That's according to Steve Tattum, product manager for Sage ERP X3, and Matt Muldoon, ERP expert and director of consultancy Clear Business Outcome, ...
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Much-hacked social networking site Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication in a bid to cut down on the hijacking of accounts. The move follows a string of hacks of high-profile accounts by groups such as the ...
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The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
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The BBC has closed its multimillion pound Digital Media Initiative (DMI) that was meant to create new digital production tools and link them with a central, digital archive that would allow BBC staff to access a seamless digital chain ...
Just a month after a top Google executive said Glass wouldn't be officially released for another year, sources say the computerized eyeglasses actually should ship by the end of this year. One source inside Google and another close to ...
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