Samsung Electronics has reported global channel sales of over 10 million units of the Galaxy S4 in less than a month after its global launch. The new smartphone from the Samsung stable has outstripped its predecessors in first-month ...
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From January to April, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 1,610.69 billion yuan, an increase of 11.4 percent over the same period last year, and down by 0.7 percentage point over the first three months. In ...
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In April this year, China's aggregate metallurgical coke and ferroalloy outputs were up 4.9 percent and 12.2 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Meanwhile, the country exported ...
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Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the company is ducking taxes by shifting profits to subsidiaries that the company does not consider tax ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended his company against charges of aggressive tax avoidance in a hearing in front of a Congressional committee in the US Senate. In a report, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations claimed that ...
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Editor’s Note: The following column by Reed Langton, senior application engineer, Bastian Solutions, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, systems ...
Tags: Automation, Machinery
The US Senate has dragged Apple, the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the US tax code, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in US taxes. Cook said the ...
Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding (SEHK: 0322) recorded operating revenue of USD 2.648 billion in the first quarter of 2013, growing 37.39% over a year earlier, announced the company on May 20. Net profits attributable to shareholders ...
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Soft drinks firm Britvic is to close two factories and a warehouse, placing up to 400 jobs in jeopardy, in a bid to slash costs by £30M by 2016. Britvic's plans to cut 400 jobs with the closure of two factories and a warehouse are ...
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Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new ...
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Samsung's mobile division seems to have let another device slip through the spoiler net, with a new leak revealing what appears to be an 8-inch variant of the Galaxy Tab. If confirmed, the new model will sit alongside Samsung's existing ...
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Apple has been accused of being one of the largest tax avoiders in the US, by a powerful committee of US senators. The company's chief executive, Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and head of tax operations, Philip Bullock, will appear ...
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REINVIGORATED technology player Yahoo has unveiled a dusted-off design of Flickr that offers users 1 Terrabyte of free photo storage only hours after the company's dramatic acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. Yahoo chief executive ...
It’s reported that the Russian steelmaker Severstal released the financial results for the first quarter of this year. In the first quarter of this year, Severstal posted a net profit of US$44 million, slumping by 90% year on ...
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Geotechnical monitoring is an experimental approach to inspecting the subsurface. Built as an extension of civil designing, Geotechnical designing is concerned with the conduct of earth metals. It uses standards of soil and quaver mechanics ...