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EU will reportedly launch an investigation into Apple’s Irish tax arrangement

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Apple is reportedly again coming under fire in the European Union about how it uses the Irish county of Cork to allegedly avoid paying taxes, according to an RTE report. According to RTE, the Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia will make an announcement about the investigation tomorrow. A Committee spokesperson declined to comment to Reuters about the RTE report. Apple was previously investigated in the United States about its use of technicalities in the Irish and US tax code. A Senate investigation found that Apple had paid no corporate income tax on billions of dollars of income over the past four years. Irish tax law only recognizes businesses that…

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Firefox 30 arrives with sidebars button, GStreamer 1.0 support, and quickshare in context menu on Android

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 6:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Mobile

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Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 30 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include a button for direct access to sidebars (social, bookmark, and history), support for GStreamer 1.0, and new quickshare buttons in the context menu on Android. Firefox 30 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. In terms of new features, this is a relatively minor release, especially when compared to the major revamp that came as part of Firefox 29. Mozilla has been mainly…

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Google buying Skybox Imaging for satellite photos and to beam internet access to Earth

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 6:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Today Google announced that it had signed an acquisition agreement for Skybox Imaging, a satellite company, for $500 million in cash. In a blog post Google explained the acquisition: Skybox’s satellites will help keep Google Maps accurate with up-to-date imagery. Over time, we also hope that Skybox’s team and technology will be able to help improve Internet access and disaster relief — areas Google has long been interested in. In addition to the obvious benefits to Google Maps and Google Earth, Skybox’s satellites could be used as a means to provide internet access to locations off the broadband grid. The…

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A Thai educational startup wins the race at Echelon 2014 by making it fun for kids to learn

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 5:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Insider, Southeast Asia, Thailand

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Making it fun for kids to learn is something that holds a lot of potential for mobile startups, and that direction is now further affirmed in Southeast Asia with Thai startup Taamkru winning the “Most Promising Startup” award at tech conference Echelon 2014. Taamkru, which was motivated by a sense of shame that Thailand ranked near the bottom for education among ASEAN countries, aims to replace the paper workbook for preschool kids. Its iOS app features digital interactive exercises focused on fun and can be replayed over and over again. This video highlights aptly the sense of the fun culture behind Taamkru. Although Taamkru currently…

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Google adds Docker image support to App Engine, releases open source container manager and resource usage tools

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google, Insider

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At DockerCon 2014 today, Eric Brewer, Google’s VP of Infrastructure, announced the company is adding support for Docker images in Google App Engine. He also unveiled two new open source projects: Kubernetes, a container manager, and cAdvisor, a resource usage tool. When Google Compute Engine hit general availability late last year, the company announced support for Docker, which lets developers build and test an application locally and package everything into a large executable that can then be run anywhere. The company is now taking that one step further by offering a set of extensions that allow App Engine developers to…

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