Internet
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Google Reaped Millions of Tax Breaks as It Secretly Expanded Its Real Estate Footprint Across US
Last May, officials in Midlothian, Texas, a city near Dallas, approved more than $10 million in tax breaks for a…
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Amazon Invests in Rivian, an Aspiring Tesla Rival
Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it would lead a $700 million investment in U.S. electric pickup truck startup Rivian Automotive…
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Data Localisation, E-Commerce Not Discussed at US-India Summit: US Envoy
Data localisation, e-commerce legislation and the generalised system of preferences (GSP) were not expressly discussed during talks between the United…
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Germany Reportedly Mulling Special Tax on Foreign Internet Firms
Germany’s finance ministry is looking into the possibility of a 15 percent special tax on online advertising revenue collected by…
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Amazon Is Wavering on Its Commitment to Renewable Energy: Greenpeace
They call them the “factories of the information age.” Data centres make it possible for millions of consumers to listen…
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Ixigo, YouNow, and 5 Other Websites Reportedly Hacked, 127 Million Accounts Leaked
A hacker who stole close to 620 million user records from 16 websites has struck again, this time breaking into…
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JPMorgan Chase Unveils Cryptocurrency Prototype JPM Coin
JPMorgan Chase on Thursday unveiled a prototype for a digital coin system using blockchain, a first among major banks in…
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Musk-Founded AI Group Not to Release Research on ‘Fake News’ Fears
Elon Musk-founded non-profit Artificial Intelligence (AI) research group OpenAI has decided not to reveal its new AI software in detail,…
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How Amazon Scrapped Its Plans for a New York Headquarters
More than a year of work to bring Amazon.com’s headquarters and tens of thousands of jobs to New York City…
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Amazon Drops Plan to Build Headquarters in New York City
Amazon cancelled plans to build a New York campus, which would have included at least 25,000 high-paying jobs, Thursday because…
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Amazon Probed by Austria Over Alleged Unfair Trade Practices
Austria’s competition authorities said Thursday it was launching a probe into whether US online retail giant Amazon was abusing its…
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EU Reaches Tentative Deal on Online Copyright Reform
The European Union is set to rewrite its two-decades-old copyright rules which will force Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc…
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