Published on: 2025-04-23 12:15:00
Cutting corners: A new report has reignited the debate over how much tax the world's largest technology companies pay, revealing that the so-called "Silicon Six" – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix – have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past decade than would be expected if their profits were taxed at the average statutory rate for US companies. The analysis, conducted by the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF), scrutinizes the financial records and tax
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 15:32:48
In Brief Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said in a post on X at around 2 p.m. Pacific. The trouble began around 11:40 a.m., according to The Verge, citing data from Cisco’s ThousandEyes platform. Users on social media reported having trouble logging in, and getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:44:40
Thousands report Spotify problems around the world Tens of thousands of Spotify users around the world have reported they were unable to stream music on the app. Downdetector, which tracks platforms, showed more than 20,000 people reported Spotify was not functioning on Wednesday afternoon from 13:30 GMT. Thousands more reported issues in the US and parts of Europe. Spotify told the BBC "the issue with Search has been addressed" it was rolling out the update to its users. However it is uncl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 20:06:07
(Reuters) -Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture to operate the U.S. chipmaker's factories, the Information reported on Thursday, citing two people involved in the discussions. TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, will take a 20% stake in the new company, the report said. The White House and Commerce department officials have been pressing TSMC and Intel to strike a deal to resolve the long-running crisis at Intel,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 11:25:46
In Brief Semiconductor giants Intel and TSMC are reportedly teaming up. The two firms are said to have reached a tentative agreement to create a joint venture that will operate Intel’s chipmaking facilities, according to The Information. TSMC will have a 20% stake in the new venture. Instead of funding its stake with capital, TSMC will share some of its chipmaking practices with Intel employees and train them, added The Information. The Trump Administration reportedly kindled the discussions
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 07:42:38
General view of a Tesla Store in Paramus, New Jersey, on March 20, 2025. Tesla reported 336,681 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2025, a 13% decline from a year ago, two days after the electric vehicle company's stock wrapped up its worst quarter since 2022. The company's shares were last up nearly 4%, rebounding from a dip after Politico reported that CEO Elon Musk could leave his Department of Government Efficiency position. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q1 2025: 336
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 23:57:04
General view of a Tesla Store in Paramus, New Jersey, on March 20, 2025. Tesla reported 336,000 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2025, a 13% decline from a year ago, two days after the electric vehicle company's stock wrapped up its worst quarter since 2022. Shares slumped 4% following the news. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q1 2025: 336,681 Total production Q1 2025: 362,615 Investors were expecting Tesla to report deliveries of between 360,000 and 370,000 vehicles,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 06:50:23
NASA terminated $420 million in “unneeded contracts,” according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an entity established by executive order to slash costs across the federal government. The hundreds of millions in contracts are just the latest in a slew of cuts put into effect since the second Trump administration began in January. Many of the cuts have come in the form of layoffs, canceled grants, and terminated programs in the federal government’s science-focused agencies—from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 21:19:54
A new report says that when the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk less than a week before President Trump's inauguration, only one member—the current chairman—voted against filing the lawsuit. The vote behind closed doors was 4–1, with three Democrats and Republican Hester Peirce joining to support the lawsuit over Musk's late disclosure of a Twitter stock purchase in early 2022, Reuters reported today. The one dissent reportedly came from Republican Mark Uyeda, who was subseque
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 18:32:11
The Apple TV+ streaming service “is losing more than $1 billion annually,” according to The Information today. The report also claimed that Apple TV+’s subscriber count reached “around 45 million” in 2024, citing the two anonymous sources. Ars reached out to Apple for comment on the accuracy of The Information’s report and will update you if we hear back. Per one of the sources, Apple TV+ has typically spent over $5 billion annually on content since 2019, when Apple TV+ debuted. Last year, th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 02:39:20
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Family members of people who died in Tesla crashes are urging the US Department of Transportation not to scrap a Biden-era rule requiring companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. They also say they are worried that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s influence in the Trump administration may lead t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 18:21:03
Measles isn’t just making a comeback in the United States. In a report out this week, the World Health Organization found that cases of the vaccine-preventable disease surged in Europe and Central Asia last year, reaching the highest levels seen in over two decades. The WHO released its analysis, jointly conducted with UNICEF, on Thursday. According to the report, there were more than 120,000 documented cases of measles in the European region, which covers 53 countries across Europe and Asia, i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 06:13:33
Sonos has canceled plans to release a streaming box, The Verge reported today. The audio company never publicly confirmed that it was making a streaming set-top box, but rumors of its impending release have been floating around since November 2023. With everything that both Sonos and streaming users have going on right now, though, a Sonos-branded rival to the Apple TV 4K wasn’t a good idea anyway. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman was the first to report on Sonos’ purported streaming ambitions. He repor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 00:05:59
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today that Americans lost a record $12.5 billion to fraud last year, a 25% increase over the previous year. Consumers reported that investment scams resulted in the highest losses, totaling around $5.7 billion with a median loss of over $9,000 and exceeding all other fraud categories. The second largest reported loss was linked with imposter scams, amounting to $2.95 billion in 2024. Younger people have also reported losing money to fraud more often
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 04:10:12
The measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico has reached 208 cases. Texas officials reported 198 confirmed cases across nine counties as of Friday, with 23 people requiring hospitalization since the outbreak exploded at the end of January. Most of the cases continue to be in children and teens, with 153 of the 198 cases being between the ages of 0 and 17. Eleven cases have no confirmed age listed. All but five cases are in people who are unvaccinated or have no vaccination record. Texas o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 22:35:01
A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Microsoft said Saturday evening that service was restored following an outage that left tens of thousands of users unable to access their Outlook email accounts and other programs. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services," Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X. Services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchang
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 17:55:59
The measles outbreak in Texas has now turned deadly. Texas and federal health officials have just reported the first deaths attributed to the still-growing outbreak, which has sickened over a hundred people. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported the tragic death of an unvaccinated “school-aged” child Wednesday morning. In the first cabinet meeting of the second Trump Administration held Wednesday afternoon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) sec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 08:40:39
Virgin Media apologises as thousands report internet outage Virgin Media O2 has apologised after thousands in the UK reported they were unable to access the internet. Downndetector, which tracks websites, showed more than 10,000 people reported their broadband was not working on Monday morning. Users first began reporting issues shortly after 10:00 GMT. "We apologise for any inconvenience and are working to fix this as a priority," a Virgin spokesperson told the BBC.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 03:45:17
In an odd approach to trying to improve customer tech support, HP allegedly implemented mandatory, 15-minute wait times for people calling the vendor for help with their computers and printers in certain geographies. Callers from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy were met with the forced holding periods, The Register reported on Thursday. The publication cited internal communications it saw from February 18 that reportedly said the wait times aimed to "influence customers
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