Google is in a row with France about how much corporate taxes it pays. Like the Obama Administration’s outrage about businesses moving headquarters abroad, this dispute demonstrates corporate taxes, along with personal income taxes, are obsolete. Google markets ads in
If ever you’ve worried about vanishing Arctic ice, the ‘expert’ almost certainly to blame is a Cambridge professor called Peter Wadhams. For years now, Wadhams has been the go-to doommonger of choice for any newspaper or green pressure group or
Apple Inc.’s (APPL) introduction of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus has generated all-time record interest, with over 1.9 billion Google search results. Sales, according to Forbes, are at 20 million units, and Apple is reported to have parts for 200
In the town of Cástulo, Spain, archaeologists have discovered one of the earliest-known images of Jesus, which shows him short-haired and beardless. The newly found depiction of Jesus is engraved on an 8.6-inch glass plate known as a paten, estimated
Google is being threatened with a $100 million lawsuit from an attorney representing celebrities whose private photos were published on Google, according to USA TODAY. Attorney Martin Singer wrote, “Google is making millions and profiting from the victimization of women.
Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker and internet troll better known by his online pseudonym ‘weev’, has unveiled a swastika tattoo and declared himself an anti-semite and white supremacist in a post on notorious racist website The Daily Stormer. On Wednesday, Auernheimer
This week, the European Union (EU) Competition Commission approved Facebook’s $19.5 billion acquisition of WhatsApp based on a finding that the two companies’ business models assure that they are “not close competitors.” The ruling clears the last regulatory hurdle for Facebook to
In what might be the last ever #GameJournoPros email thread, games journalists can be seen mocking readers who considered the list to be an unhealthy component in the video games journalism industry’s echo chamber. These emails have not previously been seen. The
Social network newcomer Ello is an invite only service that wants to be the “Facebook Killer” by refusing to engage in any intrusive advertising and data mining. Playing directly to tech hipsters, Ello’s front page states: “Your social network
Dr Brooke Magnanti, a journalist and former scientist, has been accused of creating a fake pseudonymous Twitter account with which to ridicule, criticise and insult other female journalists and promote her own articles and opinions. Magnanti, a former regular for
A group of Muslim mothers, horrified at the prospect of their daughters running off to marry jihadi fighters, have launched a campaign to stop radicalisation via what they name as the real culprit: “Sheikh Google”. The Make a Stand campaign,
The BlackBerry Passport smartphone was introduced on September 24th with a full physical keyboard, uniquely square large-screen design that increases the “readability” of web pages and e-mail. The rising attraction for corporate users is that the device’s software and hardware
The bloodlust of climate change supporters was satiated a bit more on Tuesday as it looked likely that Facebook will end its relationship with the American Legislative Council (ALEC). The termination of the relationship is ostensibly because of ALEC’s fight
In what may have just become the largest class-action lawsuit in American history, the U.S. Supreme Court denied hearing the appeal of a lower court ruling that Google maps’ “Street View” cars were not exempt from state and federal wiretapping
While on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt explained that Google had pulled funding from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — a conservative group — because of their stance on global warming. While on the show, a caller
Ben Kuchera, opinion editor at games website Polygon, publicised lurid sexual allegations about the chief executive of Stardock, a 20-year video games industry veteran, in an apparent attempt to do professional damage to someone he perceived to have right-wing politics,
Former Vice President Al Gore made his exit from Sunday’s climate change march in New York City in a Chevrolet Suburban SUV after speaking to reporters about renewable energy. Gore asked a security officer, “You want me here?” before stepping into
This week in New York City somewhere around 400,000 litterbugs descended on the Big Apple, and not to celebrate the wonderful news that the planet hasn’t warmed in 18 years. Instead they gathered to do, uhm, whatever this is, and
It’s probably not how he planned to spend his September, but Sean Davis of The Federalist has become the go-to guy for puncturing the tall tales of celebrity scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Davis began noticing that several stories Tyson routinely
Although Steve Jobs is credited as the best technology innovator in the history of Silicon Valley, he was actually an art major in college. Jobs credited his creative talents as the secret sauce in building Apple Computer as the most
Several prominent gaming journalists across America are part of a secret mailing list on which they discuss what to cover, what to ignore, and what approach their coverage should take to breaking news, Breitbart London can reveal. High-profile editors, reporters,
On Monday, Google surprised hundreds of teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) with donations of pencils, books, printers, and other school supplies, totaling nearly $1 million, says local ABC news affiliate ABC7. The donations came via a
The Silicon Valley tech giants that have been engaging in widespread internet surveillance of their customers’ shopping preferences, general attitudes, and deepest life-style secrets have failed to appreciate the mounting global concern over their record on online privacy and security. Yet
One need only Google Rove and ObamaCare to see how loudly and consistently Republican strategist Karl Rove has been pushing it as the issue to run on in the mid-term elections. Rove even took to the pages of the Wall
Context is important, so let me open with this: On the very day I’m writing these words, Sharyl Attkisson, an Emmy-winning journalist, has dropped a well-sourced, in-depth report that claims that under Hillary Clinton, State Department officials hid “damaging documents”
