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Apples Tim Cook To Propose Profit Repatriation Tax Changes
's CEO, Tim Cook, is expected to propose changes on the rules about how and when US corporations are taxed when they bring foreign profits back into America. It does have to be said that this sounds like a fairly sensible thing to do: there's some $1.7 trillion of such profits parked offshore at the moment. The basic background is that a US corporation only pays US corporate income ...
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Russias Internet Use Is Exploding
fascinating poll on Russians' use of computers. While I knew that Russians were increasingly likely to use the internet, a phenomenon which largely explains the popularity of a tech-savvy person like Alexey Navalny, even I was shocked by the sheer scale of change and the rapidity with which internet use has become the norm. More than half of all Russians now use the internet at least once ...
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Innovating to Boost Restaurant Sales
Taco Bell's taco with a Doritos shell makes you stop in your culinary tracks, well, that's the point. Hoping to increase sales and traffic in their restaurants, fast-food and fast-casual operators are cranking up the menu innovation machine to produce items that stray from the gastronomic norm, ...
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New Bill to Colleges Prove Your Worth
What's a college education really worth to you? While that question may be difficult to answer, a new bill is attempting to give families a bit more clarity about what they might expect to gain from a given college or university. ...
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Bernanke Tells Grads Innovation Is Key
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks to guests at a banking conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on May 10, 2013 in Chicago, ...
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Yum or Yuck Cutting-Edge Menu Items
, well, that's the point. Hoping to increase sales and traffic in their restaurants, fast-food and fast-casual operators are cranking up the menu innovation to produce items that stray from the gastronomic norm. "The pace of innovation has increased dramatically over the past five years," said Darren Tristano, an executive vice president at Technomic, a market research firm. ...
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Rome protest turns up heat on new leader Enrico Letta
ROME--Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of ...
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Google Glass and the mens room urinals
commentary What mind-blowing breakthrough will result from the advent of Google's high-tech specs? Maybe redesigned men's rooms? CNET's Danny Sullivan considers the topic, and shares his stream of ...
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Fugitive to police on Facebook Catch me if you can. They do
Taunting the police on Facebook has limited benefits -- as one wanted man in the U.K. discovers when it takes police just 12 hours to catch up with him. They leave him a taunting message on Facebook in ...
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Will Americans New Boarding Process Work It Failed at Virgin America.
Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two minutes from the 40 minutes to 45 minutes that it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft. American narrow bodies take off about 3,000 times a day, so two minutes per flight is a lot of ...
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Tumblr And Yahoo Latest Details On The Imminent Deal
Soon-to-be quarter-billionaire David Karp. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) By the end of this weekend, Tumblr founder David Karp will most likely be $250 million richer ...
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Microsoft wants you to get to know Windows 8
Speaking to the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, Tami Reller, Windows division CFO, admitted that the Windows 8 "learning curve is real" and said that Microsoft will be addressing the issue ...
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CEO General Motors will soon rejoin SP 500
He spoke to business graduates at Notre Dame General Motors is still in the "early innings" of its recovery, but it won't be long before it rejoins the S&P 500 largest companies and gets its bond rating back to investment grade, GM CEO Dan Akerson said Saturday.Speaking at the commencement for business graduates at Notre Dame, Akerson noted GM's 13 consecutive profitable ...
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Republicans try to link IRS scandal health reform
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Republicans attempted to connect the Internal Revenue Service scandal to the Obama administration's controversial health-care-reform law in a Saturday response to the president's weekly radio-Internet ...
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Previously on Arrested Development NPRs epic guide to the shows running gags
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) Watch out for that stair carand any of the other numerous running jokes from resurrected cult hit ...
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How to really really make your naked Snapchat photos disappear
App maker KS Mobile insists that its Clean Master can help all those who are concerned that their spontaneous naked Snapchat snaps might linger in some technological depths. At least it can help users on ...
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More Good News For Google Fiber VOD Soars As Traditional Broadcast Collapses
traditional broadcast television collapses . While the impact is evident in the first regions Google Fiber touches directly, the reverberations may influence the entire industries of broadcast and business even more rapidly than analysts had previously thought. As early reviews of Google Fiber emerge from Kansas City, one of the most notable outcomes is the way gigabit speed makes services ...
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Growing your Business Evaluate the Risks First
Sometimes business growth happens naturally. Other times, you have to take a big risk to make it happen. But how do you know if your risk will pay off? We took a risk recently--after working from home for 10 years, my husband and I just opened a brick-and-mortar shop in an office building. I know--most book stores are closing their doors instead of opening new locations. But we decided to buck ...
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Hipster Tax Has Historical Precedent
Public Policy Polling 27% of Americans think that hipsters should be subject to a special tax because they are so annoying. Frankly, I am a little skeptical about the poll. I'm not certain that all that many Americans have a really clear idea as to what a hipster is or encounter enough hipsters to be annoyed by them. According to ...
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Now Heres An Interesting Problem About Google Glass And Prescription Lenses
is experimenting with Google Glass and prescription lenses. To cater to those who need eyesight correction but don't want to either wear contacts or to cram the Google Glass frames on over their regular spectacles. Which sounds exceedingly sensible to me I must say. However, this then brings its own problems, at least over here in Europe it will. For over here, at least in most countries, ...
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Google Translate now serves 200 million people daily
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Translate provides a billion translations a day for 200 million users, the company revealed here Friday at ...
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Market Update – How far can gold and U.S. dollar move
Strong Dollar Trade Chart 1: The price of Gold began its parabolic ascent as in the summer of 2007 moving from approximately $665 to over $1000/oz. as the DXY (U.S. dollar) gapped lower on Fed actions to combat the credit ...
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Can We At Least Agree That Giving .22 Caliber Rifles To Small Children Might Be A Really Bad Idea
The youth firearm "My First Rifle", is shown advertised on Crickett's web site (crickett.com) In early May of this year, a 2-year-old Cumberland County, Kentucky girl was killed by her 5-year-old brother when a .22 caliber rifle the boy had been playing with--a gift to the child from his parents--discharged. According to the local coroner, the parents believed that the gun, ...
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High Bond Prices Show Theres No Government Debt Problem Only If The EMH Is True
An argument being used in certain corners of the econosphere at the moment is that high bond prices (or low yields, they're the same statement) show that there's no problem with debt. For, if people were worried about the amount of government debt that there is then government bonds prices would be lower and yields would be higher. Thus, as no one is worried, because yields are low, ...
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Investigators on site of Connecticut train crash
Passengers wait to be picked up by bus after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Conn., Friday, causing one train to derail and injuring 70 ...
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