The Australian government announced a world-leading crackdown on alleged tax avoidance by 30 multinational companies in a move that could force the likes of Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp to restructure their businesses to escape huge penalties. Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. revealed earlier this year they were under review by the Australian Tax Office.
The FBI arrested two men who allegedly broke into Photobucket user accounts and sold off access to password-protected accounts using software named with a profane twist to the Photobucket moniker. Brandon Bourret, 39, from Colorado Springs, and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, from Sunnyvale, Calif., are accused of creating a software application that that circumvented security settings to get access to user names, passwords and protected albums.
European Union antitrust regulators are not investigating U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm's patent licensing deals, an EU source said in response to media reports saying that scrutiny of the company had been expanded to this issue. The European Commission has been looking into rebates and financial incentives offered by Qualcomm since 2010 to check if
A top European Commission official in charge of data policy shed some light into the thinking of European lawmakers drafting a new set of data privacy laws. Data protection representatives from the EU’s 28 member states are drafting new legislation to update and harmonize the continent’s data-privacy and data-protection laws.
Authorities in China's southwestern city of Chengdu visited the offices of Uber as part of a new investigation into the online taxi-hailing service, a spokeswoman for Chengdu's transportation commission said. The official Xinhua news agency said Guangzhou authorities raided Uber's office there on suspicion of an "unlicensed operation".
Days before Rand Paul launched his bid for president, his campaign shelled out more than $100,000 to a domain-buying firm to purchase a "domain name." Soon after, RandPaul.com, which had previously been a pro-Paul site run by his fans, emerged as the official portal for the campaign.
Carly Fiorina’s nascent presidential campaign is running into more trouble on the Internet. Hours after the former Hewlett-Packard CEO appeared on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers," the network blocked her campaign’s attempt to post a clip from the show on YouTube.
Microsoft plans to appeal a EU court ruling that found its Skype brand is too similar to that of British satellite broadcaster Sky, which holds a European trademark on audiovisual goods, telephony and software-related services categories. The General Court of the EU found the Skype name and logo could not be registered as trademarks because they can be confused with Sky’s.
The European Union unveiled a signature plan to unite the region’s fragmented online markets and crack down on possible abuses by U.S. Internet firms, a move policy makers hope will boost the economy and help spawn Internet giants to rival Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. The plans, six months in the making, are a cornerstone of efforts by the EU’s recently appointed executive arm to jump-start growth. They contain 16 initiatives ranging from an overhaul of the region’s telecommunications
Video chat software Skype's name is so similar to the broadcaster Sky's that the public is likely to be confused between the two, an EU court has ruled. The judgement prevents Microsoft from registering a trademark for Skype's name and bubble-design logo.
The Internal Revenue Service, which is increasingly being drawn into complex cyberprobes involving tax fraud, has set up a new criminal-investigation team of about a dozen agents. The Washington-based unit will tackle a nearly fourfold jump in identity-theft cases since 2011, many of which involve hackers stealing information in order to collect victims’ tax refunds.
Interactive television pioneer OpenTV has sued Apple, alleging that the Cupertino technology giant infringed on its patents. The civil suit, filed in U.S. District Court, alleges that several Apple products and services violate five of OpenTV’s patents related to streaming digital video.
The European Union will announce a wide-ranging probe into how big technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook use their market power as it considers whether to regulate them more tightly. The inquiry, which by its nature will inevitably focus heavily on U.S. firms, follows calls from France and Germany for regulation of so-called "essential digital platforms", encompassing everything from e-commerce sites such as eBay to social media companies.
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night’s big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives, who have led one battle against piracy after another, it was the same old story. In the latest case, the tools used to watch the welterweight boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeat Manny Pacquiao included mobile apps, from Meerkat and Twitter’s Periscope, that let people live-stream the pay-per-view bout by capturing their TV screens with the cameras on their smartphones.
Motorola Mobility said a U.S. jury ordered the company to pay $10.2 million in damages for using Fujifilm Corp's patented technology in its phones without permission. Fujifilm Corp, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Fujifilm Holdings Corp, sued Motorola in 2012, accusing the company of infringing three of its patents on digital camera functions and a fourth patent relating to transmitting data over a wireless connection such as Bluetooth.
TechCrunch writer Alex Wilhelm talked to FCC Commissioner Tom Wheeler onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY about the decision to pass new net neutrality regulations, Congressional troubles and Wheeler’s take on the failed Comcast/Time Warner merger. The main discussion centered around the net neutrality decision and public opinion.
Voters wanting to find more information about newly announced Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina will need to be careful about what website they land on. One domain is out to highlight her time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and the tens of thousands of layoffs during her tenure.
A Brazilian judge struck down an injunction issued calling for the suspension of the U.S-based Uber ride-sharing service throughout the country. The State Court of Sao Paulo ruled on April 28 that Uber, which allows users to summon a ride with their smartphones, was in violation of regulations on the use of taxis and ordered the company to cease operations immediately.
The Department of Justice is looking closely into Apple’s business practices in relation to its upcoming music streaming service, according to multiple sources. The Verge has learned that Apple has been pushing major music labels to force streaming services like Spotify to abandon their free tiers, which will dramatically reduce the competition for Apple’s upcoming offering.
Music pirate website Grooveshark has shut down completely after reaching a settlement with major record companies Universal, Sony and Warner. Founders Josh Greenberg and Sam Tarantino admitted to creating and operating an infringing music service, and surrendered ownership of the site, mobile apps and intellectual property
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