Argentine president gambles on tech taxes, faces tough crowd
A new proposal from Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has the country’s tech community scratching their heads. Her pitch: to effectively double taxes on technology products that are not manufactured or assembled in the province of Tierra del Fuego, including notebooks, cell phones and digital cameras.
Oddly, few of these devices are actually made there. In fact, Argentina imports the vast majority of them. So the tax would affect a majority of Argentines, not to… Continue Reading
Roundup: Zune prunes, tech gets part of the stimulus, Sprint cuts a lot of jobs and more
Here’s the latest action:
Zune prunes — Microsoft’s Zune portable media player saw its revenue decrease by over $100 million, or 54 percent, in the fourth quarter of 2008. Microsoft blames price cuts on the 30 gig model (you know, the one that had the massive failure) as well as a shrinking MP3 player market. Funny, iPod sales still went up during the same time period. mocoNews has more.
Yes. We (The tech industry). Can. – Looks like… Continue Reading