Editor's Pick "I am not an unfair person," Apple CEO Tim Cook told lawmakers yesterday. "Apple is not an unfair company."
The head of the Irish agency designed to promote foreign investment in the country strongly denied that Ireland is a tax haven. But when questioned by Ireland's RTE News, he could not deny that Apple has paid an effective tax rate of just two percent, much as Senator Carl Levin said yesterday in hearings on Capitol Hill.
Apple faces the tax man.
After being Amazon.com's best-selling laptop for 149 days straight, Google is taking its Chromebook show on the road, both internationally and at home.
Microsoft owes the Danish treasury 5.8 billion kroner, or about $1 billion U.S., in unpaid taxes relating to its purchase of financial software vendor Navision in 2002, says the Denmark government.
Boxever has launched today to help travel companies better understand their customers and provide those customers with better deals and recommendations in real-time.
Following Netflix’s lead, Roku has launched its line of streaming media set-top boxes in the UK and Ireland today.
The company’s set-top boxes allow people to stream over 350 channels of content from video, music, social and gaming services — …
Netflix will launch its popular streaming TV and movie service in the U.K. and Ireland in the first months of 2012, the company announced today.
Netflix has had a turbulent past few months with a price hike that angered users …
Several European privacy regulators said Wednesday they are investigating Facebook’s facial recognition software, which was enabled without the consent of millions of users Tuesday, according to the Financial Times. Facebook says the purpose of the new feature is to make …
Google’s YouTube division confirmed today that it is buying Green Parrot Pictures, an Ireland-based video technology company.
The site, which gets over 35 hours of video uploaded every minutes, says it hopes to use the technology by the Irish firm …
Startup Bootcamp, a European startup accelerator network and Techstars affiliate, just added Dublin to its existing locations of Copenhagen and Madrid. London and Berlin will follow in 2012.
Ireland’s tech scene continues to expand in spite of the woeful state …
Tech journalism, and tech companies, for me have always been about ideas and their ability to change the world. What matters is not only the strength of the light you can shed on a subject but what you choose to …
Ireland has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, starring in a soap opera of EU intrigue and enforced bank bailouts. Watching my home country’s progress over the past few years has been like the troubled career …
