Wednesday, October 31, 2018

UK Digital Services Tax Introduces New Tech Weapon To Global Trade War - Forbes


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UK Digital Services Tax Introduces New Tech Weapon To Global Trade War
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The U.K has announced its plans for a new 2% tax on local revenue generated by large tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. By doing so, it has become the largest global economy to aim a federal tax directly at U.S. tech giants. Expect that move ...
Hammond's digital tax faces opposition from big tech firmsThe Guardian
The UK will hit big tech firms with a “digital services tax” from 2020MIT Technology Review
How Big Tech Will Be Hit by UK's New Digital TaxBloomberg
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Soon there may be more economists at tech companies than in policy schools - Quartz


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Soon there may be more economists at tech companies than in policy schools
Quartz
Under chief economist Pat Bajari, Amazon has hired more than 150 PhD economists in five years. Bajari has also cornered the market on what might be called “rookie economists” just out of school. That crowns Amazon the largest employer of tech ...



Two Chinese intelligence officers accused of stealing US jet engine tech - CNN


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Two Chinese intelligence officers accused of stealing US jet engine tech
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(CNN) Two Chinese intelligence officers have been charged by the United States Justice Department with trying to steal the details for a type of jet engine technology from US-based companies. Zha Rong and Chai Meng, intelligence officers with the ...
US indicts 10 Chinese over scheme to steal aerospace techYahoo News
Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal Sensitive Commercial ...Department of Justice

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Two Chinese intelligence officers accused of stealing US jet engine tech - CNN


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Two Chinese intelligence officers accused of stealing US jet engine tech
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(CNN) Two Chinese intelligence officers have been charged by the United States Justice Department with trying to steal the details for a type of jet engine technology from US-based companies. Zha Rong and Chai Meng, intelligence officers with the ...

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Tech takes its hat off to open source - Financial Times


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Tech takes its hat off to open source
Financial Times
In the beginning, it was hard to see any way that those embracing open source could make money. It became the charity-shop giveaway of big tech companies. Something free, that nobody owned, and anybody could tinker with and change. So that makes ...
IBM Buys Red Hat: What the Deal Means for Tech ProsDice Insights (blog)

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Tennis Tech: Behind The Scenes At The World's Biggest Tennis Tournament - Forbes


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Tennis Tech: Behind The Scenes At The World's Biggest Tennis Tournament
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IBM's Wimbledon Client Executive, Sam Seddon, took us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the firm's “tech bunker” at the tournament in July. Here I was able to get an idea of how the big data giant can deliver live tennis action across different mediums ...



Tech companies sent an ominous message to investors in October - MarketWatch


Tech companies sent an ominous message to investors in October
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But as of October 26, tech firms announced just $1.7 billion in buybacks, compared with the year-to-date monthly average through September of more than $36 billion for the sector, notes Schoonover. As he explains, buybacks are rooted in a company's ...