• By Lee Chyen Yee and Umesh Desai HONG KONG (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades. Lenovo, a sliver away ...
  • (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp would appoint a "security director" to Sprint Nextel's board if its takeover bid succeeds, and would give the U.S. government the right to approve the nominee, an attempt to address security concerns raised by the proposed deal. Sprint said in a filing with the U.S. Securit...
  • (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp has rolled out an advertising campaign suggesting a deal by a Japanese company to acquire Sprint Nextel Corp could threaten U.S. national security, hoping to sway lawmakers and win support for its riv...
  • Labour – a party that pussyfooted around with avoidance for 13 years – needs to convince the country it will do better next time In his own mind, Ed Miliband is pretty clear about how he would like to distinguish the Labour party he leads from the Labour party that went before. He aims to be rea...
  • The volume of busy Britons turning to their mobile phones to sort out their finances "on the go" is set to surge over this bank holiday weekend, a bank has predicted.
  • The Co-operative Bank has started a roll-out of "talking" cash machines for blind and partially-sighted people across the UK.
  • Company introduces mobile phone-based system to stop hackers from capturing control of Twitter accounts Twitter is introducing "two-factor authentication" using mobile phone verification on the social network, after a number of high-profile cases in which passwords were stolen by hackers. The worst ...
  • SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co raised its 2013 earnings outlook after beating low expectations, as CEO Meg Whitman's turnaround plan helped to shore up profits and offset shrinking personal computer sales with enterprise computing services.
  • Meg Whitman, chief executive, tells the FT that the ‘patient is showing more signs of recovery’.
  • Hewlett-Packard's slump is deepening as the world's largest personal computer maker scrambles to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.
  • (Reuters) - Twitter Inc began introducing new technology on Wednesday to shore up security for users, responding to a spate of recent attacks on prominent accounts including those owned by the Associated Press and Financial Times. Twitter said in a blog post it has begun to introduce "login verifica...
  • Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorised log-ins.
  • The new British space race (To boldly go, G2, 21 May) has the potential to inspire young people and boost our economy. Space travel captures the imagination of budding young inventors and engineers – it is the stuff of childhood dreams. But there are other British industries at the forefront of t...
  • CBI president Sir Roger Carr's claim that there can be no moral basis to concerns about tax avoidance is a grave misjudgment (Never mind morals, tax is all about the rules, 21 May). A great many ordinary people see payment – or rather non-payment – of tax as fundamentally a moral question. Perh...
  • A slip of the tongue by Google's executive chairman speaks volumes about his perception of the company's tax obligations A week or so ago, Google's chief executive, Larry Page, caused ripples when he suggested at a public event that laws older than 50 years or so shouldn't apply to internet companie...
  • Eric Schmidt rejects Ed Miliband's criticisms of tax affair, saying firm fears changes will result in it being at least 'doubly' taxed The Google chairman, Eric Schmidt, has told political leaders to sort out a rational and predic...
  • In exchange for giving up our personal data, we get to watch each other's cat videos, while Google becomes the new state Of course Google doesn't want to pay its taxes to the British crown, like a loyal corporate subject. In Googl...
  • Defending Google's tax payments in the UK, executive chairman Eric Schmidt insisted the company follows the law completely and would continue to do so if it were changed. "I can't defend the international tax regime both your go...
  • Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, mounted a staunch defence of the search giant's tax affairs today, arguing it was for governments to make the laws and for businesses to abide by them.    
  • Eric Schmidt says search giant follows international rules after Labour leader criticised company over tax practices Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt rejected the idea put forward by Labour leader Ed Miliband that the search...
  • Labour's leader, Ed Miliband, says Google's Eric Schmidt was wrong to argue that the company's controversial tax system was 'just capitalism'     
  • "When Eric Schmidt says Google's current approach to tax is just capitalism, I disagree. And when it goes to great lengths to avoid paying tax, I say it's wrong." Leader of the opposition Ed Miliband took the opportunity to bol...
  • DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland called on Wednesday for an international clampdown on multinationals shifting profits around the world to avoid tax, after criticism that Irish loopholes helped technology giant Apple to shrink its tax b...
  • Apple CEO welcomes tax regulation changes, even if his company will have to pay more
  • Apple's CEO rejects assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in US taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates.    
  • Tim Cook’s stance defanged much of the fiercest questioning from the Senate’s investigations committee, which questioned Apple’s tax ‘gimmicks’
  • Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, defended the technology group’s tax practices and denied it was engaged in massive tax avoidance schemes
  • Apple boss Tim Cook is giving testimony to a US senate committee over claims the company has used Irish subsidiaries to avoid billions in taxes.
  • Apple chief executive Tim Cook has defended the tech giant's tax strategy during a Senate grilling.
  • CEO Tim Cook has spoken out in defence of Apple, after a Senate committee accused the company of using "a complex web of offshore entities" to avoid paying billions of dollars in US income taxes.
  • The head of Apple is due to appear before a US inquiry after the company was accused of avoiding paying billions of dollars in US taxes.
  • Ed Miliband has highlighted a "culture of irresponsibility" at some major companies, during an address in which he accused Google of going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying taxes.
  • Chief executive of energy company times his well-pensioned retirement fortuitously
  • (Reuters) - Cybersecurity researcher HD Moore discovered he could use the Internet to access the controls of some 30 pipeline sensors around the country that were not password protected.
  • (Reuters) - Former Yahoo Inc executive Shashi Seth has joined Tribune Co to lead its digital ventures as the newspaper and broadcast company seeks new revenue sources.
  • Site works well with the 18-24 age set, but its frenetic style, bordering on anarchy, is at odds with its new owners staid propriety
  • FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German software company SAP is looking to recruit people with autism as programmers and product testers, drawing on skills that can include a close attention to detail and an ability to solve complex problems.
  • SAP says it aims to train 650 workers with autism to become IT specialists by 2020 Declaring its eagerness to find workers that "think differently", a German software giant has announced it plans to recruit hundreds of people with...
  • German software group wants to tap into a new talent pool by hiring hundreds of people with the condition to programme and test its ­products
  • As younger and younger generations continue to give away their data and musings online, there is a real and present danger of their virtual identity usurping their actual identity in a damaging way. This was the warning put to the audience at Google's Big Tent event by executive chairman Eric Sch...
  • Light from TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones may disrupt sleep and raise risk of obesity, heart disease and depression Watching TV or using computers, tablets or smartphones after dark may cause sleep loss and resultant health problems, a leading doctor has warned. Peering at brightly lit scre...

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