It wasn’t the most germane back-and-forth during a Senate panel’s grilling of Apple’s top brass over the company’s offshore tax avoidance practices, but it may have been the funniest. Sen. John McCain, chairman and ranking…
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iPhone Loses Ground to Galaxy Lineup on Customer Satisfaction
Satisfaction with the wireless phone industry is making a comeback this year, gaining 2.9 percent after a two-year decline, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Satisfaction with wireless service landed at 72 on…
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Apple Denies Tax ‘Gimmicks’ Ahead of Hearing
Ahead of Tim Cook’s scheduled appearance before a Senate tax panel tomorrow, Apple today released its prepared testimony, which denies any wrongdoing and argues that Apple is, in fact, the U.S.’s biggest corporate income taxpayer….
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Calif. Teen Invents 20-Second Cell Phone Charger
What had you accomplished by the time you were 18? California native Eesha Khare won a $50,000 scholarship for inventing a supercapacitor that can charge a cell phone in about 20 seconds. The Harvard-bound teenager…
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Yahoo Board, Unfazed by Tumblr Porn, Approves $1.1B Acquisition
In a bit of news from the, “we expected that” department, Yahoo’s board of directors has approved a deal to purchase the micro-blogging service Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion in cash. The official announcement…
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