At Google we aspire to do the right thing. So we welcome a debate on international tax ...
At a time when families are having to tighten their belts and funding for vital public services is under pressure, corporate taxation is rightly a hot topic. And as a company that has always aspired to do the right thing, we understand why Google is at the centre of that debate. In the interests of moving the argument forward – away from accusation and toward action – here are three principles we hope most people can agree upon.
First, corporation tax should be paid on a company’s profits, not its revenues. When a company only opera [...]
Tory party out of control over Europe, says Lord Howe
Lord Howe, the former Conservative chancellor who triggered the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister, accusing him of running scared of his backbenchers and endangering Britain’s future in Europe.
The Tory grandee says David Cameron has opened a Pandora’s box by opposing the current terms of the UK’s membership of the European Union and now appears to be losing control of his party. The prime minister’s actions, Howe writes in the Observer, have turned an internal Tor [...]
New MacBook Air imminent?
New MacBook Airs could be coming in weeks.
(Credit:
Apple)
Signs may point to a refresh of Apple’s popular MacBook Air. Possibly next month.
Apple Insider said Friday that at large online retailers like MacConnection, stock has vanished for the popular 13.3-inch Air with a 1.8GHz processor and 256GB solid-state drive.
That said, Best Buy has stock, but it’s the “only reseller on AppleInsider’s
Mac Price Guide that is currently advertising available inventory,” according to Apple Insider.
Dwindling inv [...]
Pakistani politician is shot dead
18 May 2013
Last updated at 15:46 ET
Imran Khan’s party alleged widespread vote rigging in Karachi
A senior female Pakistani politician has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan’s Movement for Justice party (PTI), led by former international cricketer Imran Khan.
She was killed outside her home in the city’s upmarket Defence neighbourhood.
Her murder comes on the eve of a highly-contested partial re-run of the vote in the area following last [...]
Google Takes Maps to Next Level
Google Maps, already the de facto standard for online and mobile maps, is breaking new ground with added capabilities announced on Wednesday at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco.
Maps will get 3D views, speech recognition, enhanced voice search capabilities and will leverage artificial intelligence, among other things. Google Maps for mobile is also being enhanced.
The company is also added to Google Now, and it is stepping up its push into the education market.
“Google Maps are now well beyond the competition in the consum [...]
Google Glass and the men’s room urinals
The urinal game
commentary I suppose it was inevitable. The debate about Google Glass has extended into the bathroom. For those who’ve never experienced the joys of a men’s restroom — generally the women of the world — here’s how Glass might change our glorious experience.
Nick Bilton of The New York Times penned a great piece about how “the future came crashing down” on him as he stood at a urinal next to a
Google Glass wearer at the Google I/O conference. I immediately identified, having had a [...]
Chicago commuter headache as ‘L’ train line shut for five months
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO |
Sat May 18, 2013 3:01pm EDT
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago will shut down part of its “L” elevated rail system’s busiest line for five months starting on Sunday, forcing thousands of commuters to seek other routes and creating the biggest such U.S. transit disruption in two decades.
The nation’s second-largest public transit system after New York will rebuild 10 miles of the “Red Line” on the city’s South Side, which passes through some [...]
‘US drone’ kills four in strike on al-Qaida target in Yemen
At least four people were killed and a number of others wounded in a drone strike on a vehicle carrying suspected al-Qaida members in southern Yemen, a local official said on Saturday.
The official said the strike took place at dawn on Saturday on a road to the north of Jaar in Abyan Governorate, near Aden. He did not say who was behind the strike, but previous drone strikes have been carried out by the United States. Washington does not usually comment on drone strikes.
Yemen is home to an al-Qaida wing that has planned to attack interna [...]
Ukraine gay pride marchers ready to defy violence
Efforts are going ahead in Ukraine‘s capital Kiev to stage a gay pride march next week in the face of data showing a sharp rise in the number of homophobic attacks reported in the city.
Organisers were forced to cancel the celebration last year, hours before it was due to start, after police said they could not guarantee the safety of participants in the face of threats from far-right and religious groups.
A report published this weekend by Amnesty International revealed what it called “endemic discrimination” by both th [...]
Legge hired to drive for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports giving Indy 34 driver-car combos
INDIANAPOLIS – There could be bumping at Indianapolis this weekend.
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports said Saturday afternoon that it has hired British driver Katherine Legge to drive the No. 81 car.
That gives Indianapolis 500 organizers 34 driver-car combinations — one more than it takes to fill the 33-car starting grid for the May 26 race — and means if there are no crashes at least one driver will be left out of the race.
Legge, who started 30th and finished 22nd last year as a rookie at Indy, has not yet been on the 2.5-mile [...]
Fugitive to police on Facebook: Catch me if you can. They do
The police’s picture of Greenwood on Facebook.
(Credit:
Greater Manchester Police/Facebook)
Thin is the line between the brave and the foolhardy.
Thinner is the brain that thinks it’s brave to taunt the police on Facebook.
Perhaps it comes from watching too many movies or too few, but those who are wanted by the police sometimes turn to Facebook to offer a “na, na, na-na, na.”
A couple of years ago, a man in Utica, N.Y., allegedly tried to dare the police to catch him, with troubling results (for him).
The world [...]
Western leaders study ‘gamechanging’ report on global drugs trade
European governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a “gamechanging” report on global drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for blanket prohibition.
Publication of the Organisation of American States (OAS) review, commissioned at last year’s Cartagena Summit of the Americas attended by Barack Obama, reflects growing dissatisfaction among Latin American countries with the current global policy on illicit drugs. It spells out the effects of the policy on many c [...]