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Amazon enters tech's architecture wars with 'plant-rich' building
Not one to be outdone, Amazon.com has become the latest tech giant to reveal plans for new, outlandish headquarters. The online retailer wants to literally bring the "Amazon" to downtown Seattle with a building that features three glass-dome,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture, Sony Corp.
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Williamsburg firm ventures into online programming
TidewaterBizA health advertising and marketing agency spun off its video production and is now creating popular shows online. Snow Wood Productions in Williamsburg filmed a pilot episode last summer around the College of William and Mary called "I Love College"...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Education, Netflix Inc., Science and Technology, Marketing
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Pay your taxes, Europe warns multinationals
LONDON — European leaders fired a warning shot in the battle against multinational companies that exploit loopholes or set up complicated schemes to minimize their tax bills, calling for collective action to thwart such practices. Britain,...Tags: David Cameron, Finance, G8, European Union, Google Inc.
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Barefoot Books breaks up with Amazon
Barefoot Books is a small house based in Cambridge, Mass., that publishes children’s book. As of this week, you can call it “The Mouse that Roared.” The people who run Barefoot Books are frustrated with the business practices of...Tags: FAO Schwarz, Literature, Arts and Culture, Concord (Staten Island, New York), E-Commerce Industry
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Amazon launches project to monetize fan fiction: Kindle Worlds
Amazon has a plan to monetize fan fiction: It's called Kindle Worlds. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a new scheme in which writers of fan fiction can self-publish and sell that writing with the sanction of the original copyright holder. The idea is that...
Tags: The Vampire Diaries (tv program), Arts and Culture, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Metal, Stephenie Meyer
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The New DSM – The Bible Of Psychiatry – Arrives Amid Debate
The Hartford CourantBinge eating and hoarding both get their own categories, while Asperger syndrome is no longer recognized as a diagnosis in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — better known as the DSM-5 — which comes...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Depression, Mental Illness, Science and Technology, Yale School of Medicine
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European leaders take on corporate tax avoidance
LONDON -- European leaders gathered in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss how to clamp down on multinational companies that exploit loopholes or set up complex accounting schemes to lower their tax bills. Taking on an issue that has also become...
Tags: David Cameron, France, G8, European Union, Google Inc.
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Líder de partido opositor británico critica impuestos de Google
EFELos asuntos tributarios de Google Inc serán revisados nuevamente el miércoles en Reino Unido, cuando el líder del opositor partido Laborista acuse a la compañía de internet de hacer "esfuerzos extraordinarios" para evitar pagar impuestos. El líder...Tags: Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., G8, The Huffington Post, Microsoft Corporation
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Search traffic glancing at Xbox, still focused heavily on the Oklahoma tornado
Amazon's hosting service has been approved for government use, a formerly obscure math lecturer has received hard-won praise for an incredible accomplishment, and Oklahoma City is working to dig out from a devastating tornado. Welcome to your online...Tags: Natural Disasters, Xbox, Google Inc., Lotteries, Dwayne Johnson
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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: Jeff Bezos, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon Kindle, Stephen King, Book
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'Star Trek Into Darkness' finishes first. Yahoo buys Tumblr.
After the coffee. Before going through two weeks' worth of mail. The Skinny: Well, I didn't win the Powerball lottery, which means I'll be heading back to the office today after a long trip to New York. Ask me around Thursday if it's good to be home....
Tags: The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Iron Man 3 (movie), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Lotteries, Star Trek into Darkness (movie)
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What to know before giving up on cable
Need more proof that the world is changing? Last week, the president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Michael Powell, told the Senate that "the largest subscription video provider in the country today is Netflix." If you haven't...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Netflix Inc., Amazon Kindle Fire, ESPN (tv network), Radio
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