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Apple Tax Bill Overstated to Investors

Apple Inc.’s real tax bill isn’t as big as the one it reports to its investors. Among the findings of an investigation by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are figures that show Apple’s reported taxes substantially exceed the sum it actually pays the U.S. Treasury.

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Apple Pays No Tax on Much of Its Overseas Income, Senate Panel Finds

Apple Inc. has set up corporate structures that have allowed it to pay little or no corporate tax — in any country — on much of its overseas income, according to the findings of a U.S. Senate examination released Monday evening.

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Laurene Powell Jobs Goes Public to Promote Dream Act

Laurene Powell Jobs has taken on a public role, backing one of the most contentious causes in the U.S. today: immigration reform. And she is doing it using some of the tactics that her late husband, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, employed to great effect at the technology giant.

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Japan’s Electronics Under Siege

Hedge-fund billionaire Daniel Loeb’s campaign to pressure Sony Corp. into spinning off its entertainment arm is the latest tremor to ripple through Japan’s electronics industry, already reeling from unprecedented losses stemming from its lost standing in the technology world.

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Siri vs. Google Now (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Pentagon Expected to Embrace Apple, Samsung Devices

Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are bringing the smartphone wars to the Pentagon.

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Apple’s Record Plunge Into Debt Pool

Apple Inc. sold the largest corporate-bond deal in history Tuesday, a $17 billion offering investors hungrily gobbled up.

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Apple to Sell $17 Billion in Bonds

Apple Inc. is selling $17 billion of bonds Tuesday, a record amount for a U.S. investment-grade corporate offering, according to investors familiar with the deal.

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Amazon’s Goodreads Purchase Scuttled Apple Partnership

Amazon.com’s announcement last month that it was purchasing book-recommendation site Goodreads did more than land the e-commerce giant a social-networking service. It also thwarted a possible partnership between the reading social network and Apple.

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Apple Named in China Porn App Investigation

Apple Inc. is once again in the pages of the People’s Daily, this time in an article listing a number of websites and app stores that have been investigated for providing pornographic content in China.

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