May 2013
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Apple's Profit Shifting Claims: We're In Humpty...
Today’s the day that Apple’s Tim Cook appears before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The battle lines have been drawn, the statements issued, and the big questions is whether Apple has been profit shifting. The answer is, variously, yes, maybe, and no, depending upon what you mean by profit shifting. For we’re rather in Humpty Dumpty territory here: it all...
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SKAA: Displacing Apple AirPlay As The New Premium...
Wireless audio is booming as a consumer category. All one needs to do is walk into a retailer like Best Buyand see the multiple rows dedicated to it. Wireless audio benefited from the general growth of the premium music
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The Most Important Brand Strategy Question: What...
If you could go back in time to meet Elvis Presley and ask him only one question, what would that question be?
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Would Peter Drucker Wear Google Glass?
Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter once remarked that Peter Drucker was so farseeing, his “eyeglasses must contain crystal balls.” With Google Glass, we all may be able to say the same thing about ourselves before long.
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First Impressions: Dell XPS 18 Portable All-in-One
Recently, Dell hasn’t led the pack when it comes to inspired design language and eye-popping hardware. This isn’t to say Dell hasn’t been churning out reliable products, but nothing that’s made an indelible impression or pushed the envelope. Two notable exceptions spring to mind, however: Last year’s XPS 12 hybrid ultrabook with its machined aluminum chassis and...
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IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming...
IBM’s question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist. Now Watson has a new job—as a customer-service agent with the mostest. The help desk is a bit of a step down from fighting cancer, but IBM is...
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Apple's Tax-Dodging Techniques Do Indeed Sound...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is going to get raked over the coals by Congress for the company’s spectacular tax-dodging techniques. No one is suggesting that any of these techniques are illegal. No one is suggesting that Apple is doing anything that any number of other massive multi-national companies aren’t doing. And no one is suggesting that companies should voluntarily pay more taxes than...
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Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi's E-Cat Cold...
Back in October 2011 I first wrote about Italian engineer, Andrea Rossi, and his E-Cat project, a device that produces heat through a process called a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR).
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Everything You Need To Know About iPhone 5S (AAPL)
Apple’s next iPhone is expected to arrive at the end of this summer. To get you up to speed on what people think Apple will announce, we’ve put together this slideshow. The rumors include a better camera, fingerprint scanning technology and a low-cost option for Eastern markets.It is expected to look exactly like the iPhone 5… But that doesn’t mean it will be exactly the...
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These Are The Most Compelling Google Glass...
Google Glass is still in its infancy and has a few kinks to work out, but the potential for Glass in society is astronomical. Some “Glass Explorers” — developers, basically —over at digital creative agency Playground Inc came up with some conceptual use-cases for Glass should the platform fully mature. Some of what Playground envisions jibes with some of the apps Google employees...
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Occupy Wall Street Challenges DOJ On Foreclosure...
I don’t know if Occupy Wall Street has been quiet lately or if I have just not been paying attention. Nonetheless, they have something going on right now. The OWS Bring Justice to Justice rally was scheduled to begin at 1:oo PM with a march on the Department of Justice.
Five years after Wall Street crashed the economy, not one banker has been prosecuted for the reckless and fraudulent...
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Occupy Wall Street
Young people take to the street to protest Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis.
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Which Corporations Pay The Highest Taxes?
The 25 biggest tax bills go to the likes of Apple, ExxonMobil, Microsoft and General Electric.
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7 Tornado Apps For Your Smartphone That Will Alert...
As many as 26 tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois and Iowa today, with Oklahoma City hardest hit. This was the second time this month a tornado hit Oklahoma City and the National Weather Service warns that millions are still at immediate risk for severe weather, from Texas to the Great Lakes. It is tracking storms moving eastward as far as the Gulf Coast and Northeast on Tuesday...
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Apple Willing To Pay More Taxes To Get An...
Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, is testifying before the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations committee on Tuesday. The company has released a 17 page document outlining its thoughts on U.S. tax policy as it applies to multinational corporations. I have distilled it to the most relevant points below, added some information from the company’s 10-K filings and included comparisons with...
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Apple Used Loopholes To Skip Paying $44 Billion In...
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Security Vendor Websense Goes Private in $906...
Websense has been the subject of acquisition rumors for years and it’s finally found a way to cash out: a private equity deal lead by Vista Equity Partners. The company said Monday Vista Equity Partners was acquiring the company for $24.75 per share in cash, a 29% premium over Websense’s May 17 closing price of $19.23. That’s also a 53% premium over Websense’s average...
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Prime World First Impressions
Nival’s Prime World is preparing to enter a Western MOBA market dominated by titles like League of Legends and Dota 2. We had a chance to participate in a closed beta session and get a sense of how this title is going to compete in an environment with multitude of titles all looking for a slice of the action-RTS pie.
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Reason Yahoo Bought Tumblr...
All Things D’s Peter Kafka summed up Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition best, saying on Twitter, “Resist urge to attach Big Ideas to Yahumblr. Yahoo is a declining company trying to buy growth. Might work, might not. Full stop.” This chart of Tumblr’s traffic illustrates that growth. As you can see, it has exploded over the past few years. If there’s reason for...
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FLASHBACK: Tumblr Founder David Karp's Words Of...
We interviewed Tumblr founder David Karp all the way back in November 2010, and asked him for any words of wisdom he would give to startup founders. Since he just sold his company for $1.1 billion to Yahoo, we thought we should revisit what he had to say. : // <div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Produced by Business Insider Video SEE ALSO: What’s...
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Doctor Dino Denting Deficit ?
Video Creation science is back in the news. There is the fourth grade quiz gone viral. Then there is Kent Hovind’s doctoral dissertation being rereleased on wikileaks. I’m not sure the latter is actually news, but the buzz makes it seem that way. Dammit, Jim, I’m a tax blogger, not an educational
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Apple Accused Of Avoiding Paying Billions In Taxes...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is appearing before Congress tomorrow to talk about the company’s taxes and offshore profits. It looks like it’s going to be a showdown in D.C. between Apple and Senators who think it’s conducting shady business to avoid paying taxes. Senators Carl Levin and John McCain put out a statement saying Apple has subsidiaries in Ireland that it funnels profits...
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Yahoo Reveals A 'Re-imagined' Flickr – It Comes...
Yahoo is showing off a brand new version of Flickr today in New York. Each user is getting a terabyte of storage for free. That’s a ton! Way more than you can get with any other service. It looks like this: Yahoo also announced a new Flickr app for Android. It looks like this: Here’s a bigger screenshot of the new Flickr: Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Join the...
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European Medicines Agency Starts Review of...
The European Medicines Agency said last week that it was initiating a review of the combined use of agents that block the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). The three classes of RAS-blocking drugs (ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and direct renin inhibitors) are used to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure.
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How Location-Based Services Are Transforming The...
The possibilities for location-based services on mobile go beyond consumer-facing apps like FourSquare and Shopkick. With over 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones, location data has begun to permeate the entire mobile space. It’s powering advertisements, and many other services — from weather to travel apps. In a recent report from BI Intelligence on location-based data, we analyze the...
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The Social Media Advertising Ecosystem Explained
The media constellation has become increasingly fractured. The Web produced the initial fissure, but mobile created new cracks in the landscape. Today, no single medium earns more than 45% of our media consumption. How can you solve this problem? Social media offers a solution. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are daily destinations for millions of consumers. Increasingly, their ad...
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Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name
This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?”.
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Apple Explains Position On U.S. Taxes As CEO Cook...
Apple released a 17-page position paper on its view of U.S. taxes the day before CEO Tim Cook is set to testify before a Senate committee on the issue.
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LIVE BLOG: Yahoo New York Press Event: Tumblr And...
Yahoo’s master plan to dominate the news cycle is continuing into Monday night with a major press event that may or may not be tied to its $1.1 billion acquisition of social sharing platform Tumblr, which CEO Marissa Mayer discussed Monday morning in an investor call. Just hours later, the tech company is now hosting a press event at R Lounge in New York’s Times Square with little warning as to...
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Yahoo Will Not Waste The Ten Dollars They Spent...
Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr raises some interesting questions in the minds of many, but I want to focus on the worry that many users of the service have. What do they expect from a deal? I would assume they would want nothing to change with a service they love and use every day.
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7 Ways To Look At The Yahoo-Tumblr Tie-Up
With Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of the gigantically popular blogging site Tumblr now official, everyone is suddenly an expert on why this is — or mostly isn’t — a great deal. From here, it looks like a potential winner. It’s likely to do little in the short run to boost Yahoo’s flagging revenues, but the huge amount of traffic Tumblr generate gives it a...
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Buying Tumblr Is A No-Brainer For The Yahoo Brand
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s big splash in acquiring teen-favorite Tumblr has the hoary old search giant basking in media attention. Backlash from Tumblr users has been swift with tens of thousands signing a protest petition Monday; Yahoo has been careful to position the pickup as one that will leave popular CEO David Karp at the reins of the social platform he founded. With $1.1 billion dollars on...
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LIVE: Marissa Mayer Talks About Yahoo Products In...
Yahoo is hosting product event in New York today at 4:30 P.M. eastern. Here’s the live stream: Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story »
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Tumblr's Ad Sales Pitch Deck Says Brands Will Now...
Tumblr is wasting no time in ramping up the amount of advertising it serves now that its $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo has been announced. Tumblr will launch a test of “in-stream” ads on its desktop users’ dashboards as soon as tomorrow, a source tells Business Insider. A company representative declined to comment. Go straight to the ad sales deck > The ads will look like...
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Similar Cardiovascular Risk Observed With COPD...
A large observational study has found no difference in the increased risk for cardiovascular disease between the two main classes of drugs used in the first-line treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). LABAs (long-acting inhaled beta-agonists) and LAMAs (long-acting muscarinic antagonists) have a variety of beneficial effects in COPD patients, but evidence has been building...
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Guess What, Marketers? Interactive TV Is Actually...
This article is by Jonathan Nelson, CEO of Omnicom Digital.
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HP Is Losing Some Rock Star Big Data Engineers...
HP wants to establish itself as a leader in big data, a technology that quickly crunches through massive amounts of business data. But HP has lost several highly regarded engineers to big data startups over the past year, particularly from Vertica, the Cambridge, Mass.-based in-memory database startup HP acquired in March 2011 for $350 million. HP lost two of Vertica’s top engineers and a...
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MOBILE INSIGHTS: 88% Of U.S. Consumers Use Mobile...
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile industry news. It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. AT&T: 88% Of U.S. Consumers Watch A Mobile Second Screen While Watching TV (TomiAhonen Consulting) Consultant Tomi Ahonen returned from the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) forum with a brief...
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Social Selling In The Age Of Twitter
By George Dearing
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The Five People You Need to Know
@giorodriguez: Yes, mentors are important. But to succeed might require a more complete social strategy
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Is Twitter Getting Down To Business?
With over 200 million active users and 400 million Tweets per day, Twitter is much more than the brand that established micro-blogging or, as I like to call it, hyper-texting. To put it mildly, Twitter has established itself as a critical element of our modern lifestyles.
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Playing Hawken On The Oculus Rift: Welcome To The...
The Oculus Rift will change the video game landscape thanks in large part to mobile technology.
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Star Citizen: An Interview With Chris Roberts On...
A conversation with Chris Roberts, the creator of ‘Star Citizen’ about the upcoming space sim and the game’s successful crowdfunding efforts.
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'It's All Good' For Hyundai In Pivoting From...
In evaluating his marketing strategy in the aftermath of the federal-government wrist-slap last fall for two years of mileage overstatement, Hyundai of America CMO Steve Shannon might want to appropriate a slogan from the brand’s newest advertising campaign about something entirely different: “It’s All Good.”
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Syrian Electronic Army Takes Over Daily Telegraph...
Twitter accounts linked to the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph appear to have been taken over by Syrian hackers who call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army. A number of Twitter accounts have begun tweeting the pro-regime messages that have become an all-too-familiar sight over the last few weeks: The Telegraph’s main account, @Telegraph, doesn’t appear to have been...
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High School Dropout David Karp Doesn't Recommend...
Tumblr founder David Karp never finished traditional high school. He dropped out after his freshman year, was home-schooled for three years and then eventually got his General Educational Development certificate (GED). Now that Yahoo has announced its $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging site Tumblr, Karp could be worth north of $220 million. Even though Karp has found great success without...
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Your Brand As An API: Why You've Lost Control Of...
This article is by Jabez LeBret, who has authored three books on technology and marketing and delivered more than 950 training presentations globally. He is chief innovation officer at GNGF, a digital marketing agency. Connect with him on Google+.
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Here's What Apple Will Say To Congress About Taxes...
Apple CEO is testifying before Congress tomorrow about its offshore cash, and its tax practices. Ahead of the actual testimony, Apple released what it’s going to say. We’re reading it now, and we’ll peel out the most interesting bits… Apple starts by saying it pays all of its required taxes in the U.S. and abroad. “Apple pays all its required taxes, both in this...
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Unlock The Selling Power Of Your Place
This post is co-authored with Tony LaPorte, my colleague at architecture and design enterprise Kahler Slater. An award-winning designer and environmental branding expert, Tony leads our Culture Communication team, helping companies express their unique brand and culture in their physical environments. He also teaches communication design at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. ...
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Anyone Who Thinks Tumblr Is GeoCities Has Amnesia...
As everyone in the world weighs in on Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr, some snarkers are dismissing the deal as just another GeoCities. In early 1999, Yahoo bought a company called GeoCities. Back in the 1990s, GeoCities was a popular site that allowed people to create their own web pages. GeoCities was a relatively big site in those days, and the Yahoo-GeoCities deal was a relatively big...
