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Corporations trying to avoid taxes is nothing new, in fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a multi-billion dollar company that doesn’t have a few tax avoidance schemes going. When operating in Europe, funneling revenue through Luxembourg is a popular way for companies like Amazon to avoid

Unless you have copious amounts of napkins and the patience to use them every few seconds, then eating greasy fast food and playing on your smartphone or tablet are two things that can’t be done simultaneously. Or can they? Some KFC restaurants in Germany have started a limited trial run of fo

In a major victory for the entertainment industry last week, two of the Pirate Bay’s key domains were seized by the Swedish government on the grounds that they were tools used by an illegal operation to help share stolen content. Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij isn’t sitting idly by,

There’s no shortage of cooking and food shows on traditional television, but Netflix is taking a different approach from the tried and true formula that most of these shows follow. With Netflix’s first non-fiction series, Chef’s Table, the company isn’t making an exciting travel sh

Dating services are a dime a dozen, but the Chinese website known as Baihe manages to distinguish itself by taking a rather interesting approach to the whole process of finding a partner. Users are encouraged to share their education and property status, which are exceptionally important in Chinese

With government authorization, the NSA has been able to collect data on virtually every phone call made by United States citizens for years, but following the Senate’s failure to extend this authorization, the NSA has started the process of shutting down the controversial program. Because the

The next step in Snapchat’s plan to become a news and entertainment hub, the company is now on the lookout for journalists who can cover the 2016 presidential race. Snapchat started trying to make itself into more than just an ephemeral messaging app with the introduction of the “Discove

It’s not surprising that a former KGB spy wants to get their hands on data regarding anti-government bloggers, especially when that former spy is President Vladimir Putin. Ties between Moscow and Washington have been very strained over the past year or so, and Putin’s demands that Americ

You can’t fault Mozilla for trying, but the company’s attempt to create a $25 smartphone running on its homemade Firefox OS has more or less been scrapped. Instead, the company has decided to put more focus on improving the Firefox OS experience and, through the Ignite Initiative that we

The only safety issues that Uber has really had to deal with over the years have been because of its drivers, which is why it’s no surprise that the company is supposedly working on a self-driving vehicle of its own. We already know that Uber is working on driverless technology, among other th

It’s difficult to make money off a web browser when you don’t have any other services producing revenue. That’s the problem that Mozilla has had for a while now, and putting advertisements in Firefox is the only way the company has been able to survive this long, but it’s sti

Human workers being replaced by robots has been discussed at length over the past few decades, and while a few instances of this have popped up over the years, technology is only just now reaching the point where millions of workers will actually be affected. It hasn’t hit us yet, but it will

HTC hasn’t been very active in the tablet market aside from the Nexus 9 it developed on behalf of Google, but some recently leaked specs indicate that the company is releasing another tablet this year. With a quad-core processor and a single gigabyte of RAM, the 7-inch device is definitely on

Remember that report that came out not too long ago which claimed that SSDs can lose their data in just a few days if left unplugged? Well, according to the same person that inadvertently started the big scare, it’s all just a misunderstanding, the average user will never be in the situation w

Google Fiber may have started to gigabit revolution in the United States, but for those of us living in cities where Google’s service isn’t available, this doesn’t help us very much. The established market leaders like AT&T and Comcast only bring out their own gigabit service t

Spotify is no longer exclusively a music company, it’s taking a big step forward into the world of multimedia. Now the service will include both podcasts and videos, as well as some new technology geared towards runners who use Spotify while they’re out running. While many have questione

T-Mobile has been on a roll these past couple of years, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Even as it acknowledged how successful T-Mobile US has been, Deutsche Telekom, which owns 66% of the company, said that it wants to continue making the company as profitable as

Smartphones are an essential part of most people’s lives, and for some of us, that’s something that we’d very much like to change, but how? Well, that’s where the Light Phone may be of assistance. It connects to your current smartphone so that you don’t actually need to

Amazon and eBay aren’t really direct competitors, but they still compete with each other. That’s why its only natural for eBay to counter Amazon’s most effective tool, Amazon Prime, with a premium service of its own, known as eBay Plus. However, this services is geared more towards

China has a problem, and it’s growing more troublesome by the day. Simply put, the country’s markets are progressing faster than its infrastructure. A perfect example would be the rapidly growing number of Internet users. As more and more people connect to the Internet at home or on thei

Popcorn Time is quickly becoming not just a bigger thorn in the side of the entertainment industry than The Pirate Bay, it’s practically the bane of Netflix’s existence. It allows users to (illegally) stream movies and television shows almost as easily as they could through Netflix, but

It looks like the rumor that Lenovo was in talks to acquire MSI’s gaming laptop division are false. The rumor, which started circulating around the Internet earlier this week, claimed that MSI was in the market to sell its gaming laptop division due to increased competition, and Lenovo was the

Continuing with its recent trend of releasing two flagship smartphones a year, LG has announced that it has another high-end smartphone in the works that will outmatch the company’s flagship G-series devices in terms of specs. Expected to launch in the second half of the year, which is just a

Fredrik Ingblad doesn’t just want to take down The Pirate Bay, he wants to purge the Internet of anything and everything connected to the world’s most popular torrenting website. The Swedish prosecutor has already done more damage to the website than any single person out there, but now

It still feels strange to be able to say with certainty that, within the next decade or two, virtual reality will reach a level equal or close to that of what we’ve been seeing in science fiction for years. Obviously we still have a ways to go, but we’re progressing, and one of the compa

America’s dominance over the mobile market, at least in terms of the operating systems that power our mobile devices, has never really sat well with Russia, and recent fears over government spying have only served to add fire to the flames of discontent. That’s why Russia wants to create

Everyone expected the Galaxy S6 series to be Samsung’s most popular device to date, and that’s looking more true by the day. Within a month of its release, the Galaxy S6 managed to sell more than ten million units. At least, that’s what South Korea’s Yonhap news agency is reporting

You’ve gotta hand it to John Chen, he’s able to remain confident that his company will once again return to the realm of profitability and success, despite the fact that he’s the CEO of BlackBerry. His strategy is to focus much less on regular consumers, as they’ll undoubtedl

With the ZenFone 2, ASUS decided to take a page from the OnePlus handbook by using thin profit margins to sell a smartphone with high-end specs for the price of a mid-range device. Although the quad core Intel processor may throw some of you off, the rapid-chagrining 3,000mAh battery, 4Gb of RAM, an

Those of you who have been holding out for South Korea’s second-most anticipated smartphone, the LG G4, the wait is finally over… so long as you live in Hong Kong. For those of you who don’t live in either Hong Kong or South Korea, the wait will continue for at least a few weeks. R

With more than a billion people living in China, it’s essential for Netflix to expand into the country if it has any chance of fulfilling its dream to become a global power, which is exactly what the company is doing. Despite saying a few months ago that it’s unlikely that Netflix would

You know what would suck? Being the guy responsible for preventing 1.6 million soldiers from being able to get a smartwatch. That’s exactly what happened to an unfortunate fellow in the People’s Liberation Army of China when he used a smartwatch that his girlfriend had gifted him to snap a pho

In order for a merchant to sell their products with the Amazon Prime sticker that buyers always look for, they need to store their products in Amazon’s own warehouses, which means that Amazon is the one that sees the product to delivery. That’s going to change in the near future, as Amaz

Whether you’re a lurker or a user, you’ve probably discovered by now that, while Reddit is an excellent place for user-generated comments and content, it oftentimes devolve down to something we’ve come to expect from websites such as 4chan. The people running the website are well a

I’ve never been a big fan of special edition products. Not only am I paying more for something that generally offers nothing aside from different aesthetics, it tends to feel the same as bundling a crappy game with your console, where a bad product is leeching off the success of another produc

Spotify and other music streaming services have been facing increased pressure from the music industry to drop the free, ad-supported streaming options that they offer. That’s why it was easy to believe rumors that Spotify would be shutting down this feature, but a company spokesperson put tho

You need only look at the vibrant modding community that many games have to understand what makes PC gaming so great, but it’s not all fun and games. Sometimes, as with a few Grand Theft Auto V mods, some not-so-friendly people will ruin the fun by slipping in some malware. At least two mods f

Few countries are as popular a target for cyberattacks as Israel, and public utilities are one of the primary targets. That’s why state-owned Israel Electric is betting its future on cyber-security exports, as providing electricity to Israeli homes has left the company with billions of dollars

Just being accused of profiting from from inline piracy is enough to completely screw you over, as Mega knows quite well. Despite playing by all the rules, the cloud-storage services was accused of being a “cyberlocker” that makes tons of cash by allowing users to share stolen content, w

Walmart is still a retail behemoth that won’t be going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the company hasn’t been feeling the heat from e-commerce companies like Amazon. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Amazon is currently Walmart’s biggest rival. That’s