Apple's Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds
New York Times
WASHINGTON " Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most ...
Apple avoids taxes with 'complex web' of offshore entities, Senate inquiry finds Washington Post
Apple's 'Complex Web' Helped It Avoid Taxes, Panel Finds NPR (blog)
Senate Probe: Apple Avoids US Taxes with Web of Offshore Entities Moneynews
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The ancient Maya meet the modern Internet
Washington Post
The work will take years, but with the help of the Internet, the pace is quicker than it has ever been. The Web log gets ideas out quickly, which is very appealing, said Brown University archaeologist Stephen Houston, a longtime Stuart collaborator ...

Eric Schmidt: Kim Jong Un Could Turn On North Korea's Internet If He Wanted
The Atlantic
Eric Schmidt: Kim Jong Un Could Turn On North Korea's Internet If He Wanted. There is literally a switch that could give the hermit nation the Web, Google's chairman said. Olga Khazan May 18 2013, 4:02 PM ET. Tweet. More. Email. Print. nk-banner.jpg ...

How net neutrality regulations could undermine the open Internet
Washington Post (blog)
But another prominent supporter of the open Internet, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is skeptical of the FCC's argument that existing law gives it ancillary jurisdiction to establish network neutrality rules. We like the goal, but we're ...

Flickr Shows Signs of Life With Slick Web Redesign, Killer Android App
Wired
Everything that we've done in this new redesign has been about putting the photo front and center, says Flickr VP Brett Wayn. For a photo site, Flickr looks like it was designed in 1997. That ends today with a site redesign that removes all that icky ...
Will Yahoo! Do To Tumblr What It Did To Flickr & GeoCities? ABC News
Yahoo Acquires Tumblr: Initial Reactions From Around the Web TIME
Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet - Gizmodo Gizmodo
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Parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor
Reuters
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then ...

Amazon Web Services' growth unrelenting
Netcraft
Including its retail infrastructure, the number of web-facing computers at Amazon has grown more than thirty-fold in four years: in May 2009, Netcraft found 4,600 Amazon-controlled web-facing computers; in May 2013, Netcraft found 158k web-facing ...

Dijit unveils NextGuide Web with Facebook-sourced TV recommendations
Engadget
Dijit Media just launched a closed beta of its browser-based service, NextGuide Web, which expands on the features of the NextGuide iPad app. NextGuide's interface will be familiar to Pinterest fans, with a scrolling feed through which you can browse ...
Social TV app NextGuide goes from mobile to the Web CNET (blog)
NextGuide Web replaces your DVR interface with your web browser The Verge
Dijit launches a web version of its NextGuide app TV utility VentureBeat
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The Internet comes to life for Patton Oswalt in Webby Awards promo -- VIDEO
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
Will Oswalt be able to fend off the zombie Internet robots or will he become one himself? Twist: What if he already is one?! Stay tuned. The Webby Awards, celebrating the best of the web, will be available to stream on May 22. You can check out the ...
Funny Or Die: Patton Oswalt Sees The Internet Everywhere In 'They Surf' (VIDEO) Huffington Post (satire)

The man who 'nearly broke the internet'
The Guardian
Kamphuis, 35, is one of the most controversial characters in the murky world of spam and hacking " deemed the internet's public enemy number one by some, though others believe his reputation has been blown out of proportion by the grandstanding of his ...