WASHINGTON -- The Senate aimed to help traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping -- for many a largely tax-free frontier -- to state sales taxes.The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, ...
He's 26, likes industrial and electronic music, has a bleached-blond Mohawk haircut and sometimes, Mikhail Davidov said, he starts his day "at the crack of noon."The late hours are in front of a computer, working on reverse engineering, tearing apart computer programs to find their ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Installers show up on time. Headquarters often tells customers when something needs to be fixed without prompting. Unsolicited credits sometimes show up on bills to account for small service glitches.Talk to a sampling of the earliest Google Fiber subscribers in the nation's ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- There has been a dramatic rise in the attempts of governments to censor content on the Web, Google said Thursday, saying it has received "more government removal requests than ever before."Google said it received 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content from ...
LENOIR, N.C. -- Google announced Friday a $600 million expansion of its Lenoir data center, bringing the company's total investment in North Carolina to $1.2 billion.The announcement came little more than six years after the California-based Internet search giant broke ground at its 215-acre ...
Buyout specialist Blackstone Group LP is dropping its effort to acquire Dell, and billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly unlikely to follow through on his preliminary acquisition offer, as suitors digest studies showing a staggering decline in PC sales.The Wall Street Journal said Icahn ...
