Irish Times Article – Google saves millions in taxes thanks to its Irish operation: An effect of the arrangement is that Google Ireland, the operating company, made an after-tax profit of only €2.74 million on a turnover of €603 million…. Google Ireland paid Irish corporation tax of €1.6 million.Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that an Irish subsidiary of Microsoft was helping it reduce its tax bill by at least $500 million annually.
Leave a CommentMonth: November 2005
I had the chance to hear Electric Indigo live again on Friday night at Flex where she played the Jugend Innovativ party…. What marks the outstanding DJ from the ordinary, is his or her ability to tap a room’s animus and move the people from where they are into the DJ’s world.
Leave a CommentHave you installed your free Google Web Analytics package yet?.
3 CommentsSome smartasses in search of investors have invented a new term: Web 2.0.
Basically that means using Javascript in advanced way to improve the functionality of individual websites. Or in simpler terms, improve your website.
The nasty chaps over at The Register in the UK have had enough of pompous manifestos and declarations about Web 2.0 and decided to run a contest for definitions of Web 2.0 among their readership.
2 CommentsI’ve had enough of Farhad Manjoo’s articles on the 2004 election. He is at it again this week as the self-designated hatchet man for Mark Crispin Miller’s new book Fooled Again!
1 CommentI was surprised a week or so ago about the media storm over Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadineja’s comments about Israel…. On the other hand, Iran wishing ill on Israel didn’t particularly seem like news to me.
Leave a CommentAs the whole world knows by now, France has been buffeted by nightly riots American coverage began with one of the most stupid editorials I have ever seen. Mark Steyn suggested that what was happening in the Parisian suburbs was akin to war and After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ”Arab street,” but it’s in Clichy-sous-Bois…For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc….Unlike America’s Europhiles, France’s Arab street correctly identified Chirac’s opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.
Leave a CommentThe Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » Move over James Buchanan: Time to declare Bush worst…president…ever?: Sorry guys, you are giving Bush too much credit here as the president…. Having bent the rules of civilised discourse and political behaviour so far, there really isn’t a safety net underneath them anymore.They have made enough enemies (Paul O’Neill, Colin Powell, Joe Wilson, Lawrence Wilkerson, John McCain – to name just a few) on their own team that they are in real danger right now.
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