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.
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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?…. Buy one of the best web anlytics software suites in the world.
3 Commentsan ethernet platform for remote computing whereby the software application paradigm is changed; from being screwed over by Microsoft for boxes of buggy operating systems, extortionately priced business applications, communications software that allows the world and their dog to play with your computer, proprietary lock-ins by changing an open programming language into a dot-netted version (XML-our-way, C-but-not-as-you-know-it, Java-remember-Krakatoa-hee-hee! etc.) all presented on a CD or DVD (now DRM’d) to a completely different collection, or not, of softwares that are offered on an ad hoc, per-user, basis on the WWW.This will allow everyone and their dog (again) to offer similar, but certainly non compatible, software platforms and business applications on the web at which point we can all be screwed by our ISP’s as well as Microsoft, the AV vendors, data warehousing and dedicated hosting companies for the pleasure of being able to work remotely with a thin client and not have cupboards full of DC’s/DVD’s and licenses.At at least if you suffer a BSoD you won’t be alone, everyone in your time zone using the system will be screaming at whoever is mad enough to offer a tech’ services department.
2 CommentsI’ve had enough of Fahrad Manjoo’s articles on the 2004 election. He is at 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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