Google encourages its engineers to dedicate 20 per cent of their work time to side projects, an initiative which gave rise to Google Earth

“Fast-growth companies must keep innovating. Companies are like sharks. If they stop moving, they die.” That’s according to Salesforce. com chi(...)

Dan Stevenson: "You won't see us spending a lot of money on advertising - it's more about communicating at grassroots level."

Dan Stevenson wondered why there were no customer reviews on the Sony sales website in the US. He managed to get that changed and in the proces(...)

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt criticised British politicians for “a confusing spectacle” in which “legislators are doing the lobbying and companies are articulating the law as it stands”. Photograph: Reuters/Adam Hunger

International tax law “could almost certainly benefit from reform”, but it is politicians and not companies t(...)

Apple’s tax planning is likely to come under the microscope tomorrow when chief executive Tim Cook appears before the US Senate’s permanent investigations subcommittee. Photograph: Reuters/Brendan McDermid

Apple would have paid a tax rate of about 15 per cent last year, far below the 25.2 per cent it reported, had it not used a form of reserve acc(...)

One of the most senior managers at Google Ireland was dismissed after her London-based superior determined she wa(...)

Google’s Matt Brittin: questioned in the UK parliament

In the early part of the 20th century, the House of Commons held hearings into the tax affairs of the Vestey brothers, who had become enormousl(...)

John Dixon, Ernst & Young’s head of tax, gives evidence the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee  inquiry into Google’s tax affairs. Photograph:  PA/PA Wire

The head of tax at Ernst & Young in the UK gave some interesting evidence to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on Thursday as (...)

Amazon says it operates a single European business out of Luxembourg, rather than a multinational structure of independent subsidiaries in different countries. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Wire

Internet retailer Amazon. com will be called back to the UK parliament to clarify how its activities justify its low corporate income tax bill (...)

Photograph: Keith Goldstein/Photographer’s Choice/Getty

I have started reading books again. Printed copies, I mean. Pick them up, thumb through them, read the blurb, put them down or take them to the(...)

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