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  • Taxes

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    The world’s most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show. They reveal how Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its controversial Irish tax practices by actively… Read More ›

  • The reason…

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    “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”  Marcel Pagnol

  • When you read this…

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    Remember when the braying jackasses all harmonized in unison that Apple couldn’t introduce new product categories and was growing dangerously dependent upon just one product, the iPhone? That belief also supposed the Apple Watch had lto fail. Just look! There… Read More ›

  • London in 1979

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    Swedish photographer George Kindbom has only visited London once – back in 1979 – as a 27-year-old man eager to travel the world and observe the idiosyncrasies of its various cultures. He certainly came to the right place. Through his… Read More ›

  • Everyday Objects

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    Tiffany & Co is offering some everyday objects just in time for Christmas. The old adage of more money than sense is stretched to the limit here.

  • Fake Android WhatsApp downloaded more than 1 million times

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    Cybercriminals are known to take advantage of everything that’s popular among people in order to spread malware, and Google’s official Play Store has always proved no less than an excellent place for hackers to get their job done. Yesterday some… Read More ›

  • 24 hours with the iPhone X

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    Apple doesn’t get enough credit for the way it has taken commodities and turned them into products that people actually want to own. Think back to the beige boxed PCs of 2 decades ago and the attempts at tablets and… Read More ›

  • The Great Poop Emoji Feud

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    It’s been a trying year for the world’s most visible institutions. Congressional gridlock, partisan divide, and federal indictments torment Washington. Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are under scrutiny — and even headed to Capitol Hill — for their role in foreign… Read More ›

  • Tim Cook has solved two of Apple’s long standing problems

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    I don’t know if he solved them or simply allowed Apple to do what most other businesses do. Regardless, they’re making lots of money. Here’s the original. And a couple of analyses or comments from Patently Apple: Link 1 Link… Read More ›

  • Addictive apps

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    The average Canadian teenager is on track to spend nearly a decade of their life staring at a smartphone, and that’s no accident, according to an industry insider who shared some time-sucking secrets of the app design trade. CBC Marketplace… Read More ›