Meep meep.
Elijah Nouvelage
The search goliath has spent over $5bn on everything from driverless cars to smart contact lenses in the past three years. The UK tax hounds must be delighted.
Alphabet has surpassed Apple in earnings.
Reuters/Peter Power
Google’s new structure was supposed to provide more transparency about its loss-making venues, but it hasn’t delivered.
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com
Pointing the finger at multinationals for tax minimisation won’t change things – international tax law needs to changed.
Free, but at what cost?
Reuters
New York City is developing a ‘free’ public Wi-Fi network to be deployed throughout the city, but the poorly appreciated price is our privacy.
Even inventive companies have their day.
OptoScalpel
Motorola brought to market many features of mobile phones we take for granted, but it wasn’t enough.
Alex Gorka/shutterstock.com
The move that will save Twitter – and improve public debate worldwide – is much more than adding 9,860 characters.
Akritasa
Graphics chips originally built for 3D computer games such as Quake now power our most advanced artificial intelligence software.
‘I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations. And this is my counterpart R2-D2.’
Gordon Tarpley
No Star Wars movie would be complete without the Universe’s two favourite droids. But now the race is on to turn them into fact.
Apple Pay launched in the US in 2014, but has yet to gain traction in Australia.
Monica Davey/EPA/AAP
Australians love to ‘tap and go’ for payments, but doing it with a mobile phone is being complicated by our card fee system.
Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan and Treasurer Scott Morrison have their sights set on multinational tax avoidance.
Paul Miller/AAP
The tax law established pre-internet is failing to keep up with the digital economy.
Keeping Googlers happy at the Googleplex office.
Asif Islam / Shutterstock.com
Why asking potential employees “how many golf balls could you fit in a school bus?” won’t get you the best staff.
Google’s machine learning software already does some pretty amazing things, such as visual translations.
TensorFlow
Google’s decision to release its machine learning software as open source could be a major boost for the development of new Artificial Intelligence technologies.
The all-seeing @
Richard Drew/PA
The £1m alleged fraud case of James Alan Craig is a salutary warning of the financial power of social media. Here’s what we know so far.
Google is responsible for search results.
antb/Shutterstock.com
Google has lost the latest round in the ongoing defamation case about its delivery of potentially harmful search results.
The high court’s ruling has Google and other tech companies rushing to build data centers in Europe.
Reuters
The EU’s highest court invalidated a key data sharing agreement between the union and the US, exposing the deep cultural clash over privacy and surveillance.
Google-led AMP consortium is a fight-back against Apple News and Facebook Instant Pages.
Boris Roessler/EPA
Online advertising is out of control: are Facebook’s Instant Pages, Apple News, and Accelerated Mobile Pages the answer?
ChameleonsEye
The EU is thought to be losing one trillion Euros from tax avoidance, evasion and arrears. But the latest tax reform is unlikely to fix that.
University students are protesting various issues related to transformation on campuses across South Africa.
Reuters/Mike Hutchings
There is enormous potential for long term and genuine change if universities change their approach to dissent – and reinvent themselves as more agile institutions.
Bridging the gap. How to keep up with Dublin.
Alessandro Grussu
Dublin has managed to keep the money rolling in while others struggle, so what are the lessons to learn for its neighbours and rivals?
The web should expand our horizons, but instead it’s shrinking our view.
uroburos
A web obsessed with gathering data about our habits becomes less valuable to us, showing us only more and more of the same.