Apple Removes All Civil War Games From The App Store Because Of The Confederate Flag

The reasoning Apple is sending developers is “…because it includes images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways.”

Touch Arcade
By Touch Arcade
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If you've been watching the news recently, you'll know of the huge debate in the U.S over the role of the Confederate flag in contemporary America. Many see it as a reminder of the many pre-Civil War injustices while others see it simply as a way to honor the soldiers who died for the Confederacy. Many large US companies, like Walmart and Amazon,

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iSpy: How The CIA Targeted Apple

New documents and reporting by The Intercept detail sustained attempt to break encryption of iPhone and iPad.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
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Researchers working with the CIA have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads. (Image: The Intercept) New reporting by The Intercept published Tuesday reveals a years-long effort by the Central Intelligence Agency, alongside partners both inside and outside of government, to crack the

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The ‘Chinese Amazon’ Takes On The American Market

The Alibaba Group has announced plans for an IPO in the U.S., but is the Chinese e-commerce giant ready to compete with Amazon.com and eBay on their home turf?

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

In the 1990s, with the cost of manufacturing in China rising due to increased government regulations and the nation’s evolution from an emerging nation to an established power, and the share of American manufacturing outsourced to China falling, a means to reach out to new American consumers was needed. In this problem, Jack Ma, a former English

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Federal Judge Slams Govt Request For Email User Data As ‘Repugnant To The Fourth Amendment”

Sharply worded opinion criticizes government’s continued “overly broad warrants”

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
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A federal judge has delivered a harshly worded ruling that admonishes a government request for a warrant to search a user's email address, saying that it would be "repugnant to the Fourth Amendment" to issue it, and urged the government to stop submitting "unconstitutional warrant applications." The government had sought for Apple to turn over

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Apple And Microsoft Among US Tech Giants Reaping Interest Payments On Offshore Cash

‘If a US multinational puts its offshore cash into a US bank and uses the money to buy US treasuries, stocks and bonds, those funds ought to be treated as having been repatriated and subject to US tax’
– Senator Carl Levin

Nick Mathiason
By Nick Mathiason
The CIA tool purportedly relies on Microsoft Office to track leaked documents and the whistle-blowers that release them.

The US government makes vast interest payments to technology giants including Apple and Microsoft on the billions of dollars they shelter from tax offshore. A trawl of Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosures shows that Apple, Microsoft, Google and Cisco Systems hold $163 billion in US government debt, earning these companies

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Obama Chooses SOPA Lobbyist To Negotiate Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty

Many of the corporations and groups poised to benefit most from TPP are traditional Democratic supporters or major donors to the president’s election campaigns.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Robert Holleyman

President Barack Obama nominated Robert Holleyman as deputy U.S. trade representative on Thursday. Holleyman is the former president of the Business Software Alliance, a trade organization that counts Apple, IBM, Microsoft and other top software firms among its members. During his two decades at the helm of the alliance, he was influential in

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