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Until recently, it was only Amazon , one of the most profitable online stores in world, that was in the public eye for irregularities in its UK tax payments.

A group of eight Congress members sent Google CEO Larry Page a letter last week expressing concern over Google Glass privacy and requesting more information about how the company obtains and uses personal information.

Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has begun an investigation after some Telstra customer's phone numbers, names and home addresses contained in spreadsheets were found online during a Google search.

'Google is cheating British taxpayers out of millions... what they are doing is just immoral': Web giant accused of running 'scandalous' tax avoidance scheme by whistleblower A former Google executive turned whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose the 'immoral' tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer.

Things never get dull for the country's lone satellite-radio provider. Shares of Sirius XM Radio Inc moved nicely higher this week, gaining 3.2% to hit $3.50. It was a positive week for the markets in general, but Sirius XM's pop was double the Dow's 1.6% climb.

Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference.

Creative ideas come from everywhere, but it's not often you see a search engine giving utilities business advice.

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A job at Google - who wouldn't leap at the chance. In this movie, being released in June, two recently laid off 40-something salesmen have got an interview for an internship at Google that might in turn lead to a job.

While mobile network operators are creating a global database to track stolen smartphones, some police say that's not enough.

While visionaries like the CEO of Google give speeches about the tremendous opportunities that technology has in store for us, let us not forget about the innovations that might change our lives in not so rosy ways -- and innovations that may even pose significant threats.

Wave Systems is installing one of its advanced high performance computers to help research into machine learning, speech recognition and the search for exoplanets For out of this world problems researchers at the U.S. space agency are turning to an out of this world computer from a Canadian company.

While it didn't appear at Google I/O, Google has plans to release the ever-elusive white Nexus 4 to Google Play on 10 June, according to Android and Me.

Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording and receiving information on the fly.

Two of Google's top Chrome and Google Apps security experts confessed that the problem of passwords will continue to plague the people who use them and computer security for the foreseeable future.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has poignantly stated that the very sovereignty of Latin American and Caribbean nations has been compromised by a reliance on US-based telecommunications.

Stocks rose on Wednesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting new all-time highs in a broad market rally as the recent upward momentum persisted.

U.K. lawmakers subjected search giant Google to blistering criticism Thursday, accusing the Mountain View Internet company of playing games with Britain's tax rules to avoid paying what it owed.

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Taking on upstarts like Pandora and Spotify, Google's All Access makes a splash with launch Wednesday in the U.S. At Google I/O on Wednesday, Google unveiled a streaming music service that will compete directly with the likes of Pandora and Spotify.