The Commission can only order recovery of illegal state aid for a ten-year period preceding the Commission’s first request for information in this matter, which dates back to 2013. Ireland must therefore recover from Apple the unpaid tax for the period since 2003, which amounts to up to €13 billion, plus interest. When Apple and …
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T-Mobile has announced its ‘unlimited plan’, an interesting option for heavy users of data plans on smartphones. The problem is, it’s not really unlimited: The new T-Mobile One plan will come with unlimited mobile hotspot data, letting subscribers use their phone to connect a computer or other device to the network, but at 2G speeds. …
Intel lost a recent opportunity to save itself from the mobile disaster, but there’s still hope for them. Not as makers, though: the recent deal made with ARM will allow other microprocessor designers to take advantage of Intel’s resources in the production process. That could be a good way to leverage the technology and experience …
There was a time when Intel dominated the world. That time passed and the company is one of the biggest examples of ‘The innovator’s dilemma’. They were too confident in themselves, as many others -Nokia, Blackberry- and they failed to see what the future was going to be. Intel could have made a smart move, but …
I paid that dollar only once, and I suspect a lot of people didn’t pay a dime. Jan Koum’s argument sounds right, but I suspect the new goal is much more interesting for Facebook and WhatsApp. SMS alerts from businesses are currently the only kind of text messages we get in Spain. WhatsApp is much …
Netflix has had a spectacular growth in the last few years. Partly because the great content, and partly because Netflix policy on how users can enjoy the service has been pretty lax. You can share your monthly subscription with others (not necessarily your relatives) and until last thursday, you could use proxies to access Netflix …
It said it expects fourth-quarter revenue to be about $435 million — versus $511 million expected, according to Bloomberg — and $1.6 billion for 2015. GoPro situation is not terrible, but the latest news make one thing clear: an action camera is not an smartphone. Once you buy one of those, you won’t feel the …
Investors are taking a second look at China’s high-value startups such as smartphone maker Xiaomi, which is now facing growing pressure to live up to high expectations. Xiaomi missed its 2015 sales target: they estimated 80 million smartphones shipped, but they weren’t capable of growing that fast and that much. They haven’t surprised us as …
I’d just wanted to share here an amazing post written by David Heinemeier Hansson (@DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and founder & CTO at Basecamp. On that post at Medium, entitled “Reconsider“, he writes about that startup rush we’re living in: Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content …
Dell has paid a staggering $67 billion for EMC, an enterprise storage solutions provider (oh, and that VMware thing). That could sound nice in the regular newspaper, but the deal is a little weird both for end users and for enterprise users. End users don’t really know that Dell has been playing a prominent …