Bloomberg: “Google Inc. avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, almost double the total from three years before, filings show. By legally funneling profits from overseas subsidiaries into Bermuda, which doesnt have a corporate income tax, Google cut its overall tax rate almost in half. The amount moved to Bermuda is equivalent to about 80 percent of Googles total pretax profit in 2011. The increase in Googles revenues routed to Bermuda, disclosed in a Nov. 21 filing by a subsidiary in the Netherlands, could fuel the outrage spreading across Europe and in the U.S. over corporate tax dodging. Governments in France, the U.K., Italy and Australia are probing Googles tax avoidance as they seek to boost revenue during economic doldrums.”
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Daily Archives: December 10, 2012
FTC's Latest Kids App Report Finds Little Progress in Addressing Privacy Concerns
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission issued a new staff report, Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures report Still Not Making the Grade, examining the privacy disclosures and practices of apps offered for children in the Google Play and Apple App stores. The report details the results of the FTCs second survey of kids mobile apps…Staff… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Medicaid Integrity Program, End-Stage Renal Disease
Medicaid Integrity Program – CMS Should Take Steps to Eliminate Duplication and Improve Efficiency, GAO-13-50, Nov 13, 2012 Medicare Program Integrity – Greater Prepayment Control Efforts Could Increase Savings and Better Ensure Proper Payment, GAO-13-102, Nov 13, 2012 End-Stage Renal Disease – Reduction in Drug Utilization Suggests Bundled Payment Is Too High, GAO-13-190R, Dec 7,… Continue Reading
2010 Census Report Shows More Than 80 Percent of Centenarians are Women
Centenarians: 2010 – Issued December 2012. C2010SR-03. 2010 Census Special Reports “Centenarians, or people aged 100 or older, are both rare and distinct from the rest of the older population. This report provides an updated portrait of the centenarian population based on age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, and living arrangements information collected during the 2010… Continue Reading
What to Expect in the Second Term
What to Expect in the Second Term: Presidential Travel and the Rise of Legacy Building, 1957-2009. Emily Charnock, James A. McCann and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas “If President Obama follows in the footsteps of his predecessors, he will spend less time in swing states and more time abroad. To date, little attention has been dedicated to… Continue Reading
Bing – Find Famous People and Places in a Snap
The Bing Team: “In May, Bing launched a new three column look, which was designed to fundamentally change how you interact with search to help you do more. One of the key elements of the new search experience is the middle column, which we refer to as snapshot. With snapshot, Bing brings relevant information and… Continue Reading
CRS – Next Steps in the War in Afghanistan? Issues for Congress
In Brief: Next Steps in the War in Afghanistan? Issues for Congress, Catherine Dale, Specialist in International Security. December 6, 2012 “While some basic parameters of U.S. Afghanistan policy appear to be set, particularly in the wake of the U.S. presidential elections, many issues concerning the extent of any further U.S. commitment and the forms… Continue Reading
Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine (beta)
“The Open-i project aims to provide next generation information retrieval services for biomedical articles from the full text collections such as PubMed Central. It is unique in its ability to index both the text and images in the articles. The article retrieval is powered by Essie (the search engine that supports ClinicalTrials.gov). Open-i lets users… Continue Reading
EPO and SIPO launch Chinese-English machine translation for patents
News release: “Breaking new ground in providing access to the most comprehensive technological information, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) today launched the Chinese-English component of the EPO’s free automatic translation service Patent Translate. As a result, the collections of the two largest… Continue Reading
Human Resource Development in New Nuclear Energy States
Human Resource Development in New Nuclear Energy States: Case Studies from the Middle East, by John P. Banks, Kevin Massy and Charles K. Ebinger “With the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Turkey all continuing pursuit of civil nuclear energy programs, the Middle East is likely to play host to the first newcomer civil nuclear energy… Continue Reading
