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	Apple defends offshore decisions that result in low taxes Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the company is ducking taxes by shifting profits to subsidiaries that the company does not consider tax residents of any nation. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. The Five Big Lies the C-Suite Hears About "Going Mobile" Mobile hasn't been around long, but it has already made a tremendous impact. With such a new technology, it's not surprising that a lot of misinformation is floating around. Don't be taken in. Get the truth by reading this paper. It lays out how to develop an effective mobile initiative, one you need to succeed. Learn More In this Issue Apple to build Macs in low-tax Texas Is Microsoft peeking into your Skype messages? IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot New Intel CEO creates 'New Devices' division focused on 'cool technology' WHITE PAPER: VMware How Virtualization is Key to Managing Risk Is your IT environment ready for a disaster? Virtualization can save your infrastructure before an outage occurs and can also ensure an efficient recovery without data loss. Read this eBook to learn how VMware virtualization solutions can help prepare your systems for a disaster and protect your data if one does strike. Read Now! Apple to build Macs in low-tax Texas Apple will build Macs in Texas using some parts made in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday, putting a little flesh on a pledge from last December. In a prepared statement Cook read before a Senate subcommittee yesterday, the chief executive named Texas as the location of a new factory where Apple will assemble Macs. Read More Is Microsoft peeking into your Skype messages? If you have any expectations about the privacy of your Skype communications, you may want to reassess them. Microsoft appears to be peeking into Skype messages for security reasons, according to Ars Technica.The owner of Skype regularly scans the contents of messages sent on the service for signs of fraud, but what's done with the information from those scans -- whether it's stored indefinitely or destroyed -- is unknown. Read More IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to help companies better field customer phone calls. The IBM Watson Engagement Advisor uses IBM's Watson, the artificial intelligence software the company developed to compete on the Jeopardy game show two years ago. Read More New Intel CEO creates 'New Devices' division focused on 'cool technology' Well, that didn't take long. A mere five days after Brian Krzanich took the reins as the new CEO of Intel, he's shaking things up at an organizational level. Krzanich has reorganized key business groups and created a new "New Devices" division to focus on emerging trends, including "ultra-mobile" devices, reports AllThingsD. Mike Bell, who formerly co-ran Intel's mobile unit -- most notably in the push to bring x86 to Android -- will take leadership of the new division. Read More
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