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Irish Parliament Declines to Start Inquiry Into Tax Arrangements With Apple and Other Multinationals
0By: Ali Raza | July 18th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News
TQ has previously reported that a US Senate Subcommittee has called on Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and several other executives from the company to explain the practice of booking two-third of their global profits through their Irish subsidiary. This tactic was used back in 2011 in order to avoid taxes. Cook and company were able to do...
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TELUS Warns Canadians About Fraudulent Phone Calls Affecting Both Citizens and Businesses
By: Ali Raza | July 17th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The rise in fraudulent phone calls is not just limited to developing countries and North America including Canada is facing similar threats. Telecom giant TELUS has already warned people in the country about such calls and has made it known that a sudden increase in phone scam was observed, as both landline and wirel...
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Canadian Telecom Carriers Not Pleased with New Code of Conduct Authored by CRTC
By: Jeff Stewart | July 17th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Three Canadian wireless industry giants including Bell, TELUS and Rogers area llon the same page when the carriers stated they are not pleased with the new code...
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Digia Launches Qt 5.1 by Adding New APIs, Support for Android and iOS and Improvements to Qt Quick
By: Jeff Stewart | July 17th, 2013 | Android, Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Finnish software firm, Digia, bought a cross-platform application and UI name Qt from Nokia last year in August, has now released the Qt 5.1 edition of the platform. This new edition of Qt comes with some major improvements to the Qt-specific declarative UI langua...
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Google Adds More Features to Google News to Give Users Quick Sports, Weather, Business and Technology Updates
By: Ali Raza | July 17th, 2013 | Business, Google, Living, News
Search engine giant Google made it known on Friday, June 28th, that it has launched new features for its Google News service to help users stay updated on sports news, weather and the latest happenings in the world of business and technology. With the addition of these new features Google News will be able to quickly answer some ...
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Mobilicity Shareholder Catalyst Capital Group Gladly Welcomes Verizon’s Bid for Wind Mobile – Report
By: Jeff Stewart | July 17th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
According to the Financial Post, Toronto-based Catalyst Capital Group, a shareholder of Mobilicity seems to be encouraged by the $700 million bid from Verizon for Wind Mo...
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Relay Ventures Hires Former CEO of The Woodbridge Company as New Chairman
By: Jeff Stewart | July 17th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Ontario-based Relay Ventures made it known on Thursday, June 27th that the ex-CEO of The Woodbridge Company, Geoff Beattie, has joined the company as the new chairman. Prior to joining Relay Ventures as chairman, Beattie served The Woodbridge Company, a private investment holding company for Thomson family of Canada, for 15 ...
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BlackBerry CEO says PlayBook is Not Going to Recieve a BB10 Update
By: Ali Raza | July 17th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
Waterloo-based smartphone maker, BlackBerry, released its financial report for the second quarter of 2013 on Friday, June 28th. The results were not striking at all and contained poor earnings during the period. The report also unveiled the low statistics of company’s PlayBook that had shipments of around 100,000 units only...
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Yahoo Makes Acquisition Deal With Storytelling App Qwiki
By: Jeff Stewart | July 8th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News
The shopping spree does not seem to be coming to an end for Yahoo and after getting hold of Tumblr, GhostBird Software and Rondee, the internet corporation has now acquired Qwiki, a company “that uses awesome technology” to narrate stories by joining videos, music a...
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BlackBerry Stock Slides Further as Several Analysts Downgrade it’s Value
By: Jeff Stewart | July 8th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Before BlackBerry released its earnings for the second quarter of 2013, several analysts were hoping that it will post a positive result, as they expected the company to declare a profit of 4 cents on each share. However, when BlackBerry unveiled its second quarter earnings, the Waterloo-based declared a loss of 13 cents on e...
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