Cédric O says French will not back down on levy despite US threats of trade warFrance will go ahead with its controversial new tax on the profits of large technology firms such as Google and Facebook despite US threats to retaliate, with the governm…
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Lees meerFrom the ‘KonMari method’ to Apple’s barely-there design philosophy, we are forever being urged to declutter and simplify our lives. But does minimalism really make us any happier? By Kyle ChaykaSonrisa Andersen’s childhood home was a mess. Her pare…
Lees meerGoogle, Amazon and Facebook moved at a scale and speed governments couldn’t match. Now regulators are trying to catch upThe 2010s will be remembered for a new era in the development of capitalism, one of mind-boggling scale. Apple, Amazon and Micros…
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Lees meerOur updated list of the top iOS and Android mobile phones – at the best prices right nowNeed a new smartphone but don’t know which one is the very best? Here’s a guide comparing the current top-end smartphones from Apple, Samsung, Huawei, OnePlus an…
Lees meerFifteen Cornwall, one of Jamie Oliver’s last UK restaurants, shut last week with 100 job losses. Anna Berrill and Sarah Butler look at what went wrong for the celebrity chef. Also: Annie Kelly on a landmark legal case in the US against the world’s l…
Lees meerCall centre workers who check how helpful our voice assistants are say they hear private conversations and couples having sex. Here’s how to avoid sharing your private lifeWalls have ears; you never know who might be listening. Except, increasingly,…
Lees meerDell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRCA landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their…
Lees meerFrom new gaming consoles to activism at Apple, we predict the things you will – or won’t – see in tech this yearThis is an easy prediction to make, because even Tesla isn’t claiming that its eye-catching angular steel beast will be available for sal…
Lees meerService has around 11m users a month in UK but faces much less scrutiny that other outletsOn Monday night, millions of iPhones in Britain buzzed with a push notification encouraging their users to watch three video clips that were said to “sum up a …
Lees meerGood sound, solid battery life and effective noise cancelling wrapped up in a tiny, potent packageApple’s true wireless earbuds have gone “pro” and in doing so deliver on the promise of the 2017 originals. The new AirPods Pro are worth the wait.Appl…
Lees meerFrom a brilliant e-bike to a robot unicorn and a table lamp that doubles as a wireless speaker… the year’s top devicesThere’s more than meets the eye to these generic-seeming glasses. The Bose Frames contain a small pair of hidden speakers and senso…
Lees meerThe company’s CEO waxes lyrical about the urgent threat to our environment, but it makes fixing its products prohibitively expensiveMy beloved MacBook Air was only two years old when it died. It had seemed perfectly healthy the night before, but whe…
Lees meerFive days after director’s mob epic hits Netflix, Scorsese urges viewers to see it on as big a screen as possibleMartin Scorsese has implored audiences not to watch his films – or those by other directors – on their smartphones.Scorsese was speaking…
Lees meerMonday’s top story: Madrid hosts scaled-down annual climate summit. Plus, the world’s most heavily surveilled city in ChinaGood morning, I’m Tim Walker with today’s essential stories.‘World War Zero’. Former Democrat secretary of state John Kerry ha…
Lees meerTransparency campaign Fair Tax Mark says big six tech firms have paid a fraction of tax rate for 10 yearsThe big six US tech firms have been accused of “aggressively avoiding” $100bn (£75bn) of global tax over the past decade.Amazon, Facebook, Googl…
Lees meerProposal would have forced firms to reveal profits made and taxes paid in each EU countryTwelve European Union countries, including Ireland, have blocked a proposed new rule that would have forced multinational companies to reveal how much profit th…
Lees meerFury in Ukraine over tech firm’s move, which it had resisted since the 2014 annexationA decision by Apple to label Crimea as part of Russia in its Maps and Weather apps has sparked a backlash in Ukraine, where the move has been seen as the firm’s ta…
Lees meerMy partner wants some for Christmas, but the price is high and I think he’ll lose themEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s p…
Lees meerDecision to cancel premiere reportedly stemmed from sexual abuse allegations against a producer of the filmApple abruptly cancelled the world premiere of its film The Banker at the AFI Festival in Hollywood on Wednesday amid reports of sexual abuse …
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