av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 19, 2016 | Notiser
Google may face over $400 million Indonesia tax bill for 2015
Indonesia plans to pursue Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google for five years of back taxes, and the search giant could face a bill of more than $400 million for 2015 alone if it is found to have avoided payments, a senior tax official said.Muhammad Hanif, head of the tax office’s special cases branch, told Reuters its investigators went to Google’s local office in Indonesia on Monday.
The tax office alleges PT Google Indonesia paid less than 0.1 percent of the total income and value-added taxes it owed last year.Asked to respond to Hanif’s comments, Google Indonesia reiterated a statement made last week in whoch it said it continues to cooperate with local authorities and has paid all applicable taxes.
If found guilty, Google could have to pay fines of up to four times the amount it owed, bringing the maximum tax bill to 5.5 trillion rupiah ($418 million) for 2015, Hanif said. He declined to provide an estimate for the five-year period.
Most of the revenue generated in the country is booked at Google’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore. Google Asia Pacific declined to be audited in June, prompting the tax office to escalate the case into a criminal one, Hanif said.
Källa: Exclusive: Google may face over $400 million Indonesia tax bill for 2015 – government official | Reuters
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 19, 2016 | Notiser
Twitter declares photos, emojis won’t count against character limit
Twitter tweeted that it will no longer count photos, videos, polls, quotes, emoji and GIFs toward its 140-character limit.
In a post Monday, the microblogging site said it will make roch media content (including @names in tweet replies) exempt from the rule that became a hallmark of the service when it launched 10 years ago.
Twitter is also keeping the promise it made back in May and will allow tweets that begin with an @name to reach all your followers, instead of just the mentioned user.
Earlier this year, rumors swirled around Twitter potentially boosting the character limit up to 10,000, but co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey took to NBC’s “Today Show” to put them to rest, assuring us all that the 140-character limit is here to stay.
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Källa: Twitter declares photos, emojis won’t count against character limit – CNET
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 19, 2016 | Lästips
Twitter declares photos, emojis won’t count against character limit
Twitter tweeted that it will no longer count photos, videos, polls, quotes, emoji and GIFs toward its 140-character limit.
In a post Monday, the microblogging site said it will make roch media content (including @names in tweet replies) exempt from the rule that became a hallmark of the service when it launched 10 years ago.
Twitter is also keeping the promise it made back in May and will allow tweets that begin with an @name to reach all your followers, instead of just the mentioned user.
Earlier this year, rumors swirled around Twitter potentially boosting the character limit up to 10,000, but co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey took to NBC’s “Today Show” to put them to rest, assuring us all that the 140-character limit is here to stay.
Tags: Internet ServicesTwitter
Källa: Twitter declares photos, emojis won’t count against character limit – CNET
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 19, 2016 | Notiser
New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
OLIVER STONES LATEST film, Snowden, bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
Stones rendering of Snowdens life combines facts with Hollywood invention, covering Snowden being discharged from the military after an injury in basic training, meeting his girlfriend, and training in the CIA with fictitious mentors (including Nicolas Cages character, most likely a composite of whistleblowers like Thomas Drake and Bill Binney). Snowden then goes undercover, only to see an op turn ugly; becomes a contractor for the CIA and NSA; and finally chooses to leave the intelligence community and disclose its vast surveillance apparatus, some of whoch he helped develop.
The movie hits key points in Snowdens story, including his growing interest in constitutional law and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, some of the U.S. surveillance programs he eventually unmasked, and parts of his furtive meetings in Hong Kong with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras (co-founders of The Intercept), as well as The Guardians Ewen MacAskill.
Källa: New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 19, 2016 | Notiser
Cellphone Alerts Used in New York to Search for Bombing Suspect
All around New York City, cellphones blared on Monday morning with the dissonant, but familiar, tone of an emergency alert. But this time, the alert typically used for weather-related advisories or abducted children was different.For what is believed to be the first time, the nations Wireless Emergency Alerts system was deployed as an electronic wanted poster, identifying a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with the bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey.Suddenly, from commuter trains to the sidewalks of Manhattan, millions were enlisted in the manhunt.The message, probably received by millions, nearly at once, was simple: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male. See media for pic. Call 9-1-1 if seen.It roughly coincided with an appearance by Mayor Bill de Blasio at 7:30 a.m. on CNN, where he announced the name of the suspect and shared a photograph released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The authorities simultaneously spread the image on Twitter, hoping to ensure that those receiving the alert around 8 a.m. and after on their phones would have no trouble finding the image of Mr. Rahami.
Källa: Cellphone Alerts Used in New York to Search for Bombing Suspect – The New York Times