
Microsoft fights $29 bn US back tax claim
Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2023 - The US Internal Revenue Service is asking that Microsoft pay a whopping $29 billion in unpaid taxes from 2004 to 2013, the company said in an official filing on Wednesday.
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Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2023 - The US Internal Revenue Service is asking that Microsoft pay a whopping $29 billion in unpaid taxes from 2004 to 2013, the company said in an official filing on Wednesday.
Oct 11, 2023

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 11, 2023 - Researchers who have been working for years to understand electron arrangement, or topology, and magnetism in certain semimetals have been frustrated by the fact that the materials only display magn
Oct 11, 2023

Redmond WA (SPX) Oct 11, 2023 - Kymeta has launched at AUSA 2023 - the Osprey u8 HGL, a hybrid geostationary/low Earth orbit (GEO/LEO) terminal purpose-built for military users. Leveraging Eutelsat Group's (formally known as
Oct 11, 2023

Paris (AFP) Oct 11, 2023 - Since Elon Musk hollowed out Twitter's staffing, pushed services behind a paywall and renamed it X, many users have been thrashing around for an alternative social media platform.
Oct 11, 2023

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 11, 2023 - NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected infrastructure teams
Oct 11, 2023

Guildford UK (SPX) Oct 10, 2023 - Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is delighted to announce a partnership with centre of excellence and training provider, The Air and Space Institute. SSTL's Head of Customer Training Stu J
Oct 10, 2023

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 10, 2023 - Generative artificial intelligence technologies such as OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and the image creator Midjourney have boomed in the last year. But with that increase in computing needs comes a steep rise in energy costs that could bottleneck the supply chain for computer servers.
Oct 10, 2023

Stockholm (AFP) Oct 10, 2023 - Stockholm will ban petrol and diesel cars in a central 20-block area of the city as of 2025 in a bid to improve air quality, a vice-mayor said Tuesday.
Oct 10, 2023

Copenhagen (AFP) Oct 10, 2023 - To the backdrop of the vast Jelling stones, Denmark on Tuesday granted the inventors of Bluetooth technology permission to use the name and symbol of Harald the Bluetooth for the next 1,000 years .
Oct 10, 2023

Northampton UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2023 - UK based XCAM Ltd, world leaders in specialist digital camera systems, have secured over 200,000 pound grant funding from the UK Space Agency's Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) ,
Oct 9, 2023

Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 09, 2023 - The Airbus-built THEOS-2 Earth observation satellite has been successfully launched on a Vega rocket from Kourou, Europe's spaceport in French Guiana. The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Develo
Oct 9, 2023

Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 09, 2023 - Stoke Space has announced $100 million in new Series B investment to drive continued growth and innovation. This investment more than doubles the company's total funding, which now sits at $175 mill
Oct 9, 2023

Warwick UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2023 - The European Space Agency (ESA) has funded a new mission concept involving a swarm of satellites to address the growing threat of space debris. The news comes as just this week the US government i
Oct 9, 2023

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 09, 2023 - Astroscale Japan has been selected by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for its Small and Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop an on
Oct 9, 2023

Paris (ESA) Oct 09, 2023 - Among the smallest passengers aboard Europe's Vega launch tonight are also the most ambitious in nature: twin miniaturised laboratories, or CubeSats, for the in-orbit demonstration of disruptive, st
Oct 9, 2023

Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 9, 2023 - Shares in the electric vehicle arm of Chinese property giant Evergrande resumed trading on Monday after more than a week's suspension and a halt on its new share deal triggered by a criminal probe against its boss last month.
Oct 9, 2023