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The Hindu - Apple, the tech giant that has made a corporate bonanza by selling iPhones, iPads and iPods to consumers worldwide, has avoided tens of billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on its income and profits, according to a Senate report summary issued Monday and .Apple, Called A US Tax Dodger, Says It's Paid 'Every Single Dollar' of Taxes OwedForbesUS raises concern over American firms evading taxesHindu Business LineApple CEO defies US Senate on tax avoidanceThe HinduReuters -Press TV -TechWeekEurope UKall 884 news articles .

America's ticking debt bomb has been reset. Washington has suspended the debt ceiling, setting a date, and not a concrete dollar sum as a deadline, an unprecedented first in US history. Citing 'extraordinary measures', the US Treasury has further .

Jonathan Caras, CTO of Israeli startup “Glide Video Walkie Talkie� giving a presentation The TechCrunch Disrupt Show in New York is a famed annual showcase for the introduction of the newest young startups in the hi-tech arena. Created by TechCrunch .

EurActiv- - EurActivThe move to create the European Business Alliance for TTIP follows a similar action taken in April by American corporations, which launched the US Business Coalition for Transatlantic Trade. Talks are expected to start as early as June and stakeholders .

Most major European companies and U.S. retailer Abercrombie & Fitch have agreed to a labor-backed plan that calls for independent safety audits that will be made public and for the companies to pay for safety improvements in Bangladesh factories.and more .

Forget 'Buy American'? US Retailers Push an 'Imports Work' Campaign - Wanna support American workers? Buy imports. So says a new report, which claims that a cheap, robust imports marketplace not only helps American workers and families, but local farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses as well. You may not have .

The dispute stems from a 2009 U.S. requirement that retail outlets put the country of origin on labels on meat and other products, an effort to give consumers more information about the safety and origin of their food. Canada and Mexico complained to . .

Reverie is one of a growing number of small businesses that are chipping away at the decades-old trend of manufacturing overseas. They're doing what's known as reshoring, moving production back to U.S. factories as labor costs grow in countries like . .

WASHINGTON – A new report on Monday credited imports with supporting 16 million U.S. jobs in a bid by business groups to improve the image of the ugly brother of trade. While politicians from President Barack Obama on down love to tout the job-creating . .

US tax dollars promote Monsanto's GMO crops overseas: report - The cables show U.S. diplomats supporting Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, in foreign countries even after it paid $1.5 million in fines after being charged with bribing an Indonesian official and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act . .