Turkey Claims Google Owes Them $47 Million In Back Taxes

Nov 3, 2009 at 10:30am ET by Barry Schwartz

TechCrunch reports Turkey is claiming Google owes them 71 million Turkish Lira or 47 million US dollars in back taxes. In fact, the Turkish government is fining Google for the money. Google claims all the funds are through their Ireland branch and Google does not owe Turkey any taxes. Google technically has a company in Turkey named Google Reklamcılık ve Pazarlama Ltd. Şti. but the company is technically set up as a 'liaison' branch. If set up properly, TechCrunch reports Google would owe little to no taxes to the Turkish government. Two years ago, Norway complained that Google was [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Outside US

Study: Google, The “Most Attractive Employer”

Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz

Universum released a report that shows Google is the "most attractive employer" globally. Google was ranked number one in both the top 50 global businesses and engineering companies. Microsoft was also up there on that list, ranked as number three for business and 2 for engineering. The study asked about 120,000 students at "top academic institutions" to select their ideal companies to work for. The students were from all around the globe, including US, Japan, China, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, Spain, Canada and India. [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues

Advocacy Group Appeals Right To Sue Over Google’s North Carolina Tax Break

Oct 27, 2009 at 10:01am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Charlotte Observer reports the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law appealed the decision to not allow them to sue over Google receiving tax breaks for picking North Carolina for a server farm. The advocacy group argues that the tax benefits given to Google will ultimately cost North Carolina's tax payers more, to make up for those benefits given to Google. North Carolina feels the jobs created, 210 of them, will lead to more income for the state and benefit the state over all. Bob Orr, the institute's executive director said, "How are people going to challenge the acts of government [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Offices

Video Of Google’s Sergey Brin At Web 2.0

Oct 26, 2009 at 9:31am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, made a surprise visit at the Web 2.0 Summit last week. The video of his 18 minute interview with John Battelle is now available on YouTube. Here it is: In summary, he talked about his thoughts on Twitter's deal, Google's Social Search, also a little bit about Bing and even Yahoo giving up on search. He actually touches on about a couple dozen topics within this short interview. Here are some quotes from Brin's talk that I thought I pull out: Battelle asked Brin, what do you make of Bing? Brin said, "Ummm…" Then Battelle asked, are you a Bin [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Employees, Top News

Google Expands “Going Google” Enterprise Ad Campaign

Oct 19, 2009 at 9:51am ET by Greg Sterling

Google has decided to extend and pick up the pace of its "Going Google" (Apps and enterprise products) traditional media campaign. The ads were first launched in August in four cities with billboards. Now Google says the campaign will be expanded globally to "the U.K., France, Canada, Japan, Australia and Singapore" and appear "in train stations such as Paddington, La Défense and Shinagawa, and at airports in Singapore, Toronto, Dallas and beyond . . ." Here's a promotional video ("campaign preview"): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2oWfDMvqc[/youtube] The campaign seeks to [...]

Filed in: Google: Apps For Your Domain, Google: Business Issues

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