Apple Inc. Evades Billions in Corporate Taxes, NY Times Reports - and my own links review

The world of tech is always moving. Let's take a look at which companies have been making news.

One intriguing topic of conversation is Twitter and Flickr. Let's see shall we?
- Social Surfing: Mon.ki Applies Twitter Conversations to Web Browsing from mashable.com
- Flickr Adds Pinterest Buttons To Photo Sharing; All Images Will Be Pinned With Attributions from techcrunch.com

United States has been receiving a lot of press too:
- Research: $1.5 Trillion In Mobile Revenues In 2012, U.S. Accounting For 40% Of All Smartphone Sales from techcrunch.com
- Samsung Group Bests Nokia as World's Biggest Mobile Phone Vendor: IDC from www.eweek.com

From: techcrunch.com

From: techcrunch.com

iPhone and Twitter were talked about quite a bit too:
- Twitter Improves Search, Notifications in iPhone & Android Apps - "Twitter has released updates for its iPhone and Android app, providing improved search and notification functions.The new versions of Twitter are now available on both the iPhone's App Store and Android's Google Play" - said searchenginewatch.com
- Twitter Improves Realtime Search While Google Lacks It - www.webpronews.com

To end we should take a quick look at Tax and Wal-Mart
- Apple Inc. Evades Billions in Corporate Taxes, NY Times Reports - "The The New York Times Company accused Apple of evading billions of dollars in taxes by setting up subsidiary companies in tax-free or low-tax states and countries" - said mashable.com
- Apple's Tax Avoidance: Evil Scheming, Good Business, or Both? - business.time.com

From: searchenginewatch.com

From: mashable.com

From: techcrunch.com

From: mashable.com

From: mashable.com

From: business.time.com

From: techcrunch.com

From: techcrunch.com

Wal-Mart Announces Disc To Digital Program To Convert Your Old DVDs - also the best of the web

Facebook: http://facebook.com

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So, it's time for the next links roundup. We'll be talking about Wal-Mart Microsoft and Facebook.

OK, who's been talking about Walmart? It was techcrunch.com who wrote an article called Walmart Announces Disc To Digital Program To Convert Your Old DVDs.

What did they point out about Walmart? They said:

Walmart is about to make a big push for digital movie ownership

and went on to say

At a press conference today in Los Angeles, the company announced that, as rumored, it's launching a new program called the Disc to Digital service. Starting on April 16, anyone can bring their DVD collection into a Walmart store, and copies of each movie will be loaded onto your account on VUDU, the online video service that the retailer acquired two years ago. Standard definition DVDs will be converted into standard definition videos and Blu-rays will be converted into high-definition, for $2 each. You can also "upgrade" a standard DVD into an HD copy for $5.

Microsoft: http://Microsoft.com

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Next we have a site that's been writing about Microsoft - Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Focuses on Critical RDP Patch.

They said:

MicrosoftsMarch 2012 Patch Tuesday might be light on actual bulletinsthere are sixbutsecurity researchers are nonetheless advising companies to fix the "critical"one posthaste

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That criticalbulletin, MS12-020 (Windows) addresses an issue in Remote Desktop Protocol(RDP). While Microsoft insisted in a March 13 posting on the MicrosoftSecurity Response Center blog that we know of no activeexploitation in the wild, it also advised that customers examine and prepareto apply this bulletin as soon as possible. As it stands, the vulnerabilityallows an attacker to achieve remote-code execution; Microsoft is offering aone-click, no-reboot fix-it that enables Network-Level Authentication, aneffective mitigation for this issue.

Lastly it's NCAA's Facebook Fan Committee Picks 97% Accurate March Madness Field from mashable.com, focussing on Facebook. The wrote some good stuff, particularly

A mock NCAA Tournament selection committee comprised of social media-savvy college basketball fans correctly picked 66 of the March Madness field's 68 teams. The "Super 10" committee, made up of fans who submitted short videos to the official March Madness Facebook Page that demonstrated their hoops knowledge and passion, spent last weekend in Atlanta touring Turner Broadcasting's studios, watching the ACC Tournament, and receiving and in-depth primer on how the brackets are built before making their own selections

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The "Super 10" committee, made up of fans who submitted short videos to the official March Madness Facebook Page that demonstrated their hoops knowledge and passion, spent last weekend in Atlanta touring Turner Broadcasting's studios, watching the ACC Tournament, and receiving and in-depth primer on how the brackets are built before making their own selections. They also documented the experience and corresponded with other fans at home using Facebook and Twitter