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Facebook has warned that it could face a tax bill of between US$3 billion and US$5 billion over the transfer of assets to Ireland.

Microsoft has won a landmark victory in a case where it argued that personal data held in a subsidiary overseas was not accessible using a warrant issued in the US.

Facebook and accounting firm Ernst & Young have been accused of providing figures lower by billions of dollars when transferring intangible assets to the social giant's Ireland subsidiary.

Sales Channel Development services company, Tenego Partnering, has opened a Sydney office as part of its global network expansion.

Does a multinational company like Apple or Microsoft benefit from doing business in Australia and having a local subsidiary?

Apple’s favourable tax treatment in Ireland may soon come to an end as EU regulator the European Commission gets ready to act on findings initially made in June 2014. If the EC does force Ireland to comply with its tax findings, the decision could cost Apple €17 billion (AUD$27 billion) in Ireland alone plus several billion more in countries around the world, including Australia.

Schneider Electric has promoted Gareth O’Reilly to the top regional job for its Australia-New Zealand business.

SAS has secured a contract in Ireland to provide its data management and reporting technology to assist financial services and fund management firm Aegon with its data analysis and, at the same time, satisfy industry regulatory requirements.

"There's never been a better time to start a company in Australia," according to Nitro founder and CEO Sam Chandler.

Management software vendor Sage Business Solutions has partnered with Ireland-based Enbu Consulting to service the Australian market with its CRM solution.

Global solutions and services provider Dimension Data Dimension has completed the acquisition of European communications services provider NextiraOne as the company looks to grow its business through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

Following the 'turning' of its leader by the FBI, LulzSec seems to have lost all of its lulz, and many of its members.

No, Google hasn't joined Dr Who's Autons, but instead has 'received' the unluck o' an Irish lawsuit.

Google has used Privacy Awareness Week to reveal it completed the deletion of Australian Wi-Fi payload data 'mistakenly' collected by its Street View cars as long ago as February.

Although the Royal Wedding saw 'expected social media surges' in Twitter and Facebook, Sybase 365 says 'no-one could predict the increases in US and UK SMS/MMS traffic'.

Kaseya, the leading global provider of automated IT systems management software, today announced its new state-of-the-art Global Customer Service Centre in Auckland has gone live to provide 'follow-the-sun' support together with a second facility in Dublin, Ireland. The service centres are the primary contact points for all customer related inquiries from the company's extensive customer base of over 5,000 organisations around the world.

A security vendor has warned that Australia is on the list of countries specifically targeted by the latest variants of the Yimfoca malware.

All smartphones suffer from reduced signal strength when held in particular ways, and the iPhone 4 is no exception, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Few owners are reporting issues to Apple, and return rates are particularly low, he claimed. But Apple has decided to give all owners a free case as this may help ameliorate the issue.

A Irish software company hopes an implementation at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital will be the first of many.