If you work for Amazon, you might soon have the option to feel like you're working outside every day. Proposed earlier this week at Seattle City Hall's Design Review Board, this trio of interconnected glass domes is the company's plan for a space where employees could work and hang out.

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Apple's Irish Tax Stash Is Actually Hidden in New York City

Tim Cook's grand scheme to avoid American corporate tax rates was just revealed as a little more absurd, with a new report by the New York Times. The (Californian) company is using (Irish) dummy companies to funnel cash to (Manhattan) bank accounts.

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Confused John McCain Asks Apple CEO Why He Has to Update Apps

Today's congressional hearing on Apple's Irish tax-dodging has included a lot of impressive browbeating—it's nice to see Tim Cook taken to task. What doesn't help the issue is Senator John McCain chuckling with Cook about how his gosh darn iPhone updates apps all the durn time.

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This Guy Wants You to Know He's Rich from Tumblr, Too

Insecure code-slinger Marco Arment was an original employee at Tumblr, when it was just two dudes in a room. He wrote a nostalgic little post yesterday about the company's rise to Yahoo's pocketbook, with one important conclusion: he's rich too. OK? Very rich. Not yacht rich, but rich. OK?

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Apple's Dodging Billions in Taxes with Irish Loophole

If you run one of the most massive operations in the history of modern capitalism, here's a handy tip: funnel your money to Ireland with a series of shell companies, and you'll pay a tax rate of two percent. It's saved Apple $74 billion over the past three years.

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