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The iPad and iPhone have sealed Apple’s standing as the world’s most valuable tech company, but the company’s leadership will be challenged to live up to Steve Jobs’ vision

Gary Silverman Gary Silverman from COMMENT 7:56pm

I saw the best taxes of my generation ...

Too many clever Americans are thinking too much about the US tax code

From WORLD 6:39pm

EU rushes out tax transparency law

Brussels seeks country-by-country profit figures

Special Reports

Ever-growing online outlets offer marketers more varied points of contact and fresh forms of doing business

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Chief finance officer, information services, regulation and risk, analysis strategy, retail, cash management, finance functions

From WORLD 6:18pm

G8 and G20 focus on tackling avoidance

OECD draws up tax reform plans as calls grow for greater transparency

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From COMPANIES 10:14pm

Penguin pays $75m to resolve ebook claims

Paves way for completion of merger with Random House

Robert Shrimsley from COMMENT May 22, 2013

iDodge: Apple’s new killer product

Just imagine how the company might have showcased its tax arrangements

From WORLD May 22, 2013

Apple unlikely to change without tax reform

Most Republican senators at US hearing back company’s defence

From MANAGEMENT May 22, 2013

Mobile drives company website refresh

BP, ENI and SAP head the 2013 FTBowen Craggs index of corporate online effectiveness

From WORLD May 22, 2013

Q&A: Multinationals, Ireland and taxes

Why and how Dublin has become so attractive to multinationals

From GLOBAL ECONOMY May 22, 2013

Ireland pledges to fight tax avoidance

Apple dispute pushes issue on to EU summit agenda

From COMPANIES May 21, 2013

Apple chief defends tax practices

‘We pay all taxes we owe, every single dollar,’ says Cook

From COMPANIES May 21, 2013

Apple chief’s gamble pays off as criticism remains muted

Tim Cook defends company’s tax practices

From COMMENT May 21, 2013

Tax probes not Apple’s biggest worry

The tech group’s main problems are slowing sales and shrinking margins, writes Farhad Manjoo

From WORLD May 21, 2013

Dublin cut tax burden after US lobbying

Ireland accused of enabling complex tax avoidance strategy

Editorial from COMMENT May 21, 2013

Apple shows need for US tax reform

Washington should close loopholes encouraging avoidance

From COMPANIES May 21, 2013

Apple’s Cook faces Senate grilling on tax

Technology group denies using ‘gimmicks’ to lower its payments

Tech blog May 21, 2013

Tech blog: Apple grilled over tax avoidance

Apple chief Tim Cook takes the hot seat before the US Senate

From COMPANIES May 21, 2013

Apple tax fallout set to have global impact

Many countries to have lost revenues in avoidance schemes

From SPECIAL REPORTS May 20, 2013

Innovation cedes to refinement

The times appear to have settled into being neither stellar nor devastating for world’s favourite names, writes Louise Lucas

From COMPANIES May 20, 2013

Apple urges reform of US tax system

Little or no tax on foreign profits is an option being considered

From COMPANIES May 20, 2013

Apple denies using ‘tax gimmicks’

iPhone maker tries to pre-empt accusations of tax avoidance

Markets Insight from MARKETS May 20, 2013

Listen to what gold is really telling us

Like Apple, valuation has become divorced from fundamentals, writes Mohamed El-Erian

From COMPANIES May 19, 2013

Apple faces grilling over US tax rate

Accounting boosted tech group’s payment from 15% to 25%

From MARKETS May 19, 2013

Pimco shuns ‘grim’ high yield sectors

Valuations have climbed too much, investor believes

Week in Review from COMPANIES May 17, 2013

Week in review, May 18

Hayward likes life ‘on the edge’

From LEX May 16, 2013

Google: $900 breached

Can the internet search giant avoid Apple’s steep share price drop?

From COMPANIES May 16, 2013

JC Penney chief vows to win back customers

Ullman says he will correct predecessor’s errors as chain reports loss

Personal Technology from MANAGEMENT May 16, 2013

Gadgets not required at Google jamboree

New and updated sofware from this year’s I/O

FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award from MANAGEMENT May 16, 2013

Publishing industry plots a survival story

As the digital revolution takes shape, it need not be a threat

From COMPANIES May 16, 2013

Google chief touts utopian ambitions

Tech vision where ‘being negative is not how we make progress’

From COMPANIES May 15, 2013

Google steals music march on Apple

Subscription service unveiled as market cap tops $300bn

From LEX May 15, 2013

Hon Hai (Foxconn): outfoxed

Taiwanese contract manufacturer faces pressure from upstarts

John Kay from COMMENT May 14, 2013

Why business loves capital markets

Apple borrowed not to raise funds for business but to return cash to shareholders

From COMPANIES May 14, 2013

BlackBerry messenger to go on iPhone, Android

Attempt to rehabilitate brand by opening up access

From COMPANIES May 14, 2013

Apple builds relations beyond Foxconn

iPad maker switches more work to rival contractor

From MARKETS May 13, 2013

Petrobras bond sale sets record

$11bn offering highlights global corporate bond rally

Emma Jacobs from MANAGEMENT May 12, 2013

The vision thing

A positive or negative world view can shape reality, a new book, ‘Focus’, by Heidi Grant Halvorson and Tory Higgins, argues

From COMPANIES May 12, 2013

Sennheiser fights fake electronic goods

German group puts counterfeit headphones costs at $2m a year

Week in Review from COMPANIES May 10, 2013

Week in review, May 11

Mockridge switches over to rival

From COMMENT May 10, 2013

Microsoft’s Windows is lesson for Apple

Tech hubris comes from superimposing the new on top of the old, says Richard Waters

From COMPANIES May 9, 2013

Retailer leaps on Microsoft Nook bid talk

Barnes & Noble shares higher on report of ereader offer