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		<title>Google and Apple may be forced to pay more tax in Russia</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/06/google-and-apple-may-be-forced-to-pay-more-tax-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian authorities may start trying to extract more tax from foreign tech firms such as Google and Apple, according to a report by Vedomosti. There appear to be a couple elements&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Alarms sound over changes to EU roaming, net neutrality and privacy rules</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/alarms-sound-over-changes-to-eu-roaming-net-neutrality-and-privacy-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Parliament's liberal-centrist bloc has warned over changes being made by EU countries to incoming telecoms legislation, saying they will severely weaken efforts to introduce unified net neutrality rules and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BT agrees to $19B takeover of EE, paving way for close DT relationship</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/02/05/bt-agrees-19b-ee-takeover-paving-way-for-close-dt-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The negotiations are over: pending regulatory approval, BT will get back into the U.K.'s mobile scene in a big way by buying EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for £12.5 billion&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook faces fight in Europe over new privacy policy</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/02/04/facebook-faces-fight-in-europe-over-new-privacy-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Facebook rolled out a new privacy policy that allows the sharing of data between its various services, such as Instagram and the Atlas ad unit, and the tracking of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Web inventor warns against zero-rating net neutrality threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zero-rating – where carriers charge nothing or very little for the data used by specific apps and web services – is a threat to net neutrality, web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google to give all users clearer information about data use</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/30/google-promises-better-privacy-information-to-settle-uk-case/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/30/google-promises-better-privacy-information-to-settle-uk-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has vowed to revise its privacy policy and account settings, in order to make it clearer to people what it does with their data and give them more control. This comes&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch and Slovenian regulators nail carriers over net neutrality</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/27/dutch-and-slovenian-regulators-nail-carriers-over-net-neutrality/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/27/dutch-and-slovenian-regulators-nail-carriers-over-net-neutrality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the European Union dithers over EU-wide net neutrality, some European countries are marching on regardless. On Friday Slovenia's regulators nailed carriers Telekom Slovenije and Si.mobil for violating net neutrality principles,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with Uber&#8217;s European job promises</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/19/the-problem-with-ubers-european-job-promises/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/19/the-problem-with-ubers-european-job-promises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly humble Uber has made its pitch to city officials around Europe by promising the creation of "50,000 jobs" during 2015 – if mayors and their transport departments play nice&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>EU publishes details of Amazon Luxembourg &#8220;state aid&#8221; tax probe</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/16/eu-publishes-details-of-amazon-luxembourg-state-aid-tax-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Amazon's Luxembourg tax arrangements, which may be illegal. Amazon funnels its European revenues through a complex transfer pricing set-up in the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The curious case of Angela Merkel and her EU data retention ideas</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/15/the-curious-case-of-angela-merkel-and-her-eu-data-retention-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Paris, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the European Commission to deliver on its "promise" of a new EU-wide data retention&#8230;]]></description>
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