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Google, Facebook and Twitter race to hold Washington at bay

Bloomberg Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company’s size has made it too attractive as a target for government regulators. The two-day retreat in Monterey, California, where employees from the $682 billion company plied Washington policy experts with questions about the pros and cons of its size, took ...

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Apple’s Cook meets Macron amid calls for tech taxes

Bloomberg Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook met Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and according to French officials he didn’t push back against calls by the French president and European allies to change rules in the region to get technology giants to pay more taxes. The two met at the French presidential palace at the request of Cook. Macron is ...

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Sweden faces ‘acute’ shortage of workers

Bloomberg The economic boom in Sweden is running into a familiar foe: a lack of skilled workers. Even after a record inflow of migrants over the past three years that boosted the Nordic country’s population to above 10 million, businesses are having a harder and harder time finding workers. The number of job vacancies per person seeking a job is ...

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