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Grant Gross

IDG News Service

Grant Gross is a reporter for the IDG News Service.

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Recent articles by Grant Gross

Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction

May 20, 2013

Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate subcommittee.

Alleged tech support scammers settle FTC charges

May 17, 2013

Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

T-Mobile drops challenge to FCC's net neutrality rules

May 17, 2013

T-Mobile USA has dropped a pending challenge to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet

May 16, 2013

E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet.

Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers

May 16, 2013

The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday.

Syrian Internet service comes back online

May 15, 2013

Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts.

TechAmerica: US tech employment grows slightly in 2012

May 14, 2013

The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1 percent increase from a year earlier, according to a new report from the TechAmerica Foundation.

US agencies can't track savings from data center closings

May 14, 2013

The U.S. government's effort to close 1,253 of its data centers is falling short of its goal, and agencies haven't been able to track projected cost savings for the initiative, a government auditor told lawmakers.

Survey: US residents oppose Internet sales tax

May 13, 2013

The U.S. Senate has, by a wide margin, supported a bill allowing an Internet sales tax, but the legislation appears to be a tougher sell to the public.

Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents

May 10, 2013

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the "death" of software and business method patents.