Amazon to be stripped of tax advantage on e-book sale
European commission tells Luxembourg to end VAT loophole, a decision that could close the gap with British ebook price

Amazon is registered as a Luxembourg company and pays that country's VAT charge of 3% when it sells an eBook to a British reader, rather than the 20% it would have to charge if it were UK-based
Amazon is now expected to contest the contest the commission ruling so no impact on the cost of the ebooks bought from the UK website

The UK has held out at the full 20% VAT rate, which has a detrimental impact on the UK industry. The EC's move will seek to end these anomalies and tax competition amongst member states, and comes under pressure from member states' ministers of finance

US firm has complied with request from authorities which have been monitoring activities of Besseres Hannover

Twitter has blocked the account of a neo-Nazi group that is accused of inciting hatred towards foreigners. Twitter announced it had complied with a request by German authorities who have been monitoring the activities The move came after an investigation into about 20 members of the neo-Nazi group in Lower Saxony, northern Germany, after they were charged with inciting racial hatred and forming a criminal organisation. The group was banned last month by the state's interior ministry. In particular the group, which is estimated to have around 40 active members, stands accused of being behind a threatening video

German police requested Twitter to close the account "immediately and without opening a replacement account"

angry birds game have monthly 200 million active players

in any given day, we have 20-30 million people playing angry games connected

(Rovio's Andrew)

in the beginning of 2012 Angry birds game had been downloaded more than 1 billion times.

around 20-30 million people play this game connected

compared to other social games such as giant zynga has 306 million users monthly 

the next release of the game which is ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS which will be launched on 8 November 

this is set to be a success as there are so many fans of angry birds as well as star wars 

Rovio compared most often by the company's DisneyStalbow says other global brands are providing inspiration as Rovio mulls its future strategy."We're looking at some incredible other brands out there and learning from what they've done. If you look at how Hello Kitty has evolved, or Super Mario... It's about trying to have an impact on pop culture," he

Man gets community sentence for Facebook post about dead soldiers
Azhar Ahmed must do 240 hours of community service after writing on Facebook: 'All soldiers should die and go to hell'

Azhar Ahmed, 20, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire gets a community sentence for two years
for posting a message on Facebook after two days after the death of the soldiers in march this year
he accepts that he has posted this comment but does not think it was offensive
however courts final decisions were set as a district judge found him guilty as it is a offensive communication and comment to make so his punishment is to to community sentence and told to pay costs of £300 by the magistrates.

Ahmed made his comments on the social networking site two days later, he wrote that: "People gassin about the deaths of Soldiers! What about the family's who've been brutally killed. The women who have been raped. The children who have been sliced up!" He went on to be abusive about soldiers.

in my opinion the action taking against Azhar Ahmed is partly right as no one should make such a harsh comment about anyone especially soldiers whereas its not much of his fault as he did realize his mistake and did remove the comment. 

To what extent do you agree with Rosin's Hypothesis that women are taking over modern society

Disagree;
The article ignores that many single mothers who are bringing up children lack the farther figure
and therefore do a similar thing and be influenced by the people who they are living with
e.g. might walk out on their partner
have negative views towards relationship
lack in school this links to martial deprivation and cultural deprivation
mother might have less time for their child

- Roles have become more equalled now we find couples who share out equal responsibility of tasks and roles
Old breadwinner label has vanished society has headed towards equality

- Now there a new men who do household roles

- some women do the triple shift; household work, emotional support and outside work

women are not worldwide dominant as some women still carry out the old traditional roles
some countries are strict women stay in the household while men go out study and work


Agree


rejects Douglas theory of traditional roles

 

We've been shown an example of Bethenny a 29 year old women who runs a day care centre, who is also studying to get a nursing degree and raising up a 10 year old daughter
this shows that most single mothers have taken over all responsibility and are capable to manage themselves

- Dual Burden
- Double shift

In her research
three-quarters of 7.5 million jobs were lost by men such as construction, manufacturing, high finance

in 2009 workforce tipped towards women
women are worldwide dominate in colleges and in professional schools except Africa (where girls don't get the opportunity to go school)

economy has been changing and women have been becoming equal as well as higher than men in Rosin's research she has included the US economy in some ways becoming a kind of travelling sisterhood; professional women leave
home and enter workforce
In China Women own 40% of the private business

Matriarchy

Post colonialism
Race and ethnicity represented in the two text.

Text One - Olympics
Aldorov theory - racial representation which could be put into exotic shown through music
Negative representation is shown through
Worldwide
Can be accesses through Social networking and other websites e.g. YouTube
We see different ethnicity coming together and celebrating the Olympics


Text two - Article
Positive representation
Article is shown as really pitied and dangerous as in the modern society we don't find educated
white middle aged mother and a black farther living together seen as stereotypical
Links to Fran Janon's theory and shows that the meddle class
are putting on masks as they are a family living together and the two young daughters are going out
in the night partying which doesn't seem suitable

Guardian Article 2

Spam text senders face fines up to £500,000
two people who sent out millions of text offering accident compensation first to be targeted by ICO crackdown

Two people who are responsible for sending out millions of spam text by offering accident compensation and payment protection insuranceAnother eight companies could face similar fines as the data enforcement office concentrates on unsolicited text, 

Research shown is most annoying example of unwanted marketing people recivie The case is the first of its kind in which the ICO has used its new powers to levy fines of up to £500,000 for misuse of personal data. It is also illegal to send text marketing messages or automated marketing calls to people who have not opted to receive them from the company involved which also means any company that used the numbers collected from "STOP" texts would be breaking the law.
The individuals, who have not yet been named, have been given 28 days to respond to the ICO to explain how their activities were legal. If they cannot, then a "final penalty notice" will come into force, making them personally liable for the payment.


i agree with this article as spam text has been happening from a long time and it is really annoying  even when it is real solicitors who use text for a query will be ignored by people as people have experienced spam text.