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Product reviewers paid by companies are losing their gigs over the fight between states and retailers. Associated Press NEW YORK -- It's been a big break for online shoppers: Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. Increasingly, states aching under the weight of the recession are seeking a way around that rule. Because companies such as Amazon.com Inc. get help drumming up sales from online affiliates -- people who link to products on their blogs, promote Web shopping deals and offer coupons -- several states say the Internet retailers should charge sales taxes in states where those affiliates are based. The financial benefits may not be quite what the states anticipate, though. Rather than gearing up to collect taxes, Amazon and other Web... [read full story]
The Alaskan government has announced plans to auction an oil and gas lease in a disputed section of the Beaufort Sea along the Yukon-Alaska border — an "incursion" on Canada's Arctic sovereignty that the Conservative government...
FILE - The dual-class structure is what Google Inc.'s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created to keep voting control over that company before it went public in 2004. Google's Class B shares, owned by Page, Brin, CEO Eric...
By TIM HUBER , Associated Press Minnesota business by the numbers See Minnesota's top earning companies, CEOs and non-profits CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated federal environmental laws by failing...
NTS Realty Holdings Limited Partnership (the "Company"), through 8 newly formed wholly-owned subsidiaries, has executed a Mortgage Loan Application (the "Application") with Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. ("HFF") for 8 mortgage...
