POLL: Should employers have access to your social media passwords?

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Imagine this for a second: You walk into your next job interview, sit down and the employer asks you for all your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Tumblr passwords. This is a requirement for the job, the interviewer says. What would you do? The Seattle Times today wrote about Washington Senate Bill 5211 that would prohibit employers… Read More…

Amazon adding 3 new distribution centers in Texas after tax truce

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Amazon continues to grow and today announced plans to build three new fulfillment centers in Texas, creating more than 1,000 new jobs in the Lone Star State. Last week Amazon also announced plans to open a new 1-million square-foot fulfillment center in outside of San Francisco in Tracy, California. Interesting to note that these new centers are… Read More…

Californians hurry up and shop, shop, shop ahead of Amazon.com tax deadline

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There’s a bit of an e-commerce gold rush going down in California, where Amazon.com customers are scrambling to squeeze in some last-minute shopping before they have to start paying sales tax on Sept. 15. As The Los Angeles Times reports, the company won’t confirm whether sales in California have jumped in recent weeks. But social media… Read More…

Amazon calls California tax compromise a ‘win-win’

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Amazon.com and California legislators have reached a compromise on sales tax collection in the state. As part of the deal, Amazon will not have to collect sales tax until September 2012. In the meantime, the Seattle company said it would work towards federal legislation to institute a new federal sales tax collection system for online… Read More…

Amazon.com reaches truce in California sales tax battle

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Amazon.com has made a tentative agreement with California lawmakers to resolve a battle over sales taxes on online purchases in the state, according to multiple reports this morning. Under the agreement, Amazon will drop its push to repeal an online sales tax in the state, and agree to begin collecting sales taxes from sales to… Read More…

Amazon to support California referendum to repeal sales tax for online retailers

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Amazon.com is not backing down from California’s new sales tax collection policy. After canceling its affiliate program in the state late last month, the Seattle online retailer now says that it plans to support a referendum in California that would attempt to repeal the sales tax on online purchases made by residents in the state…. Read More…