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• Britain's Cameron tells Google and others to play fair on tax Monday, 20 May 2013 | 2:34 PM ET

  LONDON, May 20- British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday told Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other business leaders that he expected their companies to pay their taxes in exchange for benefiting from low tax rates.

• Yahoo’s Tumblr Deal ‘Tough to Swallow’: Porter Bibb Monday, 20 May 2013 | 1:40 PM ET

  

  Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr may have been too expensive, Porter Bibb says.

• Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks Monday, 20 May 2013 | 1:17 PM ET

  Cisco Systems Inc. fell 2.0 percent to $23.76 with 29,194,000 shares traded. Facebook Inc. fell 1.7 percent to $25.80 with 26,942,000 shares traded. Intel Corp. rose. 2 percent to $24.08 with 16,610,500 shares traded.

• Did Google Just Place Three Big Bets on Nvidia? Monday, 20 May 2013 | 12:47 PM ET

  

  Google is using Nvidia to fight its main rivals: Apple in mobile computing, Microsoft in PCs and gaming, and Facebook in social networking, TheStreet.com says.

• These Tech Giants Covered by the Cloud, Too: Pros Sunday, 19 May 2013 | 12:05 AM ET

  

  Cloud computing remains a major secular trend in technology, but investors may not fully appreciate the benefits for Amazon and Google.

• New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft Saturday, 18 May 2013 | 9:59 AM ET

  *Microsoft set to unveil new Xbox Tuesday. *Xbox key to Microsoft's broader push into consumers' lives. SAN FRANCISCO/ SEATTLE, May 18- Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

• Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in U.S. immigration fight Friday, 17 May 2013 | 8:08 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, May 17- The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill. At the heart of the debate is whether there is a shortage of Americans with the math and science skills needed for work at technology firms like Facebook Inc, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp..

• NBC, CW Network Jump Into Amazon's TV Everywhere Friday, 17 May 2013 | 4:31 PM ET

  

  The blurring of the line between what you watch on TV and what you stream over the Internet continues to get hazier, TheStreet.com reports.

• UPDATE 1-US FCC nominee Wheeler will divest holdings if confirmed Friday, 17 May 2013 | 4:07 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, May 17- Tom Wheeler, nominated to become the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged to divest stakes in AT&T Inc, Dish Network Corp, Google Inc and dozens of other tech and telecoms companies if he is confirmed.

• U.S. FCC nominee Wheeler to divest telecoms holdings if confirmed Friday, 17 May 2013 | 3:10 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, May 17- Tom Wheeler, nominated to become the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged to divest stakes in AT&T Inc, Dish Network Corp, Google Inc and dozens of other tech and telecoms companies if he is confirmed.

• Beyond the Big Three: The Who's Who at Facebook Friday, 17 May 2013 | 1:36 PM ET

  

  In the past few months several new names have come into the spotlight. Here are a few of them...beyond the big three to watch.

• Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks Friday, 17 May 2013 | 1:33 PM ET

  Applied Materials Inc. rose 1.1 percent to $14.82 with 14,452,500 shares traded. Aruba Networks fell 26.7 percent to $12.91 with 35,494,700 shares traded. Autodesk Inc. fell 7.4 percent to $36.83 with 11,966,600 shares traded.

• IPOVIEW-Tableau, Marketo software IPOs soar to the cloud Friday, 17 May 2013 | 1:23 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO, May 17- Strong debuts in the initial public offerings of two business software companies on Friday underscored a pattern in the market: While consumer companies like Facebook Inc get the buzz, enterprise companies are racking up most of the market gains.

• Big Hair, Big Market, Big Scandals: Talking Squawk Friday, 17 May 2013 | 8:14 AM ET

  

  This week on "Talking Squawk": David Tepper's "My Cousin Vinny" market call, Cisco's John Chambers, Bloomberg's "Surveillance," the IRS, the AP, and big hair and Sony.

• Apple's Cook Wants Tax Reform to Repatriate Cash Friday, 17 May 2013 | 7:16 AM ET

  

  Tim Cook says he'll propose tax changes to encourage firms to bring home more of their offshore funds when he faces congressional queries over Apple's overseas cash holdings.

• After Google, Amazon to be grilled on UK tax presence Friday, 17 May 2013 | 3:25 AM ET

  LONDON, May 17- Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters.

• UK Lawmakers to Google: Don’t Be Evil Friday, 17 May 2013 | 1:22 AM ET

  

  Google faced angry questions on Thursday from British lawmakers investigating its tax affairs and whether it had misled parliament in testimony last year.

• Here's What the Billionaires Are Buying Thursday, 16 May 2013 | 2:36 PM ET

  

  Hedge fund managers and investment gurus have to notify the SEC about their moves every quarter. Investors pore over this data in the belief the big fish have special insight.

• Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks Thursday, 16 May 2013 | 1:29 PM ET

  Cisco Systems Inc. rose 11.9 percent to $23.73 with 119,731,100 shares traded. DryShips Inc. rose 10.6 percent to $2.07 with 18,990,600 shares traded. Facebook Inc. fell 1.4 percent to $26.24 with 22,260,700 shares traded.

• Big Brother May Not Be Watching, but Your Boss Is Thursday, 16 May 2013 | 12:56 PM ET

  

  The idea of a total government monitoring is probably still the stuff of fiction, but that doesn't mean your boss doesn't have a pretty good idea of your workday habits.