• We'll start off this post-weekend, pre-Christmas briefing by pointing out that Google has been criticised after it emerged that the
company's UK arm did not pay a penny of corporation tax in the UK last year - an entirely legal avoidance that means the exchequer missed out on as much as £450m for 2008. The company says ""It would be wrong to think of Google's revenues from UK advertisers as solely the result of operations carried out locally" - despite the fact that Google specifically breaks out its earnings in Britain, which came to some £470m in its last quarterly results alone.
• Reports suggest that the voice over internet operator Jajah, which started in Austria and Israel, could be on the verge of a $200m sale to O2 according to this report in TheMarker.com (the report is in Hebrew, here's an automated English translation. Interesting purchase if it's true; we've talked about regularly over the past few years, and their investors include Deutsche Telekom and Intel.
• And after a weekend of being unable to escape people's opinions of James Cameron's new movie, Avatar, perhaps it's worth revisiting precisely what the director did to achieve his claim that the film is an unrivalled technofest that takes special effects to the next level. Personally, the idea leaves me cold. But did you see it? What did you think?
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