Articles by Daniel Pereira

Collecting taxes remains a challenge for IRS as 'Tax Gap' grows

1/10/2012, 3:45 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Taxes, US Markets

Every large or small business knows that collecting revenue from recalcitrant clients can be a trying task. How much more difficult a chore, then, must the Internal Revenue Service face when... Read >>

Berlin summit aims to solve euro crisis as it nears third year

1/9/2012, 3:01 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Bonds, International

The problems of the eurozone persist in 2012, casting a persistent shadow over hopes for smoother sailing on the economic seas of 2012. Germany and France's respective heads of state - Chancellor... Read >>

Apple's Siri feature doubles iPhone data usage

1/6/2012, 4:06 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Stocks, Technology

Enthusiastic users of Siri, Apple 's ( AAPL ) clever voice recognition and command software for the iPhone 4S, may have a new question to ask the virtual assistant: "How can... Read >>

Consumer boycott power and the new web

12/27/2011, 6:18 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Business, Technology

One might expect that a firm like GoDaddy, a privately held company which is also the world's largest domain-name registrar, would have some ability to shrug off criticism. In a very real... Read >>

Payroll tax 'compromise' builds uncertainty.

12/23/2011, 7:05 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Taxes, US Markets

Scanning news headlines this morning, one might get the impression that Congress has achieved a great political breakthrough, salvaging a piece of relief for taxpayers around the country and... Read >>

Fresh tensions unsettle the Falklands

12/22/2011, 11:27 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Commodities, International

It can be somewhat disorienting to see modern nation-states once again flying the jingo flags over (relatively) insignificant specks of land. Though the last half-century has been marked by... Read >>

Court sides with Apple against HTC in UI patent dispute

12/20/2011, 3:40 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Stocks, Technology

A patent dispute over an apparently minor technical trick - the ability to turn phone numbers and addresses into interactive links - may wind up preventing HTC from importing its phones to... Read >>

Extra capital requirements hammer bank stocks

12/19/2011, 10:40 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Banking and Loans, Stocks

Bank stocks dropped sharply today, helping drag down indexes around the world amidst a torrent of worrying news. In East Asia , the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong... Read >>

Trillion Dollar Baby: Lockheed, Boeing and the JSF

12/15/2011, 4:30 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Technology, US Markets

The F-22 Raptor, a highly advanced but deeply flawed fighter aircraft, arrived promising a huge advance in air combat technology . It soon became an albatross around the collective neck of... Read >>

The Billion-Dollar Game

12/12/2011, 7:26 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Business, Technology

A billion dollars isn't that much, really, in a world where banks routinely trade trillions of dollars of derivatives and the Federal Reserve loans $7.7 trillion to backstop failing banks.... Read >>