Finance Geek

Inside Google, Jeff Dean is regarded with awe. Outside the company, few even know his name. But they should. Dean is part of a small group of Google engineers who designed the fundamental software and hardware that underpinned the company’s rise to the web’s most dominant force, and these creations are now mimicked by the rest of the net’s biggest names — not to mention countless others looking to bring the Google way to businesses beyond the web.

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! If you thought your taxes were high, you may want to think again. The newly elected Socialist Party in France is poised to institute a major tax hike on the nation’s wealthiest. To help pay down the country’s debt, French President Francois Hollande will raise taxes on citizens earning [...]

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The furor surrounding Mitt Romney’s refusal to release more tax returns could very well continue until Election Day. Senator Harry Reid reignited the issue last week when he declared that the former Governor of Massachusetts and presumptive GOP nominee has not paid any taxes in a decade, even asserting that Romney is “hiding something.” Reid [...]

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