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The amount of money Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) reports through a tax-exempt vehicle in Europe has dropped sharply in the past two years, even as European sales jumped, after the U.S. tax authority tightened rules it felt were being abused to shift profits.

SAN FRANCISCO-- Netflix Inc. (NFLX) is on tap to release its first-quarter results after the close of trading Monday. Here are some items to look for. Earnings: Analysts surveyed by FactSet estimate Netflix (NFLX) will earn 81 cents a share, compared with earning of 31 cents a share, excluding one-time items, in the same period a year ago.

Earnings season shifts into high gear next week, and with nearly one-third of S&P 500 names set to post results, investors hope the news provides a catalyst to buy stocks and leave the market's recent weakness in the dust. Several behemoths, including Apple (AAPL), the largest U.S. company by market value, as well as Microsoft (MSFT), McDonald's and AT&T (T), are due to report earnings.

Earnings season shifts into high gear next week, and with nearly one-third of S&P 500 names set to post results, investors hope the news provides a catalyst to buy stocks and leave the market's recent weakness in the dust. Several behemoths, including Apple (AAPL), the largest U.S. company by market value, as well as Microsoft (MSFT), McDonald's and AT&T (T) , are due to report earnings.

Earnings season shifts into high gear next week, and with nearly one-third of S&P 500 names set to post results, investors hope the news provides a catalyst to buy stocks and leave the market's recent weakness in the dust. Several behemoths, including Apple (AAPL), the largest U.S. company by market value, as well as Microsoft (MSFT), McDonald's and AT&T (T), are due to report earnings.

As "moonshots" become the rage in Silicon Valley, Google' s first-quarter results are a reminder the bill for them can often bring dreams down to earth. Compared with many large-cap tech firms struggling with low revenue growth, the Web search giant is still flying high. Net revenue for the core Google (GOOG) business, excluding the cost of traffic acquisition, jumped 22% from the previous year, although they slightly missed analysts' expectations.

SAN FRANCISCO-- Tech stocks ended up putting in a broadly upbeat market performance Thursday, as notable gains from SanDisk Corp (SNDK), Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and newly public Chinese Internet company Weibo Corp. (WB) paced the sector's advance and help withstand losses from bellwethers such as IBM Corp. and Google Inc.. SanDisk (SNDK) shares climbed more than 9% to close at $82.99 a day after the memory and storage-chipmaker reported upbeat quarterly sales and earnings. Weibo (WB) shares rose 19% to end the...

SAN FRANCISCO-- Tech stocks ended up putting in a broadly upbeat market performance Thursday, as notable gains from SanDisk Corp (SNDK), Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and newly public Chinese Internet company Weibo Corp. (WB) paced the sector's advance and help withstand losses from bellwethers such as IBM Corp. and Google Inc.. SanDisk (SNDK) shares climbed more than 9% to close at $82.99 a day after the memory and storage-chipmaker reported upbeat quarterly sales and earnings. Weibo (WB) shares rose 19% to end the...

By James Saft. Fund and pension investors who are watching their biotech and social media stakes melt before their eyes may well feel they've had their pockets picked by self-serving investment managers. But actually they are also helping to fund, if only as an unintended side-effect, useful innovation which might not otherwise happen. The lesson here: career risk makes the world go round.

—Amazon (AMZN) today announced that Hulu Plus, Crackle, and SHOWTIME ANYTIME are joining VEVO in integrating their full catalogs into Fire TV’s unified voice search. “We’re excited and energized by the momentum we’re seeing with Fire TV,” said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Devices.

Hundreds of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) workers in Germany walked off the job Thursday, continuing a string of strikes aimed at swaying the e-commerce giant on wage levels. Beginning with the early shift, workers at Amazon (AMZN) logistics centers in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld staged an all-day strike, the second at Amazon's German operations this year. Outside Amazon's (AMZN) logistics center in Bad Hersfeld, a town north of Frankfurt, strikers set up tents with cold drinks and a bratwurst grill.

* Amazon (AMZN) workers in Germany go on strike again. * Verdi union says more strikes to follow. * Report by undercover journalist slams Zalando. * Zalando denies allegations, sues journalist.

German labour union Verdi has called on workers at online retailer Amazon (AMZN) in Germany to go on strike on Thursday as a long-running pay dispute continues. "Amazon (AMZN) is refusing talks about a wage agreement," Verdi negotiator Joerg Lauenroth-Mago said in a statement, saying workers at distribution centres in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld were to walk off the job starting with the morning shift.

The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. * Banks are boosting their lending to businesses, providing fuel for companies to increase spending on workers and equipment as the economy improves.

Alibaba's fourth-quarter numbers look good. But as the Chinese e-commerce giant gears up for a U.S. listing, it still has a lot of questions to answer about its future direction. Revenue rose by 66% from a year earlier, with growth accelerating from 51% in the third quarter, but that's not a big surprise.

LONDON-- Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) plans to move its headquarters for Europe, Middle East and Africa to London from Amsterdam and will have to pay more U.K. tax as a result, the world's biggest coffee-store chain said Wednesday. Seattle-based Starbucks (SBUX) has come under fire in the U.K. in recent years over accusations of avoiding corporation tax payments. The company was forced, along with Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and Google Inc., to appear before a U.K. parliamentary hearing last year to explain its tax...

As the name suggests, the cloud can be tough for investors to get a solid grip on. Yet with it looming over the entire technology sector, there can be less obvious ways to grab a piece of the action. The biggest players, Amazon.com (AMZN), Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT), don't disclose specific results for their cloud businesses as they only form a small part of the companies' overall operations.

Apple Inc (AAPL) on Tuesday lost an attempt to dismiss lawsuits by state attorneys general accusing it of conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote's ruling paves the way for attorneys general in 33 states and territories to move forward, along with attorneys for consumers, in pursuing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages at a July 14 trial.

NBCUniversal on Tuesday said it plans to launch an extensive original programming slate for its digital platforms. The Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) unit said the programming would be featured on its channels' websites, through video on-demand services and on streaming service Hulu. NBCUniversal said the plan is "designed to connect advertising brands with consumers in the most engaging and immersive ways."

Google Inc. on Monday acquired a maker of solar-powered drones-- a startup that Facebook Inc. (FB) had also considered acquiring-- as the technology giants battle to extend their influence and find new users in the far corners of the earth. Google (GOOG) didn't disclose the purchase price for New Mexico-based Titan Aerospace, which is developing jet-sized drones that are intended to fly nonstop for years. Google (GOOG) said the technology could be used to collect images and offer online access to...