Britain’s biggest companies should lose their ability to hide their tax  affairs behind confidentiality rules, the chair of the powerful Public Accounts Committee has told The Independent.

A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an “immoral” tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Here to say sorry?

Mysterious absence led to speculation over whether search giant was hiding an ailing chief

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Outlook It's been a long time coming, but internet giant Google's share price finally topped $800 more than five years and one financial crisis after it reached the $700 mark. The shares are still worth a buy.

Education Secretary's proposals come under fire

Prime Minister has been urged to drop Eric Schmidt

Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt said £2.5 billion tax avoidance 'is called capitalism'

The internet search giant Google faces having to make changes to the way it runs some of the most lucrative parts of its multi-billion pound business after it made an offer to settle with European Commission investigators looking into claims it uses its muscle to stifle opponents unfairly.

New-media gurus, political pointy-heads, start-up whizz-kids and rock stars mingled at this year's Zeitgeist conference. Adam Sherwin reports

The search engine is taking its quest for knowledge offline at a secluded British hotel

Laura Chesters asks why we in Britain can't come up with a tech giant like Facebook

As the global elite meet in Davos, Ben Chu asks what the annual shindig can hope to achieve