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allthingsd.com — Ireland has a special message for United States senators convinced the country gave Apple a special tax deal: You don't know what you're talking about. Remarking on a U.S.

allthingsd.com — Think of what you're used to in a local neighborhood-watch group: Signs posted around a community with contact information, perhaps monthly meetings to discuss safety issues and concerns. Until now, it's been mostly low-tech stuff; something like "potlucks organized in church basements," or maybe private Yahoo bulletin board groups.

allthingsd.com — Two senior execs have left Square, including a well-known former PayPal exec who had been announced but had not yet started at the high-profile payments company. That was Alex Petrov, who was supposed to be Square announced the startup's new vice president of partnerships just three weeks ago.

allthingsd.com — Yahoo said it had bought PlayScale, a gaming infrastructure platform. Yahoo has been on a bit of a tear in buying up small startups for low prices, to strengthen its talent pool in a wide variety of arena, including mobile, productivity and gaming. Tagged with PlayScale, Yahoo

allthingsd.com — The most fundamental problem facing the technology giant Hewlett-Packard is that it some of the products that make up its biggest lines of business are in a long-term decline, and that new products aren't yet generating enough revenue to make up for them.

allthingsd.com — Digital advertising is big, but nearly as big as TV advertising. So Twitter, like everyone else who sells bits and bytes, would like some of that TV ad money. Here's their latest attempt: " TV ad targeting ", which promises that it can find Twitter users who saw a TV ad, and then show them another ad from the same marketer when they come to Twitter.

allthingsd.com — I have been working in sports analytics for nearly 10 years, and still, virtually every time I tell someone what I do, they say some variation of "Oh, you do moneyball." While my normal response is "yes, something like that," the truth is that there is real difference between "sports analytics" and "moneyball."

allthingsd.com — TaskRabbit today is announcing a new tool for businesses who want to hire its workers for extended stints, which it says should serve as a more modern temp agency with lower fees.

allthingsd.com — Hollywood and Google are putting aside their differences over piracy and payments and focusing on what really matters: A feel-good buddy movie set at a beautiful corporate campus full of free food and world-changing aspirations. ""The Internship" - starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn and filmed in part on the actual Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif.

allthingsd.com — Twitter is stepping up its video ads plans, by adding a new list of advertisers to a program it has been tinkering with for the past few months, and giving the product a name: Twitter Amplify. New partners include Discovery, Time Inc., Major League Baseball; they join previously announced deals with distributors like the Fox and BBC Ameria.

allthingsd.com — Walt Mossberg: Will there be an Apple product ever made again in the United States? Tim Cook: I want there to be. Walt: You what? Tim: I want there to be. Walt: You want there to be.

allthingsd.com — Jennifer Lopez is getting into the mobile business. The star is the chief creative officer and majority owner in Viva Movil, a mobile carrier working with Verizon Wireless to target Latino customers. Lopez said the U.S. Latino market represents $1.2 trillion in purchasing power and, on its own, would be equal to the world's 14th largest country.

allthingsd.com — OtterBox, one of biggest names in protective products and cases for mobile devices, announced Wednesday it acquired LifeProof, a rival growing company with a "comprehensive product offering" and "impressive intellectual property," OtterBox said in a release. LifeProof's 250 employees will remain in San Diego, where the company is currently headquartered.

allthingsd.com — If shareholders were eager for evidence that the turnaround plan at troubled technology giant Hewlett-Packard was still in place, they got it but good from the company today.

allthingsd.com — Veteran tech analyst Michael Gartenberg is jumping the fence to work for a company he has spent decades covering during stints at Gartner, Altimeter and Jupiter Research. Forbes reports, and AllThingsD has independently confirmed, that Gartenberg has recently taken a job at Apple.