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Sobering view on technology firms and their relationship with the U.S. debt.  This and more on episode 024 of Owning Your Own!

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• The Finger – Facebook Newsfeed Changes (Again)
  
• The Toolbox – Google Drive
  
• Open Up And Say AAAA – Ugly Truth About Tech Firms and Taxes
  
• Outro Song (Andrew) – Sentiment of Winter by Logan Heftel
  

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• Free internet consulting; send us questions podcast@owningyourown. (5:30)
  
• Now you can tour the Colorado River on Google Street View. (5:45)
  
• Pinterest adds a gift feed. (5:15)
  
• Half US online shoppers have gotten references from Pinterest. (7:20)
  
• One of the primary goals of Facebook changing the layout is to make the desktop and mobile experience similar (8:40)
  
• Facebook doesn’t care whether you like it or not (10:30)
  
• Google Drive is the new Google Docs (13:25)
  
• Google gave away for free significantly more than competitors when promoting Gmail, same method for Google Drive (15:45)
  
• Blent is a tense of blended (19:30)
  
• Technology firms would have paid 89 Billion dollars in taxes if the offshore debt was collected (20:00)
  
• Apple, Microsoft, Google and Cisco own 163 Billion dollars overseas (20:20)
  
• USDebtClock.org (23:10)
  
• Average American has 51K in debt (24:30)
  
• Average savings per family is 5K (25:15)
  
• These corporations are paying a lot of taxes but how much is evading? (27:20)
  
• You can write Turd Ferguson to send some love (29:ish)