California recently passed a law requiring web retailers with affiliates in the state to charge tax on goods sold. When another company refers a customer to a product being sold online, California can now collect a “use tax.” Consequently, Amazon.com has ended its relationship with the state’s affiliates. In other news, IBM announced another innovation that will drastically increase the speed at which data can be handled. The development called ‘instantaneous memory’ can write and read data one hundred times faster than flash memory. The new technology will create faster, cheaper and way more durable memory in everything from PCs to smartphones. And finally, President Obama recently called for the improvement of the online employment eligibility and immigration status system, E-Verify. It’s currently used as a tool to fight illegal immigration, but is riddled with database errors. The government eventually wants to make E-Verify a mandatory online system for employers.
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