Dropbox is going brogue

#1

Post by maguay » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:17 AM UTC

Dropbox is going brogue
blog.dropbox.com

Re: Dropbox is going brogue

#2

Post by trengof » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:33 AM UTC

Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich Anyone?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...

Re: Dropbox is going brogue

#3

Post by maguay » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:36 AM UTC

trengof wrote: post #2

Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich Anyone? http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...

Why else Ireland? I highly think it was picked for tax purposes.

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#4

Post by qznc » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:36 AM UTC

Facebook also has its Europe headquarter in Ireland. Something special about the laws there?

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#5

Post by marcamillion » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:42 AM UTC

qznc wrote: post #4

Facebook also has its Europe headquarter in Ireland. Something special about the laws there?

I suspect it is for tax purposes....the corporate tax rate in Ireland is 15% I believe - in comparison to 30%+ elsewhere in the West.

Re: Dropbox is going brogue

#6

Post by 7777 » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:50 AM UTC

> Wusstest du schon, dass Dropbox ihre Nutzer in 175 Ländern

Somehow 25 countries got lost while that sentence was translated into German.

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#7

Post by evincarofautumn » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:53 AM UTC

7777 wrote: post #6

> Wusstest du schon, dass Dropbox ihre Nutzer in 175 Ländern Somehow 25 countries got lost while that sentence was translated into German.

There are similar differences (oversights?) in all of the translations.

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#8

Post by w1ntermute » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 6:56 AM UTC

At first I was wondering why a Chinese translation had been omitted, but then I realized the service was blocked by the Great Firewall.

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#9

Post by matthewrudy » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 7:00 AM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #8

At first I was wondering why a Chinese translation had been omitted, but then I realized the service was blocked by the Great Firewall.

That's just the 1 billion Chinese in the mainland. What about the 30 million living here in Taiwan and Hong Kong?

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#10

Post by sargun » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 7:01 AM UTC

qznc wrote: post #4

Facebook also has its Europe headquarter in Ireland. Something special about the laws there?

The tax story in Ireland is incredible. The corporate tax rate is significantly lower than other nations, and often times, the government is willing to make special concessions, or give tax rebates for companies intending on making long term commitments (Amazon is best known for making these deals).