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A Treasury Department spokesman said on Wednesday the rule would 'soon' be turned over to the White House for review and issuance.

The merger would have allowed New York-based Pfizer to cut its tax bill by an estimated $1 billion annually by domiciling in Ireland, where tax rates are lower.

The public bug bounty program is the government's first.

Under the U.S. vulnerabilities equities process, the government is supposed to err in favor of disclosing security issues so companies can devise fixes to protect data.

'The reason they should be confident in that privacy is because there are laws on the books that are assiduously followed.'

Implemented last year, the measure had increased the tax for on-island companies with more than $2.75 billion in revenues that buy goods from off-island 'related parties' to 6.5 percent from 2 percent.

The abrupt end to a confrontation that had transfixed the tech industry was a victory for Apple, which vehemently opposed a court order to unlock the device used by the San Bernardino shooter.

'The public ought to know that the government wanted Amazon to say some things that weren't true,' Emmet Sullivan said.

In 2013, an NSA program developed to intercept electronic devices and plant snooping equipment on them was discovered.

The government had insisted until Monday that it had no way to access the phone used by one of the killers in the December massacre in San Bernardino, Calif.

More than a year ago, Staples offered to buy Office Depot in a transaction then valued at about $5.5 billion, pressured by declining sales in the office supplies sector and the rise of rivals.

The proposed legislation comes amid growing calls for transparency in the U.S. food supply.

FAA chief Michael Huerta says new rules and tools for drones are being developed faster than skeptics thought possible.

The government said Apple 'deliberately raised technological barriers' to prevent execution of a warrant.

The rare display of unity and support from Apple's sometime-rivals showed the breadth of Silicon Valley's opposition to the government's anti-encryption effort, a position endorsed by the United Nations human rights chief.

While the government is keeping sensitive systems off-limits, this will hopefully identify vulnerabilities that in-house experts wouldn't catch.

Its goal will be to bring Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military.

The remarks were a slight change to James Comey's statement last week that ordering Apple to unlock the phone was 'unlikely to be a trailblazer.'

In a copy of the brief provided by the company, Apple argued that the government's request is 'unprecedented' and violates the company's First Amendment rights.

'Apple would gladly participate in such an effort,' the company wrote in a blog post.

The FBI is seeking the tech giant's help to access the shooter's phone, which is encrypted. The company so far has pushed back.