They have successful major tech brands, like Kaspersky Lab, the third largest security software firm by retail sales.

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Note that the subsidiary that developed the Kindle e-Reader, Lab 126, is based in Silicon Valley but Amazon did not collect sales tax in California until September 2012.

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Negroponte, who formerly headed up the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agrees, but says Intel is thwarting sales of OLPC's XO laptop by selling a similar product, Classmate, in the same markets.

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