As controversial anti-piracy legislation lost key supporters amid online protests Wednesday, some experts said the best course of action for major media companies may be to befriend the very firms they’re fighting. The issue of how to eliminate piracy on the web has had Silicon Valley and Hollywood at each other’s throats for more than a [...]
Traveling to space or embarking on an expedition to excavate lost Mayan ruins are normally the stuff of adventure novels. But for employees of Facebook, these and other lavish dreams are moving closer to reality as the world’s No. 1 online social network prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering that could create at least [...]
Former President Bill Clinton joined Governor Cuomo on Tuesday at an economic development conference to discuss the importance behind technology investments to boost the state’s current job market. Clinton was the keynote speaker at The New York Open for Business Statewide Conference in Albany, where it was announced that tech giants IBM, Intel, Global Foundries, TSMC and Samsung [...]
WASHINGTON — You can’t swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals. Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup of campaign coffee for Democrats, is finally entering its bipartisan phase, theatrically hiring Republican operatives [...]
WASHINGTON — You can’t swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals. Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup of campaign coffee for Democrats, is finally entering its bipartisan phase, theatrically hiring Republican operatives [...]
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond [...]
With a concentration of start-ups just behind that of Silicon Valley and an impressive pool of engineers, Israel is becoming the new standard for high-tech, with a unique business model. Internet-related activities contributed 9 billion euros (12.6 billion dollars) to the Israeli economy in 2009, representing 6.5 percent of GDP, according to a report from management consultancyMcKinsey. [...]
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