California Reps Caution FTC in Probe of Google
California state representatives Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren, both Democrats, today sent a cautionary letter to Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, saying they believe the agency stands to...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Leaders Debate Fiscal Cliff Details in Washington, D.C.
As the nation looks toward an increasingly imminent fiscal cliff, top senior executives in the Silicon Valley traveled to Washington to give their input on how to soften the country’s financial...
View ArticleGoogle Sheltered Almost $10 Billion in Bahamas in 2011
Internet search giant Google Inc. avoided some $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, according to a Bloomberg report. By...
View ArticleHow Will the Fiscal Cliff Moves Affect Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs?
In a last-ditch effort to stave off the looming fiscal cliff, the house agreed to prevent deep spending cuts and massive tax increases across the board in a brokered Senate compromise that could leave...
View ArticleGoogle’s Schmidt in N. Korea on Humanitarian Mission
Executives from Google took a trip to North Korea today, lead by former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, despite official opposition from the U.S. government, according to a Bloomberg report. The...
View ArticleAaron Swartz Suicide Highlights Futility of Fighting Federal Prosecutors
The death on Friday of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, a one-time Stanford University student and Y Combinator alum, was both sad and shocking, sending university executives and federal prosecutors...
View ArticleElectronic Frontier Foundation Maps Drones in the US
Using a Freedom of Information lawsuit aimed at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international non-profit digital rights group based in San...
View ArticleUber, Lyft Ride-Sharing Services Deemed Temporarily Legal; Reaction
State regulators decided to end its quarrel with both Lyft and Uber, lifting the four-month ban on the ride-sharing services until California can craft permanent regulations. The state originally...
View ArticleGavin Newsom’s First Book Invokes Digital Revolution for Democracy
Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom releases his first book Thursday, and it’s not an autobiography or a defense of his gay marriage push. Rather, the new book, Citizenville is “a rallying cry for...
View ArticleSideCar SXSW Marketing Push Thwarted by Local Authorities?
SideCar is rapidly expanding to a number of different cities and a big promotional boost at next week’s XSXW Interactive conference is the best jump start to a nationally recognized service....
View ArticleApple iMessage Encryption Too Good For Feds
Next time you’re chatting with friends and wondering if anyone else is watching, you can rest assured they aren’t…if you are both using Apple messaging technology. Apple’s iMessages software platform...
View ArticleApple’s Tim Cook to face Angry Senators
Apple CEO Tim Cook faces an uphill battle today as he tries to explain to a US Senate committee why the tech industry darling shouldn’t face a massive tax burden after researchers determined the...
View ArticlePRISM is More than a Few Phone Calls
Unclassified documents released to journalists this weekend indicated that the US government’s security analysts searched for detailed information on calls involving less than 300 phone numbers last...
View ArticleCalifornia issues Cease and Desist order to Bitcoin Foundation
Shortly after we published our historical perspective on the Bitcoin economy, the State of California issued a cease and desist letter to the Bitcoin Foundation, alleging that organization was engaged...
View ArticlePandora PR Says Pink Floyd was Duped
Yes duped – not doped. According to a Pandora spokesperson – actually Katie Barr, vice president of the GlenECHO Group in Washington DC which represents Oakland-based Pandora Media – Pink Floyd’s...
View ArticleGovernments to Crack Down on Tax Evading Tech Giants
A draft action plan leaked to the Reuters news agency indicates that Western governments – primarily European – are planning to fix a range of tax loopholes used by technology giants including Apple,...
View ArticleUnlikely Coalition Sues NSA over Phone Surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a group with years of experience fighting illegal government surveillance in the courts, on Tuesday filed suit against the National Security Agency (NSA),...
View ArticleAmazon Founder Bezos Buys The Washington Post
In a surprise announcement, the Washington Post Company said Monday that its flagship publication, The Washington Post, has been sold to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash. The sale...
View ArticleInterview: Steve Westly, Westly Group Founder and Former California State...
Most Californians might recognize former eBay exec Steve Westly from his run for governor in 2006 and his tenure as State Controller of California, but since then he’s moved out of politics and into...
View ArticleC2SV Recap: Causes Looks to Drive Citizen Campaigns on the Web
Closing Friday’s panels was a startup called Causes, which has already garnered millions of users with its citizen-enabled campaign platform. “I was at lunch with Zuck when he convinced me of all the...
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