The Democrats’ strategy for achieving immigration reform is coming into view: promise the tech industry what it wants in exchange for help lobbying for a comprehensive solution.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
March 7, 2013
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ICYMI- W.H. Seeks Tech’s Help on Immigration
March 6, 2013
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ICYMI- Congress Fights IT’s Biggest Bully
The greatest threat to innovation may be the same thing that stifled the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Trolls!
March 6, 2013
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ICYMI- The Greatest Tech Show On Earth
The impending weather is canceling a bunch of events this week, especially in DC. But it doesn’t mean we can’t learn a thing or two from one of the biggest tech shows coming up in Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Internet Association, the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests Airbnb, Amazon.com, AOL, ebay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, IAC, LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, Rackspace, salesforce.com, TripAdvisor, Yahoo!, and Zynga, issued the following statement applauding President Obama’s appointment of Commissioner Edith Ramirez to Chairman at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
Telecommunications companies want President Obama’s administration to rethink a decision that may exempt Google’s Gmail, Apple’s iPhone software and Microsoft’s Windows from an executive order on cybersecurity.
March 5, 2013
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ICYMI- Lawmakers Sound Sympathetic to Internet Group Internet giants will drive agenda in Congress
In a sign that Internet giants will help drive the agenda in Washington, more than half a dozen lawmakers representing both sides of the aisle today paid homage to the $8 trillion annual Internet industry—a part of the economy no lawmaker wants to disrupt, let alone upset.
March 5, 2013
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ICYMI- Sen. Schumer: Congress won’t pass stand-alone high-skill immigration bill
Sen. Charles Schumer told an audience of technology lobbyists on Tuesday that Congress would not pass immigration legislation if it only deals with high-skilled workers.
Leading Senate Democrat urges the Internet Association to focus its advocacy on the controversial issue of lower-skilled workers, declaring that the only path to greater numbers of foreign-born science, technology, engineering and math workers will come through a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
ACM’s Tech Policy Weblog Congress to Consider Patent Litigation Reforms This Week Posted: March 4, 2013 17:21 The hearing is expected to focus on potential legislative reforms to enhance and strengthen the American Invents Act and to address issues related to recent patent litigation trends. One topic will be the recently introduced “Saving High-Tech Innovators…
In a recent statement laying out his priorities for the new Congress, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said he would push for reforms “to discourage frivolous patent litigation and keep U.S. patent laws up to date.”