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Google's ties to the White House
Wed, 25 Mar, 2015

According to the Washington Post on 25 March, 2015, Google makes most of its close ties to the White House, averaging one visit per week to the White House to liaise with administration officials.

Brody Mullin at the Wall Street Journal reports on the close relationship between Google and the Obama administration, including while the search giant faced an antitrust probe from the Federal Trade Commission (motto: Protecting America's Consumers). » read all and comment


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David Byrne hits out at music streamers
Mon, 14 Oct, 2013

In last Saturday's Guardian, David Byrne - former front man of Talking Heads - argued that music streaming services like Spotify are slowly strangling the music business by putting financial blocks in the way of emerging new performers.

We all know that Spotify pays lamentably low royalties on music played by its streaming service, that a number of bands and other performers have refused to allow whatever recorded music whose rights they control to be listed on Spotify, and that the global reach of the internet is creating global publishing and distribution brands like Amazon, Apple, Google and Spotify whose success is based on creating markets dominated by a 'best seller' ethic. » read all and comment


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The World Conference on International Telecommunications and 'Stop the Net Grab'
Wed, 28 Nov, 2012

Acronym alert. And lots of capitalised titles. » read all and comment


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