BBCNews reports that “

[t]he United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership at a summit in Washington.  The pact is designed to boost trade and investment by harmonising regulatory standards, laying the basis for a US-EU single market.”

CNetNews.com has an interesting article by attorney James DeLong on the GPLv3 draft, in which DeLong points out that “the addition of […] murky provisions [to the GPLv3 draft] creates huge uncertainties about the impact of the license on content creators’ ability to incorporate DRM.”  De Long then goes on to ask, “[c]an you imagine an IT company that risks having to inform the maker of a $100 million movie that it just gave away the creator’s right to protect the work–solely out of dedication to the open-source community or because of the legal advice offered in a blog post?”

According to eWeek.com, “Colorado, once considered among the most promising hubs for technology companies , took a big employment and market share hit in recent years.”  In the Cyberstates 2007 report, released on April 24 by AeA, Colorado was surpassed by Virginia, “where 8.9 percent of the work force is in the tech industry compared to 8.6 percent in Colorado.”

Reuters reports that Indian city Chandigarh, the joint capital of the Punjab and Haryana states (better known as India’s “breadbaskets”) is taking “tentative steps to become a new corporate destination.”

In a different article, Reuters writes that, according to a MarkMonitor report published today, “[c]orporate brands face multi-pronged assaults from fraudulent online attackers.”  MarkMonitor said “its new ‘Brandjacking Index’ found ‘cybersquatting’ — in which illicit sites usurp popular trademarks — false association, phishing and clickfraud as major threats.”