First quarter VC investment at lowest level since 1997
BusinessWeek reveals that, according to the latest Money Tree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (based on Thomson-Reuters data), “[v]enture capital investments dropped to the lowest level [...]
Senior citizens take to the Web
Yahoo!Tech writes that, according to experts at the World Wide Web conference currently taking place in Madrid, “[y]oung people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth but in recent [...]
Obama Makes The Right Choice With Chopra for CTO
This weekend, President Barack Obama announced that he will be appointing Aneesh Chopra, Virginia’s Secretary of Technology to be the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. We at the Association [...]
ACT Joins the Party: Recognized as Interested 3rd Party in EC Browser Case
The European Commission has recognized the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) as an interested third party in opposition to the Commission's Statement of Objections regarding Microsoft's actions in the browser [...]
Even If It Doesn’t Move… Regulate It
I can’t believe that I’ve let a whole week go by without posting this article from the Wall Street Journal. I hadn’t seen this reported elsewhere, but Treasury Secretary Geithner [...]
Good Riddance, Pirate Bay! Long Live BitTorrent!
The Pirate Bay guys are going to jail (well, maybe… if and when they lose their legal appeals to today’s ruling). As to be expected, the content people are cheering [...]