A clown, a rabbit, and the Pope walk into a bar. Which one is against IP? OK, that’s putting it sort of harshly. And maybe it’s not even something that I should joke about. But the Pope did issue (is that the right word?) a cyclical last week in which [...]
A few weeks ago I blogged about the various events that were held around town in conjunction with World IP Day on April 26. At one of the events, there was talk about how to put an end to a culture of piracy among young people. The USPTO showcased their [...]
Over at the Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurship blog, Jonathan Ortmans has a post about “unlocking entrepreneurship through health care reform” wherein he writes about how the employer-provided healthcare system constrains entrepreneurialism, as it’s too expensive to provide for employees and generally too expensive for employees of small firms to buy on [...]
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 since 1997 in the first quarter, with just $3 billion invested. […] That’s down 61% in venture dollars invested from [...]
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 years the sharpest rise in Web use in developed nations has been amongst people aged 70 and over. […] ‘Older [...]