Whew… Big week last week for events about IP. Sunday was World Intellectual Property Day (did you sign on to the Statement of Principles yet?). Monday and Tuesday brought the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s transatlantic collaboration event where representatives from governments and various industries discussed their efforts to fight counterfeiting [...]
Vivek Kundra spoke to a 150+ crowd at a Northern Virginia Technology Counsel event on Saturday morning in Tysons Corner. He has his speech crafted pretty well at this point, but did have an interesting response to a question on open standards from someone who said he was affiliated with [...]
We recently put together a list of policy recommendations for the incoming administration that relate to helping small and medium sized technology businesses, and we're looking for your feedback! Are these the right things to concentrate on? Did we leave something out? Read the recommendations below and then send your suggestions to [email protected]. Stimulus Package for [...]
I attended the HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) conference in Chicago earlier this month, along with upwards of 20,000 other people. Most of them are involved in the sales and procurement process, representing thousands of vendor companies and the health systems, hospitals, clinics, governments, etc., that use their products [...]
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 [...]