On April 21, 2008, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) issued proposed regulations governing national security reviews of foreign investments in U.S. businesses. These new regulations were issued to implement amendments adopted by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) to the Exon-Florio [...]
DarkReading has an interesting article today which explains why “[n]ew and little-known regulations could mean fines, or even jail time, for [American] companies that do business with bad guys.” The publication writes: “If you're a security pro, you might be familiar with the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset [...]
How neutral and unbiased can the search for information be if a de facto monopolist is conducting it? That is the question posed today by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an article [in German] on Google. […]
The blogosphere has been all aflutter with the analysis that Tom Kemp at Centrify has done of the draft protocol-patent mapping provided by Microsoft for its Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP) and the Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP). Many people find it interesting and surprising that 80% of the [...]
Inc.com writes that “Federal officials and business leaders this week dismissed calls by the Democratic presidential candidates to renegotiate NAFTA, saying free trade deals help American small businesses and the U.S. economy grow. ‘All the trend lines before and after NAFTA are positive,’ U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab told small-business [...]