Google has always been one of our favorite companies at ACT. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin built the fledging startup into the indomitable global powerhouse we now know through hard work, innovation, and shrewd business practices. We just finished a paper that looks at the way Google is helping [...]

Inc.com points out that “Texas and Maine recently joined a growing list of states that have enacted legislation to ease regulatory burdens on smaller businesses. Last week, Texas signed into law a measure requiring assessments of the impact of all new state regulations on small businesses, along with mandatory proposals [...]

M&C writes that “[a] U.S. appeals court in Ohio has ruled that e-mail messages stored on Internet servers are protected by the Constitution as are telephone conversations and that a federal law permitting warrantless secret searches of e-mail violates the Fourth Amendment.” Yahoo!News reports that “EU regulators on Thursday cleared [...]

The International Herald Tribune reports that “Antigua and Barbuda said Wednesday it was entitled to $3.44 billion in compensation from the United States in a World Trade Organization dispute over a U.S. ban on Internet gambling.  The compensation demand would be enforced as Antigua withdrew intellectual property protection for U.S. [...]

The Register reports on a new Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) report on Intellectual Property which points out that “IP is starting to matter more and more in acquisitions: firms are being bought for what they know as much as anything else. This means working out the value of IP as an [...]