According to the International Herald Tribune, “Germany said Tuesday that it would introduce a law to regulate private equity firms and hedge funds, even as it becomes increasingly isolated in efforts to win international support for reining in the booming industry.  The Finance Ministry said that it hoped to come [...]

In an interesting CNetNews.com article, Jim Brock points out that “[d]espite its rapid growth, the online-content economy still lacks attributes that all successful economies have: transparency and accountability.”  Right now, says Brock, “[w]e're in the Wild West stage of the content economy”, which is problematic because “[m]edia companies cannot compete [...]

ZDNet.com writes that “Dell says it's on board with the Microsoft and Novell Linux partnership.  As part of the deal, Dell will buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft. It will also launch a services and marketing program to woo existing Linux users who are not Dell customers to [...]

The Economist writes that “[o]n May 2nd the European Commission gave an upbeat report on its progress towards legislation on a common consolidated corporate tax base.  […]  Under the commission's rough plans, companies would adopt a tax base for their EU-wide activities, rather than face a tangle of 27 different [...]

According to Internetnews.com, research firm Gartner has criticized network intrusion prevention vendor TippingPoint for holding a public contest to discover vulnerabilities on the Mac platform, saying that “doing vulnerability research in public comes with ‘high risk.’" On SiliconValleyWatcher, Richard Koman recommends that we rethink “the wisdom of crowds”, saying that [...]