The European Commission has opened a formal investigation under EC Treaty state aid rules into planned German tax advantages (known in Germany as "MoRaKG") for venture capital companies and individuals investing in target enterprises. The proposed German capital investment law would aim to facilitate the provision of risk capital to young, [...]

Yahoo!News reveals that “Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher warned on Monday against ‘Buy America’ provisions in a proposed fiscal stimulus law and said it could lead to devastating trade protectionism.  ‘Let me just be blunt. Protectionism is the crack cocaine of economics. It may provide a high. It's addictive [...]

On January 21, the European Enterprise Institute (EEI) hosted a conference in Brussels which was entitled “IP-Free Open Standards in ICT:  Another EU Own Goal in The Innovation Race?”  The conference’s attendees discussed where pressure for the use of open standards in the EU is coming from, and whether the [...]

CNetNews.com reports that “[t]hanks in part to armies of compromised computers, click fraud reached an all-time high in the fourth quarter.  Click fraud lets Web sites increase revenue from ads supplied by services such as Google's AdSense or the Yahoo Publisher Network, though those companies take measures to screen out [...]

Reuters reports that, according to according to a survey released today, “[t]rust in business plummeted worldwide last year, as the global economic crisis sent financial institutions pleading for government support, leaving average people to question industry's ability to bring prosperity.  Some 62 percent of informed adults aged 25 to 64 [...]