“What does the entrepreneurial idyll look like?” This is the question a new report by the Association for Competitive Technology, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Birmingham (UK), seeks to answer. The report finds that fragmentation and the still incomplete integration of the single [...]

Yahoo!Tech reports that “[a]t the request of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has ordered two companies marketing supposed computer security products online to stop their efforts.  The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has ordered Innovative Marketing and ByteHosting Internet Services to stop promoting [...]

Yahoo!Tech writes that “[r]olling out broadband and putting more computers in schools will be pieces of a massive economic recovery package proposed by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, he has announced.  Obama, in a radio address Saturday, told listeners that he will push for the largest government-funded infrastructure program since the [...]

Here in Hyderabad at the IGF I just got done listening to a panel titled “Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Digital Education” and while that is ostensibly a great idea for a panel, this one focused on “ examining a broader set of issues including: roadblocks stemming from protections of intellectual [...]

Yahoo!Tech reveals that “Social networking company Facebook recently held acquisition talks with Twitter, the micro-blogging company, the Financial Times said.  The negotiations […] put a valuation of as much as $500 million on Twitter, which has become one of Silicon Valley's most closely watched start-ups, the paper said.  The talks, [...]