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, [...]

Remember being in grade school when a classmate’s rabble rousing would ruin it for everybody, and the teacher would hold back the class from going to recess? The other students would moan and groan and justifiably feel that punishing the entire class for one person’s misdeeds was unfair. This is [...]

The International Herald Tribune has an interesting article on the Dot Com Archive, an archive at the University of Maryland documenting “what did and didn't work during the flurry of business activity around the new technology called the Internet.” Yahoo!Tech reports that “fewer young Americans have Internet access than their [...]

On Friday, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) issued its final regulations governing national security reviews of foreign investments in U.S. businesses.  These regulations formally implement amendments adopted by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) to the Exon-Florio Amendment to the Defense [...]