Internetnews.com today asks if the approval of the Google DoubleClick merger means that “privacy is dead.” The publication points out that “[t]he Federal Trade Commission's decision to approve Google's acquisition of DoubleClick without conditions runs counter to the warnings of a host of privacy and consumer advocates, as well as [...]
According to the Mercury News, “[s]uggesting that some venture capital colleagues have gotten greedy at the expense of entrepreneurs, the four Internet tycoons behind the Founders Fund on Tuesday touted the creation of a new $220 million investment fund as well as a stock plan designed to reduce tension between [...]
The Register reports that “[t]elecoms watchdog OPTA has fined three Dutch firms and their two directors a total of €1m for the illegal distribution of spyware. It is the first time OPTA has imposed fines for spreading malicious Trojans, and has been called ‘one of the biggest cases of illegal [...]
The New York Times points out that even though the “big research houses [such as IDC] have been trimming their 2008 forecasts for global technology spending lately, mainly because they see a weaker United States market next year […],Mark R. Anderson, chief executive of the Strategic News Service, a predictive [...]
Via IP/Updates: According to a paper by systems analysts at George Mason, the biggest culprit for the USPTO's consistent and growing delinquency in processing patent applications is that they refuse to make decisions on applications. As summarized by Bill Heinze over at IP/Updates, the queuing theory-based analysis found that: "the [...]